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I get asked this all the time. There’s a connection worth looking at that goes beyond the arrangement of the planets.
On September 23, 2017, the scheduled Torah reading was Deuteronomy 32. That chapter describes God protecting Israel in the wilderness using the image of an eagle carrying its young on its wings.
Read Revelation 12:14 and you’ll recognize the language.
First, here’s what people called the Revelation 12 sign.
The Sun was in Virgo, the Moon was near her feet, and Jupiter was within the constellation. Supporters counted nine stars outlining Leo, together with Mercury, Venus, and Mars, as the twelve star crown. They connected that arrangement with John’s description of a woman clothed with the Sun.
That identification involves interpretation, including which stars get counted in Leo. Scripture never names Virgo, Leo, or Jupiter in this passage.
The biblical connection to Israel runs much deeper.
In Genesis 37:9 through 10, Joseph dreams about the Sun, Moon, and eleven stars bowing before him. Jacob understands the imagery as referring to their family. Joseph himself brings the number of sons to twelve.
That gives us a biblical foundation for identifying the woman in Revelation 12 as Israel. The child who will rule the nations with a rod of iron is Jesus Christ, who came through Israel.
Now look at the calendar.
September 23, 2017 was Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath of Return, between Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. Its prophetic reading began with the appeal recorded in our KJV as:
“O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.”
Hosea 14:1 KJV.
The Torah portion that day was Ha’azinu, the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32. It names Jacob as God’s inheritance, describes His care in the wilderness, and says:
“As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:”
Deuteronomy 32:11 KJV.
Compare that with Revelation:
“And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness…”
Revelation 12:14 KJV.
God preserves the woman there for 1,260 days. The imagery reaches back to Israel’s earlier deliverance. In Exodus 19:4, God says He carried Israel on eagles’ wings and brought them to Himself. Revelation describes that same kind of divine protection during the woman’s persecution.
There’s another calendar connection.
Six years later, September 23, 2023 was also the Sabbath of Return, with the same Torah portion, Deuteronomy 32.
Fourteen days later came the October 7 attack. That was Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret in Israel.
The interval from the 2017 arrangement to the attack was exactly 2,205 days, or 315 weeks.
Those readings belong to a repeating calendar. Their recurrence doesn’t establish that the 2017 arrangement predicted October 7, and Scripture gives no prophetic meaning to that 315 week interval.
If September 23, 2017 was a warning, Israel is where I’d look. The readings that day called Israel to return to God and described His protection in the wilderness. Revelation 12 uses that same imagery as it describes the persecution still ahead.
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