Revelation Chapter 12
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The Revelation of Yahshua Christ
Chapter 12
XII 1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman cloaked with the sun, and the moon beneath her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 And she conceiving in the womb then cries out travailing and being in distress to give birth.
Revelation Chapter 12 is a very complex prophetic vision written in the simplest and most poetical terms, fully revealing both the power and the inspiration of Yahweh our God in what may clearly be considered one of the Bible's finest moments. The interpretation of this prophecy is three-fold. First, it elucidates many of the secrets of our past, and then it describes the birth of the Christ and the attempt of His enemies to kill Him. But it also describes the birth of the only nation ever founded upon Christian principles, and the place where the woman would once and for all be saved from “that old Serpent”. This shall become manifest as we proceed through the chapter.
The woman with the twelve stars represents the people of Israel in their tribes. In Revelation chapters 6 through 8, once it is seen that the prophecy also corresponds to Daniel chapters 2 and 7, it is demonstrated that the people of God are those Germanic peoples who would destroy the Roman empire (i.e. Daniel 2:44-45). Revelation chapters 10 and 11 show that those same people, the house of Israel and the house of Judah, who are the Two Witnesses, then fulfill their testimony, which is the proof of their identity as true Israel, by choosing and adhering to the Word of God – the little book which is the Bible – over the devices and rule of men – which is the papacy and the Romish church – in that period known to us as the Reformation. Since the birth of the children of Israel occurred some time around the 18th century BC, this woman does not represent Israel at any particular time, but rather she represents Israel throughout all time. So here we have post-Reformation Israel, with visions of both the past and the future being revealed to us.
It is manifest in other prophecies, for example at Isaiah 30:26 where it says “Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound”, or at Isaiah 24:23 where it says “Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously”, that the sun is often used to describe that ruling power ordained by Yahweh God, while the moon is used to describe earthly powers – mere reflections of the sun. Here the woman is seen cloaked with the sun – the power of God – and standing on the moon – which symbolizes the woman's having overcome the earthly powers.
The woman conceiving in the womb, being about to give birth, primarily describes the birth of the Christ. However this is evidently a dual prophecy, for it also describes the birth of America, the only nation in history, since the Exodus, which was ever founded as a Christian nation. America was also founded out of the Reformation, on Protestant principles. This cannot be taken lightly or as a mere coincidence, for of this event there is very similar language in Micah Chapter 4, which shall be explained below after verse 6.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold! A great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and upon his heads seven diadems, 4 and his tail sweeps away a third of the stars of heaven and cast them into the earth.
As the woman represents Israel all through time, this dragon represents the satanic power, Satan or the Adversary, all through time. The seven heads and seven crowns, or diadems, and the ten horns all represent the power and earthly realms of the Adversary, and they are also described in Revelation chapters 13 and 17 where they appear as seven heads and ten horns. Ten horns are also mentioned in Daniel chapter 7 where it is speaking of earthly kings.
The third of the stars of heaven represents those angels of God who joined themselves to the dragon in that original revolt, which – as it shall be demonstrated below after verse 9 – is something that occurred long before John's time. These have made war with the Adamic people of God since Adam was first created here on this earth. However, they also may represent those of our own race – since the children of Israel are often described as the stars of heaven, who throughout time have sided with the dragon, rather than with God. Since this entire prophecy has a dual fulfillment, such is also expected to be the case here.
And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, in order that when she should give birth he may devour her child.
The dragon here is represented by the historical Herod the Great, for only he attempted to murder the Christ child as soon as he was born, as we find recorded in the Gospel accounts. That Herod is a representative of the dragon is quite profound once we discover that he was not an Israelite, but an Edomite by race. That Herod was indeed of the seed of Esau is fully apparent in the pages of the Judaean historian, Flavius Josephus, where it is attested to directly or indirectly at least five times, and those instances shall be cited forthwith:
Josephus, Antiquities, 14:8: But there was a certain friend of Hyrcanus, an Idumean, called Antipater, who was very rich, and in his nature an active and a seditious man; who was at enmity with Aristobulus, and had differences with him on account of his goodwill to Hyrcanus. [Antipater was the father of Herod.]
