The Woman and the Dragon in 2012?

Revelation 12: ¹And there appeared a great wonder (sign) in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

 ²And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

 ³And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

 ⁴And 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.

 ⁵And 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.

 ⁶And 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.

 ⁷And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

 ⁸And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

 ⁹And 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.

 ¹⁰And 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.

 ¹¹And 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.

 ¹²Therefore 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.

 ¹³And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

 ¹⁴And 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.

 ¹⁵And 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.

 ¹⁶And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

 ¹⁷And 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.

The significance of The Woman in this story is missed by most interpretations of who she is. Israel? The Church? Mary? The Bible can, and must interpret itself.

The Law of first Mention

1. The meaning of the law of First Mention: The Law of First Mention may be said to be the principle that requires one to go to that portion of the Scriptures where a doctrine is mentioned for the first time and to study the first occurrence of the same in order to get the fundamental inherent meaning of that doctrine.
2. When this law is applied the simple precedes the complex.
1. A history of the development of anything will show that it sprang from something in the very simplest form (for example the steamship; airplane; automobile).
2. In the Scriptures the growth and development of ideas and doctrine might be illustrated by some simple word.
   1. Throughout the history of a term it may have increased its meaning and undergone certain changes, yet the basic, original, fundamental thought is seldom lost.
   2. The fundamental concept usually controls or is dominant in coloring every shade of idea expressed by a term in its current usage.
3. Exercises--
   1. Trace how the writer of Psalm 8 and Hebrews 2 related their messages to the doctrines which are mentioned for the first time in Genesis 1:2-2:3. These doctrines are as follows:
   1. The original creation;
   2. Disaster which overtook the primitive earth;
   3. The reconstruction and repairing of this damage;
   4. The beginning of the present human race.
   2. Study the doctrine concerning man in his original state and his fall given in Genesis 2 and 3.
   3. The first mention of the doctrine of sin is given in chapter 3 of Genesis. Study how the writer of Romans 7:17 developed his message upon the doctrines given in Genesis 3.
   4. Study the doctrine concerning sacrifices.
   1. When man first disobeyed God and tried to cover his nakedness with fig leaves the Lord gave him a covering made from the skins of animals. Why the skins of animals? Why couldn't He have used another material? No answer is given in Genesis
   2. The account of Cain and Abel bringing their offerings to the Lord reveals that Abel by faith brought his flock and placed such on the altar to atone for sin. This pleased the Lord. See Genesis 4 and Hebrews 11:4.
   3. Animal sacrifices in the beginning of the history of man were typical of the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's tree.
   5. Study Bible chronology.
   1. Chronology is to the story of redemption given in the Bible what the skeleton is to the rest of our body.
      1. If all the bones of our body were removed our flesh would be a pile of jumbled matter.
      2. If chronology were removed from the Scriptures, the Scriptures would be a mass of jumble facts.
   2. Biblical chronology had its beginnings in the book Of Genesis, and God was very careful to give hundreds of dates here and there throughout the Scriptures to show the orderly development of events recorded in the Bible.
      1. Study the six days of creation recorded in Genesis 1.
      2. Study the genealogies of the theocratic line given in Genesis 11.
      3. Observe how God dated events in the Bible from the time of the creation of man, "Anno Homonis" (A.H.).
   6. Study the doctrine concerning the wrath of God and His judgments.
   1. Observe how God has dealt with the sinfulness of man on an international scale (Gen 6 to 8).
   2. Observe how God must deal with the sinfulness of mankind yet in the future (Luke 17:26-30; Rev 19:15).
   7. Study the Rainbow-Noahic Covenant which God made with man (Gen 9:1-16) and observe the following:
   1. The Rainbow Covenant is an everlasting covenant.
   2. God entered into this covenant with all humanity.
   3. God's obligation under this covenant, "the everlasting covenant" is never again to destroy the earth water.
   4. Man's obligation under this covenant is to obey the four provisions of the covenant God laid down for man's benefit (Genesis 9:3-7). (Read Isa. 24:5; Rev 4:3).
   8. Study the beginning of Hebrew history.
   1. God made a covenant with Abraham (Gen 12:1-3).
   2. To confirm the fact that God chose Israel, read Deut. 32:8,9.
So the teaching of this "Woman' we can find in Genesis also in chapter 37: 

⁹And 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.

This was Joseph explaining his dream that is the exact image we see in Revelation 12  "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars"  Of course his mother represented the Moon and Jacob the Sun. 

he Woman ready to birth "The Seed" that was prophesied would come from the mother of all living..."EVE" that wou destroy the same serpent/dragon who deceived her and caused the fall.  5And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Note how the serpent cast water out of his mouth ⁵And 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.

 ¹⁶And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.


It all started with The Woman and The Serpent, and it will all end with the Woman and the Serpent! The final Woman is the Bride of Christ.Some would

Ecclesiastes 1:9

King James Version (KJV)

 ⁹The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Also note that this is symbolic of what happened in the garden when lies and deceptive words caused her to believe a lie and was 'fallen.' God cursed the ground/earth in genesis but in revelation the earth opens up and swallowed up the flood...just as when God said "let there be light the light overcame the darkness!   

John 1

 ¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 ²The same was in the beginning with God.

 ³All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

 ⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Just as Jesus is the 2nd/new Adam, The Woman is the 2nd/New Eve who in 'type' bears Israel, The Church, and in Revelation she is ready to deliver the Man Child and his sons, for she is also symbolizing New Jerusalem, the Mother of us all! 

 John 1:¹² But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: ¹³Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Galatians 3:21 Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear? 22 for it hath been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the maid-servant, and one by the free-woman, 23 but he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise; 24 which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar; 25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children, 26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is Mother of us 

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