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The Woman of Revelation 21
“We
are learning as we examine the Scriptures that God
likens believers to the sun, moon, and stars. Is there
any other place that we can look in the Bible where
the sun, moon, and stars are mentioned?
Yes. Let's turn to the book of Revelation, chapter 12:
1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a
woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her
feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
This woman of Revelation 12:1 is completely identified
with the sun, moon, and stars. From the top of her
head (crown of stars) to the bottom of her feet (moon
under her feet); and the rest of her body clothed with
the sun. It would help our study if we knew who this
woman was? Let's read on in Revelation 12:
2) And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.
3) And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten
horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4) And his tail drew the third part of the stars of
heaven , and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be
delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was
born.
5) And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule
all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and to His throne.
6) And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she
hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed
her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
As we read this passage and the rest of the account
given in Revelation 12 regarding this woman we can be
sure of two things:
First, that the child this woman brings forth is none
other than the Lord Jesus Christ. The language of the
chapter unmistakably points to Christ's incarnation
(compare especially Psalm 2 with Rev 12:5).
Secondly, that the woman being spoken of (clothed with
the sun, etc.) is not Mary. We do not read that Mary
ever fled into the wilderness after Christ's birth.
Also, verse 14 of Revelation 12 says the woman was
given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly
into the wilderness. Clearly the woman being spoken of
in Revelation 12 is not a literal woman; but is being
used to symbolize something else.
What could this woman symbolize?
Since the woman is said to have brought forth the man
child (Christ); then the woman must be a type and a
figure of the body of believers. Believers are
typified in the Bible as a woman (the bride of
Christ); and as the Old Testament believers faithfully
carried the message of the Messiah down through the
centuries until Christ's incarnation---they were
(figuratively speaking) as a woman travailing in
birth.
Once again, as we find mention of sun, moon, and stars
in Revelation 12:1: we see very clearly that the body
of believers are in full view. Therefore, as we read
Matthew 24:29 we are beginning to strongly suspect -
that what is happening to the sun, to the moon, and to
the stars - is figurative language that is focusing in
on unusual happenings to the body of believers during
the period of time "immediately after the tribulation
of those days".”
Chris
McCann, Sun, Moon and Stars
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