Revelation 12: : The Beast (Part 2; The Power and the Authority behind The Anti-Christ)

A Great Wonder in Heaven A Pregnant Woman Chapter 12, Verse 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: This chapter opens with a pageantry of events that encapsulate the history and trauma of the nation of Israel, from God’s perspective. It is an allegory (a story told in symbols or pictures) of the complete history of the nation of the Jews, from the conception, as it was revealed to the elder of the two youngest of Jacob’s sons—Joseph—to the mid-point of the last seven years of modern history (the story is complete with the hellish power behind the troubles Israel has often faced, throughout her long history). Moreover, what we have here in heavenly graphics is another one of a plethora of scripture (in addition to the 144,000), which quite dispel false notions as that God is in anywise finished with the Jew (or, even, that there are no more of them!). The Jew is very much alive, even as he is very much an indelible, integral part of God’s plans for the future and last days of this old, battered world in which we live. They are not hapless victims of so-called “replacement theology”. They have not been replaced in favor of the church. When Jacob’s son Joseph was his well-favored seventeen-year-old, God gave him a dream, which prefigured the nation that was to be born and rooted in his family. Joseph shared that dream with his eleven envious brothers, all of whom hated his guts, initially, and even more, afterwards. They instantly understood fully, the ramifications. In a second dream, God enlarged upon the first, whereupon, Joseph informed both his brothers and his father. The sum of the dreams was such that the sun and the moon, along with eleven sheaves/stars would someday fall prostrate before the one sheaf or star. All, including old Jacob, with measurable consternation (and contempt, from the brothers) interpreted the dreams to imply that the entire family would at some point be subject to the elder of the two youngest sons. What they failed to realize, given of course that they could not see the future, was that God was mapping in advance His plan for first the preservation of a people (through unforeseen tough times ahead, over which they had no control), then, the birthing of a nation by whom He would birth His Blessing upon all the nations of the earth, according to His promise to Adam, Abraham and Isaac.