The hosts of American Family Radio’s Exploring the Word program – Bert Harper and Alex McFarland – made a disgraceful interpretation of St John’s Apocalypse on their 27 July 2026 show. Their dispensationalist, radically Jewish-centered worldview made them interpret the symbol of the woman in travail in Revelation chapter 12 to be the Jewish people suffering antisemitism. A cursory glance at what the Church Fathers, men truly full of the Holy Ghost and not their own egotism – a cursory glance at their commentaries on Revelation 12 reveals that they viewed the woman as a symbol of either the Mother of God (the Virgin Mary) or the Orthodox Church (cf. The Apocalypse by Archbishop Averky and Fr Seraphim Rose, and the Orthodox Study Bible). The Jewish interpretation is something that Misters McFarland and Harper pulled out of thin air; it has no precedent among the Church’s commentators on the Bible. It is sad to say, but to be a Protestant today means more and more that one must be willfully ignorant of Church history.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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