NOTES for Rev 12:1-6
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: |
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. |
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In this short text we see the Old Testament Church. Having passed through the pains of a new birth, she is completely transformed, becoming the New Testament Church, standing before and bowing down before the Messiah.
The serpent stands against her, the dragon who became the cause of the fall, seducing and deceiving the human person. The dragon tries to deceive the Church from the first moment of her appearance, to destroy her and tear her down to the foundation; he sets persecutors against her, trying to wipe from the face of the earth every righteous person who stands in his way. And then, seeking salvation, believers withdraw into desert places, leaving the places from which they are driven in order to preserve a living community far from their persecutors.
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