Category: Revelation 12
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Revelation 12: enraged
Both Israel and the Church are joined together by being the object of the devil’s wrath. This binds us together. For this reason, the church needs to pray and intercede for our Jewish brothers. We are very much in the same boat!
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Revelation 12: The serpent’s mouth
To be honest with you, I have read a fair number of commentaries on this verse and I have never really been satisfied with any of them. No-one seems to be very sure what it really means. Some compare this vile river of overwhelming evil with the purity of the river of life that flows from the throne of God. Further than that we cannot say.
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Revelation 12 God’s care
In other words, a remnant of Israel will escape the murderous clutches of the dragon by fleeing into the wastelands, during the second half of the seven year period of tribulation. They will be cared for, and nurtured by God.
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R12 The venomous snake
The devil has always been full of a demented rage that is caused by his insane jealousy. His self-centred spiritual ambitions have been brought to nothing.The devil knows his time is short and he will strike out with venomous anger, inhabiting and working through the end-time antichrist that is to come.
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R12 War on earth
This beast, the antichrist, surrenders his very self to the enemy and becomes a corrupt and evil incarnation. He will be tempted by deception to receive the false powers of the enemy but these will eventually cause his destruction. The devil has always waged war in the heavenlies but from now on he will only be able to fight war on the world stage.
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R 12 Martyrdom
And in the absolute horror of martyrdom, there is the strange beauty of countless numbers of men, women and children, over the ages, who have chosen to die rather than renounce their faith. God counts every one of them as being so very precious. .
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Revelation 12 Deception gone!
But yet the enemy heaps accusations, one upon another, to spoil our fellowship with our Saviour and with one another. His accusations weigh us down in self-condemnation. When the enemy has been thrown to the earth, he will no longer be able to exert such an influence on us from his lair in the kingdom of the air. One can argue that the church will be released into a new lease of life, free from the shadow of the enemy and free to become who we are meant to be. These will be exciting days!
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R12 The enemy deception
Once again, we see the plans and schemes of the enemy beginning to unravel.He has led the world astray with his lies and manipulations. He began in the garden and he has not stopped deceiving the gullible. It is in his very corrupt nature.The warning is there for all of us to heed. These are days of deception.
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R12 The tragic rage
We explored yesterday how there will be an end-time battle between Michael and the enemy and that this battle is possibly, maybe, being fought right now.I learnt, early on in life, not to pick fights with lads bigger than me. But the enemy is driven by an insane jealous rage that will destroy him.
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R12 War in heaven…
Michael will rise up in the end-times and fight with the enemy and his corrupt and fallen angelic forces. Some will argue, with strength, that this battle is presently being fought today in the heavenly realms. The enemy will be cast down to the earth and will inhabit the end-time beast, who will surrender his very self to the enemy completely, forming an evil incarnation.
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Revelation 12 God cares
Many Jewish people will flee in haste to the wild lands and God will care for them, as He cared for them during their passage in the first exodus.
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Revelation 12: The iron sceptre
Some will argue that this describes the church in its present form, in this present age, but most conclude that this authoritative rule describes the millennial reign of Christ.
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Revelation 12 The child king is born.
Thus we see the demonic plans of Satan being thwarted. The dragon stood, as it were, in front of Mary in order to devour Jesus when he was born but his efforts were in vain for God’s plans and will are supremely sovereign.
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Revelation 12 Fallen angels.
Wherever the enemy goes, on earth or in heaven, he spreads corruption and evil. His very nature is to corrupt the righteous and bring them to his own sordid level.
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Revelation 12 The dragon
The manipulative serpent of Genesis 3:1 has reappeared in the form of a dragon. But now he is puffed up in size, and self-adorned with horns and crowns. He is the god of this age but yet his authority is limited and short-lived. He will have his moment of pitiable self-glory but no more.
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R 12 The heavenly woman pt 4
There are some who assert that the woman represents the church. I wonder though if this thought has its roots in replacement theology that seeks to deny Israel her rightful place in eschatology, and instead places the church first and foremost at the centre of God’s will .
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R 12 The heavenly woman pt 3
The end-time beast will battle against the Messiah Christ Jesus but there will only be one winner. The beast will strike the heel of the Christ, in terms of the crucifixion, but the Christ will eventually crush the head of the beast.
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R 12 The heavenly woman pt 2
Most commentators relate the imagery of this heavenly woman with Joseph’s dream described in Genesis 37: 5-11. The details of Joseph’s dream clearly match the detail of the heavenly woman and firmly places the heavenly sign of Revelation 12:1 within the framework of Israel.
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R 12 The heavenly woman
The image of the woman clothed with the sun is without doubt denoting Israel, whose hope and expectation has always been that they should give birth to the Messiah.
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