So you do not connect the wording in Revelation 12:17 to that of Micah 5:3 (about "the remnant")?
Revelation 12:17 KJV
yeah not really to that particular verse in Micah but yes the remnant of Israel those who didn’t reject the messiah but instead repented and believed at first there were about 500 after Jesus rose then the church began to grow
My point to you is the remnant of israel is the original church all of Jesus disciples he only preached to them first they became the church when they received the spirit at pentocost
and then everyone else who is converted whether Jew or gentile afterwards are all included with them by faith in Christ Jesus
until the end of time God is adding souls to his church there isnt a church then and one now it’s still growing person by person by the exact same doctrine then same spirit then same name of Jesus then
The remnant who believed the messiah became the firstfruits of God and set up his church and spread his word and even today people are converted through thier words to chrirtianity and the church making them also a child of God in Christ and hiers of Abraham and his promises
In other words
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ( Gods only son ) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:26-29 KJV
It’s only Jesus in the eyes of God that’s worthy not israel or gentile but only the one man Jesus Christ is worthy. To belong to God we have to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. It doesn’t matter if we were the original church ( the remnant of Israel who believed the messiah when he came ) or a Christian today it’s all one group, facing the same enemy in the same fallen world waiting for the same lord from heaven
You see Jesus go into heaven here in revelation
“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.”
Revelation 12:5
then you see Satan cast into the earth making war against all those who have his testimony the gospel and obey God.
This is talking the early church who Jesus gave the great commission
“So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”
Mark 16:19-20 KJV
when they did that we understand from the book of acts what happened to them
“And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.”
Acts 8:1, 3-4 KJV
We know also it grew and became worse and worse and we know from history that eventually in ad 67-70 rome besieged and totally raised Jerusalem to the ground slaughtering and exiling Jews and Christian’s eventually leading to the Jewish dispersia and scattering of Israel’s remnant into all nations carrying the gospel as well as by that time gentile chrirtians who escaped the Roman persecutions into other lands carrying the same gospel
Revelation needs a perpetual frame of thought and one to have read the prophets carefully to see it’s visions
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