Revelation 12: 1-6 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
First, some definitions:
The Woman = the church
The Dragon = Satan
The Man-Child = those in the church who have matured who walk and live in the Spirit of Christ
Caught Up = Because they are mature, these saints are able to handle the affairs of their Father’s House, they are given authority by their Father to transact Kingdom matters, this is not a reference to a “rapture”.
When God gave the promise to Abraham, the descendants of Abraham, over time, became so corrupt that eventually they killed the very One whose coming was the very reason that the nation existed. But has God cast away Israel? The answer is no, because He will save a remnant on account of the promise He made to Abraham.
Does that mean He is going to save everybody? No. This woman has in it both the potential of a remnant, and those who are representative of those who have fallen away. This three and a half years is a time for repentance, when the truth is being brought forth by the pattern Son living in the corporate man. There is a separation out of the woman, just like birth is a separation of the child from the woman. The woman and the child are no longer conflated when birth occurs.
The law was a schoolmaster to bring the people to Christ. Institutional Christianity preserved a cultural likeness to Christ, just like the law and the Jewish culture were placeholders until the real culture of the Kingdom of Heaven was to come. In the case of Christ, when He came, the nation of Israel was destroyed but for a remnant. And in the case of this man Child, when He emerges out of the woman, she will go into obscurity but for a remnant as well. It is the same story.
But God has mercy on her in her wanderings in the wilderness because she was not caught up to God and to His throne. In other words, she was not part of that which lived in Christ, moved in Christ, and had its very being in Christ, like He was in the Father. So, the Father is not in the institution. The institution is never about the Fatherhood of God, God the Father. The institution has always been about getting a pass out of trouble, going to heaven when you die, or some form of humanistic psychology designed to give you “your best life now”. They do not preach the message of sonship or of God as our Father. If you are in the institution, you have very little understanding and no encouragement to be a faithful son to the Father. You are always being told to go to heaven when you die or to “do things for God”. But in Christ, you bear the name of the Father on your forehead.
The woman will wander in the wilderness and she will not have power, although God will have mercy on her for the sake of a remnant yet in her. There will be a time when she becomes the harlot of Babylon, and God will decree that it is time for the remnant to come out of her. But for a while the desert will swallow up the flood of dissipation and false information about her that will come from the world. The world is going to paint the woman out of whom the mature Son comes in the most horrifying of circumstances. Everything that was said about the woman at the beginning, clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars… all of that, the light and glory of her was because of what she was carrying in her, not really because of who she was. When He is separated from her through birth, she does not become caught up to God or function by the authority of His throne. She wanders in the wilderness, the same woman, wanders in the wilderness and ultimately is revealed differently in the Scriptures. We are seeing this today: the church has become the primary source of support for the basest of men and the social platform for policies that are contrary to the nature of God and His creation.
Grace,
Aaron56
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
First, some definitions:
The Woman = the church
The Dragon = Satan
The Man-Child = those in the church who have matured who walk and live in the Spirit of Christ
Caught Up = Because they are mature, these saints are able to handle the affairs of their Father’s House, they are given authority by their Father to transact Kingdom matters, this is not a reference to a “rapture”.
When God gave the promise to Abraham, the descendants of Abraham, over time, became so corrupt that eventually they killed the very One whose coming was the very reason that the nation existed. But has God cast away Israel? The answer is no, because He will save a remnant on account of the promise He made to Abraham.
Does that mean He is going to save everybody? No. This woman has in it both the potential of a remnant, and those who are representative of those who have fallen away. This three and a half years is a time for repentance, when the truth is being brought forth by the pattern Son living in the corporate man. There is a separation out of the woman, just like birth is a separation of the child from the woman. The woman and the child are no longer conflated when birth occurs.
The law was a schoolmaster to bring the people to Christ. Institutional Christianity preserved a cultural likeness to Christ, just like the law and the Jewish culture were placeholders until the real culture of the Kingdom of Heaven was to come. In the case of Christ, when He came, the nation of Israel was destroyed but for a remnant. And in the case of this man Child, when He emerges out of the woman, she will go into obscurity but for a remnant as well. It is the same story.
But God has mercy on her in her wanderings in the wilderness because she was not caught up to God and to His throne. In other words, she was not part of that which lived in Christ, moved in Christ, and had its very being in Christ, like He was in the Father. So, the Father is not in the institution. The institution is never about the Fatherhood of God, God the Father. The institution has always been about getting a pass out of trouble, going to heaven when you die, or some form of humanistic psychology designed to give you “your best life now”. They do not preach the message of sonship or of God as our Father. If you are in the institution, you have very little understanding and no encouragement to be a faithful son to the Father. You are always being told to go to heaven when you die or to “do things for God”. But in Christ, you bear the name of the Father on your forehead.
The woman will wander in the wilderness and she will not have power, although God will have mercy on her for the sake of a remnant yet in her. There will be a time when she becomes the harlot of Babylon, and God will decree that it is time for the remnant to come out of her. But for a while the desert will swallow up the flood of dissipation and false information about her that will come from the world. The world is going to paint the woman out of whom the mature Son comes in the most horrifying of circumstances. Everything that was said about the woman at the beginning, clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars… all of that, the light and glory of her was because of what she was carrying in her, not really because of who she was. When He is separated from her through birth, she does not become caught up to God or function by the authority of His throne. She wanders in the wilderness, the same woman, wanders in the wilderness and ultimately is revealed differently in the Scriptures. We are seeing this today: the church has become the primary source of support for the basest of men and the social platform for policies that are contrary to the nature of God and His creation.
Grace,
Aaron56
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