Greg
Wilson (22 October 2017)
Was
the Revelation 12:1 "Woman" a Sign or a Wonder?
The purpose of a "sign" is to cause
BELIEF in God's words.(Exodus 4:8) The
purpose of a "wonder" is to display God's power. (Psalm
77:14; Joshua 3:5; Daniel 4:3) Wonders often
follow signs. Signs are for the JEW. (1 Corinthians
1:22) If signs were for the "body of Christ" Paul
would have included that additional requirement in verse
22. He did not. He said we do not require
signs like the Jew, we are to "preach Christ crucified"!
So, on September 23, 2017 the "body of
Christ" was completely unaffected by this Jewish sign.
Therefore, the Scriptures again ring true. Assuming
the Revelation 12:1 wonder/sign was true and correct, was it
a sign or wonder? The most popular Bibles use
the term "sign" instead of "wonder". These two terms
are different as defined by the Scriptures cited
above. The KJB uses the term "wonder" and not
"sign".
Do you want to know why the 47 scholars
who collaborated on the KJB translation chose that
word? They translated the Greek word "semeion" as
"wonder" and not "sign" in Revelation 12:1. In their
translation work they translated the word "semeion" as
"sign" 50 times, yet in this verse they translated it as
"wonder". Did they make a mistake? Hardly.
They knew and understood the OT particularly the Book of
Daniel. You and I and most scholars alive today
could not even approach their level of piety, humility and
scholarship. I defer to their
judgment. Do you think we might be able to
figure out why they chose the word "wonder" in this
case. Unfortunately, their translation notes were
burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666, so we will have
to search the Scriptures for the basis of their word choice.
Open your Bible to Daniel 12.
Daniel 12 is contextually set in the same time as Revelation
12. We know this because of Daniel's use of the
defining term "time of trouble". This is Jacob's
trouble. (Jeremiah 30:7) It is Daniel's 70th
week. Additionally, Daniel and John's use the
identical term "a time, times and half a time", in the case
of Daniel 12:7 and "a thousand two hundred and three score
days" in Revelation 12:6. Those two measures of time
are identical descriptions of time. Now look at
Daniel 12:6 in the KJB, not the NIV. Daniel uses the
term "wonders", "pele" in Hebrew, in the context of the
events which transpire in Chapter 12 and arguably Revelation
12.
The NIV deviates from the word "wonder"
and instead says that "pele" means "astonishing things", a
translation which is not included in Strong's Hebrew word
H6381. Other copyrighted Bibles use the term "sign".
The NIV is a copyrighted translation which is protected
under 17USC 102(a). Copyrights protect the literary
works of original authorship. Cite check 17 USC 102
and see for yourself that the NIV, as will all copyrighted
Bibles, represent man's protected words of original literary
authorship. So, is it God's words or man's words.
These copyrighted Bibles are man's protected words.
God's word is free gift. (Genesis 2:16,
Ephesians 2:8; Revelation 22:14, 17) Remember Jesus'
discourse about the "end of days". The first sign is
deception. Deception, by its nature, is incredibly
subtle. "Take heed that no man deceive you".
(Matthew 24:4)
The KJB translators chose the word
"wonder" because that is the word that Daniel used for the
"end of days" events which he witnessed. So, the
correct description of Revelation 12:1 is wonder. If a
true configuration of the starry host from God's
perspective, then God's power was on global display on
September 23, 2017. It was not the future wonder of
the Rapture of the body of Christ. That view, in
Israel's fall festivals, is simply latter days replacement
theology dressed up by those who would corrupt or
merchandise the words of God. (2 Corinthians 2:17; John
2:16; Jeremiah 23:36) You will not find these
indicting words in the NIV or NASB because they have been
sanitized by the copyrighted original authorship of the
latter day "gods" of the Laodicean Church. (Genesis 3:5)
Did you see the power of God displayed on
September 23, 2017? No? Well, it was on
display! It was the nascent nation of Israel in
the midst of her 70th year as a nation. (Isaiah 66:8)
They are in the midst of Isaiah's restoration prophecy.
