25 Oct 2013
Revelation 12:6
Revelation 12:6: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”
Now that we have the background, the passage switches back to the time of the Tribulation. It is during the Tribulation that Israel will flee into the wilderness. Do you remember when the disciples asked Jesus about His return, and He told them that when they saw the abomination of desolation set up they should run for their lives? Well, in the middle of the Tribulation the antichrist will enter into the Holy place of the Temple and will declare himself to be God. Jesus told the Jews that when that happens they should run. Here we can see that they are going to run into the wilderness, where God will protect them for 1260 days.
1260 days is the same as 42 months (42 * 30 = 1260), which is the same as 3.5 years. In other words, during the second half of the Tribulation God is going to hide Israel in the wilderness. (There is reason to believe that the Jews are going to be hidden in the area around Petra, but that is a subject for another time.)