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1  And there appeared a great won-    Genesis 37:9  ...Behold, I have                                                 "A woman": The symbols associated                                               /
der in heaven; a woman clothed           dreamed a dream more; and,                                                       with the heavenly vision of the                                             /
with the sun, and the moon under         behold, the sun and the moon                                                     woman are consistent with symbols                                           /
her feet, and upon her head a crown      and the eleven stars made                                                        used for the nation Israel.  Many                                           /
of twelve stars:                         obeisance to me.                                                                 scholars have seen the woman to                                             /
2  And she being with child cried,    Jeremiah 4:31  For I have heard a       John 16:21 A woman when she is in           symbolize the true church which is                                          /
travailing in birth, and pained to       voice as of a woman in travail,         travail hath sorrow, because             symbolized as a virtuous woman or                                           /
be delivered.                            and the anguish as of her that          her hour is come: but as soon            the bride of Christ.  The giving                                            /
                                         bringeth forth her first child,         as she is delivered of the               of birth to the Child who is                                                /
                                         the voice of the daughter of            child, she remembereth no more           "caught up unto God, and to his                                             /
                                         Zion, that bewaileth herself,           the anguish, for joy that a man          throne" seems to be more consis-                                            /
                                         that spreadeth her hands,               is born into the world.                  tent with the nation Israel.  The                                           /
                                         saying, Woe is me now! for my                                                    entire true church will be caught                                           /
                                         soul is wearied because of                                                       up and not just the child.  Much                                            /
                                         murderers.                                                                       of the evil effort of satan has                                             /
                                      Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labour                                                   been directed toward deceiving and                                          /
                                         to bring forth, O daughter of                                                    persecuting the nation Israel and                                           /
                                         Zion, like a woman in travail:                                                   he has been very successful.                                                /
3  And there appeared another won-    Daniel 7:7  ..I saw in the night                                                                                                                                /
der in heaven; and behold a great        visions, and behold a fourth                                                 "A dragon": a great dragon, that old                                            /
red dragon, having seven heads and       beast, dreadful and terrible,                                                    serpent, the devil, the accuser,                                            /
ten horns, and seven crowns upon         and strong exceedingly;......                                                    the seducer, the deceiver,                                                  /
his heads.                               and it had ten horns.                                                            prince of the earth, are among his                                          /
                                      Daniel 7:24 And the ten horns out                                                   many names. Even though he had                                              /
                                         of this kingdom are ten kings                                                    rebelled and many of the angels had                                         /
                                         that shall arise......                                                           followed him and he had deceived                                            /
4  And his tail drew the third part   Daniel 8:10 And it waxed great,                                                     Eve, he still had access to the                                             /
of the stars of heaven, and did          even to the host of heaven; and                                                  throne of God and could communi-                                            /
cast them to the earth: and the          it cast down some of the host        Matthew 2:13 ..for Herod will seek          cate with God as we are informed in                                         /
dragon stood before the woman which      and of the stars to the ground,         the young child to destroy him.          the book of Job.  He comes in the                                           /
was ready to be delivered, for to        and stamped upon them.               Luke 22:3 Then entered Satan into           form symbolizing the earthly king-                                          /
devour her child as soon as it was    Isaiah 11:1 & 5  And there shall           Judas Iscariot,...                       doms through which he had performed                                         /
born.                                    come forth a rod out of the                                                      his persecutions of the believers,                                          /
5  And she brought forth a man           stem of Jesse, and a Branch          Hebrews 8:1 We have such a high             such as Egypt, Tyre, Babylon and                                            /
child, who was to rule all nations       shall grow out of his roots:            priest, who is set on the right          the Roman empire in the time of                                             /
with a rod of iron: and her child         And righteousness shall be the         hand of the throne of the Majesty        John the Apostle.  He naturally                                             /
was caught up unto God, and to his       girdle of his loins, and faith-         in the heavens;                          worked hard to try and keep Christ                                          /
throne.                                  fulness the girdle of his            John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no         from completing his mission on                                              /
                                         reins.                                  man, but hath committed all              earth. It appears that in the end                                           /
                                      Zechariah 6:12-13 ...Behold the            judgment unto the Son:                   times he will be finally cast out                                           /
                                         man whose name is The BRANCH;        Philippians 2:9-11...God also hath          from having any access to heaven                                            /
