God has alluded to the pain and travail of a woman in labor and of the joy that follows many times in His Word.  He has inserted this powerful allegory to illuminate our understanding of spiritual truths He desires for His people to understand.  The Lord has given me a serious desire to know Him through His Word along with the unique privilege as a witness to over 5000 births.  This has allowed me to see things in scripture that possibly others have yet to understand.  It is my desire to share these insights of God's Word in two books, A Woman's Silent Testimony:  How Pregnancy Enlivens Biblical Truths (published by Tate Publishing '10) & Birthpangs:  How Pregnancy Reveals God's Plan for the Ages (also published by Tate Publishing & released in '08).  The link to Birth Pangs is http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60604-886-3  The link to the audio book is http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60799-148-9 the link to purchase A Woman's Silent Testimony is; http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61566-692-8  The link to the audio book is http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61663-907-5  Also A Woman's Silent Testimony is available for your i-phone on the Kindle bookstore application.

There is nothing God has ever done or will do without great significance.  Doctor Tomlinson capitalizes on the great wonder of our Creator and looks at the birth of God’s most cherished creation, mankind, and explores this in light of God’s Word cover to cover.  This is no dry commentary but rather a window into the texture and feeling of God’s heart for man.
Jim Wright
Pastor / Song Writer:  Mountain Christian Fellowship 

In Birth Pangs, my dear friend Dr. Dan Tomlinson has penned a masterpiece that truly “delivers”!
To see how the creative / redemptive purposes of our Father for all of His family are revealed in the stories of the Scriptures which, as Dr. Dan so insightfully shows, parallels the birthing process is both very intriguing and extremely instructive.
So pull up a chair and fasten your seat-belt! You are about to embark on an exciting journey through scripture with Dr. Dan that I am certain will birth in you a greater appreciation for the sometimes laborious but always glorious work of His Spirit in delivering us out of darkness into the light and life He has conceived for us.
Jon Courson
Author / Founding Pastor
Applegate Christian Fellowship

Table of Contents:  A Woman's Silent Testimony

     Book I:    Parallels Between Fetal & Earthly Life

     Book II:   Death, Burial & Resurrection

     Book III:   Sorrow to Joy

     Book IV:  The Price of Idolatry

     Book V:   Paul's Travail

     Book VI:  Of Blood & Water

     Book VII: The Valley Between the Mountains

     Book VIII: The Virtuous Woman

     Book IX:  She Shall Be Saved in Childbearing

     Book X:  The Marriage of the Lamb

BIRTHPANGS 

     Part 1:  The Past

          Section 1:  The Creation as Conception

          Section 2:  The Flood as a Miscarriage

          Section 3:  Old Testament Israel as 1st Trimester Contractions

          Section 4:  The Days of Jesus as Mankind's Preterm Labor

     Part 2:  The Present 

          Section 5:  The Church Age as Mankind's False Labor

     Part 3:  The Future

          Section 6:  The Rapture of the Church as the Rupture of the Membranes

          Section 7:  The Tribulation as a Laboring Woman

     Part 4:  The Future Glory

          Section 8:  The Second Coming of Christ as the Birth of the Baby