Is the woman in the wilderness described in Revelations 12, the same woman as the one described in Revelatìons 17?

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The short answer is no! Rev. 12:1 “Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.” This description points to the church in the days of Jesus being having been born in Israel. Rev. 12:4 “His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.” Here we see Herod portrayed as the agent of Satan trying to kill the baby boys after Jesus was born. It confirms his ascension that will be in heaven after being crucified on Earth. Matt. 2:17 “Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted because they are no more.” 19 Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.” Rev. 12:14 “14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” We see the woman here as a type of the true church, the lady dressed in white representing the pure church with pure doctrine who was protected from the harlot the apostate church from 538 AD to 1798 the 1260 years of the dark middle ages ruled by the lady dressed in scarlet drinking the wine of Babilon the false doctrines changed by the Roman Catholic system of the middle ages. This we read of as the woman of Revelation 17. Rev. 17:1 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.” This is another woman portrayed. In the Bible, a “woman” is a type of a church, and the above clearly describes a system where the church dictates to the political system the direction things should go and we see it daily with the pope telling the secular powers how to think on climate change and how to worship in the future should be conducted! These are the two choices at the end of time: the small pure group adhering to the Bible and the alternative group, adapting their theology to suit the world and its people.