Josephus, Antiquities, 14:403: but Antigonus, by way of reply to what Herod had caused to be proclaimed, and this before the Romans, and before Silo also, said that they would not do justly if they gave the kingdom to Herod, who was no more than a private man, and an Idumean, i.e. a half Jew, whereas they ought to bestow it on one of the royal family, as their custom was...
Josephus, Wars, 1:123: Now, those other people which were at variance with Aristobulus were afraid, upon his unexpectedly obtaining the government; and especially this concerned Antipater, whom Aristobulus hated of old. He was by birth an Idumean, and one of the principal of that nation, on account of his ancestors and riches, and other authority to him belonging...
Josephus, Wars, 1:312-313: 312 And here a certain old man, the father of seven children, whose children, together with their mother, desired him to give them permission to go out, upon the assurance and right hand that was offered them, slew them after the following manner: he ordered everyone of them to go out, while he stood himself at the cave's mouth, and slew each son of his as went out. Herod was near enough to see this sight, and his bowels of compassion were moved at it, and he stretched out his right hand to the old man, and besought him to spare his children; 313 yet did not he relent at all upon what he said, but over and above reproached Herod on the lowness of his descent, and slew his wife as well as his children; and when he had thrown their dead bodies down the precipice, he at last threw himself down after them.
Now at Antiquities, 14:403 we see that Josephus called Herod a “half Jew”, but by that he did not mean that his mother was an Israelite, since here where Josephus is speaking of Antipater we shall see that Herod's mother was indeed an Idumaean, at Antiquities, 14:120-121: 120 and as he came back to Tyre, he went up into Judea also, and attacked Taricheae, and presently took it, and carried about thirty thousand Jews captives; and slew Pitholaus, who succeeded Aristobulus in his seditious practices, and that by the persuasion of Antipater, 121 who proved to have great interest in him, and was at that time in great repute with the Idumeans also: out of which nation he married a wife, who was the daughter of one of their eminent men, and her name was Cypros, {a} by whom he had four sons, Phasael, and Herod, who was afterward made king, and Joseph, and Pheroras; and a daughter, named Salome.
With this it is apparent that by “half-Jew” Josephus did not mean racially, but perhaps he used the term only as far as confession and appearance were concerned. It is fully evident that Herod, representative of the dragon, was fully an Edomite by blood. Remember, as it is mentioned in both Malachi chapter 1 and Romans chapter 9, Yahweh God hated Esau, Paul even referring to the Edomites as “vessels of destruction”. The nature of this dragon shall be discussed at length below at verse 9.
5 And she bore a man-child, He who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron staff. And her child was carried up to Yahweh and to His throne.
This is, of course, a description of Yahshua Christ, who will rule all of the Adamic nations with a rod of iron – after the tares, the goats, everything which offends, and every plant which Yahweh did not plant are all removed, as Scripture assures us shall happen. Psalm 118, a Messianic prophecy quoted by Christ Himself where it says “22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 23 This is Yahweh's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.”, also assures us of the fate of all those who come up against the children of Israel. Here are verses 10-12: “10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of Yahweh will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of Yahweh I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Yahweh I will destroy them.” These verses, if one is adept as to who the children of Israel are while also being aware of recent social and political trends, describe practically all of the non-Israel peoples in the world today.
6 And the woman fled into the desert where she has there a place having been prepared from Yahweh, in order that there they may nourish her for a thousand two hundred and sixty days.
This flight of the woman and the period of time are mentioned again at verse 14, except that there the 1260 days are “a time times and half a time”, 3-and-a-half times 360 being 1260, which is also 42 months times 30 days. The place having been prepared by Yahweh God must be a reference to the Scriptures found at Deuteronomy 32:8 and 2 Samuel 7:10. In these passages it is quite evident that Yahweh God never intended Palestine to be a permanent home for His people.
Deuteronomy 32:8: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel”.
2 Samuel 7:10: “Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime”. These words of Samuel's were spoken to David in Palestine, and therefore the place meant cannot be in Palestine.
The 1260 days represents the nourishing of the woman – the nations of Israel - with the Gospel. This is the same period of the Two Witnesses of chapter 11. Since Yahshua Christ is the Word of Life, and He is also the Bread of Life, the true nourishment of the children of Israel can only come from the Gospel. This is the message of John chapter 6.
