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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
And the woman fled into the wilderness - The account of the woman's flying into the wilderness immediately follows that of her child being caught up to the throne of God, to denote the great and rapid increase of heresies in the Christian Church after the time that Christianity was made the religion of the empire. Where she hath a place prepared of God - See on Rev 12:14 (note).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
woman fled--Mary's flight with Jesus into Egypt is a type of this. where she hath--So C reads. But A and B add "there." a place--that portion of the heathen world which has received Christianity professedly, namely, mainly the fourth kingdom, having its seat in the modern Babylon, Rome, implying that all the heathen world would not be Christianized in the present order of things. prepared of God--literally, "from God." Not by human caprice or fear, but by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, the woman, the Church, fled into the wilderness. they should feed her--Greek, "nourish her." Indefinite for, "she should be fed." The heathen world, the wilderness, could not nourish the Church, but only afford her an outward shelter. Here, as in Dan 4:26, and elsewhere, the third person plural refers to the heavenly powers who minister from God nourishment to the Church. As Israel had its time of first bridal love, on its first going out of Egypt into the wilderness, so the Christian Church's wilderness-time of first love was the apostolic age, when it was separate from the Egypt of this world, having no city here, but seeking one to come; having only a place in the wilderness prepared of God (Rev 12:6, Rev 12:14). The harlot takes the world city as her own, even as Cain was the first builder of a city, whereas the believing patriarchs lived in tents. Then apostate Israel was the harlot and the young Christian Church the woman; but soon spiritual fornication crept in, and the Church in the seventeenth chapter is no longer the woman, but the harlot, the great Babylon, which, however, has in it hidden the true people of God (Rev 18:4). The deeper the Church penetrated into heathendom, the more she herself became heathenish. Instead of overcoming, she was overcome by the world [AUBERLEN]. Thus, the woman is "the one inseparable Church of the Old and New Testament" [HENGSTENBERG], the stock of the Christian Church being Israel (Christ and His apostles being Jews), on which the Gentile believers have been grafted, and into which Israel, on her conversion, shall be grafted, as into her own olive tree. During the whole Church-historic period, or "times of the Gentiles," wherein "Jerusalem is trodden down of the Gentiles," there is no believing Jewish Church, and therefore, only the Christian Church can be "the woman." At the same time there is meant, secondarily, the preservation of the Jews during this Church-historic period, in order that Israel, who was once "the woman," and of whom the man-child was born, may become so again at the close of the Gentile times, and stand at the head of the two elections, literal Israel, and spiritual Israel, the Church elected from Jews and Gentiles without distinction. Eze 20:35-36, "I will bring you into the wilderness of the people (Hebrew, 'peoples'), and there will I plead with you . . . like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of Egypt" (compare Notes, see on Eze 20:35-36): not a wilderness literally and locally, but spiritually a state of discipline and trial among the Gentile "peoples," during the long Gentile times, and one finally consummated in the last time of unparalleled trouble under Antichrist, in which the sealed remnant (Rev 7:1-8) who constitute "the woman," are nevertheless preserved "from the face of the serpent" (Rev 12:14). thousand two hundred and threescore days--anticipatory of Rev 12:14, where the persecution which caused her to flee is mentioned in its place: Rev 13:11-18 gives the details of the persecution. It is most unlikely that the transition should be made from the birth of Christ to the last Antichrist, without notice of the long intervening Church-historical period. Probably the 1260 days, or periods, representing this long interval, are RECAPITULATED on a shorter scale analogically during the last Antichrist's short reign. They are equivalent to three and a half years, which, as half of the divine number seven, symbolize the seeming victory of the world over the Church. As they include the whole Gentile times of Jerusalem's being trodden of the Gentiles, they must be much longer than 1260 years; for, above several centuries more than 1260 years have elapsed since Jerusalem fell.
