Covenant Reformed News – September 2020 • Volume XVIII, Issue 5
This article from Covenant Reformed News interprets Revelation 12's woman as the Old Testament church pregnant with the Messiah throughout a 4,000-year gestation period, from the promise in Genesis 3:15 through various Old Testament prophecies and types. The author traces how the believing church maintained consciousness of Christ's coming through the ages, experiencing the spiritual labor and anticipation of His birth. This represents a typological and covenantal interpretation of biblical prophecy and Christology characteristic of Reformed theology.
The Amazing Pregnancy of the Woman of Revelation 12 In the last News, we saw that the radiant woman of Revelation 12:1 is the church. Now we note that the (Old Testament) church was pregnant, pregnant with the Messiah (5): “she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered” (2). Thus the church not only rejoices that the “Wonderful Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” is “a child [that] is born” and “a son [that] is given” “unto...