                                         and he shall grow up out of             highly exalted him, and given him        and must perform his last evil                                              /
                                         his place, and he shall build           a name which is above every name:        deeds on earth which he will do                                             /
                                         the temple of the Lord:                  That at the name of Jesus every         with all his available powers.  But                                         /
                                          Even he shall build the                knee should bow, of things in            being a created being his powers                                            /
                                         temple of the Lord; and he              heaven, and things in earth, and         are limited and his destruction is                                          /
                                         shall bear the glory, and               things under the earth;                  assured. His reign of evil has been                                         /
                                         shall sit and rule upon his              And that every tongue should            accomplished only through the perm-                                         /
                                         throne;                                 confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,       ission of God in order that His                                             /
6  And the woman fled into the        Ezekiel 19:13  And now she is           Mark 13:14 But when ye see the              purposes might be accomplished and                                          /
wilderness, where she hath a place       planted in the wilderness, in           abomination of desolation, spoken        the true believers identified.                                              /
prepared of God, that they should        a dry and thirsty ground.               of by Daniel the prophet, standing                                                                                   /
feed her there a thousand two                                                    where it ought not, (let him that    "A Man Child": Most all scholars would                                          /
hundred and threescore days.                                                     readeth understand,) then let them       readily agree that this can only                                            /
7  And there was war in heaven:       Isaiah 14:12-19  How art thou              that be in Judea flee to the             be the Messiah for which the nation                                         /
Michael and his angels fought            fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,          mountains:                               Israel has long awaited and which                                           /
against the dragon; and the dragon       son of the morning! how art                                                      was not recognized by most of the                                           /
fought and his angels,                   thou cut down to the ground,                                                     Israelites past and present.  Satan                                         /
8 And prevailed not; neither was         which didst weaken the nations!                                                  for many centuries tried to prevent                                         /
their place found any more in             For thou hast said in thine                                                     the Child from completing His                                               /
heaven.                                  heart, I will ascend into                                                        mission by destroying the Nation.                                           /
9  And the great dragon was cast         heaven, I will exalt my throne       Luke 10:18 .., I beheld Satan as            Since he was unsuccessful in this,                                          /
out, that old serpent, called the        above the stars of God: I will          lightning fall from heaven.              he must accomplish his mission by                                           /
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth        set also upon the mount of the                                                   deceiving all earthly creatures                                             /
the whole world: he was cast out         congregation, in the sides of        II Peter 2:4 For if God spared not          that he can.                                                                /
into the earth, and his angels           the north:                              the angels that sinned, but cast                                                                                     /
were cast out with him.                   I will ascend above the                them down to hell, and delivered     "Fly into the wilderness":  The efforts                                         /
                                         heights of the clouds; I will           them into chains of darkness, to         of satan will be so vigorous that                                           /
                                         be like the Most High.                  be reserved unto judgment;               it will be necessary for divine                                             /
                                          Yet thou shalt be brought down      Jude 6 And the angels which kept not        intervention to carry the woman                                             /
                                         to hell, to the sides of the            their first estate, but left their       into a hiding place.  The hiding                                            /
                                         pit.                                    own habitation, he hath reserved         time of 1260 days is also expressed                                         /
                                          They that see thee shall               in everlasting chains under              as a time, and times and half a                                             /
                                         narrowly look upon thee, and            darkness unto the judgment of            time or three and one half years of                                         /
                                         consider thee, saying, Is this          the great day.                           30 day months.  This time of hiding                                         /
                                         the man that made the earth to       I Peter 1:8-10 ...ye rejoice with           could be construed to be 1260 years                                         /
                                         tremble, that did shake                 joy unspeakable and full of glory:       according to the principle of a                                             /
                                         kingdoms;                                Receiving the end of your faith,        year for a day of Ezekiel 4:6 "I                                            /
10 And I heard a loud voice saying    Isaiah 44:22-23  I have blotted            even salvation of your souls.            have appointed thee each day for a                                          /
in heaven, Now is come salvation,        out, as a thick cloud, thy               Of which salvation the prophets         year". In which case the hiding                                             /
and strength, and the kingdom of         transgressions, and, as a               have inquired and searched               place could be amongst the gentiles                                         /
our God, and the power of his            cloud, thy sins: return unto            diligently,                              where they have been dispersed for                                          /
