What do you know about prophecy?

Question

Rev 12 Talks about a woman clothed with the sun and being with child.
What does the woman represent?
What does the child represent?

Answer 1

The woman is Israel and the child is Jesus.

Answer 2

Jeancommunicates and Tamil got it right, the woman represents Israel and the child represents Christ.

But this prophecy is already fulfilled with the birth of Messiah Yeshua, so here in Revelation it is giving historical context.

Other than that, I will try to study it some more and get back to this question. 12 Midnight on the Sabbath after a long week of work is just too late for much deep thinking like that.

Answer 3

The woman is the Jewish people.

The child is Jesus.

The stars are the twelve tribes of Israel.

Satan has hated the Jews since the beginning and has vowed to try and destroy them. He will fail.

God will save the Jewish people and they will recognize Him as He steps down on the Mount of Olives at the end of the Great Tribulation.

Answer 4

12 And a great sign was seen in heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars, 2 and she was pregnant. And she cries out in her pains and in her agony to give birth.

3 And another sign was seen in heaven, and, look! a great fiery-colored dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and upon its heads seven diadems; 4 and its tail drags a third of the stars of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth. And the dragon kept standing before the woman who was about to give birth, that, when she did give birth, it might devour her child.

5 And she gave birth to a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her child was caught away to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.

ohn beholds a woman in heaven. She is, of course, not a literal woman. Rather, she is a sign, or a symbol. (Revelation 1:1) What does she symbolize? In the inspired prophecies, women at times represent organizations “married” to outstanding personalities. In the Hebrew Scriptures, Israel was spoken of as a wife of Jehovah God. (Jeremiah 3:14) In the Greek Scriptures, the congregation of anointed Christians is spoken of as Christ’s bride. (Revelation 21:9-14) The woman John here sees is also married to someone, and she is about to give birth. Who is her husband? Well, later her child is “caught away to God and to his throne.” (Revelation 12:5) Jehovah thus claims the child as his own. Therefore, the woman that John sees must be Jehovah’s symbolic wife.

About eight centuries earlier, Jehovah had addressed this symbolic wife, saying: “All your sons will be persons taught by Jehovah.” (Isaiah 54:5, 13) Jesus quoted this prophecy and showed that these sons were his faithful followers, who later formed the congregation of anointed Christians. (John 6:44, 45) So members of this congregation, spoken of as God’s sons, are also children of God’s symbolic wife. (Romans 8:14) The apostle Paul adds the final piece of information when he says: “The Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.” (Galatians 4:26) The “woman” seen by John, then, is “the Jerusalem above.”

Exactly what, though, is Jerusalem above? Since Paul spoke of her as “above,” and John sees her in heaven, she is clearly not an earthly city; neither is she the same as “New Jerusalem,” since that organization is the bride of Christ, not Jehovah’s wife. (Revelation 21:2) Notice that she is crowned with 12 stars. The number 12 is associated with completeness in an organizational setting. Hence, these 12 stars seem to indicate that she is an organizational arrangement in heaven, just as ancient Jerusalem was on earth. Jerusalem above is Jehovah’s universal organization of spirit creatures that acts as his wife, both in serving him and in producing offspring.

John sees this woman as being robed with the sun and having the moon beneath her feet. When we add her crown of stars, she is completely surrounded by heavenly lights. God’s favor shines upon her day and night. What a fitting symbol of Jehovah’s magnificent heavenly organization! She is also pregnant, enduring labor pains. Her cries for divine help show that her time has come to give birth. In the Bible, labor pains often symbolize the hard work needed to produce an important result. (Compare Psalm 90:2; Proverbs 25:23; Isaiah 66:7, 8.) No doubt labor pains of this kind were experienced as Jehovah’s heavenly organization prepared for this historic birth.

Answer 5

The women is the Blessed Virgin Mary crowned as the Queen-Mother of Heaven. The child is her son, Jesus Christ-The Priest-King of the universe. Mary is also the ark of the NEW Covenant (she was the bearer of the Word of God incarnate) The ark of the Old Covenant had the word of God engraved (stone tablets of the 10 commandments)

God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ARK of his promise was seen inside his temple. There was lightning, noise, thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. A spectacular sign appeared in the sky: There was a woman who was dressed in the sun, who had the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars on her head." Rev. 11:9-12:1

Answer 6

I think it's all a desperate attempt on the part of frightened people to deal with the anxiety produced by unanswered questions by inventing a future.

Answer 7

The woman is 'Israel' & the child is 'Yeshua Messiah'.