Revelation 12:6
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
The time of Christ’ s two witnesses, prophesying if sackcloth, and the time of the woman’ s being in the wilderness, is the same,
a thousand two hundred and threescore prophetical days;
each day for a year. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:3 So by the wilderness here, we may understand the persecuted condition of the church of God, and his ministers, under the Roman Papal powers, the beast, the whore, and the false prophet, unto the day of the resurrection of the two witnesses, \ see the exposition thereof. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:11 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:12 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:13 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:14 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:15
Where she hath a place prepared of God.
God takes care of his church: He prepared; that is, provided a place where his ministers
should feed her a thousand two hundred and threescore days,
each day for a year, as before. Read Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 (See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:3) The knowledge of the end of these
thousand two hundred and threescore
years of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth, and of the woman being in the wilderness, is much desired by the people of God, especially at this time. And therefore I am willing to show my opinion thereof upon scripture grounds.
Now to find out the end of these
a thousand two hundred and threescore days,
let us consider, first, that the Lord gave his holy prophets to number years by days, \ each day for a year. And times by years. \ Seven times for seven years. So \ three days and an half are three years and an half; and \ the time, and times, and half a time, are three years and an half. And upon these scripture grounds, we may certainly conclude, that as the three days and an half are the ending time of the witnesses
thousand two hundred and threescore days,
so the time, times, and an half, are the last three years and an half of her thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Consider, secondly, that the three days and an half (which are the ending time of the witnesses a thousand two hundred and threescore days,) are expressly said to be between their being killed and their rising again. \ See the exposition thereof. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:7 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:8 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:9 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 11:11 And therefore, when we see the witnesses of Christ, his churches, and his ministers killed by the beast, we may certainly conclude, that the ending time of their [thousand two hundred and threescore days,] are come and begun.
Consider, thirdly, Christ told his servant John, that after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into the witnesses, and they prophesied again, \ before Kings, and bare their testimony again for Jesus Christ, as King of Saints, \ King of Zion, \ and King of Nations, \ King of Kings, the only potentate, \ King of all the earth, \ And therefore, when we see the mystical resurrection of the witnesses, and hear them prophesy again, and bear their testimony publicly for Christ, his magistracy, ministry, churches, ordinances, worship, discipline and government, against antichrist, his magistracy, ministry, churches, ordinances, worship, discipline and government; we may certainly conclude, that the end of the thousand two hundred and threescore days is fully come. \