The Clue To The Identity Of The Woman In Revelation 12 Is Found All The Way Back In Genesis 37 • Now The End Begins

The Clue To The Identity Of The Woman In Revelation 12 Is Found All The Way Back In Genesis 37

Who is the woman in Revelation 12? According the Genesis 37, the woman
is none other than the nation of Israel. It is ludicrous to suggest that
the woman is Mary, just as it is equally implausible to suggest the
woman is the Church.

by Geoffrey Grider May 16, 2017

The moon represents Joseph’s mother, Rachel. And the “11 stars” are Joseph’s brothers with Joseph himself being the 12th “star”.

“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: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained
to be delivered. 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.” Revelation 12:1-3 (KJV)

For starters,
the Church is removed from the Earth in the Rapture before the start of
the time of Jacob’s trouble. Why? Because it is Jacob’s trouble –
Israel’s trouble – and the Church has no business being there so we are
called up and away. We see this blessed event taking place, in type, in
Revelation 4:1,2 (KJV). But lately for some reason, I have been seeing
videos and reading articles trying to make a connection between
Revelation 12 and the Church. So I thought it would be edifying to take a
moment and visit with “the woman” of Revelation 12.

If you are a Catholic,
you have undoubtedly taught that this “woman” is Mary giving birth to
the baby Jesus. If you are a Laodicean with a “new version” of the
Bible, you’ve likely been taught that the “woman” is the Church. But
this brief study compare scripture with scripture to show you that the
woman of Revelation 12 is exactly who the Bible says she is. The nation
of Israel in the time of Jacob’s trouble.

For starters, this “woman” is wearing some mighty unique attire

Clothed with the sun,
a crown of stars (12, mind you), and standing upon the moon. As a child
in Catholic school, I constantly saw illustrations of the “virgin” Mary
adorned like that. So to most Catholics, this sure sounds like Mary,
right? Wrong. Do you remember where we have read a passage like that
before? It’s all the way back in Genesis.

“And
he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said,
Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is
this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy
brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? And his
brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.” Genesis 37:9-11 (KJV)

Ahhh, yes, the dream of Joseph that got him in hot water.
And what do we see here? We see the very same sun, moon and stars from
Revelation 12, and this passage give us their identity. As you read the
verses in Genesis, you see instantly that the sun represents
Joseph’s father, Jacob. The moon represents Joseph’s mother, Rachel. And
the “11 stars” are Joseph’s brothers with Joseph himself being the 12th
“star”. This band of brothers are the 12 tribes of Israel. So the “sun,
moon and stars” are the entire family of Jacob, are they not? Indeed
they are, so let’s ask the really obvious question now.

Who is the woman in Revelation 12?
According the Genesis 37, the woman is none other than the nation of
Israel. It is ludicrous to suggest that the woman is Mary, just as it is
equally implausible to suggest the woman is the Church. While it’s true
that Jesus came out of Mary, it is equally true and perhaps more so
that He came out of the tribe of Judah which is part of national Israel.
As far as this woman being the Church, it is Jesus who birthed the
Church and not the other way around. The Church no where is referred to
as a “woman”. It is called a virgin and a bride, but never a woman.

Going a little further,
it is Jesus who will rule with a “rod of iron”, and it was Jesus in
Acts who was “caught up to God” while the apostles watched. More than
that, Paul never tells us Christians that we are “of Mary”, but that we
are the “seed of Abraham”.

“Now
to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to
seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And
if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:16,29 (KJV)

Israel is told to run for their lives, literally

Lastly, we know exactly
who is driven out into the wilderness in Revelation 12 because in
Matthew 24 where the same event is recorded, Jesus tells us who the
woman is. And it is absolutely not Mary or the Church.

“When
ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:” Matthew 24:15,16 (KJV)

The people who are “in Judea”
are the remnant of national Israel who have not taken the Mark of the
Beast, and Jesus commands them to literally run for their lives. They do
run, right to the red rock city of Selah Petra where God miraculously
protects and feeds them there for ” a thousand two hundred and threescore days”, or three and one half years.

The great red dragon of Revelation 12 is Leviathan from Job 40

And what about the dragon
“casting a flood” out of his mouth to try and drown Israel? Certainly
you remember our old friend Leviathan from the book of Job, right? The
same guy whom you were falsely told was a “dinosaur” is none other than
the Devil, and the book of Job is a picture of the Jew in the time of
Jacob’s trouble.

“Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.” Job 40:23 (KJV)

When
the Bible says that he “drinketh up a river”, it is directly
referencing Revelation 12:15 (KJV). See  how it is all coming together,
and everywhere you look it is referencing Israel.

By the time all this takes place,
the Church will have already been safely in Heaven for three and a half
years. We will be watching “from the balcony” as the nation of Israel
flees from Antichrist and hides out in Selah Petra.

Now you know who the woman is. It’s the nation of Israel. What part of Revelation 12 is the Church involved with? None of it.

Not a single, solitary, tiny little bit.









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