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To: johngrace

OK. That makes no sense to me, but I guess it does to you.

Revelation 12:6  And the “Mary and the mother Church as a whole in sequence” fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (johngrace Version)


76 posted on 04/25/2010 11:43:08 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: srweaver

It’s the book of revelation theres lot of symbolism none of our views can be absolutely iron clad on every instance. Execept that Christ and the saints win at the end of the age. Praise Jesus. But we are blessed to read.


77 posted on 04/26/2010 6:39:07 AM PDT by johngrace
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To: srweaver

Here’s a view from a Catholic site. But when it comes to this last book of the bible {Revelation} I don’t think there’s an absolute interpretation from our side of eternity. “The woman also serves as a collective symbol for both Israel and the Church. She is Israel, the Daughter of Zion, the nation from whom the Messiah comes, the community of faith and obedience that awaits the birth of the Messiah (Isaiah 66:7). In Hebrew a country is expressed in the feminine tense, as mother of her inhabitants. The symbol clearly refers to the Church, for Jesus at the Cross gives his Mother Mary to his disciple (John 19:26-27). The Church are the faithful disciples of Christ, whom the dragon in Revelation 12:17 went “to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.”


78 posted on 04/26/2010 6:51:01 AM PDT by johngrace
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