This is the BAMO podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we see

dragons and beasts and women riding on them. Who is this beast of land and sea? The same

hermeneutic we've used throughout Revelation will help us know more.

All right, we're ready. Just dive into the twelfth chapter of Revelation. This is where it gets

weird. It does, well, yeah, for some people it gets weird in different places. You don't think it's

weird yet. This is where it's going to get really weird. Yeah. All right. Well, here you go. Go

ahead, Brent. A great sign appeared in heaven. A woman closed with the sun with the moon under

her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she

was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven. An enormous red dragon with seven heads

and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky

and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth

so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child,

who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and her child was snatched up to God and to his

throne. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God where she might be

taking care of for one thousand two hundred sixty days. All right. So we realize that Jonas consistently

and constantly placing text into context. We want to think of the Hebrew scriptures. We want to

ask the pressing question, who is this woman? Not thinking into the future but thinking into the past.

The answer to this question don't tend to be quite as futuristic and far fetched for most

conversations. Most Christian interpretation will sit solidly on this being a direct reference to

Jesus. I don't believe that's incorrect, but let's make sure we're keeping the larger picture in

mind and exhausting the possibilities. As we've seen, this is going to help us catch more of the depth

of what John's trying to communicate. Maybe not as weird then. Maybe not as weird. There's

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