Revelation 12:2

Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

• ·        As in travail and now in pain, to bring forth a holy progency  to Christ (MH)

• ·        To bring forth the martyrs (DP)

Isaiah 26:17  As a woman with child is in pain and cries out in her pangs, when she draws near the time of her delivery, so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

Micah 4:9  Now why do you cry aloud?  Is there no king in your midst?  Has your counselor perished?  For pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.

Revelation 12:1

Now a great sign appeared in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.

• ·        The church is represented as the woman (MH)

• ·        This is the first of seven signs that John relates, and is described as a great sign (mega semeion). (DG)

Genesis 37:8-10 …..What is this dream that you have dreamed?  Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?

Exodus 31:17  It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

Revelation 11:19

Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple.  And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake and great hail.

• ·        This was in the holy of holies; in the ark the tables of the law were kept (MH)

• ·        By terrible things in righteousness God would answer those prayers that were presented in His holy temple, now opened (MH)

Numbers 10:33  So they departed from the mountain of the LORD on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them for the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.

Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD, that there may be no more mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough.