Revelation Chapter 12 Commentary
Expanded Yeshuan Apostolic Record Commentary on the Book of Revelation
This 22-volume collection offers a chapter by chapter expanded commentary on the book "Revelations on Revelation" by Shawn McCraney. This collection is a part of the Yeshuan Apostolic Record Commentary Collection, offering extended insights and clarifications on the entire purpose and place of the Apostolic Record (typically referred to as the New Testament) from a fulfilled perspective. It includes significant facts from various translations, commentaries, and historical contexts, as it expands on the footnotes in Revelations on Revelation. Volume 12 covers Revelation chapter 12, which begins a new series of visions that runs through chapter 19. It draws an important distinction about what Revelation unveils, examines the woman, the child, and the dragon, includes a study of Daniel 9, and works through the war in heaven, verse by verse.
Sample: An Important Distinction
In the previous book we left off with the last verse of chapter 11. There we mentioned the opinion that this verse should have been the first verse of chapter 12. We also said that at the last verse of 11 we enter in a new phase of the Revelation – a new series of visions that are different from the first 11 chapters. We then suggested that these visions will last all the way through chapter 19. So let’s talk a bit about what lies ahead.
The book of Revelation is also known as the Apocalypse, which is the name by which the Roman Catholic church identifies the revelation. We get this title from a Greek reading of Revelation 1:1 where it says that this book is the “apokalupsis of Yeshua.” We remember that the Greek word "apokalupsis" means “unveiling” hence the translation, the Revelation. When Jesus was asked questions of the apostles about the day and time of the end of the age, Jesus said that his information was not made known to Him. This is the place where more of that hidden information is revealed. However, while Revelation chapter 1:3 says that the things included in the Revelation were “about to happen” this may not be the only things that the book reveals or unveils to us.
In other words, there is a tremendous amount of information that tends to relate not necessarily to things ”about to happen” but to spiritual and or heavenly events. These revelations of heavenly things unveil to the reader the invisible realm of the spirit through signs and symbols. This being said it seems that Revelation chapter 12 is unveiling not things to come but things that had occurred in the past to the Seven Churches. This is an important distinction because we often maintain that all of Revelation was speaking to events that were about to happen just prior to AD 70. And while this is generally true, I think we may have an exception here in chapter 12. The vision in Revelation 12 goes back to the resurrection of Jesus (around AD 30). So, let’s read the chapter together. It really says so much.