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Let us continue now with Greg Killian’s observation:

 REMEMBER: 

 Remember that God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years." Genesis 1:14 

This SIGN, as depicted above, is how it looks from Jerusalem! Remember that God's view is always from Jerusalem. Notice that the Chamah (Sun) is below the horizon so that this sign can be seen. This sign would not be visible if the sun were to be above the horizon. Because the sun is below the horizon, the constellation is literally clothed with the sun!

 CONSIDER: 

 Please consider this paper as interesting speculation. Not as gospel truth. I do not yet know if this is how God will display this sign. It does seem to suggest that it might be the sign spoken of in Revelation 12:1-5. Those who celebrate Rosh Chodesh (the new moon) have learned that Messiah is represented by Lavanah (Moon) – Be aware, though, that the moon is also an Islamic symbol prominently displayed on many of their flags. The celebration for Rosh Chodesh, the new moon, includes the announcement of the new moon with the words: 

                                           David, King of Israel lives, lives and endures!

Lavanah, the moon, represents Messiah in this unique astronomical event. This particular positioning of the mazzaroth (constellation) Bethulah, the young woman, about to give 'birth' to the moon (the Messiah), has never occurred before, and will never occur again, due to the precession of the equinoxes. Actually, if you believe that the earth is older than 26,000 years, then that is when this sign would have last occurred. If you believe that the earth will endure for another than 26,000 years, then that is when this sign will next occur. 

Commentary by Annelore: We already were told in Psalm 19:2, that “the heavens are telling the glory of G-d; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork. Day by day pours forth speech, and night for night declares knowledge… their voice goes out through all the earth, and THEIR WORDS to the end of the world.”

In Psalm 147:4 we are told that “He [G-d] determines the number of the stars, He gives to all of them their names…” 

In Psalm 89:37 we are told furthermore, that “the moon is G-d’s FAITHFUL WITNESS.” For it is a light in the darkness that by it man may not stumble; it decreases in glory until it is no more for 3 days and nights, the first and the third day not being a full 24 hour day. Upon the first sighting of the reappearance of the moon the shofar is blown. It is Rosh Chodesh, bearing witness to the resurrection of Him Who diminished and became poor for our sake, but afterwards was restored to His glory He had before with the Father. And when we look upon the full moon we see clearly a face with a sort of sad smile, and we hear the words of the high priest: “The L-RD bless you and keep you; the L-RD make His FACE SHINE upon you, and give you His shalom.”

Finally, in Rev. 21:23 the angel declares that “… the City has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of G-d is its light, and its lamp is the LAMB.” The moon has always born witness of Messiah, that at His First Coming He would be “cut off from the living” as the Lamb of G-d, but that He would be resurrected from the dead and be restored to His former glory. It also bears witness of His eternal priesthood, of His divine nature and of being the Light that lightens every man.

The Woman is indeed pregnant with Messiah ~ New Moon [Who laid down His life for the sinners], Who is the Manchild [the resurrected Son and Heir of adult age]. However, as stated before, she brings forth teknon. In addition, the constel- lation of Coma, as well as Rev. 12, defines her again as being of the stock of Israel, the seed of Abraham, the royal line of David. In Rev. 12, however, the woman is standing on the moon, which instantly brings to mind the Word that says, “no other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid, which is Yeshua the Messiah.”²⁸  Hence, it would appear that not only does the woman travail for the Manchild/Messiah to be formed in the teknon~little born ones, but her foundation is moreover Messiah Himself, the Rock of her salvation. Furthermore, she is wrapped in the sun because G-d is her Light.

Is this now the Church? Is the Church the one who is going to be that great sign in the heavens? Let me put it more plainly: G-d does not view the Church as separate from His natural people Israel, and His city, Jerusalem²⁹. For example, the first revival in Azusa Street broke out simultaneously with God reviving the “national” consciousness of the Jews, and their desire and vision to return to the Land. It was not the Azusa Street events that captured worldwide attention, but the return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land. Similarly, every move of G-d in the Church has coincided with – or has been triggered by - His move among His people Israel.

What stands on the threshold is, then, one of the greatest moves of G-d --- and it will begin in Jerusalem, with Israel, with the Jews – especially the youth. THEN we shall also see such a movement spread among the churches. Actually, to be totally precise, this Bethulah~Woman is of a threefold nature, because she is: 

1)  Zion and Jerusalem, the literal nation and city. She is the one who has the “sons” of flesh and blood whom she brought forth in one day³⁰. 
2)  a woman of flesh and blood, a Jewess, of the royal line of David, who is hidden in the shadow of the nation. She is “pregnant with the “Manchild/areen huios” and travails to give birth to Him in the hearts of the nation’s sons³¹  who when she brings forth, are the company of teknon³². She is, then, part of both --- the earthly Zion and the heavenly Zion.
3) the heavenly city "Zion - represented on earth by those whose “citizenship” is in her - which shares in the travail and the birthing. She cannot be separated from Israel because she originated from her: Israel is the womb in which the “heavenly Zion" was conceived, and in which "Zion" grows into the fullness of the Body of Messiah. When the time of “gestation” is complete, the natural [womb] Zion shall "produce" the manifestation of the Body of Messiah, give birth to the “heavenly” one – hence, sons of G-d in the Messianic Reign. The "heavenly Zion" is indeed the final, glorious Bride, the Bethulah betrothed unto the Lamb/Manchild.