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 Taushev and Fr Seraphim Rose; the Orthodox Study Bible; Fr Daniel Sysoev’s Explanation of the Apocalypse; Volume III of Archimandrite Athanasios Mitilinaios’s Revelation commentary). 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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