Have you ever wondered how a pregnant woman in that time would suffer that "wrath" on those "days of vengeance"? Did you know our Lord Jesus was referring to an important parable with that warning of "woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days!"? How many preachers just quickly skip over this?
Luke 21:22-23
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
Mark 13:17-20
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom He hath chosen, He hath shortened the days.
KJV
Those "days of vengeance" is the time of God's cup of wrath poured out upon the wicked on the day of Christ's second coming (see Isaiah 61:2 with the last phrase, the place where our Lord Jesus stopped reading in Luke 4 from the Book of Isaiah, because that is about the event of His second coming).
In 2 Cor.11, Apostle Paul said he wanted to present us to Christ as "a chaste virgin". In Matt.25 and Rev.14, our Lord Jesus used the idea of virgins to represent His faithful.
The "woe to them that are with child..." is a warning against false worship of another instead of our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. It is not about literal pregnant women in labor.
Isa 54:1
54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
KJV
Isa 54:5
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
KJV
In that Isaiah 54:1 verse, notice it's the one that is "barren" that sings for joy. Why is that, for bearing a child is a blessing from The Lord for a woman. It's not about literal pregnancy at all. It's about spiritually being unchaste when our Lord Jesus returns, and He finds we have married another in His place, and we are found spiritually with child from another.
I reckon the reason why this important warning by our Lord is not taught very often because so many will get the wrong idea, thinking He meant it in the literal sense. No, it's a parable, an allegory, and He's using the example of a betrothed virgin being found unfaithful when He comes.
That is why the Isaiah 54:1 shows it's the "barren" woman without child that is singing in joy, because she stayed faithful, waiting on Him. By that faithfulness to Him, the barren desolate womb that did not travail with child is blessed in the long run, and will have more children (spiritually) in final when He comes.
Jesus also gave this as a warning to the women in Jerusalem that cried for Him when He was carrying His cross to be crucified:
Luke 23:27-30
27 And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us'."
KJV
Those in Jerusalem deceived for the tribulation will be in shame after He returns and they discover how they fell away to worship another in His place (i.e., the coming pseudo-Christ of Matt.24:23-26; 2 Thess.2:4).
Then those deceived will be saying about the barren who remained faithful to Him, "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." And in shame those un-barren found with child will wish for the mountains and hills to fall on them, and to cover them.
This is a parable He gave. It takes some explaining to reveal its meaning, which is what parables do, contain points that cannot be missed, using real life situations as allegory. This is another way our Heavenly Father and His Son warned us to stay faithful during the time of the "great tribulation" He taught, which is when the coming Antichrist will set himself up as God in place of our Lord Jesus (2 Thess.2:4 and Matt.24:23-26, and Rev.13:11 foward).
Luke 21:22-23
22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
KJV
Mark 13:17-20
17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom He hath chosen, He hath shortened the days.
KJV
Those "days of vengeance" is the time of God's cup of wrath poured out upon the wicked on the day of Christ's second coming (see Isaiah 61:2 with the last phrase, the place where our Lord Jesus stopped reading in Luke 4 from the Book of Isaiah, because that is about the event of His second coming).
In 2 Cor.11, Apostle Paul said he wanted to present us to Christ as "a chaste virgin". In Matt.25 and Rev.14, our Lord Jesus used the idea of virgins to represent His faithful.
The "woe to them that are with child..." is a warning against false worship of another instead of our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. It is not about literal pregnant women in labor.
Isa 54:1
54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
KJV
Isa 54:5
5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.
KJV
In that Isaiah 54:1 verse, notice it's the one that is "barren" that sings for joy. Why is that, for bearing a child is a blessing from The Lord for a woman. It's not about literal pregnancy at all. It's about spiritually being unchaste when our Lord Jesus returns, and He finds we have married another in His place, and we are found spiritually with child from another.
I reckon the reason why this important warning by our Lord is not taught very often because so many will get the wrong idea, thinking He meant it in the literal sense. No, it's a parable, an allegory, and He's using the example of a betrothed virgin being found unfaithful when He comes.
That is why the Isaiah 54:1 shows it's the "barren" woman without child that is singing in joy, because she stayed faithful, waiting on Him. By that faithfulness to Him, the barren desolate womb that did not travail with child is blessed in the long run, and will have more children (spiritually) in final when He comes.
Jesus also gave this as a warning to the women in Jerusalem that cried for Him when He was carrying His cross to be crucified:
Luke 23:27-30
27 And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him.
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us'."
KJV
Those in Jerusalem deceived for the tribulation will be in shame after He returns and they discover how they fell away to worship another in His place (i.e., the coming pseudo-Christ of Matt.24:23-26; 2 Thess.2:4).
Then those deceived will be saying about the barren who remained faithful to Him, "Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck." And in shame those un-barren found with child will wish for the mountains and hills to fall on them, and to cover them.
This is a parable He gave. It takes some explaining to reveal its meaning, which is what parables do, contain points that cannot be missed, using real life situations as allegory. This is another way our Heavenly Father and His Son warned us to stay faithful during the time of the "great tribulation" He taught, which is when the coming Antichrist will set himself up as God in place of our Lord Jesus (2 Thess.2:4 and Matt.24:23-26, and Rev.13:11 foward).
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