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To: kinsman redeemer

Your tag line pretty well describes the great dragon in Revelation coming to devour the offspring of the Woman (Mary) over whom the dragon has no victory, I believe it goes, but it is he the dragon who is destroyed. Mary is mighty as the daughter of God, Mother of the King.

Mary bears the fullness of Grace. The sound of her voice gave cause for John the Baptist to leap, in the womb of his mother.
As son and Shepherd, Jesus obliged Mary’s every request.


17 posted on 05/23/2014 8:35:40 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: RitaOK

Incredible.
You hermeneutical prowess is astounding.
Just kidding... no it isn’t.


20 posted on 05/23/2014 8:40:42 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: RitaOK
the great dragon in Revelation coming to devour the offspring of the Woman (Mary)

There are several reasons why this woman represents Israel.

1. "a great sign appeared in heaven" (Rev. 12:1). A sign! Not a literal person but a symbol of something else.

2. "a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars." (Rev. 12:1) This is just how Gen. 37:9,10 describes the family of Jacob (aka Israel): he is the sun, Rachel is the moon and their twelve children are the twelve stars.

3. "She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron". (Rev. 12:5). Some translations say an iron scepter, which would reminds us of Judah (Gen. 49:10). Most likely it refers to the one Descendant of Judah who will rule the nations "with an iron scepter" when He comes (Revelation 19:15).

4. "her Child was caught up to God and His throne" (Rev. 12:5). Jesus was resurrected and ascended into heaven (Luke 24:50-53; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:9-11).

5. "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" (Rev. 12:6). It represents a remnant of her Israeli "offspring," who will flee into the desert, to be protected by God, for the last 3½ years of the Tribulation. Just as God reserved and protected a remnant of Israelites who were true to Him in the day of Elijah (1 Kings 19:18), so He will protect a remnant in the future.

90 posted on 05/24/2014 10:11:25 AM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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