Who is the woman clothed with the sun in Revelation 12?

Chuck Smith tied the sign to Joseph's dream: "The woman of the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation is identified by this dream to be the nation Israel." Compare "the sun and the moon and the eleven stars" (Genesis 37:9) with "a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars" (Revelation 12:1). Read Chuck on Genesis 37:9 in the reader. Chuck Smith commentary used by permission of The Word For Today.

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