My Sheep Hear My Voice

My Sheep Hear My Voice

Before Jesus was crucified He told the disciples to watch and pray, something so simple, but they let their physical bodies take over and they fell back asleep. In these last hours of time you need to hear His voice. When He tells you something, it is very important, but most ignore my voice or just discuss it and go on with what they were doing. You will see many things start to happen shortly and if you do not hear and obey His voice,... it will mean death for some of you....Jesus has only your best interest in mind. Christ knows you heart, and if you are truly His you will hear His voice. He awakes many of you at 3am on the dot, but most will roll over and go back to sleep. There are a few who will get up and pray. Your day is filled with so many things and Jesus is the last thing many of you give your time to. But Christ needs to talk to you,... to fellowship with you and only when you are still and quite (3am) can you hear Him,... the rest of your day is so busy you do not have time for Him,... but you need to make time, for time is short and the Lord has instructions for you.

The Travail of the Woman

You will notice that we will be studying vs. 12:2 and 5a here to be in chronological order.

"And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. . . . And she brought forth a man child” (Rev. 12:2, 5a).

The word “travailing” is from the Greek odino which is used here and in Gal. 4:19, 27; Mt. 24:8; Mk. 13:8 and means “to experience the pains of the parturition,” whether literally or figuratively. Here it is used in a figurative sense, for the woman is a symbol, and therefore, cannot travail literally. The Greek word for “pained” means “tormented” and is so translated in Rev. 9:5; 11:10; 14:10; 20:10. This helps us to understand that the travail and pain of Israel in the whole Seventieth Week is caused by the same sort of punishment she has always undergone under Gentile rule.

The travails of Israel have been numerous in her past history, as is clearly revealed in her bondage's and deliverance's, which began with Israel in Egypt and in the period of the judges and kings. They have continued, more or less, and will finally culminate in the worst period of travail she has ever known, Dan. 12:1; Mt. 24:15-26. There is to be a future continued travail of Israel in the tribulation Week with a two fold result:

1. The deliverance of the manchild in the middle of the Week, Rev. 12:2-5; Jer. 30:6-9; Dan. 12:1; Isa. 66:7-8. This will be the result of the terrible anguish and sorrow of Israel in the middle of the Week, because the Antichrist, with whom she has made a seven-year covenant as a guarantee of her protection from the great whore and the ten kings of the Revised Rome, will have broken this covenant and determined to completely destroy her. At this time of travail the manchild is to be delivered, because that company (the 144,000 sealed Jews) is not deserving of the great tribulation, which will follow immediately. Antichrist will be defeated in his purpose of destroying Israel at this time by the “tidings out of the north and east” Dan. 11:44-45; i.e., the northern and eastern European and Asiatic nations will league together against Antichrist to put a stop to his superhuman successes in his conquests. This will keep him occupied during the last three and one-half years of the Week, after he has gained the whole ten kingdoms, and thus cause him to let Israel alone for the time being or until he conquers his new enemies. Then, all nations which he has conquered in both parts of the Week, as well as other cooperative nations in the rest of the world (Rev. 16:13-16), will be gathered against Israel to destroy them as he attended to do in the middle of the Week, then Christ suddenly comes to save Israel, Zech. 14. The result of the travail of Israel at this time will be that God will undertake the catching up of the manchild (144,000 sealed Jews). After that He will supernaturally protect the woman in the wilderness and the remnant in Israel by occupying the attention of the Antichrist through the threatenings of the northern and eastern nations as mentioned above.
2. The deliverance of the woman herself at the end of the Week when the Antichrist with many nations tries to destroy Israel, Isa. 66:7-8; Mic. 5:3; Zech. 12:10-14:21; Joel 3:1-21. The result of this travail will be the conversion of Israel and the defeat of the Antichrist by the return of Christ to the earth with the saints and angels to exalt Israel and set up His own Kingdom, Rom. 11:26-27; Rev. 19:11-20:6; 2 Thes. 1:7-10.