Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

  Every day I do devotionals...two in the morning, and one at night. For the last couple of years, because of the brain fog from fibro,  I assume,  I have a hard time concentrating very long. Reading is difficult because at some point I will not be able to completely comprehend what I just read, and have to go back to read it again, or I fall asleep. So the devotionals help me to stay in God's Word, even if it's just a little bit. In my reading today a passage popped up that I don't ever recall reading, but having read the Bible through at least a couple of times, I know I have. It was Malachi 3: 1-6a. M ALACHI 3 The Coming Messenger 1 “Behold,  Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; 7:27; John 1:23; 2:14, 15 I send My messenger, And he will  (Is. 40:3) prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Is. 63:9 Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold,  Hab. 2:7 He is coming,” Says the  Lord ...

As we begin Revelation 12, we see that the Apostle John gets to the history lesson portion of the Book. Actually, he also kind of gets back to the future, too. Verses 1-6 introduces the characters. The woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and on her head a garland of twelve stars. The great fiery red dragon with seven heads , ten horns and seven crowns or diadems who, with his tail, swept one third of the stars from heaven and threw them down to the earth. And finally, the Male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Let's start with the woman. Many Biblical scholars point to this woman as the Universal Church, and in fact incorrectly connect her to the Whore Babylon or even the Bride Church. A select few feel that the association is with the Nation of Israel itself and back up the association with Genesis 37:9-10 (Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, "Look, I have drea...