Revelation 12:1

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The Woman, Israel

12 And a great sign [warning of an ominous and frightening future event] appeared in heaven: a ^[a]woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

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Footnotes

Revelation 12:1 The woman represents the nation of Israel. The sun refers to Jacob (also called Israel, the name divinely bestowed on Jacob at Peniel Gen 32:28), and the moon to Rachel, while the twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel, originating with the sons of Jacob and Rachel (Gen 37:9-11).

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Revelation 12:5-6

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The Male Child, Christ

⁵And she gave birth to a Son, a male Child, who is destined to rule (shepherd) all the nations with a rod of iron; and her Child was ^[a]caught up to God and to His throne.^(A) ⁶Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared by God, so that she would be nourished there for a thousand two hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years).

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