Who is the woman in Rev 12:5?

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That's a very good way to put it. All of the corporate churches teach that the entire body is the bride but most of the body is not looking for Him and they are not making themselves ready. So yes. The bride is hidden today but will come out of the corporate churches of all denominations. And just to cause a clamor..That includes the Romanist church
Think of the implications that the church being the woman in Revelation and her STILL being hidden in the wilderness has on this "Great Tribulation" verse... She's still in the wilderness and she's been given nourishment (the word) for the last 2000 years.

Revelation 12:14 KJV
And 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.
 
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Think of the implications that the church being the woman in Revelation and her STILL being hidden in the wilderness has on this "Great Tribulation" verse... She's still in the wilderness and she's been given nourishment (the word) for the last 2000 years.

Revelation 12:14 KJV
And 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.
Hmmm I think I just answered that in the Rapture thread. I think I'll cut and paste that to here. I wrote there. " Truly though. If one is not ready the time of the rapture is moot. The time of the tribulation period is endless and many of those Christians wh are not ready NOW, will not be able to stand in the tribulation, but will take the mark, and wind up in hell. a terrifying thought."
 
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Hmmm I think I just answered that in the Rapture thread. I think I'll cut and paste that to here. I wrote there. " Truly though. If one is not ready the time of the rapture is moot. The time of the tribulation period is endless and many of those Christians wh are not ready NOW, will not be able to stand in the tribulation, but will take the mark, and wind up in hell. a terrifying thought."
It is a terrifying thought, but Jesus wont lose a single one that God gave him.... those that are not ready, God will make them ready.
 

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When Israel first strayed from listening to Yahweh , it was likened to a married woma resorting to being a whore.

Israel, the wife, an d God, the husband. Issrael went her own way to worship anything but the living God, her husband and playing the whore with false gods.

Apostasy, that is, man teaching his own understanding in place of the understanding from God, is said will abound in the latter times..

Ask yourself, if there is but One Source for those who beleive of truth, that being the Wörd as senlightened by the Holy Spirit, and there are dozens of denominations opposing one another today, does not apastosy abound already.

It would result in sensible determination after study in prayer and meditation guided by the Holy Spirit that the Great Whore reclined on seven hills would be a denomination.

That Great Whore is teh mother of whores, and just who would her daughters be? It would appear they are the denominations that branched off from her.

Our Father is to call His children out of her, that great whore, and it stands to reason He will call His children out of her daughters also.

Strong inferance? It has always been inferred by the prophets, so no it is not, it is simply what must come about befe the end or changin in the twinkling of an eye.

Remember, God's children are just about everywhere, so do not judge to condemanation any denominatio members , nor atheists, nor agnostics.......no one, for judgment of that sort has not yet been handed over to the saints, and our Father's ways are not the ways of mankind, so never judge, especially by appearances.

God bless all who are in Jesus Christ, amen.
 
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It is a terrifying thought, but Jesus wont lose a single one that God gave him.... those that are not ready, God will make them ready.
You don't think any Christians will take the mark?
 
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I just want to say how Right I believe you are, over 7 years ago I asked jesus to come into my life and I was raised in a christian family however I fell off the right path after high school and lost my way never really prayed and a few months ago I was saved I had an experience and now have full 360 my life around. I feel as if he is calling all his people, I just feel sooo strongly towards Following the path God has set for me and never in my life has it been like this. The end truely must be near because nothing would have changed my path to condemnation at that time apart from the exact experience Jesus gave me when I cried out his name for help.

The surely must be near.
 
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I just want to say how Right I believe you are, over 7 years ago I asked jesus to come into my life and I was raised in a christian family however I fell off the right path after high school and lost my way never really prayed and a few months ago I was saved I had an experience and now have full 360 my life around. I feel as if he is calling all his people, I just feel sooo strongly towards Following the path God has set for me and never in my life has it been like this. The end truely must be near because nothing would have changed my path to condemnation at that time apart from the exact experience Jesus gave me when I cried out his name for help.

The surely must be near.
Without naming times or seasons I believe the rapture will happen this very year. I think late summer
 
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I just want to say how Right I believe you are, over 7 years ago I asked jesus to come into my life and I was raised in a christian family however I fell off the right path after high school and lost my way never really prayed and a few months ago I was saved I had an experience and now have full 360 my life around. I feel as if he is calling all his people, I just feel sooo strongly towards Following the path God has set for me and never in my life has it been like this. The end truely must be near because nothing would have changed my path to condemnation at that time apart from the exact experience Jesus gave me when I cried out his name for help.

The surely must be near.
We are in the early early morning of the 7th day! We are very close to seeing this world being turned upside down.... or rather right side up lol.
 
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True Christians, no I don't.
Ah There's the rub...They call themselves Christians and don't live for Jesus.........Then a lot of so called Christians are in real danger.
 

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You don't think any Christians will take the mark?
The Moon represents Jerusalem, and she is standing in the heavens, her feet not touching Jerusalem.

No!
 
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Ah There's the rub...They call themselves Christians and don't live for Jesus.........Then a lot of so called Christians are in real danger.
Well just look back at when Jesus came the first time.... How many "real" Pharisees were there lol. I like the wilderness example, out of all that went into the wilderness with Moses, only 2 of the originals were able to enter the promise land. That's a pretty low percentage!
 

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With God a thousand years is as a day when it has passed. Are you certain we are not in the eve of the Seventh day? It , like creation itself, is a period to rest, perhaps a thousand years?

We are in the early early morning of the 7th day! We are very close to seeing this world being turned upside down.... or rather right side up lol.
 
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The Moon represents Jerusalem, and she is standing in the heavens, her feet not touching Jerusalem.

No!
Please elucidate Expand on what you just said
 
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With God a thousand years is as a day when it has passed. Are you certain we are not in the eve of the Seventh day? It , like creation itself, is a period to rest, perhaps a thousand years?
According to the genealogy of the bible we have just entered the 7th day. And also it's been 2000 years since the Lord smote the Jews and after 2 days he will revive them and on the 3rd day which is also the 7th day from the creation, they will live in his sight.

Hosea 6:1-2 KJV
Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
[2] After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
 

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Without naming times or seasons I believe the rapture will happen this very year. I think late summer
Our gathering ring unto Him/rapture, happen after a man of sin revealed/after antichrist revealed. And bible said it take 7 years



2 thessalonian

[h=1]2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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The moon was Israel's wife. (Rachel according to Joseph's dream).

The sun was covenanted Israel.
The stars the tribes of Israel.


Paul tells us that Israel's wife is Jerusalem.
Hagar is Jerusalem below, (therefore Sarah is New Jerusalem).

Before the New Covenant New Jerusalem it therefore follows that Israel's wife was Old Jerusalem, (mother of us all).

In fact as Hagar also was Israel's wife, Jerusalem = Israel's Wife.
 
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