The Woman and the Dragon

The Woman and the Dragon
Revelation 12.1-6

I once attended a memorial service for a famous sportsman, a cricketer who had been a boyhood hero for me and for many others. The church was packed, and a special place was reserved for other cricketers who had played with or against the great man and who had come to pay their respects. I was standing near the door when these other cricketers, a few dozen of them, walked in – and it was a very frustrating moment. Most of them, without a doubt, had also been household names. But for me and many others who were there, it was impossible to identify most of them. We remembered how they looked in their sporting prime, in their teens, twenties and thirties. Now, in their sixties, seventies and in some case eighties, they were unrecognizable. Several of us agreed afterwards that we wished they could have worn little labels with their names on, so that the rest of us would know who we were looking at. We might even have asked for their autographs...