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TRIBULATION
Note the contrast in Joel 2:2 “A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains . .” Here, as in Revelation 12, we see glory and darkness at the same time. The New Testament talks about things waxing worse and worse, yet also talks about things getting brighter and better unto the Perfect Day! In Revelation 12, there are three groups of people: 1) the woman, 2) the Manchild, and 3) “the rest of her children”. All the way through the book of Revelation, there are certain individuals who actually represent people groups. For example, the Mother of Harlots, Mystery Babylon, represents the whole worldly religious, economic, military and governmental/political system, that is not of God. It is an individual, that actually represents many people. We believe that the woman spoken of in Revelation 12 is the Church believers at large, or at least, the intercessors, those who have a mother’s heart to give birth, etc. We believe that the “Man child” is the overcomers, the saints, the disciples, etc., and that the “rest of her children” represents the vast majority of believers, who are luke warm and who have only a percentage level of discipleship commitment.
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