THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part IX
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Question: Could masculine-dominated ideas in religious denominations deny and hide the feminine element in Scriptural prophecy of the Second Advent?
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Answer: Jeremiah referred to “the Branch of righteousness” at the Second Coming as “she” (33:15). In Chapter 4 of Micah, that prophet introduced the Daughter of Zion in travail, treading down evil so as to establish “the house of the Lord…in the top of the mountains.” In the next chapter, she is called the “daughter of troops” and referred to as “she which travaileth” and “hath brought forth.” Then in Revelation 12, John combined Micah’s woman in travail with Daniel’s prophecy (Chapter 12) of the dates for the Second Advent. Further, Revelation 12 refers to Daniel’s prophecy twice (Revelation 12:6, 14).
As said before, the present writer can find no references to the feminine element in Daniel itself. Since the author of Daniel lived and wrote in the middle of the second century B.C. and was clearly a biblical scholar and historian, he had to have been acquainted with previous prophets who did reference the feminine element at the Second Advent, such as Jeremiah, whom he quoted in part, and perhaps with Micah, who was a contemporary of Isaiah. Perhaps more importantly, since John combined the woman in travail from Micah with the date for the Second Advent from Daniel 12, the dragon in Revelation 12 is out to drown the Micah woman with lies and deceit. Maybe Satan is seeking to destroy Christian knowledge of Daniel’s dates associated with her by hiding them so Christians will not know when to expect the Micah woman. If unexpected and thus unaccepted, her importance in understanding or recognizing the Second Coming of Purity, Righteousness, may be erased from the scheduled arrival-board as posted in accord with God’s law of prophecy.
Did the Daniel-writer not include the feminine element at the Second Advent as did his predecessors because he did not recognize their including it, or he was distracted in his day by the evils of Antiochus Epiphanes, or he himself did not see the feminine element when looking into the Eternal or any or all of the above?
By separating Micah from Daniel in Revelation 12, Satan may have gotten another victory, though temporarily. By parting the feminine element of the Second Advent from its arrival date, the conscious or unconscious, sometimes masculine thought resisting the equality of the sexes may be serving as a tool to degrade the Scriptures and God’s prophecies.