Revelation chapter 12 includes a fascinating description of an event in the heavens. Is it real, or is it a metaphor for something? Is it a prophecy about the future, or is it a historical event?
The Curse on Women
Childbirth
The idea of Christ being begotten in an act of conception is carried forward with the analogy of the labor of childbirth. As such, the Son was brought forth as if a baby was being born.
Molech
Molech, Milcom or Malkam, was the god of the Ammonites to whom they offered new born babies as burnt offerings. In case you weren't sure, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, means destroying babies.
Striving in the Womb
If you've ever raised children from babies you will know that, even though they may not know right from wrong or their left hand from their right, they can still be evil, deceitful, manipulative and selfish.
Refuse Evil and Choose Good
Before a child knows how to refuse evil and choose good they would do either with no regard for the consequence. This doesn't make them innocent, it makes them vulnerable.
I Shall Go to Him
David says, " I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." This is taken to mean that David will one day go to heaven to be with the child, whereas the child, in heaven, can't return to the Earth.
I Will Greatly Multiply Your Sorrow
How could the heavenly woman in Revelation chapter 12 be travailing in birth if Eve hadn't been cursed to suffer the pain of childbirth yet?
Labor Pains
We (that's me and the Holy spirit) only know what we've been told, but everything that we've been told has been given us for a reason. We may ask: what does a prophetic vision of a war in heaven have to do with events on the Earth?
Sets on Fire the Course of Nature
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. (James 3:6) NKJV
Brought forth: חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי – cholalti
We've resolved what popular science (SciPop) calls "the Big Bang" with nucleosynthesis as described in Genesis 1:3. However, it would seem that before the Big Bang there was a Loud Howl.
Matty's Paradigm 