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Indeed! That ties very well with how John opens his Gospel.

Thanks for your comment! While the image there speaks about Christ and his coming from God's specific chosen people in the OT, the context of the passage encompasses both Old and New Testament believers. Specifically, Satan rages against New Testament believers who are the children of the woman (in that case, the church). The image of the woman in chapter 12 is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Thanks for the comment! You are right, a woman does appear riding a beast later on! But as we'll see when we get there, there's a strong case to be made that the woman riding the beast is actually false religion disguised as the church (the beast from the earth which looks like a lamb but speaks with the voice of the dragon). She resides where the church is (the desert) in order to deceive and destroy. But we'll get there in a few chapters.

Thank you so much for your reply the last verse in chapter 17 of Revelation tells the great city is the harlot we go back to chapter 11 and it tells us the great City which is called spiritual Sodom and spiritual Egypt where our Lord also was crucified chapter 16 tells us the wrath is coming on the great city which killed the prophets and the saints at the top of chapter 15 we see the song of Moses being sung right before the wrath of God chapter 19 we see all heaven rejoicing over the death of the harlot and this great City and it says you have redeemed the blood of your saints then and only then do we see the bride she is adorned and white ready for the marriage sorry for jumping all over the place at the end of chapter 18 they have killed the prophets and the saints Jesus said a prophet cannot die outside of Jerusalem Jesus said chapter 23 of Matthew that you have killed the prophets and the saints and I will send you profits and saints and you will kill them and that they will pay from able to Zachariah this is a great judgment coming on Jerusalem your house will be left to you desolate Luke 23 the woman of Jerusalem are weeping over Christ he said don't wait for me wait for yourself and your children blessed are they who are bearing and do not give shock for they will cry for the rocks to fall upon them Revelation 6 hope this is understandable LOL thank you for your reply God bless you my brother in Christ

Thank you!

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to give some thought as to how that might work. Thanks for watching! -Pastor Nathan

Pastor Nathan here. Thank you for watching and the comment. John certainly does include a list! I didn't have time in the short to address the list of tribes, but a few thoughts: the names of the tribes don't lineup perfectly with what happened in the Old Testament. Certain tribes are gone (Dan and Ephraim) and others are combined, and the order of inclusion is not according to birth but something else (possibly their connection to the Messiah, hence Judah being first), pointing to their inclusion meaning something other than the literal tribes of Israel. Further, the whole of this vision is constrained by the time period from Jesus' ascension to His return (as demarcated by the opening scene in chapter 5 when Jesus, the Lamb, ascends to take His throne and the reality that the seventh seal hasn't been broken yet in Revelation). My take: the list is about the faithfulness of God's people, cleansed of apostasy and idolatry, here representing the church.