John Gill Bible Commentary
And the woman fled into the wilderness,.... Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and would have been improper if not impracticable; nor indeed was this flight until after the war was over, mentioned in Rev 12:13; nor until the dragon and his angels were conquered and cast out; nor until a fresh persecution was raised by the dragon against the woman, as appears from Rev 12:14; where this account stands in its proper place, and is here only introduced by way of prolepsis, or anticipation, and that with this view, to show what care was taken of the woman, as well as of her son: and this does not design the flight of the Christians from Jerusalem to Pella, a little before the destruction of the former; nor the expulsion of the Jews or Christians from Rome, either by Claudius or by Nero; but the disappearance of the true church, and its obscure state and condition quickly after the above advance of it; for through the riches and honours which Constantine bestowed upon the Christians, they became vain, proud, ambitious, and careless; false doctrine and superstition obtained; the antichristian apostasy came on apace, and prevailed and increased, and so obscured the true church, that in process of time it became invisible, was in the cleft of the rock, and in the secret places of the stairs, or like persons in a wood or wilderness, not to be seen, as well as desolate and uncomfortable: where she hath a place prepared of God; God has had, and will have a church in the worst of times; as he reserved a number in Elijah's time, so he did in the times of the antichristian apostasy, who bowed not the knee to idolatry; this woman, the church, and her case, are the same with the 144,000 sealed ones in Rev 7:1, whom God distinguished, hid, and preserved; for the wilderness is a place of retirement and safety, Eze 34:25, as well as of obscurity; and if any particular place is pointed at, I should think the valleys of Piedmont, which lie between France and Italy, are intended, where God has preserved, and continued a set of witnesses to the truth, in a succession, from the beginning of the apostasy to the present time, living in obscurity, and in safety, so far as not to be utterly destroyed: that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days: in allusion to the children of Israel in the wilderness, where they were fed with manna forty years; so the overcomers, or true Christians in the Pergamos church state, have hidden manna given them to eat, the food of the wilderness, with which church state the church in the wilderness must be considered as contemporary, as also with the Thyatirian and Sardian church states; for though, at the Reformation, which the Sardinian church state introduces, the church appeared again, and has been ever since coming up out of the wilderness, yet she is stall in it; where she is fed and nourished with the Gospel, and the ordinances of it, by the faithful ministers of the word, the two witnesses that prophesy in sackcloth; the time of whose prophesying: is exactly of the same date with the woman's bring in the wilderness, and with the reign of antichrist, namely, forty two months, or 1260 days, that is so many years, Rev 11:2.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
12:6 Like the people of Israel who were spiritually refined in the wilderness (see Hos 2:14-15; Acts 7:38-45) and in exile (see Isa 5:13; Ezek 12:1-3), the Christian church must face its own wilderness. Revelation presents messages of endurance and perseverance in the face of trouble and shows that God provides places of refuge and avenues of escape for his people (cp. 1 Cor 10:13). 1,260 days: See study note on Rev 11:2-3.
Revelation 12:6
The Woman and the Dragon
5And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
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Dvd - 23: Timeless Interview (High Quality)
By Art Katz7.1K57:06JER 30:7EZK 20:35AMO 9:9MAT 16:24MAT 25:40REV 12:6
This sermon by Art Katz discusses his journey from being a professional atheist to accepting Jesus Christ as his Messiah. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity in the church, highlighting the need for a genuine relationship with God and the dangers of falling into religious clichés. Katz also shares his prophetic anticipation for the Jewish people, expecting apocalyptic suffering and the need for places of refuge in the last days.
Timeless Interview
By Art Katz4.6K56:06JER 30:7EZK 20:35AMO 9:9MAT 25:40REV 12:6REV 12:11This sermon by Art Katz delves into the importance of authenticity, truth, and anointing in the church. He highlights the need for a genuine relationship with God, the dangers of religious clichés, and the prophetic anticipation of apocalyptic suffering for Israel. Art emphasizes the significance of standing with the oppressed, particularly Jews, in the last days and the necessity for sacrificial love and courage in the face of persecution.
K-139 Endtime Overview
By Art Katz3.2K1:14:43End TimesPSA 23:1ISA 40:31MAT 6:33ACT 20:35ROM 11:312CO 12:9REV 12:6In this sermon, the speaker shares a powerful testimony of a Jewish hobo who displayed ingratitude towards a fellow Jew who had shown him kindness. This story serves as a warning to the audience about the severity of the tests that will come in their lives. The speaker emphasizes the need for character and spiritual preparation to withstand these tests, as they will only come once and not be given again. The sermon also references Revelation 12, which speaks about a woman fleeing to the wilderness and being protected by God during a time of great tribulation. The speaker highlights the importance of a strong and tested community to bear the load of these trials, emphasizing that mere Sunday Saints will not be sufficient.
