The woman who hides away from the dragon
She is most often interpreted as Marie or the Church it self.
She embodies, hope, faith, unconditional love, purity, truth and is a cultural brake with the cultural and religious projection of man's guilt onto women through Eve and other feminine figures in various cultures. Her lightning clothes are also a metaphor for a brightness and lightness of a spiritual life released from materialistic and physical oppressing constrains. It embodies individual freedom and the essence of creativity. She is the giver of life, the mother by excellence.
She is described as"... a woman robed with the sun, beneath her feet the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
The city of Babylon,
" The city you saw is the great city that holds sway over the kings of hearth..."
"the mother of whore and of obscenity on earth "
"a woman mounted on a scarlet beast which was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and bedizened with gold and jewels and pearls. In her hand she held a cup ..."
Babylon is the personification of the dominate city, now one can by or sell without being marker with the number of the beast, she stands for oppression, corruption, enslavement, exploitation, deviousness etc
I have chosen the following words to be engraved on the beast :Greed, war, holocaust, violence, abuse, insets, paedophilia, genocide and murder.
" The whole world went after the Beast in wondering and admiration (...) it caused everyone, great and small, rich and poor, slave and free, to be branded with a mark (...) no one was aolwed to buy or sell unless he bore the beast's mark, either name or number"
The woman who is the personification of Babilone is striped naked by the kings who where symbolised by the heads of the dragon she was riding. The city of Babylon is set on fire, the kings and rich merchants will cry because they will no longer be able to do biasness with "The mother of all horse". The tyranny of it's dominating and oppressing power is brought down.
The fall of Babylon is followed by " Faithful and Truth" and the Word of God will be victorious " whoever takes the sword to kill ,by the sword he is bound to be killed. Here the fortitude and faithfulness of God's people have their place" The army of good defeats the dragon " At this the Dragon grew furious with the woman and went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring's, that is on those who keep God's commandments."
A thousand years of peace on Earth for all peoples, populations, nations and languages." Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven" Amen
After that period, mankind will one more be tempted by Evil who will be defeated in a final battle and a Last Judgement where each person will be jugged " on the record of his/her deeds"
