To: biblewonk
>> The Church did not give birth to Jesus in any sense.<<
No, but it will... the mission of the Church is to bring Christ into the world. The historic basis of Revelations 12 (the origin of the metaphor, so to speak) is Mary giving birth to Christ. The prophetic allusion, however, is that the Church will bear suffering, such as childbirth, in bringing Christ into the world. Please note the length of woman's time in Egypt...
45 posted on
05/03/2004 1:33:45 PM PDT by
dangus
To: dangus
Please note the length of woman's time in Egypt... I'm missing the egypt reference unless you mean "the wilderness".
49 posted on
05/03/2004 1:42:44 PM PDT by
biblewonk
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