Rethinking revelation 12

I like your post here Lance. The only player that i can't find anything to associate with here is Turkey.

Unless the Dragon IS a turkey.

Or Suleiman the Magnificent came from Turkey and it was he who made the 1535 decree to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem.

1535 + 62 weeks of 434 years = 1969.

Then the Knesset decree in 1969.

1969 + 7 weeks of 49 years = 2018.

And my view on the Revelation 12 sign is too radical to repeat in public. I think the man child is Jesus, and the woman is the church.

The church gave birth to the Messiah.

That doesn't sound right.

It's like what came first, the chicken or the egg.

But you might have heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention. So "church" might not be the best word to use. But God's faithful People needed a Savior. Necessity was the mother of the Messiah.

So if true, it could be said that Rahab the Harlot was the woman.

And you have the wings of the eagle in there, but don't forget that there's specifically two mentioned here.

"The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle,
so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness," - Revelation 12:14

But then the woman, God's people, were given the two wings so that she could escape from the dragon to the place prepared for her.

Like a solid rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, wing # 1 was used up during the 1260 years of papal persecution from 538 to 1798.

Wing # 2 is still burning it's propellant pending the beast's 42 months of end time authority. But we are not the woman in the wilderness anymore, we are the offspring of the woman, who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus, with whom the dragon is preparing to make war with.

She could escape from the dragon to the "place prepared for her". A "place prepared by God" is a holy place. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, there were four blood moons and God was opening up a new continent. A flood was spewing forth from the dragon's mouth but with the help of men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson a holy place, the "earth", would be made ready to help the woman after 1260 years of Paypal persecution came to an end in 1798.

The first nation on the planet complete with a "Bible belt" was to be born when it was previously illegal to be caught with one. In 1776 America was founded and would become a safe place for God's people to own, print and study their Bibles. Prior to this in the dark ages of Europe, entire villages of Christian men, women and children had none of these religious freedoms and were burnt at the stake more often than not for reading or owning their own Bibles. This was the dragon chasing the woman and these estimated 75 million or more Christian martyrs would become the 5th seal souls beneath the alter. Lucifer was the hand that used the early church like a glove which hit the woman very hard during the Foxe Book Days. The founding fathers of the USA made sure that church and state were separate, America! America! God shed His grace on thee.


I don't think you are. I think you nailed it with this one:

"God has given us some signs and it doesn't seem like we are using them enough.

That's what it seems like to me too.

Thanks for sharing your ideas.

 
It's not "What if the dragon was Turkey".

It's what if the Dragon IS a turkey, as in gobble gobble.

I guess it's a saying on my side of the pond old boy.

My attempt at levity without the aide of the canned laughter from the Mr Bean video..

Lets get back to the apocalypse of St John, the disciple that Jesus loved.

I know you are man but just take it easy if nothing happens. Don't feel bad. I think we might still have until July or August, and that would be OK with me. Summer is finally burning in my time zone. And i like it.

And i'm afraid that the Dragon is the Devil. C'mon man, how could the Dragon be the Church? On second thought, forget i asked.

Here is an interactive time zone map. Hover your mouse on one of the city dots for the current time at that location.

www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

I have a tip for you Dent.

Don't say I AM like that so much anymore.

Those girls on the other thread look like they're getting ready to gang up on you.