Except for the original Israelite kingdom, America is the first and only nation to have been founded as a Christian nation, or actually as a federation of Christian nations - which are the original individual States. And just as the Dragon tried to kill the Christ child as soon as it was born, the international jewish bankers have tried to destroy America ever since it was born. It should be without doubt that America is the nation foreseen at Jeremiah 3:14 where it states “Turn, O backsliding children, saith Yahweh; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion”. While there are other prophecies in Isaiah chapter 66, Daniel chapters 7 and 12, and elsewhere which are certainly referencing this nation, it is evident that Micah chapter 4 is the most complete prophecy of America in the Scripture. Here it will be repeated in its entirely, with some comments interjected:
KJV Micah 4:1 “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. [Remember Jeremiah 3:14 above.] 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Not all of this is fulfilled yet.] 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. 5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God for ever and ever. [America has become a multi-religious land because of the peoples who have come here seeking our success.] 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth [deported Israel], and I will gather her that is driven out [deported Israel], and her that I have afflicted [deported Israel]; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation [the further the children of Israel departed from Mesopotamia, the stronger they became in the nations which they established]: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.[Daniel 7:22 and 27] 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. [This perfectly describes us in America today, and it must be correlated to Revelation 12:2.] 10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. [This must be correlated to Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, and to Psalm 118:10-12] 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. [The gathering of the tares.] 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” This surely describes America, and it is no mistake that this nation declared its freedom from the tyrannical institutions of the old world 2.520 years after the children of Israel first began to go into captivity.
Speaking of the invasions of Gog and Magog into the lands of Israel in the end times, Ezekiel 38:8 says this: “After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.” This surely can only describe America, and what is happening in our nation at this very moment. Yet we have a promise from Yahweh our God, that all of those who come into our Israel lands in these days shall be destroyed. Note that Micah 4:13 says “Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion”. Likewise, Psalm 118:10-12, in a Messianic prophecy which can only be of the Second Advent, says this: “10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of Yahweh will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of Yahweh I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Yahweh I will destroy them.” With that, all one can say is honni soit qui mal y pense, or Evil be to him who thinks evil, of the Word of Yahweh!
7 And there was a war in heaven, Michael and his messengers fighting with the dragon. And the dragon fought, and his messengers, 8 and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any longer in heaven. 9 And the great dragon had been cast down, that Serpent of old, who is called the False Accuser and the Adversary; he who deceives the whole inhabited earth had been cast into the earth, and his messengers had been cast down with him.
Yahshua Christ said, as it is recorded at Luke 10:18, that He “beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven”. This must have happened in the past, and in the remote past, since we see the dragon equated with “that Serpent of old, who is called the False Accuser [or Devil] and the Adversary [or Satan]”. Many commentators would like to believe that this is only describing events of 70 AD, when Jerusalem was destroyed, however that cannot be, since by no means was jewish influence diminished throughout the rest of the oikoumenê at that time, and according to early Christian writers such as Tertullian, the Roman persecutions of Christians in the ensuing century were at the instigation of the jews. The events of 70 AD were symbolic of the casting down of Satan – the adversaries of Christ collectively – where they were removed from the temple of Yahweh (2 Thessalonians Chapter 2), however this was only the beginning of a process which culminated several centuries later: the binding of Satan into the pit, which will be discussed at length in Revelation chapter 20. To the contrary, the reference to “that Serpent of old” can only be a reference to the Serpent of Genesis chapter 3, and the events which took place in the Garden of Eden, and so Satan must have been cast down to earth before that time.
While it is often inquired of as to why the Serpent is not equated to Satan in the Old Testament, it may be retorted that indeed it has, but only in certain prophetic writings, such as Isaiah 27:1, and not in explicit terms. Yahshua Christ had said that He came to reveal things which were kept secret from the founding of the world, for which see Matthew 13:35. Here in Revelation 12:9 we see that the Dragon, Satan, the Devil and the Serpent of Genesis chapter 3 are all the same entity, and by this we know that the Serpent is surely not a literal snake, although that is readily evident in the Genesis 3 account as it is.
