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Originally Posted by 1 God
The woman is Israel and the man child is Jesus Christ.
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Why is the woman Israel when we have New Testament doctrine like this? What glorious woman were Apostles concerned about?
Ephesians 5: 25-32
25Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it,
even as the Lord the church: 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
The same Apostle:
2 Cor. 11:
1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy:
for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Rev. 19:7-8
7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and
his wife hath made herself ready. 8And
to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
The woman is the Church.