,, And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child]. 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. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Rev. 12: 13-17
We have already talked about the persecution of "women" throughout history, and now we have a situation where the Antichrist appeared on the "world stage" and we have already said that he will first make an alliance with "woman" and then in the second half of the great troubles persecution follows. We have also seen that Satan has been "cast down" from Heaven and is now acting on earth, and there he will find a suitable partner for the persecution of ... women "in the form of the Antichrist.
,, And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Daniel 9:27
In the first half of the great tribulation, the Jews will build a temple that has been destroyed, and in that temple they will rebuild and offer sacrifices and pray.
,, And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.”
"And a reed was given to me like a staff, saying: Arise and measure the church (" measure the temple of God ", in front of Carnic, D. Stefanovic, Bakotic ...) of God and the altar, and those who worship in it;"
Rev. 11: 1
and then the Antichrist breaks the peace treaty and Satan will probably obsess over him then and we have already said that Satan is angry and furious because he is "overthrown" and he knows that there is little time left
,, ... Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Rev. 12:12
then follows the installation of the statue of the Antichrist in the temple, the proclamation of the Antichrist as a god, and then follows the terrible persecutions for the people who will live then. The Lord Jesus warned about this
,, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)”
Mt.24: 15
So when that happens the counsel of the Lord Jesus is:
,, Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!”
Matthew 24: 16-19
John also writes about this:
"And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that bare a man," and the prophet Jeremiah wrote about this:
,, Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”
Jeremiah 30: 7
And how it will be delivered we read below.
"And a woman would have two wings of a great eagle to fly to the desert in her place," here the Lord will make sure that the "woman" arrives safely in the shelter, but she does not write anything more than this, so we can only guess what will happen, but whatever the Lord uses, the "woman" will be safe.
We find something similar in the pharaoh who is the "image" of the Antichrist called the "great dragon"
,,… Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon …”
Ezekiel 29: 3
so we know that Pharaoh persecuted the Israelites with a great army but that the Lord delivered His people and when they came to Sinai we read:
,, Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.”
Exodus 19: 4
And then it says:
"And the serpent after the woman let out of his mouth water like a river, to drown her in the river." This serpent is actually Satan who wants to harm the "woman" and this "river" is not a real river but a symbol of something because we already have here symbols as "woman" and then "great dragon, old serpent" (12: 9) ...
We can also read about the "river" in Jeremiah, where it says:
,, Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.”
Jeremiah 46: 7-8
From this verse we see that the Egyptian army is like a river, so we can conclude that the Antichrist will send an army like a "river" to destroy the "woman", but below we read why it will not succeed in that.
"And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and devoured the river that the serpent cast out of her mouth."
Pharaoh's army was "swallowed" by the Red Sea, and the earth will "swallow" a part of the Antichrist's army that will follow the "woman" and after that the "woman" will be safe.
This is not the first time that the earth has "swallowed" someone because it is written in the book of Moses:
,, And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that [was] under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods. They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that [were] round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up [also].”
Numb. 16: 31-34
,, 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.”
Rev. 12: 6
Where that place is and what its exact name is is not written, but it is possible that it is the "city of Peter" which is located in the Eden desert and which is over three thousand years old and which can accommodate about two hundred thousand people. is an important trade center on the road between South Arabia and Syria and later when the trade route was moved the city was abandoned and rediscovered only in 1812 after about two thousand years.
"And the woman would have two wings of a great eagle to fly in the desert to her place, where she would feed time and time and time again, hidden from the face of the serpent." time and time "which is the same as three and a half years, but there is no information on how to feed ..women".
,, He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.”
Daniel 11:41
And at the end of this chapter it says:
"And the serpent was wroth with the woman, and went to fight with the rest of her seed, which keepeth the commandments of God, and hath the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Since the "woman" is safe, we read that the "snake" became angry with the "woman" and the persecution of the rest of the "woman's seed" begins. and those one hundred and forty-four thousand missionaries, then those Jews who will not succeed or will not want to flee to the desert, and it is possible that there are those who are scattered around the world.
The prophet Zechariah writes about this and he talks about the Jeverites as a whole and says that two thirds will be killed or killed in some way and that only one third will survive:
And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The Lord [is] my God.”
Zechariah 13: 8-9
Satan will not persecute and kill Jews just because they are Jews, but also because they keep "the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
,, …was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Rev. 1: 9
And as John was persecuted, so will the believers who will live on earth for the "testimony of Jesus Christ" be persecuted and killed.