who is she can you guy help me out
2007-06-14 03:58:22 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Woman in the passage above symbolizes Israel, and these verses trace her history in synoptic form in a breathtakingly beautiful way from the patriarchs to the earliest days of the Great Tribulation, the period now under study. As the origin of both the written and the living Word of God, the Woman is clothed with the sun, the symbol of day and of light, while the moon, which rules the night and the darkness (the time and the realm of evil and evil one: Lk.22:53; 1Thes.5:4-10), lies in submission at her feet. The twelve stars in the crown on her head symbolize the twelve sons of Israel and the eponymous tribes which spring from them (Gen.37:9; cf. Gen.15:5; 22:17; 26:4). But by far Israel’s most significant and glorious offspring is the Messiah Himself, our Savior Jesus Christ, whose human lineage is traced through Abraham, Isaac and Joseph (Rom.9:5; cf. Rom.9:7). Jesus is the Seed of the woman (Gen.3:15), the true Seed of Abraham (Gal.3:16), and the Son of David destined to rule all the nations with an iron scepter (Ps.2; Rom.1:3; cf. Is.4:2; 11:1; 53:2; Jer.23:5; 33:15; Zech.3:8; 6:12). Thus the Messiah, the true Christ, is the Son of the Woman Israel, and all of the pangs, the pains, and the purpose of this archetypical Woman’s history are focused upon, concentrated upon, and culminate in the birth of the archetypical Son, Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Son of Man, the One through whom alone salvation comes (Gen.3:16; Mic.5:3-5; cf. 1Tim.2:15).
2007-06-14 04:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
She represents Israel.
She will flee to Petra, the Rock city of the Nabiteans, in the Kingdom of Jordan.
(The other woman in Revelation, is the woman that rides the Beast. She represents the false church, the unified religion of the Great Tribulation period.)
2007-06-14 11:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always known her to represent Babylon.
Revelation is symbolic and literal all at the same time.
What a wonderful revelation John was given!
2007-06-14 11:01:45 · answer #3 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We discussed this in bible study and no one was really able to figure out who she was but from what I remember, she was running away from Satan with a baby in her womb and according to my pastor, she was carrying Jesus and God, helped her from being swallowed up from Satan. Now that is not exact in any way, I got that from what I learned in the class.
2007-06-14 11:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revelation is entirely drug-induced. Trying to read anything into it is asking for trouble.
2007-06-14 11:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by EZSum 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