Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Christopher Blythe, Revelation Chapter 6 through 14.

John sees a vision now. It's again in heaven, it's a symbol, it's a series of of symbols that have a meaning on earth and we can

read this meaning I'm just gonna stick to the King James here I'm gonna tell you what it

says in Joseph my translation and there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the

moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth and pain to be delivered.

And there appeared another wonder in heaven.

Behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and it cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born and she brought forth a manchild who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto God into his throne and the woman fled into the wilderness where she have a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred

and three-score days. We know what Joseph says about these symbols and that's really

important but just the images that we're watching. Here's a woman that's precious, she's a

wonder and heaven, she's giving birth, and a dragon wants to get her baby.

If we don't read this just as symbols,

this is the Savior.

If Revelation is being told in First Nephi, which I believe it is, Nephi is seeing parts of the same vision.

Here he sees the Virgin Mary, he sees the condescension of God, and I believe this is the parallel here. He is seeing an image of

the Virgin Mary who, when the Savior is born, we have the slaughter of the innocence.

We have people trying to prevent him from coming to earth.

But the Lord's going to protect him.

And eventually, he's going to be caught up unto God

and to his throne. He doesn't get to rule yet, but he's going to be caught up to his

throne. There's a literal way to read this. This is a direct thing. You have the

Virgin Mary. You have the Savior, and we have this conflict. As Latter-day Saints, Joseph

tells us that this woman should be read as a symbol at least when we're giving

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