The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon
12 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5
She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Revelation 12:1-6
The woman here is the Statue Of Liberty. Clothed with the sun is the flag of Taiwan. Moon under her feet is actually the U.S. flag on the moon, and the twelve stars is actually the twelvth star in the U.S. flag:
…In addition to representing the 50 states, the 50 stars on the American flag also represents a "divine goal." In 1977, the House of Representatives published a book in which it described the American flag's stars as being a "symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun."
Reference: https://starspangledflags.com/symbolism-of-the-american-flag-defined/#flag_stars
The child to be born is democracy, which is Taiwan who will be born as the U.S., a democratic country. The great, fiery red dragon is none other than China, who is known as the dragon of Asia.
It does not say here that China is evil, but this small passage is what you call a parallelism of translation. There are many sides of a coin.
So, war is inevitable here in South East Asia AND the U.S. We need Christians to pray for the Lord's children that they will go safely through this troubling times.
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