[MHGinTN]

Will you ever open your mind to the numerous times you have had it explained to you that the woman in Revelation 12 is not Mary, it is ISRAEL?

There is a verse from one of Paul's letters addressing 'ever learning, never coming to the knowledge of truth' ... 2 Timothy 3:7

[Mrs. Don-o]

You may want to consider that this is, like most Biblical prophecies and images, multivalent. This is to say, it is not a mathematical thing, a one-to-one correspondance, but rather a recurring motif. It may be part in the past and part in the future, or one which predicts another, which predicts (or reiterates) another.

For instance "Daughter of Jerusalem" and "Daughter Zion" overlap with the image of the city of Jerusalem, the Nation of Israel, the penitent, the suffering, the saved; the NT Ekklesia, Mary the Chosen Maiden, Ekklesia the Elect Lady. The Mother of the Messiah, the Woman Clothed with the Sun; the Bride who, with the Spirit, says "Come".

You know there's a lot like that. The 12 sons, the 12 tribes, the 12 Apostles, the 12 wicker baskets full of fragments, the 12 thrones, the 12 stars, the 12 gates, the 12 courses of foundation stone--- this isn't a math problem, MHGinTN, it is a reiteration of a pattern.

It's not just true once, it's true over and over at every scale. Like a fractal.

Song of Solomon 6:8-9

One is my dove,
my perfect one is but one,
she is the only one of her mother,
the chosen of her that bore her.
The daughters saw her, and declared her MOST BLESSED:
the queens and concubines, and they praised her.

Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising,
fair as the moon,
bright as the sun,
terrible as an army with banners?

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This isn't math, and it's not a policy proposal. This is poetry for the Queen.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You will love it when you see how God's prophecies and gifts are a beautiful pattern repeating at every scale.

"He who is mighty has done great things for me."

...Kecharitomene..............

[Mrs. Don-o]

Kecharitomene!