Chapter Twenty-Seven/God's Kingdom Is Born! - A Rival Woe! - Conclusion

 Since Satan's catastrophic ouster, Christ's brothers still one earth have borne the brunt of his wrath. John reports: "Now when the dragon saw that it was hurled down to the earth, it persecuted the woman that gave birth to the male child. But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman that she might fly into the wilderness to her place; there is where she is fed for a time and times and a half a time away from the serpent." -REVELATION 12:13, 14. 

Here the vision picks up the thought introduced in verse 6, which tells us that after the birth of her child, the woman flees into the wilderness away from the dragon. We may wonder how the dragon can persecute the woman since she is in heaven and the dragon has now been cast down to earth. Well, remember that the woman has children here on earth, her seed. Later in this vision, we are informed Satan expresses his rage toward the woman by persecuting her seed. (Revelation 12:17) What happens to the woman's seed here may be regarded as happening to the woman herself. (Compare Matthew 25:40) And the growing number of companions of the seed here on earth would also experience these persecutions. 

Next time: Chapter Twenty-Seven/God's Kingdom Is Born! -A New Nation

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