The Mother and Her Children
"The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist." - 2 John 1:1-7.
The first time I read this, someone sent it to me. It was years ago and I don’t remember how, but the passage “2 John 1” was typed in as “search word”, into the search bar of the blog. I had never really considered it before and I was supposed to see it.
If you read through the whole letter, it is a letter of encouragement specifically addressed to “the elect lady and her children”. Not only is it a letter of encouragement, it is also a warning to endure for love, the things that are coming.
The emphasis on this is love, and ‘the truth in love’. It is to “the elect lady and her children”. Not “the church”, but someone specific: directed to someone who will “bring forth” her children. “A mother in Israel”.
The “Elect lady” and her children: She is a “mother” of the remnant, for that is who the “elect” is. She is the woman in Revelation 12. And it is verified, after the woman brings forth the man child, the man child is caught up to God and to his throne.
The devil enters the “kingdom” but is withheld by the archangel Michael and his angels who cast the dragon and his angels unto the earth: no place is found for them anymore in heaven. So the dragon and his angels persecute the woman who brought forth the man child (verse 13);
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." - Revelation 12:15-17.
There are several other verses addressing this woman in other books of the Bible. In Revelation 12:1-6, we learn that this woman "...being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."
It’s not “Mary” because we know this is a spiritual birth. Paul mentions it in his letter to the Galatians:
"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," - Galatians 4:19.
The concept of “travailing” is not only a physical work but a mental one:
"Travail definition: painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil . . . pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship. The labor of childbirth" - Source, Dictionary.com.
If the woman in Revelation 12 is not “Mary”, than who is she? Paul? No. Let’s look at another “travailing” woman in scripture:
"A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." - Isaiah 66:6-8.
“As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children” (the remnant of her seed). Here “Zion” is compared to “the earth” bringing forth. The “nation” being born at once is of course – Israel, the elect, the “remnant”, as discussed in Revelation 12:17: the “remnant of her seed”.
Zion who brings forth her children is also described as “the daughter of Zion”.
Daughter of Zion
Doing a search on the “daughter of Zion” turns up results in the Old Testament only until you use “Sion” also.
“Daughter of Zion”: She is first referred to in 2 Kings 19:21, and last mentioned in Zechariah 9:9. The book of Micah also testifies of her, such as this familiar condition:
"Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies." - Micah 4:9-10.
The “daughter of Zion” also gets into some trouble and the “daughter of Jerusalem”, such as in Jeremiah 6:23, and the whole of Lamentations chapter 2. She is not perfect and has some iniquity to purge, as does “Jerusalem”.
It is interesting reading through the list of verses she appears in here, and you get a summary of her journey through her wilderness. But read the chapters when you get time. Because she is intricately tied to “The city of David”, being “Zion”, the “stronghold”.
Her “destiny” is to bring forth the “man child”, and the “remnant” of the Tribes of Israel. She is the one who declares him. And when she does, she travails because she knows all hell breaks loose when she does.
What she does is tied to the bringing forth of the Son of man.
Zion = He Who Overcomes
In the opening of Revelation, Christ who is on the throne, instructs John to write “letters” to the seven churches. Five are in danger of falling, and two are given encouragements. Both those churches, Philadelphia and Smyrna, are reassured that God sees their persecution by “them that say they are Jews and are not, and are of the Synagogue of Satan”.
Yet in each of those seven letters, those churches are each given a piece of the big picture concerning “he who overcomes”. The church of Smyrna initially interested me, because three dreams that I had involved “Smyrna” or the “ten days” they suffer tribulation. What does this have to do with “Zion”?
The name Zion appears seven times in the New Testament, consistently referring to a significant spiritual and geographical location.
It is used in passages describing the arrival of Jesus (Matthew 21:5, John 12:15), the foundation of faith (Romans 9:33, 1 Peter 2:6), the future salvation of Israel (Romans 11:26), the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22), and the presence of the Lamb on Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1).
The “Lamb”, the Lord comes to Mount Zion. In Romans 11:26, “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:”
Zion is an interesting name:
"From the noun ציון (sayon), dry place or sign post, from the verb צוה (sawa), to be dry or to command.
From an Arabic verb that means to defend.
Because Zion was originally not Israeli, the name Zion comes to us possibly from a language other than Hebrew. HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament mentions an Arabic root s-w-n, meaning to protect or defend, which may give Zion the meaning of fortress." - Source, Abarim Publications
Etymonline agrees with the “fortress” definition.
"late Old English Sion, from Greek Seon, from Hebrew Tsiyon, name of a Canaanite hill fortress in Jerusalem captured by David and called in the Bible "City of David." - Source, Etymonline.com
And of course scripture tells you what it means: Fortress, protect or defend, stronghold.
“Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.” – 2 Samuel 5:7.
Stronghold:
"A castle or fort surrounded by stone walls and moats is one kind of stronghold; they are built to keep the people or valuables inside them safe from invading armies." - Vocabulary.com
": a fortified place; 2. a place of security or survival" - Merriam-Webster.com
"A fortified place or a fortress. A place of survival or refuge" - Wordnik.com/American Heritage Dictionary
Zion is the “city of David” – The city of David is also “Bethlehem” (House for the Name of the Lord), where Jesus was born.
Now look at the second verse in which Zion appears in the Bible:
"Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion." - 1 Kings 8:1.
The city of David which is Zion, is also “Bethlehem”:
"And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child." - Luke 2:3-5.
And what is being “brought up out of the city of David, which is Zion”, in 1 Kings 8:1?
The Ark of the Covenant.
The Golden Cord.
“There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:” - Romans 11:26
The mother travails and labors to bring forth: Before she travailed she brought forth. Before her pains came she was delivered of a man child . . .
. . . For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Who is the “daughter of Zion”?
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." - Revelation 12:15-17.
The Remnant . . . her children which she brings forth of her travail after she is “delivered” of the man child:
"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child." - Revelation 12:12-13.
There are seven kings, says Jesus to John in Revelation 17: Five are fallen: one is, and one is yet to come; and when he cometh, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition:
In April of 2011, I had a strong dream. There were three parts to this dream because I kept getting woken up. They continued as if this were going on without me while I was awake, until I fell back asleep and had to catch up to the “story”.
I posted it again after Google took down the original blog. It was about the “prince” whose sanctuary is cast down and polluted. I titled the dream(s) “Michael is Starting To Scare Me”.
The “word” the actor was trying to say in the 3rd and last dream got cut off as I woke up. And I didn’t know what it meant. Three years later, God lead me to something that explained to me the “word” that was mentioned, and what it was. I republished that article on “American Zion”.
I am going to ask you to read both of them because there is something that almost all churches are missing.
There is a description of the “city” in which Jesus was “crucified”. It is “spiritually called Sodom and Egypt” in Revelation 11:3-8.
This “event” was symbolized in the falling of the towers on 9/11 (also described in Isaiah 30:25). We are in these end days.
The “city” spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified, is not Jerusalem.
And the two witnesses are also described in Zechariah chapter 4, in relation to the olive branches.
Who are the “two witnesses”? I know. Because it also talks about them in Ecclesiastes.
"For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead." - Ecclesiastes 4:14-15.
Do you now understand 1 Thessalonians 4:15 and the “Messiah the Prince” in Daniel 9 in all things considered?
Jachin and Boaz
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Zion is not a “place”. It is not a political movement or a Jewish possession: Zion, as is “Bethlehem” is spiritual designation. And it is within someone and cannot be used, created by man or “taken in vain”. Because it’s/he’s/she’s protected.
And so is the “mother and her children”, as it is written.
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