Revelation 12:4b-6

The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

From Background Notes [BN] for September 14^th & 15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The child is Jesus and the dragon is the Devil and the angel hosts are all around.

Meanwhile, back in Bethlehem … The flight from Bethlehem to Egypt was part of the long, dangerous Road Trip undertaken by Jesus. Taking Jesus out of Israel and sending him to Egypt has powerful symbolic significance, for it identifies him with the difficult past of ancient Israel when they were slaves in that foreign land. Jesus, in his infancy, retraces the footsteps of his Jewish forebears and thereby reenacts the nation’s history in anticipation of their new future.  [BN,4-5]

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