£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 12 1-6

     WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - A great sign appeared in heaven! A woman who was clothed with the sun and the moon was under her feet. Upon her head was a crown of twelve stars. {She was a virgin! Code for innocent and of purity. God’s spiritual ideal and blueprint. But if there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, creation would be an ant farm. So, first, this unavoidable, yet all important contrast is being gone through by “all in heaven and earth” (the angels and humanity).}

     2 She was with child and was crying out because of her birth pains and the torment of giving birth. 3 And then another sign appeared in heaven - behold! A great red dragon. This dragon had seven heads and ten horns. And on the heads were seven royal crowns. [“The ‘god’ of this world” 2Cor.4:4 (who ends up having/being seven “changing” versions of false “light”/entities/‘world’ empires, throughout Earth’s ages.] 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. {Obviously, this is one third of the angels, as surely(?) some angels followed the cherubim which plotted his revolt using Eden - “you were a covering angel [kerub - probably an order of angelic beings, cherub, cherubim — “Yahweh Sabaoth throned on the cherubim” 1Sam.4:4, referring to the Ark of the Covenant. A symbol. Cherubim - a high angel devised in his heart to “ascend above God”. And from being a high angelic being, became a dragon.}

     And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth [to the Son of man, Messiah Jesus] so that when she bore her child he might devour [kill] it. 5 She gave birth to a manchild, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron (with Truth, a measuring rod that cannot be broken). But instead the child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman (after the razing of Jerusalem in 70 CE) fled into the wilderness, where she (the faith) had a place prepared by God, in which she was to be fed [trephó - made to grow, nourished] for 1,260 days.

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