rev 3:10 since you have kept my command to endure patiently , I will also keep you from the hour of trial, that is going to come on the whole world to test those, who live on earth.
seems 1 group will not have to go through it
Yep,
Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
Rev 12:14 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.
Question is where is this place? What is the wilderness that is HER place? The word for wilderness is...
G2048
ἔρημος
erēmos
er'-ay-mos
Of uncertain affinity; lonesome, that is, (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 being implied): - desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
This could hardly be heaven, but rather a place on earth. The next verses in chapter 12 confirm this...
Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Water is a type of peoples or armies...
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
But the EARTH helps the woman. Some event of the earth, perhaps an earthquake, swallows the army coming after the church. It won't be the first time the earth has swallowed up people...
Num 16:32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Num 16:33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
And according to Rev 12, it will happen again.
