Revelation Study/10-29-13/Chapter 12/The Woman and the Dragon

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Revelation Study/10-29-13/Chapter 12/The Woman and the Dragon

I do not claim to have written this on my own, I used my study Bible and prayer..love BettyB

This chapter explains so much to us..keep reading the explanation and then the chapter..

The seventh trumpet (11:5) ushers in the bowl judgments, but in the intervening chapters John sees the conflict between God and Satan. He sees the source of all sin, evil, persecution, and suffering on the earth, and he understands why the great battle between the forces of God and Satan must soon take place. In these chapters the nature of evil is exposed, and Satan is seen in all his wickedness.

The woman represents God's faithful people who have been waiting for the Messiah; the crown of 12 stars represents the 12 tribes of Israel. God set apart the Jews for himself (Romans 9;4, 5), and that nation gave birth to the Messiah. The male child (12:5) is Jesus, born to a devout Jew named Mary (Luke 1:26-33;). Evil King Herod immediately tried to destroy the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:13-20;). Herod's desire to kill this newborn king, who he saw as a threat to his throne, was motivated by Satan (the red dragon) who wanted to kill the worlds Savior. The heavenly pageant of Revelation 12 shows that Christ's quiet birth in the town of Bethlehem had cosmic significance.

The red dragon, Satan, has seven heads, ten horns and seven crowns, representing his power and the kingdoms of the world over which he rules. The stars that plunged to earth with him are usually considered to be the angels who fell with Satan and became his demons. According to Hebrew tradition, one-third of all the angels in heaven fell with Satan.

The desert represents a place of spiritual refuge and protection from Satan. Because God aided the woman's escape into the desert, we can be sure that he offers security to all true believers.

This event fulfills Daniel 12:1. Michael is a high-ranking angel. One of his responsibilities is to guard God's community of believers.

You can see: also Job 1:6-2:8; to see what happened with Job . Satan's name means accuser..(12:10). He always looks for people to attack, see: ( 1 peter 5:8,9). One day Satan will be bound forever.

Revelation 12:5 ⁵She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”^[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

Psalm 2:9; ⁹You will break them with a rod of iron^[a];
You will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

Revelation 12

New International Version (NIV)

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. ²She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. ³Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. ⁴Its 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. ⁵She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”^[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. ⁶The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

⁷Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹The 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.

¹⁰Then 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.
¹¹They 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.
¹²Therefore 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.”

¹³When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴The 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. ¹⁵Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. ¹⁷Then 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.

2 Chronicles 7:14

(NKJV)

¹⁴if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.