Christ: for the accuser of our           me; for I have redeemed              John 12:31 Now is the judgment of           many generations.  If the time is a                                         /
brethren is cast down, which             thee.                                   this world: now shall the                literal 1260 days one of the prime                                          /
accused them before our God day           Sing, O ye heavens; for the            prince of this world be cast             candidates for the hiding place is                                          /
and night.                               Lord hath done it: shout, ye            out.                                     in Edom where the rock city of                                              /
11 And they overcame him by the          lower parts of the earth: break      Romans 16:20 And the God of peace           Petra is located. This is based on                                          /
blood of the Lamb, and by the            forth into singing, ye mount-           shall bruise Satan under your            Daniel 11:41 "but these shall                                               /
word of their testimony; and they        ains, O forest, and every tree          feet shortly.                            escape out of of his hand, even                                             /
loved not their lives unto the           therein: for the Lord hath           Luke 14:26 If any man come to me,           Edom".  Satan in fury will pursue                                           /
death.                                   redeemed Jacob, and glorified           and hate ... yea, and his own            the remnant of Israel, especially                                           /
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens,        himself in Israel.                      life also, he cannot be my               those that accept the "Messiah"                                             /
and ye that dwell in them. Woe to     Daniel 11:44-45 ...therefore he            disciple.                                Jesus Christ.                                                               /
the inhabiters of the earth and          shall go forth with great fury       John 12:25 He that loveth his life                                                                                      /
of the sea! for the devil is come        to destroy, and utterly to              shall lose it: and he that hateth    "War in heaven":  All sin originated                                            /
down unto you, having great wrath,       make away many.                         his life in this world shall keep        with the conflict between God and                                           /
because he knoweth that he hath           And he shall plant the taber-          it unto life eternal.                    satan which originated in heaven                                            /
but a short time.                        nacles of his palace between                                                     when satan determined to be like                                            /
13 And when the dragon saw that he       the seas in the glorious holy                                                    God.  Gabriel was impeded by satan                                          /
was cast unto the earth, he perse-       mountain; yet he shall come                                                      when coming to Daniel and Michael                                           /
cuted the woman which brought            to his end, and none shall                                                       interceded. (Daniel 10:13)  Also                                            /
forth the man child.                     help him.                                                                        Michael contended with satan over                                           /
14 And to the woman were given two    Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I                                                     the body of Moses. (Jude 9).                                                /
wings of a great eagle, that she         did unto the Egyptians, and                                                      We are given only small glimpses of                                         /
might fly into the wilderness,           how I bare you on eagle's                                                        the conflict and its nature until                                           /
into her place, where she is             wings, and brought you unto                                                      we come to the time of the final                                            /
nourished for a time, and times,         myself.                                                                          conflict on earth onto which satan                                          /
and half a time, from the face of     Daniel 12:7 ..that it shall be                                                      had been cast as revealed to the                                            /
the serpent.                             for a time, times, and a half                                                    Apostle John.                                                               /
15 And the serpent cast out of his       and when he shall have accom-        Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not                                                                                       /
mouth water as a flood after the         plished to scatter the power            against flesh and blood, but         "A flood":  From verse 17:15 we under-                                          /
woman, that he might cause her to        of the holy people, all these           against principalities, against          stand waters to symbolically repre-                                         /
be carried away of the flood.            things shall be finished.               powers, against the rulers of the        sent the peoples of many nations                                            /
16 And the earth helped the woman;    Daniel 6:27 He delivereth and              darkness of this world, against          through which satan must rely upon                                          /
and the earth opened her mouth,          rescueth, and he worketh signs          spiritual wickedness in high             to perform his many misdeeds.  In                                           /
and swallowed up the flood which         and wonders in heaven and in            places.                                  the last times he will amass all                                            /
the dragon cast out of his mouth.        earth, ...                                                                       his resources to make one final                                             /
17 And the dragon was wroth with      Daniel 11:32-33 .. but the people       I Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant;          attack on the people of Israel,                                             /
the woman, and went to make war          that do know their God shall            because your adversary the devil,        many which have become believers                                            /
with the remnant of her seed,            be strong, and do exploits.             as a roaring lion, walketh about,        in the last days.  God will cause                                           /
which keep the commandments of            And they that understand among         seeking whom he may devour;              the earth to intercede with its                                             /
God, and have the testimony of           the people shall instruct many:      James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore       many forces of destruction includ-                                          /
