Mary of Rev. 12

[Montie_Claunch]

I was wondering. In Rev. 12 you see Mary crowned with stars, being chased by the devil in the form of a dragon and developing wings and flying into a wilderness. What do these things mean? What is the Wings and scampering of to a wilderness supposed to tell us? I doubt that God just threw something in so he can laugh at us as we try to figure it out.

 

[NotWorthy]

Could the dragon be Herod ordering the slaying of all children under 2 years old. And the wilderness could be Joseph leading the Holy Family to Egypt?

Hmmmmm… just a guess.

NotWorthy

 

[FuzzyBunny116]

A good explination I heard was that the desert where she is taken care of is the Church-Marian devotion, anyone?

 

[Todd_Easton]

Since verses 6 -17 follow verse 5 where the woman’s male child was caught up to God and to his throne, it seems probable that the events mentioned in verses 6-17 took place after Jesus’ Ascension.

I tend to think that the events described in verse 6-17 refer to some otherwise unknown persecution of Mary (the woman) at Jerusalem which was miraculously prevented or to some slanderous attack against Mary’s character which her humility overcame, and the Apostle John (the eagle) taking her to the city of Ephesus (a place of refuge) where she remained a time until her Assumption. The dragon’s (devil’s) subsequent warfare on the rest of her offspring would refer to the general persecution of Christians at Jerusalem.

 

[Superstar905]

I don’t think the persecution of Mary is Unknown, it has been happening in Protestant circles for hundreds of years, and slowly this is changing, albeit it very slowly to what we are accustomed to in our fast pace world of today…and by the way, this is not to say that all Protestants persecute Mary, lest I be misunderstood.

 

[mspencer]

This book of the Bible is filled with mystery upon mystery. But perhaps this will help a bit. There have been two major interpretations of who the woman is, one that she is Mary the mother of Jesus and the second that she represents the Church. I think both of these are true, perhaps because on one level Mary is symbolic of the Church.
First of all the woman in Rev. 12 represents Jesus’ own mother. In fact according to line 4 she bears the Messiah, who will rule all nations and who who “is caught up to God and his throne.” It is interesting that the image of Mary of Guadualupe in Mexico is similar to the image of Mary in Rev. 12.
But this woman also seems ot represent the Church. The dragon, Satan, who knows his time is short, pursues her into the desert, where God protects her. The desert here seems to represent the world where we live, and certainly the world of those in Revelation who fact suffer persecution and travail.