A Great Wonder in Heaven

A Pregnant Woman

Chapter 12, Verse 1, And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

This chapter opens with a pageantry of events that encapsulate the history and trauma of the nation of Israel, from God’s perspective. It is an allegory (a story told in symbols or pictures) of the complete history of the nation of the Jews, from the conception, as it was revealed to the elder of the two youngest of Jacob’s sons—Joseph—to the mid-point of the last seven years of modern history (the story is complete with the hellish power behind the troubles Israel has often faced, throughout her long history). Moreover, what w ...