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The Woman in the Wilderness

Revelation 12 — fled, kept, nourished

A self-contained, intra-biblical commentary on Revelation 12:6 and 12:14 — the woman who flees into the wilderness and is there kept and nourished by God. From the eagles' wings of Sinai to the second exodus and the Breaker out of Bozrah: kept *through*, not taken *before*. This book is written first of all for Jewish readers and is expressly non-supersessionist: Israel is Israel, and the promises made to the woman remain hers. Every load-bearing reading carries a mark (well-documented / weighed / contested / speculative); the WORKBENCH panels set the original text one click deeper.

  1. Front Matter

    Foreword
  2. A Note on Method
  3. How to Read This Book
  4. Part I · Who Is the Woman?

    1A Sign, Great and in Heaven
  5. 2The Ancient Serpent and the Two Seeds
  6. 3Twice She Flees
  7. 4Caught Up, Kept, Handed Over
  8. 4bThe Birth Pangs of the Prophets
  9. Part II · On Eagles' Wings

    5Borne on Eagles' Wings
  10. 6The Eagle That Stirs Up Her Nest
  11. 7The Two Eagles
  12. Part III · The Dragon, the Flood, and the Earth That Helps

    8The Ancient Sea-Dragon
  13. 9The Flight — Whoever Is in Judea
  14. 10The Flood from His Mouth
  15. 11The Earth Opened Her Mouth
  16. Part IV · The Wilderness of the Betrothal

    12The Wilderness of the First Love
  17. 13I Will Allure Her
  18. 14Until They Seek My Face
  19. Part V · The Place, Prepared by God

    15A Place, Prepared by God
  20. 16The City of Refuge
  21. 17Where Is That Place?
  22. Part VI · Nourished and Kept

    18What Does She Live On?
  23. 19Ravens, Widow, Angel — and the Bread of Life
  24. Part VII · A Time, Times, and Half a Time

    20Four Clocks, One Time
  25. 21A Time of Trouble for Jacob
  26. Part VIII · The Second Exodus

    22The Second Exodus
  27. 23The Breaker
  28. 24They Shall Look upon Me
  29. Part IX · The Woman and the Bride, and the Anti-Woman

    25Two Women, One Wilderness
  30. 26Kept, or Caught Up — and Israel Remains Israel
  31. Closing

    Who Is This Coming Up out of the Wilderness
  32. The Apparatus

    Appendix AMaster Concordance
  33. Appendix BGlossary