seekeroftruth
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Revelation 12:1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
Don't get hung up on the descriptions. The important thing to see here is what happens. The dragon is another description for Satan. The pregnant woman wins against Satan because God helps her. He gives her wings and a place to hide.Check out verse 6... She hid for 1260 days. Some think we should convert 1260 days to years. 1260/365=3.45205479
Now look at verse 14.... people get hung up on what is a time, times, and half a time.... Is that really three and a half years?
In the Left Behind series of books about what two men think will happen in end times, the emphasis for the destructive timeline was seven years... and it was split in half.
I'm not a big fan of using days for years. Psalm 90:4 says "a thousand years is like a day" So that means we will be hunted for thousands of years... not just a few years.... thousands.... so that throws the timeline way off. Using Psalm 90:4 to predict when Jesus will return.... puts it way out of our lifetime... or our children's lifetime.
And I am reminded... There was a child and a mother who were thrown out of the family. God said He would protect them. He helped her hide.
This is all above my paygrade. I don't understand... but then again... maybe I'm not supposed to understand. Maybe it will really be 1,260 thousand years not just 7 years. If the trials of the end time are to be measured in years rather than days.... who would hang on that long? Who could hang on that long?
We are God's Children. We may be as illegal as Ishmael, but we are His Children. It doesn't matter if it's a few days, a few years, or a few thousand years... He'll keep guard for us. He did it for Ishmael... He'll do it for us.
Jesus loved all children. God will protect all children.
1260 days or 1260 thousand years?
Our timeline or God's?
