BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON ONE - CHAPTER TWELVE

The Woman ~ The Faith

A woman with twelve stars around her head,

gives birth to a manchild (Son of man).

Revelation chapter twelve is an insert and a history all its own.

Many have mistakenly sealed all of Revelation in a box called "7 years".
This greatly obscures the message.

A red dragon tries to devour the child as soon as he is born.

 (Herod the Great ordered all young boy 

children in Bethlehem be slain.)

But the child was caught up to God's throne.

Ephesians 1:20 - "God raised Him from the dead and seated 

Him at His right hand in the heavenly places."

And the woman "fled".  

(A migration of the faith "to a new place".)

70 a.d.

...And war broke out in heaven..

..and the dragon was

no longer allowed access to the heavens..                   

"Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the inhabitants of the earth.. For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath.."

                                                                                 -- Verse 12

                                                           

  

        " And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, 

                                           he persecuted the woman.." [the faith] -- Verse 13

"But the woman" (the faith) 

"was given two wings of an eagle.."

"that she might fly to a wilderness place.."

                                                                                                       --Verse 14a

"...to be nourished and safe from the face of the dragon 

for 3.5 divisions of time.." -- Verse 14c

 + 350 =

"Then the serpent" (guise of the dragon) 

"spewed water out of his mouth like a flood, 

after the woman, that he might cause her 

to be swept away by the flood..." -- Verse 15

"But the Earth will swallow the flood." -- Verse 16

i.e.

 "The earth will swallow the flood."

"Then the dragon.. went off to wage war against the rest of the woman's children —  those who keep God’s commands and" (by then) "hold fast their testimony about Jesus." -- Verse 17

"Jerusalem you shall see me no more, until, you say -
'blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'  " Mt. 23:39

                

"Then I John saw three unclean spirits like frogs.. out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, spirits of demons.. to gather the kings and all the world to that great day of Armageddon.. `lo, I do come as a thief, happy is the one who is watching'.."

 - Revelation 16:14,15

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, 

then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." - Luke 21:20

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A Riddle ~ "From the time the daily/perpetual sacrifice" (or current place of continual prayers?) "is removed ~ and the abomination that causes desolation is set  up ~ there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches, the end of the 1,335 days." (45 days later)  ~~ Daniel 12:11,12

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