Revelation 12 is a map showing us what things happen during the NT time period.

1) First we read about the true apostolic church which was a great wonder in heaven, i.e. on the true foundation of Holy Scripture thus being the heavenly Jerusalem here on earth.

2) What next happens was also a sign, but not a great wonder, for the great red dragon symbolizes the coming of the Antichrist and the total falling away from the apostolic truth, something Jesus warned about saying that there would come a night during which nobody is able to work (John 9:4).

Scripture reveals that that spiritual night would last for 42 prophetic months, that are 1260 years. This time period is described by the first 5 trumpets (Rev 8:7-9:1 and the first 5 seals (Rev 6:1-11). Because of the falling away of the apostolic church there was nobody (Rev 5:3) found in heaven on earth worthy to open the the book that had 7 seals.

3) But at the end of the time of the Antichrist God had decided to send his angel as foretold in Rev 7:2 from the rising of the sun (i.e. from the north according to Isa 44:25) with the seal of the llving God to bind satan as foretold in Rev 20:1-3. That is the reason why that angel or messenger is called Bands in Zech 11:14, for he is sent to bind the false doctrines satan has established on earth. Bands is the strong angel that comes down out of heaven with a little opened book is his hand, namely that with 7 seals, so therefore this angel is the Lord's coming in his true servant who is the man child in Rev 12:5.

Through this servant, the man child, Jesus comes spiritually to judge the antichrist and to be the anointed one of God in Psalm 2:2. Notice that according to Psalm 2:3 the kings and rulers on earth want to break the BANDS of God and His anointed one. This is what Zech 11:14 says. God is going to cut asunder the brotherhood between Israel and Judah, Israel symbolizing the fallen away church and Judah symbolizing the man child and that he seals as the angel in Rev 7:3.

In this way comes God's saving truth back to mankind while also judging all false so-called Christian churches on earth.

This is the start of God's kingdom on earth, which the new heavens and the new earth symbolizes in Isa 65:17. In this heaven and on this earth a child shall die a hundred years old according to Isa 65:20, a prophetic word that proves these things to take place on our earth, for in God's eternal and invisible heaven there will be no death, nor people who build houses.

Let these my true words help you, for this is what God reveals today.

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