Revelation 12 expanded
Intro
This is some comments on Revelation 12.
Re 12:1 ¶ And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
I believe this woman clothed with the sun is Jacob and his sons or Israel.
Re 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
I believe this child is Jesus Christ.
Re 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
I believe the dragon is Lucifer.
Re 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Re 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Re 12:6 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.
I believe the fleeing into the wilderness is when Joseph and Maria fled to Betlehem from Nasareth to flee from the attempt of Herod to kill all the young male children.
Re 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Re 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Re 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
So here we see that Satan and his fallen angels were thrown out of heaven.
Re 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
This is when the gospel has been preached so its the new testament era.
Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Re 12:12 ¶ Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. 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.
Re 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
This could be pogroms and holocausts and persecution of the twelwe tribes of Israel.
Re 12:14 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.
Time and Times and half a time, that is 1+2+0.5=3.5 years, so this is the same amount of time as the great tribulation. So this could be talking about that Israel shall be protected during the great tribulation.
Re 12:15 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.
Re 12:16 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.
Some how it seems as if the 12 tribes will be helped during the end times period away from the attempts of Lucifer to kill them.
Re 12:17 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.
This last verse seems to be about the dragon trying to murder the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
So Revelation 12 starts with talking about Jacob and his twelve sons, which is part of the old testament and ends with the great tribulation (Re 12:14).