Revelation 12:6a
Revelation 12, Page 5

Re-evaluation Translation
12:6  As restored Israel arises, they stand alone among the nations in the place of spiritual and practical wisdom which Yehuveh Elohim has prepared for them,
that they feed there 1260 days, from 5 October 2005 through 17 March 2009.

Bible, KJV Translation
12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Significant Words and Comments:
Commentary on Revelation 12:6 (26 February 2008):   “The woman,” the rising up people of restored Israel, as discussed in notes on Revelation 12:4.
      
“Fled into the wilderness,” is more accurate “escaped to be singularly alone.” Fled is from pheugo [G5343], meaning “to flee away, seek safety by flight; to escape safely out of danger; to vanish.” Israel’s flight has been into intimate covenant relationship with and deeper trust in Yehuveh. Fled is so fitting of Israel in this time of rising up against their oppressors, for Enoch says: “With the righteous He will make peace, and will protect the elect, and mercy shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to Elohim, and they shall be prospered, and they shall all be blessed.” Torah has a great deal to say of those who escape at this time. “Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.” “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.” I encourage you to take a good concordance and read each of the 47 texts in Psalms through Malachi which uses the words escape, escaped, escapeth, and escaping. Powerful insights! Psalms 71:2; 124:7.
       
Wilderness is from eremos [G2048], of uncertain affinity, meaning “solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited; a desert, wilderness; deprived of the aid and protection of others; bereft, deserted, neglected.” Rather than an isolated location, in context eremos more correctly speaks of returning to a singularly unified hold on truth. Balaam most accurately presented the insight given here: “For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.” “Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.” “Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28; Exodus 19:5-6 [also consider Exodus 33:16; Deuteronomy 4:20; 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:18; 32:8-9; 1 Kings 8:53; Esther 3:8; Psalms 135:4; Song of Solomon 8:12; Isaiah 41:8; 43:1; Jeremiah 10:16; Ezekiel 34:25; Malachi 3:17].
      
“Where she hath a place,” that is, a suitable situation among the nations, as noted in the last paragraph. Those who escape the “inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit,” to become part of restored Israel will serve as leaders and instructors to the nations. “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, . . . to the isles afar off, that have not heard My fame, neither have seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.” Our place is not a location, but a position of wise and gentle “re-shapers” of the nations, that “they also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine”! Could there be a nicer place to dwell?! Place, from topos [G5117], as noted on Revelation 6:14, is “any condition or station held by one in any company or assembly.” Jeremiah 16:19; Isaiah 66:19; 29:24.


Gael Bataman
Originally Written:               26 February 2008
Latest Update:                     31 May 2008


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