Unregistered

I am not the unregistered who began this thread above. I am a newcomer. I read with interest his interpretation of the woman in Revelation. Of course it is not his and I do not do mean to imply that it is only his but just that he is writing it here. Many years ago when I first encountered the church they shared with me that the woman was the church and that the child that she brought forth was the stronger part of her. This stronger part was supposed to be the group of Overcomers in the church.

As a woman, let me say that I found this to be odd. The children that we bear are never a part of us. They are in us but they are not a part of us. I don't know a single woman who has ever said when she gave birth to a son that she gave birth to the stronger part of her. Each child has its own spirit and soul and of course its own body and its own blood supply. Two separate lives are living inside of a woman with child. Again, a baby in the womb is not a part of the woman and so she cannot say that it is the stronger part of her. This is basic biology. So saying that the church gives birth to the stronger part of her struck me as being absurd.

In the denomination that I grew up in, which was very Bible centered, we believed that the woman was interpreted for us by Joseph's dream and Jacob's following interpretation. We always believed that this woman was Israel and that the child that she gave birth to was Christ but because prophecy is pattern, this pattern would also unfold for the church at the predetermined time when the church age was over. But it would be the entire church. The weak and the strong both would go.

We believed that the dragon then turned to destroy the remnant of the Jews because his last hope is to be able to destroy the remnant before they cry out to Jesus Christ acknowledging him as Messiah thereby causing Christ to return to the Earth to deal with the Antichrist.