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Naked Bible 138: What Day was Jesus Born?

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The Woman Is a Constellation

Jewish exegetes believe that the sons of jacob were likned to stars in genesis 37. As stars appear far from earth and immune from destruction by any earthly forch so also, the true israel was ultimately indestructible. For this situation to occur, the constellation of the woman must be an astronomical language on the ecliptic. And if you're looking at the sky again, vergo is the obvious reference point. The description that the woman was clothed with the sun is stock astronomical language of the day. While the sun is in the woman, the moon is at her feet. So when john uses it, this would have been completely familiar to jew

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