Dvd 31 the Prophetic Challenge of Israel
By Art Katz1.8K1:18:29EZK 37:1AMO 9:11ZEC 12:10ACT 1:6ROM 11:11ROM 11:33REV 12:6
This sermon emphasizes the importance of understanding and embracing the centrality of Israel in God's redemptive plan, highlighting the need for the church to align with God's prophetic and apostolic intentions. It challenges the church to move beyond shallow experiences and self-centered Christianity, calling for a deep transformation that involves sacrificial love and a willingness to suffer for the sake of Israel's restoration. The speaker urges a return to the truth of God's word, the cross, and the fullness of the Spirit, emphasizing the critical role Israel plays in revealing God's glory and establishing His kingdom on earth.
(Revelation) Part 1 the Last Trumpet
By Willie Mullan1.7K1:12:48Last TrumpetREV 11:1REV 11:15REV 12:1REV 12:6REV 12:14REV 13:1REV 13:5In this sermon, the preacher begins by leading the congregation in singing the hymn "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus." He then introduces the topic of the sermon, which is the woman mentioned in the book of Revelation. The preacher explains that the woman represents the church and is being persecuted by the devil. He connects this to other prophecies in the Bible, such as the beast and the man of sin. The sermon ends with a reference to the book of Daniel, where Daniel sees four great beasts and is particularly interested in the fourth beast.
(Through the Bible) Isaiah 1-5
By Chuck Smith1.6K1:23:35ISA 1:18ISA 2:3ISA 41:21ISA 46:9TIT 2:13REV 12:6In this sermon, the speaker discusses the concept of a tabernacle as a place of refuge and protection from the elements. He then transitions to the topic of the day of the Lord, when God will once again rule and bless Israel and Jerusalem. The speaker uses the parable of a vineyard to illustrate God's relationship with Israel, emphasizing how God has cared for and nurtured them. However, he also warns of impending judgment and the consequences for the wicked. The sermon concludes with a message of hope in the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ and the promise of a new kingdom.
Church History - Session 8 (The Book of Revelation: A Historic Sequence)
By Edgar F. Parkyns1.5K59:51REV 11:2REV 12:6REV 13:5In this sermon, the preacher discusses the concept of the second row and how it signifies the end of the advancing power of Turkey. The preacher then references the biblical passage of the seventh angel sounding and the voices in heaven proclaiming the kingdoms of the world becoming the kingdoms of the Lord and His Christ. The preacher also mentions the four and twenty elders worshiping God and giving thanks for His great power and reign. The sermon further delves into the opening of the temple of God in heaven and the significance of the Reformation verse 4, which is connected to a pattern in history.
The Woman, the Dragon & the Male Child - Christmas Eve 2017
By Michael Flowers54524:53ChristmasGEN 49:8MAT 1:1MRK 1:1LUK 3:23JHN 1:1REV 12:1REV 12:6In this sermon, the preacher explores the unseen story behind the rebellion against God and the cosmic realities surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. The book of Revelation is highlighted as a source of both seen and unseen realities, with the author, John, taking readers on a journey through time and space. The sermon emphasizes that the main focus of Revelation is the unveiling of Jesus Christ and the ability to see him with spiritual eyes. The preacher also mentions the significance of Christmas as the unfolding of Jesus Christ and encourages listeners to have a "cosmic Christmas" by delving into the deeper meaning of the holiday.
Rev. 12:6. Strangership and Pilgrimage
By Horatius Bonar0Faith and PerseveranceStrangers And PilgrimsGEN 12:1EXO 16:11CH 29:15PSA 39:12MIC 2:10ACT 14:22HEB 11:10HEB 11:161PE 2:11REV 12:6Horatius Bonar emphasizes the Christian's identity as a stranger and pilgrim in this world, drawing parallels between the journey of the Church and the experiences of biblical figures like Abraham and Paul. He warns against the dangers of becoming too comfortable in worldly pursuits, which can lead to spiritual complacency and a loss of focus on the heavenly calling. Bonar illustrates that while earthly comforts may provide temporary relief, they can distract believers from their true purpose and destination. He encourages Christians to embrace their journey through life with faith, patience, and a readiness to endure hardships, always looking forward to the eternal city of God. Ultimately, Bonar calls for a life of holiness and separation from worldly influences, urging believers to follow the footsteps of the faithful who have gone before them.
