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

Yes, Sarah the freewoman gives birth to Isaac the child of promise. And we, like Isaac, are children of promise, born after the spirit.

23 Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.
24 Which things contain an allegory: for these women are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.
26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now. Gal 4

5 And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.
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

 

As I understand it, the title “Mother of God” is part of the Catholic doctrine regarding Mary, the mother of Jesus. Part of that doctrine is Mary’s birth (immaculate conception without sin), and her position as “Co-redemptor” with Christ.

Referring to Mary as the mother of Jesus is biblical. Calling her the “Mother of God” is confusing, unbiblical and tends to lead to error.

It takes nothing away from her unique role in the birth of our Lord Jesus.

peace to you

 

Of course, which is why @Scarlett O. and I can agree to disagree on this issue. There is no change in redemption by God if we disagree on who the woman is in Revelation 12.

 

We have with the mid-trib holding the woman as the Laodicean Church and the man-child as the Bride of Christ.
I believe the Angel Michael is the restrainer.
Blessings....
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I have never read this view in any of the main four interpretations of Revelation.
Main Views:
1) Preterist
2) Millennialist
3) Historicist
4) Futurist

 

The woman is the church.

"That woman symbolizes the Church (cf. Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 54:1; Hosea 2:1; Ephesians 5:32). Scripture emphasizes the fact that the Church in both dispensations is one. It is one chosen people in Christ. It is one tent; one vineyard; one family—Abraham is the father of all believers whether they are circumcised or not—one olive tree; one elect race, royal priesthood, holy nation, people for God’s own possession; one beautiful bride; and in its consummation one new Jerusalem whose gates bear the names of the twelve tribes and whose foundations are inscribed with the names of the twelve apostles. (Cf. Isaiah 54; Amos 9:11; Matthew 21:33 ff.; Romans 11:15-24; Galatians 3:9-16, Galatians 3:29; Ephesians 2:11; 1 Peter 2:9 (cf. Exodus 19:5-6); Revelation 4:4; Revelation 21:12-14.)

- from William Hendriksen's More Than Conquerors

 

I see no rapture in Revelation 12. How does one see it in this passage?

 

Yes. Jerusalem above is manifested in her saints here below. Old and new.

 

The child is Jesus, the Promised One who ascended to heaven in Acts 1.
The Woman is the Promise of the Redeemer (all the saints of old that longed to see the Redeemer and then, after Jesus went to heaven, all those who continue the line of the Redeemed.
There is no evidence for a church rapture in Revelation 12.

 

Well, the view I share has been most accepted view over the course of history, so it's not just my opinion.