{"id":1872,"date":"2016-04-01T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2022-08-29T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:34:34","slug":"revelation-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/revelation-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelation 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chapter twelve<\/strong> provides long-term look at the big historical&nbsp;picture. John made it clear in Revelation 12:1&nbsp;that this was a <em>\u201csign,\u201d<\/em> so we should read this as symbolic figures. A natural reading shows three main persons: the woman, who represents the nation of Israel; the dragon, who represents Satan; and the male child, who represents Jesus. According to Revelation 12:6, Israel <em>\u201cfled into the wilderness\u201d<\/em> to be protected by God from Satan for 1,260 days, the last half of the Tribulation. Jesus said that this would happen after <em>\u201cthe abomination of desolation \u2013 spoken about by Daniel the prophet\u201d<\/em> (Matthew 24:15). Daniel wrote that this would take place <em>\u201cin the middle of that week\u201d<\/em> (Daniel 9:27), or the 7-year covenant that Antichrist will make with Israel.<\/p><p>At this point (in the middle of the Tribulation), Michael and his angelic army will overpower Satan and his demonic army and will cast them out of heaven. Once confined to the Earth, Satan will <em>\u201cmake war on the rest of [Israel who did not flee]\u201d<\/em> and on those who <em>\u201chold to the testimony about Jesus\u201d<\/em> (Revelation 12:17) for the remainder of the Tribulation. It is during this period that many will be martyred, possibly those already mentioned in the fifth seal and some of the multitude in chapter 7. This time is called a <em>\u201cwoe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you\u201d<\/em> (Revelation 12:12).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter twelve provides long-term look at the big historical&nbsp;picture. John made it clear in Revelation 12:1&nbsp;that this was a \u201csign,\u201d so we should read this as symbolic figures. A natural reading shows three main persons: the woman, who represents the nation of Israel; the dragon, who represents Satan; and the male child, who represents Jesus. 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A natural reading shows three main persons: the woman, who represents the nation of Israel; the dragon, who represents Satan; and the male child, who represents Jesus.&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}