The Prophetic Year
By Sir Robert Anderson02CH 36:21ISA 1:1JER 27:13EZK 24:1DAN 9:24HAG 2:10REV 11:2REV 12:6REV 13:5Sir Robert Anderson delves into the intricate details of the prophetic era in the Bible, exploring the significance of 'weeks' in Jewish culture and the measurement of time in relation to historical events. He discusses the lunar-based Jewish year of 360 days, the Sabbatical year, and the era of the 'desolations' as a period of seventy years. Anderson also examines the division of the prophetic era into two periods, highlighting the role of the Messiah and a prince in the timeline of events leading to persecution and Divine blessings.
Some Questions and Answers Showing Man His Duty
By Isaac Penington0ECC 12:13JER 31:33ROM 8:162CO 6:16GAL 2:20EPH 5:251PE 1:23REV 12:6REV 21:2Isaac Penington preaches about the duty of man to fear God, keep His commandments, and be guided by the principle of God in his heart, which leads to life in all its dispensations. He emphasizes the importance of being visited by the light of life, obeying the true guide, and cleaving to the principle that gives life. Penington discusses the true church, the seed of Israel, and the covenant of faith, highlighting the need for obedience, the begetting of the seed, and the distinction between the true church and false resemblances. He encourages believers to wait for the true church to be revealed by God's Spirit and to focus on the inward life and power rather than outward marks.
- Adam Clarke
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- John Gill
- Tyndale
Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
And the woman fled into the wilderness - The account of the woman's flying into the wilderness immediately follows that of her child being caught up to the throne of God, to denote the great and rapid increase of heresies in the Christian Church after the time that Christianity was made the religion of the empire. Where she hath a place prepared of God - See on Rev 12:14 (note).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
woman fled--Mary's flight with Jesus into Egypt is a type of this. where she hath--So C reads. But A and B add "there." a place--that portion of the heathen world which has received Christianity professedly, namely, mainly the fourth kingdom, having its seat in the modern Babylon, Rome, implying that all the heathen world would not be Christianized in the present order of things. prepared of God--literally, "from God." Not by human caprice or fear, but by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, the woman, the Church, fled into the wilderness. they should feed her--Greek, "nourish her." Indefinite for, "she should be fed." The heathen world, the wilderness, could not nourish the Church, but only afford her an outward shelter. Here, as in Dan 4:26, and elsewhere, the third person plural refers to the heavenly powers who minister from God nourishment to the Church. As Israel had its time of first bridal love, on its first going out of Egypt into the wilderness, so the Christian Church's wilderness-time of first love was the apostolic age, when it was separate from the Egypt of this world, having no city here, but seeking one to come; having only a place in the wilderness prepared of God (Rev 12:6, Rev 12:14). The harlot takes the world city as her own, even as Cain was the first builder of a city, whereas the believing patriarchs lived in tents. Then apostate Israel was the harlot and the young Christian Church the woman; but soon spiritual fornication crept in, and the Church in the seventeenth chapter is no longer the woman, but the harlot, the great Babylon, which, however, has in it hidden the true people of God (Rev 18:4). The deeper the Church penetrated into heathendom, the more she herself became heathenish. Instead of overcoming, she was overcome by the world [AUBERLEN]. Thus, the woman is "the one inseparable Church of the Old and New Testament" [HENGSTENBERG], the stock of the Christian Church being Israel (Christ and His apostles being Jews), on which the Gentile believers have been grafted, and into which Israel, on her conversion, shall be grafted, as into her own olive tree. During the whole Church-historic period, or "times of the Gentiles," wherein "Jerusalem is trodden down of the Gentiles," there is no believing Jewish Church, and therefore, only the Christian Church can be "the woman." At the same time there is meant, secondarily, the preservation of the Jews during this Church-historic period, in order that Israel, who was once "the woman," and of whom the man-child was born, may become so again at the close of the Gentile times, and stand at the head of the two elections, literal Israel, and spiritual Israel, the Church elected from Jews and Gentiles without distinction. Eze 20:35-36, "I will bring you into the wilderness of the people (Hebrew, 'peoples'), and there will I plead with you . . . like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of Egypt" (compare Notes, see on Eze 20:35-36): not a wilderness literally and locally, but spiritually a state of discipline and trial among the Gentile "peoples," during the long Gentile times, and one finally consummated in the last time of unparalleled trouble under Antichrist, in which the sealed remnant (Rev 7:1-8) who constitute "the woman," are nevertheless preserved "from the face of the serpent" (Rev 12:14). thousand two hundred and threescore days--anticipatory of Rev 12:14, where the persecution which caused her to flee is mentioned in its place: Rev 13:11-18 gives the details of the persecution. It is most unlikely that the transition should be made from the birth of Christ to the last Antichrist, without notice of the long intervening Church-historical period. Probably the 1260 days, or periods, representing this long interval, are RECAPITULATED on a shorter scale analogically during the last Antichrist's short reign. They are equivalent to three and a half years, which, as half of the divine number seven, symbolize the seeming victory of the world over the Church. As they include the whole Gentile times of Jerusalem's being trodden of the Gentiles, they must be much longer than 1260 years; for, above several centuries more than 1260 years have elapsed since Jerusalem fell.
