Woman Fleeing into the Wilderness Revelation 12:6

John the apostle wrote, “ And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. He continued, “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 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”, and in chapter twelve and verse six of Revelation John shared how “the woman fled into the wilderness” where we read:

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God,

that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The verse reads, “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God,” John began with the words, “and the woman” which means “and the female John saw in heaven (Israel)” “fled” or “escaped out of danger and vanished” “into the wilderness” which means “in the solitary, lonely, desolate and uninhabited desert”, “where she has a place” or “in which the woman possesses and owns an inhabited village or district” “prepared” or “made ready, fit and secured” “of God” which means “by the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”. John watched as the “woman” or “Israel” “escaped out of danger” to a special “village” which was located in the “uninhabited desert”.

The verse continues, “that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” John added the words, “that they should feed her there” which means “so the woman should be nourished, supported, fattened and brought up in the prepared place” “a thousand two hundred and threescore” or “one thousand, two hundred and sixty” “days” or “intervals between sunrise and sunset”. John was told how this “wilderness place” was to be a “refuge and shelter” to “Israel” for a period of “twelve hundred and sixty days” or about three and one half years.

When we consider John's words in this verse, we see how Israel is to “escape” to the “wilderness” for a period of three and one half years. This is to preserve and protect them from the judgment that is to fall upon the earth during the latter three and one half years of the seven year tribulation period. In that “desert place”, God shall oversee and guard the inhabitants of Israel from danger, pestilence and famine that is destined for the rest of the world. This is God's nature, and He demonstrates it best through His desire to have a relationship with every person by their belief and trust in His Son Jesus. God wants to “preserve and protect” people, and when they yield their lives to Him, they shall not only receive God's protection, but they shall receive “everlasting life” with Him as well.

Next time John shares how there was “war in heaven ” so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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