(Isaiah 11:11) That is a wonder! Searching
the Scriptures reveals what might be described as a literary
hologram or the dimensionality of God's wonders beginning
with the original SIGN. "Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
(Isaiah 7:14) She is depicted as Virgo,
the first dimension of the vision in the Revelation 12:1
starry host. Then, a nation is born of Jacob and his
12 sons, initially comprised of 70 souls. (Genesis 37:9;
Exodus 1:5) This is the second dimension of the Revelation
12 wonder. Finally, this wonder speaks to the
remnant of Israel which God will call out during the time of
Jacob's trouble, the remnant which will be chosen out of the
"furnace of affliction". (Isaiah 48:10; Daniel 3:17, 19,
25) The Son of God spoken of in Daniel 3:25 is He
whose testimony the remnant will proclaim. (Revelation
12:17, 14:12, 20:4) This Revelation 12 "woman" is also
the woman which God divorced, and yet will recover
nationally at the Second Advent. (Isaiah 50:1; Jeremiah 3:8;
Deuteronomy 32:9; Isaiah 19:25) This remnant is
God's inheritance!
Revelation 12:1 speaks to the original
sign and the wonders of God's promises to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. God's plan of redemption for both the Gentile
and the Jew fully express God's glory as we approach the end
of the Pentecostal age. We should expect the
"fullness of Israel's 70 years" on, or about May 14, 2018 to
bring nation shattering events upon the world theatre in the
ensuing months of the Spring, Summer and Fall of 2018.
Daniel studied Jeremiah's book and
understood "the number of years" whereby God would
"accomplish 70 years" in the desolations of
Jerusalem. I understand that by Daniel's
recognition of the term "accomplishing 70 years" that he
stated that a full seventy years would
transpire.
If we recognize God's use of patterns, we
necessarily must conclude that Israel's first 70 years as a
nation represents the fullness and completeness of nation
building and God's promise to restore Israel the "second
time" (Isaiah 11:11) Israel will have become a
nation ripe for judgment. The Cup of Indignation is
near full.
These 70 years will have represented the
70 years of indignation which Zechariah prophesied.
(Zechariah 1:12) It is highly probable that the Age of
Pentecost will terminate following the "accomplishment" of
Israel's 70 years in 2018. As for me, I
expectantly wait for the appearance of our blessed hope on,
or about the Spring Feast of Pentecost, on that day
which God so determines in His Sovereignty.
Surely, He has just announced the glory
of the ages in this September 23, 2017 wonder, the promised
"end of the age" redemption of His peoples. The Church
awaits glorification. Israel awaits the furnace
of affliction.
Following the departure of the "body of
Christ", the Lord will confirm His promises to Abraham.
(Daniel 9:27, Genesis 22:16-17-18; 1 Chronicles 16:16, 17;
Psalm 105:9-10) The preceding cited verses fully
support the fact that God "confirmed His covenant" to
Abraham no less than three times. It was a confirmed
covenant based on the "oath of God"! (Psalm 105:9-10)
Abraham's spiritual children, in Isaac,
will have departed completing the Age of Pentecost in the
great "two loaf wave offering" representing the resurrection
of the dead in Christ and rapture of the living in
Christ. Then, God will fulfill His
promises to the physical seed of Abraham, in Jacob, which
will commence with Daniel's 70th week. (Daniel
9:27) The promises to Abraham were suspended
with the blood atoning sacrifice of Lord Yeshua Jesus, but
following the rapture, God will once again, confirm His
promises to the physical seed of Abraham, in Jacob. It
will be the time of Jacob's trouble when God will call out
His inheritance, those Messianic Jews who keep the
commandments of God and have the testimony and faith of
Yeshua. (Revelation 12:17; 14:12)
Three weeks before the Revelation 12:1
wonder, as reported in Haaretz, an Israeli
publication, on August 31, 2017, we have seen a
foreshadow of Israel's remnant following the future great
departure of Christ's own. Haaretz reported that the
Rabbinic Court known as the Sanhedrin had ruled that Jews in
Israel who believe that Jesus (Yeshua) is Israel's Messiah
cannot marry in a traditional Jewish religious ceremony
known as "halacha". The Sanhedrin, in its wisdom, has
ruled that these types of Jewish believers are not
"considered Jews" for the purpose of marriage. True enough
today, but after the departure, they WILL BE the remnant.
(Romans 9:27, Isaiah 10:21-23) God affirms their
wisdom for He states during the Pentecostal Age: "There is
neither Jew, nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)
What shall we say! O, Israel,
return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine
iniquity. (Hosea 14:1)
Come quickly, Lord Jesus
P.S. The battle for the word
of God began in Genesis 3. It rages today. If
you are curious, I recommend the following book as a worthy
historical review of the battlefield. No library
should be without this book: (https://www.amazon.com/Which-Bible-David-Otis-Fuller/dp/0944355242)
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