John Gill Bible Commentary
And the woman fled into the wilderness,.... Not as soon as she was delivered of her child, which is not reasonable to suppose, and would have been improper if not impracticable; nor indeed was this flight until after the war was over, mentioned in Rev 12:13; nor until the dragon and his angels were conquered and cast out; nor until a fresh persecution was raised by the dragon against the woman, as appears from Rev 12:14; where this account stands in its proper place, and is here only introduced by way of prolepsis, or anticipation, and that with this view, to show what care was taken of the woman, as well as of her son: and this does not design the flight of the Christians from Jerusalem to Pella, a little before the destruction of the former; nor the expulsion of the Jews or Christians from Rome, either by Claudius or by Nero; but the disappearance of the true church, and its obscure state and condition quickly after the above advance of it; for through the riches and honours which Constantine bestowed upon the Christians, they became vain, proud, ambitious, and careless; false doctrine and superstition obtained; the antichristian apostasy came on apace, and prevailed and increased, and so obscured the true church, that in process of time it became invisible, was in the cleft of the rock, and in the secret places of the stairs, or like persons in a wood or wilderness, not to be seen, as well as desolate and uncomfortable: where she hath a place prepared of God; God has had, and will have a church in the worst of times; as he reserved a number in Elijah's time, so he did in the times of the antichristian apostasy, who bowed not the knee to idolatry; this woman, the church, and her case, are the same with the 144,000 sealed ones in Rev 7:1, whom God distinguished, hid, and preserved; for the wilderness is a place of retirement and safety, Eze 34:25, as well as of obscurity; and if any particular place is pointed at, I should think the valleys of Piedmont, which lie between France and Italy, are intended, where God has preserved, and continued a set of witnesses to the truth, in a succession, from the beginning of the apostasy to the present time, living in obscurity, and in safety, so far as not to be utterly destroyed: that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days: in allusion to the children of Israel in the wilderness, where they were fed with manna forty years; so the overcomers, or true Christians in the Pergamos church state, have hidden manna given them to eat, the food of the wilderness, with which church state the church in the wilderness must be considered as contemporary, as also with the Thyatirian and Sardian church states; for though, at the Reformation, which the Sardinian church state introduces, the church appeared again, and has been ever since coming up out of the wilderness, yet she is stall in it; where she is fed and nourished with the Gospel, and the ordinances of it, by the faithful ministers of the word, the two witnesses that prophesy in sackcloth; the time of whose prophesying: is exactly of the same date with the woman's bring in the wilderness, and with the reign of antichrist, namely, forty two months, or 1260 days, that is so many years, Rev 11:2.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
12:6 Like the people of Israel who were spiritually refined in the wilderness (see Hos 2:14-15; Acts 7:38-45) and in exile (see Isa 5:13; Ezek 12:1-3), the Christian church must face its own wilderness. Revelation presents messages of endurance and perseverance in the face of trouble and shows that God provides places of refuge and avenues of escape for his people (cp. 1 Cor 10:13). 1,260 days: See study note on Rev 11:2-3.