The "Man-child" of Revelation 121. The pangs of travail (verse 2). Where were the birth-pains in Israel when Christ was born?Israel has never yet travailed unto the birth of Christ.Isaiah 66:8-24 shows Christ's birth out of the nation without travail. That Scripture does not refer to Revelation 12.2. "Clothed with the sun" (verse 1). The Lord Jesus is Himself the sun, "light of the world", and it is the Church which has been invested with that Light; the revelation of Jesus Christ, the whole Truth of God. The Jewish nation has never stood so robed.3. "The moon under her feet" (verse 1). The moon is an object which has no light of its own, but borrows its light from the sun.This is exactly what the whole Jewish system of Law and Types did. The Law, the Prophets, the Types, all reflected the Christ, and shone with borrowed light. These are all fulfilled in Christ and realised in the Church, and all are under the feet of - in a subject relation to - the Church. This cannot apply to the Jewish nation.4. "On her head a crown of twelve stars" (verse 1). Stars are heavenly living bodies in a ruling capacity. Twelve is the number of governmental power or order.The twelve Apostles may be seen to fulfil this part of the symbolism. They come in several times in the "Revelation" as in a place of special honour. What is here, we believe, is that, in the mind of God, the Church is seen in the position of heavenly authority according to Luke 10:19; Ephesians, etc. But, while this is God's thought concerning the whole Church as in "Ephesians", only a company out of her actually and experimentally come to know the throne-union in the first instance. Undoubtedly, this is the position today, as it has always been, and this is the occasion for the great amount of exhortation and admonition in the New Testament. And this also is the place and condition which gives rise to the many provisional "Ifs" of the New Testament.5. "As soon as it was born", or "When she was delivered" (verse 4; R .V.). There is no gap here. Christ was not caught up to the throne when He was born, there was a considerable interval.6. "A great red dragon""Ten horns" (not crowned)."Seven heads" (crowned) (verse 3).No such power existed when Christ was born. John was writing nearly a hundred years later than the birth of Christ, and in the seventeenth chapter of this book he shows that only five of these powers had been overthrown, and one was in existence; the seventh was yet to be (17:10). The ten horns as ten kings obtain power at the same time as the Beast (17:12 ; cf. Daniel 7:20).All these come into view when the Gentile Dominion is at its close. The Beast and the False Prophet (Political and Religious) are the two aspects of the Dragon which persecute the true Church at the end, and the very removal of the "man-child" is a main cause for this assault and of the commencement of the tribulation.7. "War in heaven", "The dragon cast down"("The old serpent, the devil, Satan, the deceiver"), "No more place in heaven".This did not take place either at the birth or the ascension of Christ."Ephesians" still sees conflict in the heavenlies (6:12).Satan is still "the prince of the power of the air".True, Christ is far above all principality and power, etc., and we are seated in Him there, but the clearing of the lower heavens with the result that the Church administers and governs the world therefrom is something yet to be, and the "manchild" is the fulfilment of Revelation 3:21,22, unto this end.Glorification | The Final Frontier Going Boldly Where The Last Man has Gone Before! Decrease time over target: PayPal or Venmo @clastronaut Cash App $clastronaut