“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place that had been prepared of the Deity… And to the woman were given the two wings of the Great Eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place.” (Revelation 12:6, 14)
The fourteenth verse, in certain particulars, is explanatory of the sixth. In this it is said that “the woman fled”; but nothing is hinted about “the two wings of the great eagle.” The sixth verse testifies that “she fled into the wilderness,” in which wilderness a place hath been prepared for her of the Deity. But where was this wilderness to be found? The Roman habitable was well stocked with wildernesses. Was it simply an uninhabited solitude, a desert waste? or did the word ερημον, indicate her isolation and exclusion from the ecclesiastical pale recognised by the powers that be? She fled into the wilderness-state, in which she did not stand in the presence of the Serpent. The Serpent was in the heaven, from the sunshine and splendours of which she was caused to fly. It was the woman Jezebel that stood before the Serpent, and gloried in his embrace. The Serpent had beguiled her, and enthroned her in the heaven; but those of her party, who were proof against his enticements and subtilties, he banished from his imperial presence, that they might dwell alone in the solitude of social isolation.
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Author: John Thomas
Keywords: persecution, Christian persecution, persecution of Christians, great eagle, two wings of the great eagle, Roman eagle, isolation, expulsion, exile, 1260, 1260 days, thousand two hundred and threescore days
Bible reference(s): Rev 12:6, Rev 12:14
Source: “A Place Prepared of God,” The Christadelphian, Vol. 36, No. 422, August 1899.
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