Les Feldick Bible Study

When was the Christ in Revelation 12:5 caught up to God and His throne?

Revelation 12:5 says the man child, the Christ, was caught up unto God and to His throne. The context identifies this catching up as occurring at His ascension, specifically in Acts chapter 1. Scripture's account places it at His ascension, when He returned to the Father's throne.

Les explains that Revelation 12 pictures Israel as the woman who brought forth the man child, the Christ. Herod tried to devour the child through his decree to kill all the boy babies under age two, in order to stop God's plan of redemption. The child was caught up unto God and to His throne at His ascension, in Acts chapter 1. Later, the woman flees into the wilderness to a place prepared by God, where the remnant is fed for 1,260 days, three and a half years.

Revelation 12:5

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Acts 1