The sign of the woman in the sky
12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. 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. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”
Revelation 12:1-5 NIV
On September 23, 2017 this sign was fulfilled. The sun was in the zodiac constellation Virgo – “a woman clothed with the sun”. The moon was at the feet of Virgo – “with the moon under her feet”. The ‘nine’ stars of the zodiac constellation Leo, plus three planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars), was at the head of Virgo – “on her head a crown of 12 stars”. The planet Jupiter was in the centre of Virgo, and, as the weeks pass after September 23, Jupiter exited Virgo to the east, past her feet, as if she was giving birth – “She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she laboured to give birth”. Jupiter is the largest of the planets, and could be called the “king” of the planets – “She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod”.
However, the passage in Revelation 12 continues, saying the following:
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.
Revelation 12:5-6 NIV
Many people believe that the above verse is saying that Israel is going to be persecuted and that the Israelites will have to flee into the wilderness. However, it must be remembered that in Revelation 12 the woman is a sign that is in the sky. Therefore, the sky is the wilderness. I believe that the woman fleeing into the wilderness is a reference to the movement of the constellation Virgo in the sky.
What is important, is that if you add the period of 1,260 days (three and a half years) to the date of 23 September 2017 you get to 23 March 2021. This was the date of the Israeli election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021.
This cannot be a coincidence. Is the Bible telling us that Jesus will be returning sometime during the time that the new Israeli government will be in power? Was this sign in the sky, in September 2017, the sign of the Son of Man that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24?:
“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven…
Matthew 24:30 NIV
By law, elections must be held in Israel every four years. So, it may very well be the case that Jesus will return prior to 2025, which is the year in which the next Israeli elections will be held. However, it may also be possible that this sign in the sky is directing us to an event which must still occur prior to the return of Jesus. It is also possible that the new Israeli government could stay in power longer than only one term.
Personally, I cannot see what other event needs to take place prior to the return of Jesus. My research seems to indicate that we have run out of events to be fulfilled in Revelation and that all events, with the exception of the seventh trumpet and the seventh bowl, may have already taken place. However, it is possible that I am overlooking something.