The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 109 (November 9, 2026)

Who is the woman clothed with the sun in Revelation 12? Many say the Virgin Mary—and Jimmy Akin agrees—but he shows that’s not the whole story. Tracing the imagery back to Joseph’s dream in Genesis and through the rest of Revelation 12, Jimmy explains how one symbol can point to Mary, Israel, and the Church at once, and why Pope Benedict XVI read it the same way. He also shows how this reading explains a puzzling detail: the woman’s birth pangs.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:18 – Intro
00:47 – 1 The Woman as Mary
02:34 – 2 The Woman as Israel
03:41 – 3 The Woman as the Church
04:20 – 4 One Symbol, Three Meanings?
05:49 – 5 Confirmation from Pope Benedict
07:19 – 6 Conclusion
07:48 – Closing/Outro
08:56 – End