In Genesis chapter 3, we see that there was a sexual seduction of Eve by the Serpent, told as a parable. In spite of Genesis 4:1, a verse known by Hebrew language experts to contain a gloss, Cain was not Adam's natural son. Rather, as a result of the transgression earlier in the chapter, at Genesis 3:15, we see a promise of a prolonged struggle between the seed, or offspring, of the Serpent, and the seed, or offspring, of the woman. Thus are Cain and Abel. The sowing of Cain by the Serpent is what is meant in the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares found in Matthew chapter 13. The Kenites, the descendants of Cain who are never considered to be descended from Adam (Genesis chapter 4), are found again in Genesis chapter 15 and later Scriptures where we see that they had mingled with the Canaanites, and also the Rephaim and several other tribes who were outside of the region of the local flood and were therefore unscathed by that event. Later, Esau had taken wives of the Canaanites, and also settled in Mount Horus – the home of those ancient Canaanites known as the Hurrians or Horites (Hivites in the KJV is a misreading of a Hebrew letter, the Vav rather than the Resh, and should be Horites). This is how Herod the Edomite is a representative of the Dragon: he was an actual descendant of both Esau and Cain, the son of the Serpent of Genesis chapter 3.
In Luke 11:45-52 Yahshua Christ speaks of a race – of fathers and sons both near and remote – which was responsible for the blood of all of the prophets from Abel unto Zechariah. Only the descendants of Cain can be held responsible for the blood of Abel. In later Scriptures, we see Edomites such as that Doeg of 1 Samuel chapters 21 and 22, who follow down that same path. As it is manifest from the history of Josephus, the Gospel of John, the prophecy of Malachi, and the letters of Paul, many of the priests and leaders of Judaea whom Christ addressed were actually Edomite converts, subsumed into Judaea from circa 130 BC, who had come to think of themselves as Judaeans (see Josephus' Antiquities Book 13). From these the jews of today are descended in part. In John Chapter 8 Yahshua told them “You are the sons of a father: the False Accuser [or Devil]! And you wish to do the desires of your father! He was a murderer from the beginning and did not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him! When he speaks a lie, he speaks from of his own devices, because he is a liar and the father of it! ” So indeed we see that He is talking to descendants of Cain, since only Cain was a murderer from the beginning. Also, Cain could not have been an Adamite, being a devil. Judas Iscariot, who can be shown to have descended from Edomites, was also called a devil by Yahshua.
In the Garden of Eden – from the account given in Genesis chapter 2 - we see that once Adam was created, Yahweh planted a garden and made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasant to the eyes, and good for food. But then two allegorical trees are also mentioned as being in this garden, in Genesis 2:9. These are the Tree of Life – which is Christ and His race (note where He says “I am the Vine, ye are the branches”), and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This later tree, therefore, must represent a race of people who knew good – or were once on the side of God, and who then chose to experience evil – which is rebellion from God, and they were already in existence here on the earth when Adam was placed into the garden. This can only refer to those original fallen angels, whom the apostle Jude described as having “kept not their first estate”. These “angels that sinned” are also discussed in Peter's second epistle, in chapter 2. The Enoch Literature, which Jude quoted from at length in his one short epistle, which is found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and in other sources, explains that these angels had gone out and mingled their seed with hundreds, even thousands, of all sorts of animals – in addition to the daughters of men as the account is found in Genesis chapter 6 – for the purpose of miscegenation and corruption of the Creation of God. These accounts attribute to such acts the creation of demons, monsters, and bastards The perpetrators of these acts cannot be the sons of Cain only, because in the Enoch literature they are called the Watchers, just as the angels are also called Watchers by the prophet Daniel (see Daniel chapter 4, and The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, 1996, Michael Wise, Martin Abegg Jr. and Edward Cook, Harper Collins Publishers, pp. 290-295). While the original angels may not be with us today, their descendants certainly are, and both the Kenites and the Rephaim – or giants - of our Scripture are derived from them, and have descendants among us today.
10 And I heard a great voice saying: “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God has come, and the authority of His anointed, because the accuser of our brethren has been cast down, he accusing them before our God day and night.
