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I apologize this is a couple of days late, but here it is. Turn to Revelation Chapter 12.
Revelation 12
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The Woman and the Dragon
12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”
And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
Revelation Chapter 12 begins with a woman that is arrayed with the sun and the moon is under her feet and wearing a crown with twelve stars. She is about to give birth, and a red dragon appears and wipes out a third of the stars with its tail. He is looking at the woman wanting to eat the child as soon as it was to be born. The child is the symbolism of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the dragon symbolizes Satan. However, the child is snatched up by God into Heaven and the woman ran into the wilderness and went to a place of protection for the next three and a half years.
Then the archangels and the dragon have a fight against each other The angels of the dragon tried to help the dragon out in the fight, but the dragon and the dragon's angels was unsuccessful and they were cast out of the Heavens, and they fell to the Earth. Then John hears a voice from Heaven and make a proclamation about the Lord Jesus Christ in verses 10-12.
When Satan and his angels fell to the Earth, He goes in pursuit of the woman that birthed the child, but she flies away like an eagle to the safe place God provided for her and keep her safe from Satan. Satan tries to drown her with water out of his mouth, but the woman was saved, when the Earth swallowed up the water. Then his anger waxed worse, to pursue the child and left the wonan.
Read Chapter 13 for the next lesson in Revelation.
Deacon Matthew Helmich
Where Jesus Is Lord!
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