Featured Study Question: Revelation 12:1-6 - Who is the Woman?

Revelation 12:1, The nation of Israel.

 

The 12 tribes.

 

When you understand the promises to national Israel has been realized by the church (the Israel of God both Jew and Gentile) that have been brought together by the cross of Christ and can never be separated because they make up the “One New Man”.. and the rapture of the church leads immediately to the great throne judgment per Matthew 25*, and there is no thousand year reign of Christ in the earth (the 1000 years of reigning WITH Christ is a reward for the saints who were martyred during the tribulation per Revelation…)

It all fits with unsurprising agreement for those who understand scripture in the context it was written..

The woman is national Israel, or at least the remnant promised by God.

Hope that helps

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The two women of Revelation are the same two women of Galatians 4:24-26.

 

Does the woman, Agar, representing the first covenant on Mt. Sinai, Jerusalem below, also referring to the Jewish people or the remnant within?

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If you're referring to saints, Jerusalem above is their mother.

17 And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus: Rev 12

The 'other woman':

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth. Rev 18

 

Was Mary, the woman, through whom, the seed of her, would bruise the head of the serpent?
Would the seed of her, Mary, be called, "the Son of the Highest"?

Did the woman of Rev 12 through travail and pain give birth? Is that important?

I believe it to be Mary, a woman of Israel the firstborn of God.

And maybe and I mean maybe the key word to understanding is, "wonder".

The KJV translates Strong's G4592 in the following manner: sign (50x), miracle (23x), wonder (3x), token (1x).

When did these, wonder, sign take place V's 1,3? To me they seed to be speaking of visions to take place from before the foundation of the world, from the verb tenses.

BTW I know, no Greek, as stated many many times.

 

The Israel of God. The elect lady of 2 John 1. The woman is the children of the Promise from Adam and Eve to the end of the age. From the very beginning Satan has tried to stop the Lamb of God from Redeeming humans and unshackling sinners from the chains in which Satan has bound them. Satan hates the Church because they remind him that he has lost.

 

3 and a half years is a symbolic way of saying a shorter period of time, defined by God. It's not literal. It's apocalyptic language.

 

It's not Hagar. Hagar is the tare. It's Sarah, the line of the Promise.

 

Read the entire Old Testament and see the travail and pain before the Anointed Promised One was born. John is speaking to a much bigger reality than just a young girl named Mary.

 

God has his His church throughout this Tribulation period in which we live. We presently live in the wilderness.

 

When Constantine entered the church, and made pagans become "Christians", the church was organised and the true church fled to the wilderness. That was the same as the two witnesses.