Steve,

Your well written post from 10 June 2018 concerning the Revelation 12 sign and the seeming non fulfillment of that sign (at this time frame) is linked below.

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2018/stevec610.htm

Obviously millions of Christians (along with you and I) were at full alert mode expecting the Revelation 12 prophecy to be fulfilled during that September 2017 date and accompanying celestial event.

It's obvious from your post that you are still questioning / confused as to why the highly expected events of that high prophetic period did not occur.

I believe there is a very related passage in Isaiah that may answer/ explain why last September turned out to be a non-event instead of what most expected to happen.

I believe the answer to the non-event is found in Isaiah 66:7-9. In verses 7 and 8 God addresses what is / was to happen at / during the Revelation 12 sign in September. But then in verse 9 He tells us that He may change His mind as to this prophetically signed birthing period.

Notice what He says in verse 9......

“Shall I bring to the time of birth , and not cause delivery? says the Lord

“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb? says your God

It appears to me that the Lord gave us a heads up in Isaiah 66 that He may delay the Revelation 12 prophetic occurrences.

Delay until when?

The next verse (10) may answer that, it says....... “Rejoice with Jerusalem”

Is that when the rapture will happen and the resurrection of the dead in Christ..... and also the resurrection of the whole house of Jacob (hundreds of millions of descendants of Jacob as is described in Ezekiel 37)

For clearly as I read it Isaiah 66 speaks of two births......the rapture and also the re-birth of the whole house of Jacob.

Do we see a prophesied event when “Jerusalem will rejoice” when perhaps these two delayed births could occur? I say yes

As per Ezekiel 38 and 39 Israel will be attacked and almost completely over run by a confederation of aligned countries / enemies. When all seems lost God the Father (fulfilling His covenant relationship) intervenes with great force and saves Israel / Jerusalem from complete destruction.

Will there be great rejoicing going on in Jerusalem at that point? Most certainly

Will the Christian “fence sitters”who witness these undeniable epic events suddenly give their hearts and souls to Jesus? I believe so

It appears to me that it will be just after God's intervention on Israel's behalf...... when Jerusalem is rejoicing....as per Isaiah 66:7-12......that the two births of the Revelation 12 prophecy will take place. One birth is the rapture of the dead and alive in Christ and the second birth is the great resurrection of all of the descendants of Jacob as is detailed in Ezekiel 37.

With what is going on now in the Middle East, the Ezekiel 38 attack / war could soon be in the offing and could if my discernment is correct lead to the two births spoken of in Revelation 12 and Isaiah 66.

A lot of people believe that with Trump having Israel's back, no one would dare attack Israel. I don't see it that way. 

First of all Ezekiel 38 says that God figuratively “puts hooks in the jaws” of these attacking forces and brings / seemingly drags some of them against Israel. Also it's common knowledge that there are at least 200 thousand rockets aimed at the small land mass of Israel. Even with the effective defense mechanisms Israel has...... that volume of incoming warheads would overwhelm them. And it has been estimated and voiced that it would take the US / Trump at least 72 hours to effectively come to Israel's rescue / aid.......... and by that time the literal blitzkrieg bombardment would be over and most of Israel destroyed......but not over-run thanks to the prophesied intervention by the God the Father.

So Steve..... take my discernment of this whole situation and it's delay as you will but it seems like a realistic outcome or explanation when one factors in the related scriptures I listed above.

Blessings Steve and Doves........John B