'Satan or the Dragon stood before the woman to devour the child when it was born.'

.....................The devil has stood before the woman to devour her seed from the days of Eden.

............God is forming a Manchild group of true overcomers who will rule the nations. This is a very important part of God's plan and Satan is trying every thing in his power to keep this group from being birthed.

....................God is calling for a group of people who are completely dedicated and surrendered to Him. Satan would like to get these people to violate their commitment to separate themselves from the world.

We are told in Revelation the 12th chapter, the 9th verse that the Dragon is the devil, or Satan.

He appears as a 'sign' in heaven because at the time he appears, he is in the heavenlies.

..........[This is not the Third Heaven where the redeemed are].
.......Ephesians 6:12, in the literal translation, shows Satan and the powers of darkness dwelling in the heavenlies. They are soon to be cast down to earth. [verses 8,9]

The Manchild [children] are caught up to God by rapture.

.......They are raptured just before the rise of the Antichrist and the Great Tribulation.
Read Revelation chapter 13

They are the overcomers, the First-fruits unto God.

The prophecy of Revelation 12 is just before the Great Tribulation.

.....................Jesus ascended into heaven 1900 years before so it can't be the main fulfillment of this prophecy.

.............Christ is the first of the First-fruits, and may be considered the first of the Manchild, but not the only one [there are other children].

The Sun-clothed Woman is both the Church and Israel.

........The Manchild includes Christ who came from Israel according to the flesh.

The children [Harvest] of the Woman who are born during the travailing are the overcomers, the first-fruits.

.....................Revelation 2:26-27
26"And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father."

The Manchild doesn't represent all of the Woman's children. There are others of her seed.



...........The Manchild holds the main position. The Manchild [the first of the First-fruits] is born almost before the travailing begins.


...................The children [the Harvest] are born during the travailing.

......................Revelation 12:5-6
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.
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."

Isaiah tells of the birth of the Manchild, when Zion travails.

.......................Isaiah 66:6-8
6 "A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
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."

...................The Manchild comes first; the children are those who come after.

Revelation 12:2 speaks of the Woman "being with child cried; travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."

...........................The woman's travail refers to the travail of the Church-Israel as the age comes to an end.

Of the Sun-clothed Woman......
"Upon her head a crown of twelve stars."



This symbol speaks of both
Israel and the Church

...............................The stars refer to the twelve
Tribes of Israel and also the twelve Apostles of the
Church.

"Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" Song of Soloman 6:10

...............This is the Church, clothed with the sun, fair as the moon, set as an army in a spiritual warfare against the powers of evil.

There are some who thing "the moon under her feet" means the power of darkness, which are under the feet of the Church.

........................The powers of darkness are under her feet but the moon doesn't represent the powers of darkness.

The moon reflects the sun in darkness, just as the Church reflects the Sun of Righteousness in the darkness of this Age.

The moon is under her feet.

.....An expression showing that the Church is in the heavens as well as on earth, a fact which is true of the Church rather than Israel

Paul tells us in Romans 13:12-14
........................."to cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. . . But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof."

The Woman is "clothed with the sun." The sun is a symbol of Christ, who will come to complete the salvation of Israel and the Church.

..........................Malachi 4:2
"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings".

The Sun-clothed Woman is a heavenly sign.

.............The Church sits in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.
"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ."
Ephesians 2:6

.......She has conflict in heaven because Satan and his angels are there also. BUT soon they will be thrown out of heaven.

Paul taught that the Gentiles are children of Abraham by faith.

...............During the Church Age, those who are considered Jews are not those who are Jews outwardly, but those who are Jews inwardly by faith. Romans 2:28-29

The Sun-Clothed Woman represents both the true Israel and the Church.

.......She is the true Church of all the Ages.

At the Judgment Seat of Christ, the rewards are given "to the prophets, and the saints, and them that fear thy name small and great." Revelation 11:18

...............They are all considered the body of the redeemed although they have separate identities.

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At the end of the age when the nation of Israel is restored and the people accept Jesus whom they have pierced, there will be a regrafting of the Church and Israel into the same olive tree.

The individualities of the two will still be distinct.

Israel and the Church were together at the beginning of the Church Age, but parted when the Jewish nation rejected the Holy Spirit.

.....................Acts 7:51
"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, ......."

The full understanding of Israel's place in God's plans will only be understood when the Ten Lost Tribes are manifested.

............This is revealed by the catching away [Rapture] of the Church.

The reunion of all 12 tribes will take place at the end of the age, when the resurrection of the nation of Israel takes place.

Read Ezekiel 37:15-28

The Jews only represent two tribes of Israel.

..........The ten tribes never returned to Palestine from their captivity in Assyria.

................Even though the Jews are Israelites, they aren't the ten tribes who went into captivity and never returned.

Israel wouldn't be perfect without the Church.

............Hebrews 11:
39 "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

Until Jesus came, Israel was the only people with God's favor.

.........The Gentiles were outsiders.

.....But Israel wasn't complete without the Gentile Church.

God's plan imagined Israel and the Gentiles being grafted into one olive tree.

..........................This prophecy in Romans 11 hasn't been fulfilled with just the few Jews who have been brought into the Church during this Age; but it refers to what will happen to Israel as a nation when the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

........That's will be at the end of this age.

Romans 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
..................24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
.................25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

In the New Testament days the apostles and their first converts were all Jews, of Israel.
...................Later when Peter was educated by God to the idea that the Gentiles were admitted into the Church.
...........Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, saw Israel and the Church both of the same olive tree. It is a symbol of both Israel and the Church.