Revelation 12:1-6. THE WOMAN WITH THE MAN-CHILD

This Vision is clearly not to be closely connected with that of the Witnesses: not only is it separated by the arrangement of the prophecies Revelation 11:14; Revelation 11:19; but the historical situation seems to be completely changed: in the former Jerusalem is standing and inhabited from first to last: in the second the flight of the woman (cf. Micah 4:10 if as is probable, see below, she is to be identified with the ideal Sion) corresponds to the fall of the earthly city, after which the elect remnant, the spiritual Israel, are preserved in the wilderness for a time appointed. It is remarkable that every part of the prophecy of the Lord on the Mount of Olives should be expanded in this book, except what concerns the destruction of the earthly Jerusalem and its Temple.

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