Douggg
anytime rapture, non-dispensationalist, futurist
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I had wrote - In Revelation 12, the wilderness is where the woman flees to - gets out of Jerusalem.I think you got your verses confused.
My point I was making is that "wilderness" means outside of Jerusalem. In Revelation 17, the John saw the woman riding the beast - in the wilderness.
Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
In Revelation 12, is another instance when wilderness refers to outside of Jerusalem.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
In Revelation 12:6, the Jews will have fled into the wilderness when the Abomination of Desolation is setup. And continue to try and get out of Jerusalem during the time, times, half times, of Revelation 12:14.
The woman in Revelation 12 is Israel, and is of course not the same woman in Revelation 17. I was never making that claim.
John the Baptist was another instance of the wilderness meaning outside of Jerusalem.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
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The point I am making is that Jerusalem is not the woman in Revelation 17, because the wilderness where John saw the woman is outside of Jerusalem, based on the examples I show above.
You are making a connection that the woman riding the beast in Revelation 17 is Jerusalem based on the term "that great city". But in Revelation the term "that great city" refers to several great cities - not just one.
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