The Kingdom of God was promised after that first rebellion of the angels, with the establishment of the first man Adam in the Garden of Eden. But it shall be fulfilled with the last Adam – Yahshua Christ Himself, at His manifestation. The first promise of this is found at Genesis 3:23, where it says “now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever”. The Greek word διάβολος is an accuser, and by implication is a false accuser, as it is often translated in the Christogenea New Testament. One example of this trait of the Adversary is found in Job, at Job 1:9-11 where it says “9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.” Today there are countless examples of this trait of Satan – the Adversary – as the false accuser of our brethren. The so-called holocaust is a prominent example.
11 And they prevailed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they had not loved their lives even to death. 12 For this reason rejoice, heavens and those dwelling in them! Woe to the earth and the sea! Because the False Accuser has come down to you having great wrath, knowing that he has a short time!”
The acceptance of Yahshua Christ and the keeping of His commandments, which are a necessary expression of that acceptance, are the only means of preservation for the Aryan children of Israel. As the blood of the literal lamb of Passover kept their ancient ancestors from the Angel of Death which slew all of the first-born of Egypt, so it is today that Israelites must cloak themselves with Christ the Lamb, and they shall live. This is the meaning of the allegory of the “whole armor of God” which Paul describes in Ephesians chapter 6.
13 And when the dragon saw that he had been cast down into the earth, he persecuted the woman who had given birth to the man-child.
The dragon was cast down to earth before the creation of Adam, and the result was the seduction of Eve and the proclamation of eternal enmity between the two disparate groups found in Genesis 3:15. The dragon was cast down to earth again in 70 AD, when Jerusalem was destroyed. The dispersed jews were later behind all of the persecutions of Christians until the time of Constantine. However once Christianity became recognized by Rome, the dragon was locked away in a pit, which shall be discussed at length at Revelation chapter 20. The dragon was again cast down to earth with the Reformation, when it became evident that the jewish popes would not have power over the main of the children of Yahweh. From that time the Saxon peoples, who with the help of their God freed themselves from the beast tyrants (which is a topic of discussion for Revelation chapter 13), have had nothing but persecutions from the dragon, in the 30 Years' War, and from the time of the French Revolution (when Satan fully emerged from the pit, to be discussed with Revelation chapter 20) and all of the wars and revolutions of Europe which have occurred since then, which have all been instigated by the jews.
14 And they had given to the woman the two wings of a great eagle, in order that she may fly into the desert into her place, where she is nourished there for a time and times and half of a time from the face of the Serpent. 15 And the Serpent had cast from his mouth water as a river after the woman, in order that he may have her carried off by the river. 16 And the earth assisted the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and gulped down the river which the dragon had cast from his mouth. 17 And the dragon was angered by the woman and went to make war with those remaining of her offspring who keep the commandments of Yahweh and have the testimony of Yahshua. 18 And he stood upon the sand of the sea.
This desert place is another description of what is described in verse 6, and the woman, Israel, had fled into the wilderness of Europe where she received the Gospel, and it took nearly that long for the Saxon Israel and related peoples to convert to Christianity, returning to that God that had cast them off for their sin many centuries before. The water which the Serpent had cast from its mouth were all of the other races which the jews had brought to fight against the Aryan peoples of Europe and the Near East. First there were the Arab invasions, which were instigated by the jews, especially the invasion of Gothic Spain (this story is told well in The Plot Against the Church by Maurice Pinay), and the destruction of the formerly White lands of Mesopotamia, the Near East, Northern Africa and the Levant. Then there were the Turkic invasions, and the Turks invaded the Byzantine lands at the behest of jewish and arab merchants. Then there were the invasions of the Mongols, and Martin Luther had written that it was the jews in each city of Eastern Europe who had betrayed those cities by opening their gates to the Golden Horde. All of these invasions of Christian Europe ultimately failed, and by the time that America began to be settled, the jew could no longer bring the world's goat nations against Christendom, until these recent days when they have done it by another means, under the guise of egalitarianism and multiculturalism. Yet this is in fulfillment of many other prophecies, such as Isaiah 56:9-11 and Jeremiah 31:27-30. These last wars which the Dragon has made with the woman have been from the inside, first by manipulating our Saxon Christian nations to fight against each other, and then by convincing us to flood ourselves with our enemies – which is exactly what is happening at this very moment!