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    Woman Clothed With The Sun in Revelation

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    The woman clothed with the sun represents both the Virgin Mary and Israel collectively. She symbolizes the Virgin Mary because she gave birth to Jesus Christ, the male child who was caught up to heaven. However, she also represents Israel because the twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel and the woman came from Israel. The dragon pursuing the woman refers both to the persecution of Jews, such as the troubles they faced after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and their diaspora, as well as the persecution of Christians by Roman authorities who did not view them as exempt from worshipping Roman gods like Jews were. So the woman represents both the Virgin Mary, Israel, and Christians who are persecuted for their faith.

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    The woman clothed with the sun represents both the Virgin Mary and Israel collectively. She symbolizes the Virgin Mary because she gave birth to Jesus Christ, the male child who was caught up to heaven. However, she also represents Israel because the twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel and the woman came from Israel. The dragon pursuing the woman refers both to the persecution of Jews, such as the troubles they faced after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and their diaspora, as well as the persecution of Christians by Roman authorities who did not view them as exempt from worshipping Roman gods like Jews were. So the woman represents both the Virgin Mary, Israel, and Christians who are persecuted for their faith.

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    The woman clothed with the sun represents both the Virgin Mary and Israel collectively. She symbolizes the Virgin Mary because she gave birth to Jesus Christ, the male child who was caught up to heaven. However, she also represents Israel because the twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel and the woman came from Israel. The dragon pursuing the woman refers both to the persecution of Jews, such as the troubles they faced after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and their diaspora, as well as the persecution of Christians by Roman authorities who did not view them as exempt from worshipping Roman gods like Jews were. So the woman represents both the Virgin Mary, Israel, and Christians who are persecuted for their faith.

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    Woman Clothed With The Sun in Revelation

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    The woman clothed with the sun represents both the Virgin Mary and Israel collectively. She symbolizes the Virgin Mary because she gave birth to Jesus Christ, the male child who was caught up to heaven. However, she also represents Israel because the twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel and the woman came from Israel. The dragon pursuing the woman refers both to the persecution of Jews, such as the troubles they faced after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and their diaspora, as well as the persecution of Christians by Roman authorities who did not view them as exempt from worshipping Roman gods like Jews were. So the woman represents both the Virgin Mary, Israel, and Christians who are persecuted for their faith.

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    Woman clothed with the sun.

    layers of meaning all literal in that she represents something literal.


    Come Out of Her My People vol. 1 showed me something I had missed. Glory to God for His
    servants who some have one insight and some another and together provide the big picture,
    as St. Paul said that in the body there are eyes, hands, feet, etc. and all work together to
    make the body work.
    The woman is identified with The Theotokos (Virgin Mary, Mother of God since Jesus Who
    came out of her was always God before His Incarnation, He did not become God later, or
    aquire the Christ spirit later, she did not provide His divinity only His humanity, but what
    came forth from her womb was and is God The Word of John chapter 1).
    This makes sense because the woman is the mother of the male child Who is caught up to
    heaven (the Ascension of Christ after His Resurrection). But the Virgin Mary was not subject
    to such harassment as depicted, if indeed any other than some minor social harassment
    perhaps and the horror of watching her son Crucified, but that was not an attack directly on
    her like is depicted in Revelation and she didn't run hide from it in the wilderness, she spent
    her life in the city.
    So while it must be the Virgin Mary it must ALSO be something more.
    The twelve stars would point to Israel's 12 tribes, and the 12 Apostles the foundation stones
    of the new Israel. So the woman is a collective woman also, Israel, one of whose individual
    women gave birth to the Messiah, Who came from Israel.
    But there is another point. The devil pursues her and fails, and then turns his attention to the
    rest of her seed who keep the testimony of Christ.
    So it is likely this persecution refers both to the troubles that have pursued the Jews, and to
    the persecutions that have pursued the Christians. At first these two populations were
    identical, and still are as Paul shows in Romans 11. This picture in Revelation then may refer
    both to the flight from Jerusalem and general diaspora of the Jews around and after AD 70,
    and to the persecutions against the Christians, which generally did not target Jews.
    The Jews had a long standing agreement with Rome, part of the deal they had when they
    sought to Rome to rescue them from the Greeks/anatolians which Maccabbees tells of, that
    they were exempt from the requirement that all worship Roman false gods. But it became
    noted that Christians, though claiming this exemption, did not keep Torah, so were not Jewish
    enough to qualify for this exemption.
    So two persecutions are at issue, that against the Jews especially the Holocaust, and that
    against Christians past present and future.

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