Revelation 12:6

Since Satan cannot destroy Jesus Christ he turns his attention to Israel. John saw Israel as having fled into the wilderness where God protected her for 1,260 days (three and a half years), the second half of the tribulation period (Revelation 12:14; Revelation 11:2-3; cf. Matthew 24:16; Mark 13:14). Many non-dispensational interpreters take the 1,260 days as describing the entire inter-advent period. [Note: E.g., Beale, p. 646.] Throughout Scripture a wilderness often represents a place of desolation, safety, discipline, and testing. The passive "be nourished" suggests that others, perhaps Gentiles but definitely God and angels (cf. Daniel 12:1), will care for the Jews at this time. [Note: Alford, 4:669; Robertson, 6:391.] Swete believed the event immediately in view was the escape of the church of Jerusalem to Pella (cf. Mark 13:14). [Note: Swete, p. 152.] But we believe this reference is to an event still future.