The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING:
The same verse in Luke 21:25, which tells us about the “distress of
nations with perplexity,” gives us another important sign, the sea and
the waves roaring. I have to admit that I read this part of the verse
many a time without understanding its meaning. I came to realize what
it means only in the last six month or so. During these months, it
seemed that the one thing that competed with the financial market
crisis on the daily news were the floods! Floods were everywhere, in
Asia, in Europe, in Australia, in America. The floods we have been
witnessing lately are such that the like of them was not seen since
Noah’s time. Ten meter waves were reported in some of the storms
that caused these floods. The recent tropical storm Mitch caused
destruction that defies the imagination. As I sat watching these storms
I kept wondering, could this be what the Gospel meant by “the sea and
the waves roaring?”
THE FLIGHT OF THE CHURCH: (Revelation 12)
Revelation 12 is a very intriguing chapter in a very intriguing book!
It speaks about a “woman clothed by the Sun” (the Church) and a “red
dragon.” (Satan) That the woman is the Church is evident from the
sayings of Victorinus in his “Commentary on the Apocalypse”:
The woman clothed with the sun, and having the moon under her feet,
and wearing a crown of twelve stars upon her head, and travailing in her
pains, is the ancient Church of fathers, and prophets, and saints, and
apostles.
Hippolytus of Rome is also of the same opinion:
By “the woman then clothed with the sun,” he meant most manifestly
the Church, endued with the Father's Word, whose brightness is above
the sun. And by the “moon under her feet” he referred to her being
adorned, like the moon, with heavenly glory. And the words, “upon her