Revelation
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Wonders In Heaven
Here are the verses of chapter twelve;
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Rev 12:1 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:
Rev 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Rev 12:3 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.
Rev 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
Firstly we can surely identify the woman with the body of believers, the "New Jerusalem". (As in Isaiah chapter 66.) The man child is clearly identified with Jesus Christ as the first delivered child of all of God's children to follow.
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Isa 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isa 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Isa 66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Isa 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
Isa 66:11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
Isa 66:12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
Isa 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
(KJV)
The woman "clothed with the Sun" is as the sealed believers (as of the floating unity) in the "Sun Octal", the distributed form of the 24 elders as over all the churches. The "Moon under her feet" shows that she does not pass as from day into night, being aware of all the devices of the dragon - she obeys the voice of her shepherd Jesus Christ. The crown of twelve stars corresponds to her election in Christ, more accurately the twelve combinations made of four choices of unity and three automorphisms forming the K4 ultrafilter. The resurrection of the body of believers is their crowning glory - being found in the person of Jesus Christ.
The delivery of the child is also indicated as coming after the coming of Christ - the womb of the woman is not "closed", but is intended to bring forth many overcoming children from within the elect. The angel of the church notwithstanding, there is no indication of rapture - rather from the ministry of the witnesses, they "loved not their lives unto the death". It is in resurrection (the woman's crown of life) that the children are caught up to God and His throne.
The dragon represents satan, the "god of this world". His seven heads represent the six OT kingdoms that tested and persecuted Israel and the seventh is the beast that is formed of three kingdoms into one - the modern USA as we know it. (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and the USA is as a binding together of Britain, the USSR and Nazi Germany.) He has one crown (device) but has used the same devices on these seven "heads". The ten horns are the ten kingdoms complete, but only seven of them have been historically instantiated under satan's full crown and authority: There is no permit from God to bring forth all of the ten separately, the three kingdoms of Britain, the USSR and Germany are all formed into one amalgam. Satan has "one last shot" in order to correctly set up His image of jealousy to supplant the spirit of grace in the churches. The math is not complete if there are indeed four separate "third woes". Such a system would lose its jealous symmetry.
The tail of the dragon is comprised of the accumulating "bows" of antichrist that are present in the development of these global empires as they are historically interwoven. The same sequence is seen in the four horsemen of the first four seals, and the tail follows the crown through history. The device, in order to be interwoven requires the first four trumpets as methods in sequence - in effect; to complete the bows of antichrist there is a requirement for octals to be chosen from the "sea" and products of them formed from the "stars" in forming a bridge from the Sun octal to the "night" or "starry" octals in the sea. (The moon is an image of passing from the right hand towards the left and into successive octals away from the election of grace in the right hand.)
These stars are cast to the earth, in order to bind the four "bows" together so that satan may claim dominion of the four earthy elements as we have now seen. The revelation that "Death", (the rider on the horses) is the same spirit as "Wormwood" is the result of equivocating the trumpet methods to the four horsemen. (static subgroups are not enough - we require the products to be formed of various octals, allowing "slippage" by utilising "stars" to give as it were "the ring of truth" to a faulty system.
The dragon stands ready to devour the child, in the time of Christ this was the accumulation up to the roman empire utilised by the state of judah which killed the saviour. Today we have the dialectic process in the image of the beast that prevents the five refining churches from attaining Christ - they that will not enter into the Lord's rest.
The child delivered, rules all nations with a rod of iron. There is no excuse for remaining in the four earthy elements and denying Christ. As the child may be considered the "least in the kindom of heaven", there is quite literally no excuse. (At least for any of the elect, those that are not elect sadly are not counted for the seed of Abraham.)
The woman fled into the wilderness - here we see the ministry of the two witnesses again for 1260 days. Likewise we see the dragon expelled from heavenly places. From the time of Christ, satan has been bound to the four earthy elements, and has found no other place in heaven for any other crown or device. The bows of antichrist have become his devices, and we may only consider the four horses of the seals when recognising satan - they are his calling card. The stars that are cast out with him are clearly those that provide the trumpet methods for the bows to be constructed. There is aso the fallen star with the key to the bottomless pit.
At this point we see the status quo of the "church age" (for lack of a better term) in v10. The only device of satan present is the horsemen and their bows. Being elected in the sun octal (in Christ) and washed in the blood of the lamb, as to become as unity in sabbath rest is all that separates the believers from those that dwell outside in the earthy elements and the sea. (see v12) We see the elect are then those that are in the intersection of Christ as GF(4) and the octal as GF(8) - viewed as the lamb on the altar or GF(2).
So when the dragon persecutes the woman - we see that the living Christians are not so much in view here, rather their heavenly dwelling place of New Jerusalem is being attacked. (We can equivocate this to the fifth and sixth trumpets.) The star with the key to the pit is just such an example of this - in these dark days the kingdom of heaven is likened to ten virgins, five wise and five foolish.
The woman is given two wings of a great eagle - not an indication of great distance or time travelled, rather that the wings which describe movement in the octal as do those of the seraphim (four beasts about the throne) they give her movement into the wilderness, as to enable her to fly into her place. This place would be the elements of the static subgroup of the right hand, separate from the earthy elements, (and not necessarily unity.) (The woman includes those that have a form of Godliness but deny its power.) This spiritual "no-mans-land" is an ideal description for the spiritual wilderness.
The woman is nourished apart from the serpent for a "time, times and half a time" - an indication rather that the K4 group in question is under a seal. (I.e. The K4 group or "half a time" is static.) The dragon is under lock and key as it were within the bottomless pit whilst God foreknows His people (justly with satan excluded) and predestinates them to eternal life, or if it be the case for the unfortuneates that do not repent, the second death.
The dragon sends forth a flood (of speech from his mouth) after the woman - a great deluge of people practicing the dialectic process - we see here the serpent and locust spirits in full action on the refining churches, but the "earth" opens her mouth and swallows up twelve elements of S5 that can not be constructed upon the four earthy elements due to constaints of the ultrafilter. (see page "the tenth part" in the glossary section.)
We see here the death and resurrection of the two witnesses runs parallel with the account's conclusion, after which the dragon goes to make war with those not yet delivered by the woman (those that are delivered are they that have already died and been raised victorious with Christ.) It is good to recall that God is God of the living, and those in the resurrection have overcome,.. those that have not died are included in the "remnant" of her seed. These remnant people are those that keep the commandments of God.
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