Davy
Well-Known Member
Let me clarify for you.
Those in the nation of Israel are the woman. Those around the world are the seed of the woman.
You are contradicting yourself again, showing you don't really understand about the symbolic "woman" of Revelation 12. Those symbols of Rev.12:1 about the sun and moon, and 12 stars are from Genesis 37 per Joseph's dream. The sun and moon represented Jacob and his wife, and the 12 stars represented the 12 tribes of Israel.
Your contradiction is by your not... recognizing that the 10 northern tribes of Israel were separated apart from the Jews of the 3 tribes at Jerusalem-Judea in the days of Solomon. That's why I keep referring to 1 Kings 11 forward which documents when God split old Israel into TWO separate kingdoms.
Southern kingdom = "kingdom of Judah", or "house of Judah", capital city at Jerusalem. Rehoboam, king of Judah, Solomon's son, over it. Made up ONLY of 3 tribes; Judah, Benjamin, and Levi (and a small remnant out of the northern 10 tribes that rejected the calf idols in the north, per 2 Chron.11). These called themselves JEWS.
Northern kingdom = "kingdom of Israel", or "house of Israel", capital city at Samaria in the north. These were made up of 10 tribes that dwelt in the northern holy land, the tribes of Ephraim (largest), tribe of Manasseh, Asher, Naphtali, Dan, Gad, Zebulun, Simeon, Reuben, Issachar. Jeroboam, king of Israel, of the tribe of Ephraim was made their king by God per 1 Kings 11.
Both kingdoms then had war against each other, and were never joined back into one nation. They became TWO NATIONS, OR KINGDOMS.
The 10 tribe "house of Israel" went into captivity to Assyria by the kings of Assyria first, and were removed out of the holy land, never to return. The Jewish historian Josephus (100 A.D.) said the 10 tribes were still scattered beyond the Euphrates river in his day.
God showed through His prophet Hosea that the 10 tribes would become LOST, losing their heritage as the larger part of Israel once He scattered them among the Gentiles. But the Jews of the house of Judah would not... lose their heritage as part of Israel, and it was so, even to this day.
Then later, about 200 years after the ten northern tribes had been taken captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, the Jews of the southern "kingdom of Judah" also began to fall away from God, and God brought Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon upon Jerusalem, and took the Jews captive to Babylon. This captivity did NOT involve the 10 tribes, for the 10 tribes had already been gone out of the land.
Where the majority of the 10 tribes of Israel would migrate to after leaving their Assyrian captivity in the east has been documented by the cuneiform clay Assyrian tablets of the Royal Assyrian Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire, translated by Leroy Waterman, professor at the University of Michigan in the 1930's. Names for what the Assyrians called the ten tribes of Israel are translated there, and linked to the Cimmerian and Scythian tribes that migrated westward into Asia Minor and Europe. And these would become the founders of the early Christian Church in the West.
This is how... the symbolic "woman" of Revelation 12 relates to the Christian Church also. It was simply a matter of God scattering the 10 northern tribes of Israel, and eventually making a New Covenant with them in new lands they were scattered to. And of course the unbelieving Pharisee type Jews do not like this history, because they want the world to think that they, the Jews of the smaller nation of Israel of the "house of Judah" represents the only true Israel. Not so. God preserved the 10 lost tribes of Israel in secret; the majority of the world, including deceived Jews, just don't realize it, yet. And that is the purpose of the two sticks prophecy God gave in Ezekiel 37 about the joining back together of the two 'houses' in final, when Jesus returns.