This looks like commentary calling Mary the woman in Revelations or similar to Her could be better said. It’s not a big deal to call Mary the woman in Revelations.
http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/woman.html
But it’s not really easy to answer and I’m no Bible scholar.
“What do we say about the option that both Rhodes and Geisler give us as the woman being the Nation of Israel? The main problem is that this option totally misses the main point of what the woman does in Revelation 12. In Rev. 12:2, the ‘woman’ is one that gives birth to the child. In v. 5, the ‘woman’ again is referred to as one who brings forth a male child who will rule. Now, who does the Bible say is the woman who brings forth a male child? In Isaiah 7:14, there is a prophecy of a virgin (or as the RSV says, a young ‘woman’) who will give birth to a child. That of course is a prophecy on the virginity of the woman. The woman happens to be Mary, not Israel.”
But nothing I’m going to be worried about.
I don’t know if there is an Official Roman Catholic Church interpretation calling Mary the woman in Apocalypse/Revelations.
Can you point me to the Catholic Bible commentary which identifies the woman of Revelation 12 as Mary.Would Catholic-lite satisfy your desires in this regard??
The inverted five-ponted star was first displayed on the exterior of an LDS temple in Nauvoo, Illinois in the early 1840s.
One of the foremen who helped to build the Nauvoo Temple recorded what the emblems on its exterior represented. He said,
- "The order of architecture was unlike anything in existence; it was purely original, being a representation of the Church, the Bride, the Lamb’s wife. John the Revelator, in the 12 chapter [and] first verse of [the book of Revelation,] says, '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.' This is portrayed in the beautifully cut stone of this grand temple."
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- --(Wandle Mace, Autobiography, 207, Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. )