There is scholarly debate about who the woman in Revelation 12 is. As an artist and theologian, I believe it is Mary and Jesus, and at the same time, a glimpse of Israel and the church.

This painting is a watercolor depicting the scene between Mary and the dragon in Revelation 12. There was darkness that day but there was also light. In this painting Mary has light coming from her head and feet as she cries out in pain, a solemn reminder of the garden. We feel her humanity in the advent season as we wait for The One to come. The dragon insidiously crouches waiting to devour but he would not win. Christ came to defeat the grave and to give life.

"A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne."
- Revelation 12:1-5

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