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The Woman is our mother heavenly Jerusalem and yes Isaiah 66:7 is the same holy nation that will be called the children of God born in one day as they are caught up to heaven and the WOMB to heavenly Jerusalem shall be shut, just as God shut the door to the ark, so shall the door to our ark be shut by God. Our ark is Christ who is the ark of our covenant. For he is the Wordguysmith said:According to Isaiah 66, the woman in Revelation 12 is Mount Zion in Jerusalem which is to be "protected and fed" for the 3 1/2 years of the GT.
Rev 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:According to Isaiah 66, the woman in Revelation 12 is Mount Zion in Jerusalem which is to be "protected and fed" for the 3 1/2 years of the GT.
The biq question: Where is this place-of-safety?This is about a literal place of safety on the earth for the church at the time of the end...
Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Not all go there...
Remember the part about being accounted worthy to escape all these things? Remember the part about the Philadelphia era of the church escaping the Great Tribulation?
Some will go, some will not.
Now some attribute this passage to the return of Christ, it doesn't fit. If you were on the roof of your house and Christ was returning, would you say "Wait Lord, while I climb down, go into my house and grab my stuff"? Would you think about grabbing a change of underwear and a toothbrush at the reutrn of Christ? I am pretty sure I wouldn't, but if I were preparing to flee into a place of safety in the desert I might very well wish to take a change of undies and a toothbrush.
In Christ.guysmith said:Hello John_8:32,
The biq question: Where is this place-of-safety?
Possibly. It's mainly about the city of Jerusalem though in association with God's people...guysmith said:Is the travailing woman which gives birth to a man-child in
Revelation 12 the same travailing woman that gives birth to a man-child in
Isaiah 66:7-13?
What? Christ "re-born" in the flesh at Armageddon? There is NO such idea written anywhere in God's Word! That kind of idea just goes to show how vain the Jew's doctrines are, oh how they love their flesh! News release: our flesh is going to perish, and this present world with it.Terry said:
My opinion to this is; the woman is an actual woman and the child is the re-birth of Jesus. Since time did not create God, but rather God created time... God has dominion over time. Once Jesus is re-born of the flesh he ascends to Heaven ( the same place the Two Witnesses ascend to ). Then Jesus as an adult comes back in the flesh at Armageddon, in the flesh but with all the power of Jesus and takes position as ruler with a rod of Iron. Here is the "idea" - That there is much more to the capabilities or significance of being in the "flesh" (physical form) than we currently understand. The earth is physical the planets are physical the stars, universes and more are physical and they allow us the opportunity to comprehend a significance of a physical form that we have yet to grasp. What if we consider being in the spiritual form as being more confining than being in the physical form? - That is what I attempt to convey here. Certainly the vastness of space and all the planets must have a greater reasoning than the limits of a mere 7,000 year time span of necessity.