Jesus Christ.                            yet they shall fall by the              to God. Resist the devil, and he         ing earthquakes and hail and the                                            /
                                         sword, and by flame, by                 will flee from you.                      forces of satan will be defeated                                            /
                                         captivity, and by spoil, many                                                    to complete the conflict.                                                   /
                                         days.                                                                                                                                                        /
                                                                                                                      "Rejoice":  Even though there will be                                           /
                                                                                                                          much bloodshed and suffering on                                             /
                                                                                                                          earth, there will be great rejoic-                                          /
                                                                                                                          ing in heaven since the heavenly                                            /
                                                                                                                          host knows that this is the final                                           /
                                                                                                                          conflict and the ultimate victory                                           /
                                                                                                                          after which Christ assumes his                                              /
                                                                                                                          rightful place as ruler of all                                              /
                                                                                                                          places and all peoples.                                                     /
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"that old serpent":  Most all scholars agree that the following passages           It then seems obvious that the King of Tyrus as described in Ezekiel is                                            /
   from Ezekiel are concerning satan, the power behind the prince of Tyrus.      not a man, for no man is "full of wisdom and perfect in beauty" and other                                            /
   Ezekiel 28:12-19  "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of         than God, Adam and Eve, and the serpent satan no others were in "Eden the                                            /
   Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the         garden of God". Therefore, from these passages we know that satan was                                                /
   sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.                                   created as a guardian cherub, one of the elite inner circle of the host                                              /
    Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy       of heaven.  His beauty was like nothing that has been seen on earth.  His                                            /
   covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and       fall was great as he became corrupted by his own beauty and reasoned that                                            /
   the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the       he should be the equivalent of God.  The revelation to the Apostle John                                              /
   workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in           has given more insight into the actions of satan as the result of God                                                /
   day that thou wast created.                                                   casting him "as profane out of the mountain of God:"  Satan's desires are                                            /
     Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so:         to be worshiped in place of God and he has managed to accomplish this to                                             /
   thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in      a limited extent to date.  He has managed to substitute false gods as                                                /
   the midst of stones of fire.                                                  object of worship on earth in many societies but he has never been fully                                             /
     Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till     capable of replacing God as the object of worship on earth which is his                                              /
   iniquity was found in thee.                                                   ultimate desire.  He will make one desperate final attempt when he                                                   /
     By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee      rallies all his earthly forces in an attempt to destroy all believers on                                             /
   with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as pro-       the earth. It is hard to imagine how a created being could have such a                                               /
   fane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering          large ego to imagine that such a feat would be possible, especially in                                               /
   cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.                                 the case of satan who knows that God is all powerful.  Satan has been                                                /
     Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted        successful in deceiving most of mankind into thinking that God is not all                                            /
   thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I     powerful.  He does so with seemingly small deceptions that make man doubt                                            /
   will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.                        God's true nature as he did with Eve when he suggested that "Ye shall not                                            /
     Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,     surely die".  In the same way he has convinced many people that are aware                                            /
   by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from      of Gods existence that being a good God he would not perform judgment                                                /
   the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes       upon people for small minor sins even though he hates all sin.  However                                              /
   upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.                     much of the book we are studying is about exactly that.  God will perform                                            /
     All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:       his judgment upon man for his evil deeds even unto death.  A truly right-                                            /
   thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.                     eous God could do no other way, for a truly righteous God cannot reward                                              /
                                                                                 or ignore willful sin.                                                                                               /
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