Corrie ten Boom and the Hidden Room

In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom and her family had been hiding Jewish refugees behind a false wall in her bedroom — a space barely thirty inches deep, built months earlier by a local architect who knew the day would come. When the soldiers burst through the front door, six people slipped behind that wall and waited in silence. The Gestapo tore the house apart for hours, tapping walls, measuring rooms. They found nothing. Those six refugees survived because someone had prepared a place for them before the danger arrived.

This is the stunning promise woven through Revelation 12. A woman — radiant, clothed with the sun, crowned with stars — faces a dragon bent on destroying her child. The threat is real, ancient, and overwhelming. Yet before the dragon can devour, God snatches the child to His throne and carries the woman to a place prepared for her in the wilderness. The danger does not catch the Almighty off guard. He had already built the hidden room.

The same God who prepared refuge for that woman prepares refuge for His people in every generation. The dragon rages. The powers of darkness circle and search. But the loud voice in heaven declares what Corrie ten Boom learned in that narrow hiding place: salvation and power belong to our God, and no enemy — however furious — can reach what He has chosen to protect.