Revelation 12:2 Revelation 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Here followeth a metaphorical description of the churches fruitfulness. And she being with child, the church her fruitfulness was testified by the prophets. \ The first fruits of the church, her travailing in the new birth, were those many converts begotten to God by the preaching of the gospel, \ "My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you". So when Zion travailed, she brought forth. \ This comely and beautiful woman, the church of the first born being in travail, was in such pain to be delivered, that she cried out; such, and so great was her persecution under the Dragon, that attempted to destroy her new born children; the true and faithful believers. \