It may and will amaze men, but is not a miracle. Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Only those covered in the blood of the Lamb have victory over the evil principalities and powers. (conquered) . Jesus Christs death is the basis for believers ultimate victory over Satan even though he has accused us. From verse 13 the history is pursued not from the heavens, but on the earth. have no rest day and night, who worship the beast and his image, and if any one receiveth the mark of his name." Ever again can he tempt them, they shall stand fast for ever, confirmed in their blessed estate. In fact, Jesus got them quite angry one time with a parable that he gave of a certain man who went away to a far country and left his fields in the charge of his servants. (c) The martyrs are victorious, because they lived the great principle of the gospel. For they are the spirits of demons, working signs, which go forth unto the kings of the whole habitable earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty." The only question is, what best satisfies the word of God, what most faithfully answers not merely to the letter of it, but to its grand principles? It is certain that He will not only inflict severe blows of judgment, but give men up to believe a lie the great lie of the devil. Another remark seems to me just. Yarn story that deluded men, called scientists believe. He is a good man. What is the last of its evil gifts to our own country but a red hat for its arch-priest? Feeds: Posts Comments. The words of the Risen Christ to Paul on the Damascus road were: "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" a. This verse contains the second stanza of the song of praise begun in verse 10. Where in prehistory this took place, we don't know. "Because they served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever more, God gave them over to reprobate minds" ( Romans 1:25 , Romans 1:28 ). In Psalms 109:6 the King James Version actually uses the word Satan in this sense: "Let Satan stand at the right hand of the wicked." Revelation 12:10-11. The general strain of John is to dwell on Christ manifesting God here below. The right answer is, What saints do you mean? Is not this an awful thing to think of, and a solemn thing, too, for those that have the smallest connection with it? The accuser is cast down. This is one of the worst readings of the vicious received text of the Revelation. All shows that this is the antichrist. The years immediately before that were terrible years of bloodshed and of revolution in which anyone with eyes to see and a mind to understand could forecast what was about to happen. Revelation 12:11 Images. There was, for instance, a case of this near Colossae, an area which John must have known well. And they" (for I take it so) "gathered them together unto the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armagedon.". The explanation why it is thus introduced here depends on the truth that Christ and the church are one, and have a common destiny. Verse 12:11 was presumably added after the lapse of the 1,150 days of chapter 8, and 12 . This portion of the proleptic doxology, still being spoken by the angels of heaven, takes a still greater leap into the future and rejoices at the salvation of saints who would overcome by the blood of the Lamb and love the Lord even unto death. There the dragon's power was particularly felt. In this way the rapture of the man-child is not a mere historical fact. Accordingly in this case, observe, the second beast which resembles Christ, and takes that place, does not come out of the sea, or the turbulent state of the nations, but out of the earth. "Look at that fellow down there. Where the ark of the Lord is Dagon must fall upon his face and be broken. The reference here is to the effects of persecution and to the efforts of Satan to drive religion from the world by persecution. Tool Kit It is not a door opened in heaven to give us the general view of what was to take place on the earth as regarded in the mind of God. The salvation, security, and strength of saints in every dispensation rests on Christ alone. The church was in an obscure state, dispersed; and this proved her security, through the care of divine Providence. Thus the way is made plain for them to come forward and enter into the final struggle. You don't want to receive the truth, then you will receive the lie of the deceiver who has deceived the world. Now that act of judgment would correspond to the third dealing of God in chapter 14. I do not think the direct application is to the beast, but rather warning to the saints of God. This accounts for the warning of the fall of Babylon referred to in the complete series of God's dealings inRevelation 14:1-20; Revelation 14:1-20. You will do the right thing at the right time and enjoy good success! The Psalmist says of God that he covers himself with light as with a garment ( Psalms 104:2). The Lord said, "That is right." The unsuccessfulness of these attempts against the church; for, 1. Even suffering in the name of the Master is a noble endeavor. chosen before the foundation of the world, they did not love their lives in the face of death. No more mighty power could be employed to crush it than was employed by the Roman emperors; and when it was seen that Christianity could survive those efforts to crush it it was certain that it was destined to live forever. (b) The victory of the martyrs is won through the blood of the Lamb. "Almighty King of saints, These tyrant lusts subdue; Drive the old dragon from his throne, And all his hellish crew.". 3. None less than God Himself will incline their heart. Satan, The Enemy Of God ( Revelation 12:7-9). The woman escaped on the two wings of the great eagle. There is weakness and suffering yet, but all is secured, and the end is pledged. The seals and the. The reason, I think, is just this, that it intimates to us, as in Old Testament prophecy, how the Lord and His people are wrapped up, as it were, in the very same symbol; even as, in a yet more intimate way, what is said about Christ applies to the Christian. (6.) Neither in the court of Heaven, nor in the court of conscience, can the enemy's accusations harm us, for the blood of our Substitute is a bar to all suits against us. The dragon has only ten horns. So the temple of God is now seen to be open. We shall find, so far from this being the case, that the vision must go back, I do not say to the beginning ofRevelation 14:1-20; Revelation 14:1-20, but before the end of it. The reason, as I suppose, is connected with the whole testimony of John. His conquest of a large portion of the angelic powers (a third of the stars of heaven) is only a preparation for his main task, the conquest of the Messiah. We know but little about it, but it would seem that the great dragon of evil has made war with angels as well as with men. At the same time patience, with this retributive sanction annexed, is put in as a general principle, and stated in such a form as to apply to any one. What a rascal.We have a picture of it in the book of Job. The first is a certain numbered multitude separated to the Lamb on mount Zion. When the dragon ejected the floods of waters, the earth swallowed them up and so the woman was saved. If you're out in the field, don't even go home. People were constantly being arrested, tortured, killed because someone had informed against them. Tel: (719) 487-7888 | Fax: (719) 896-5410 In the other version, Satan was a real servant of God and perverted his service into an opportunity for sinning. (A time, times and half a time means a year plus two years plus half a year, or three and a half years.) We're happy that you stopped by for today's devotional. There is no doubt that there are many pictures in John's mind. Anti-Semitism is an evil, wicked thing, but it is so prevalent. This gives the application. If the insinuation should happen to be profane and blasphemous to a very high degree, so that you condemn yourself and say, "No other human mind could ever have been defiled with so foul a suggestion as this," do not despond, for such suggestions have been injected into the minds of the purest, even as the worst of thieves may seek to enter the house of the most honest man in the city. See, then, before you the woman in her brightness and loveliness and the dragon in his rage and power. The seat of this war--in heaven, in the church, which is the kingdom of heaven on earth, under the care of heaven and in the same interest. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up unto ages of ages: and they. Our Lord, who has risen from the dead, clothed all his disciples with authority when he said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them." The church is never represented as a mother in scripture: still less could it be the mother of Christ. No doubt King of the Jews He is; but those in particular who were Gentiles themselves would and ought to rejoice in being able to praise Him as the King of nations. Although these may have fallen under the hand of the Roman Empire, they really got the victory over it, and are here seen standing on the sea of glass having harps of God. That we are to understand it now is, I think, more than we ought to assume. I suspect that most use these terms without thinking what is really meant. For believers, the victory and the cross are inextricably bound. Still it has the character of empire attached to it. Rob Phillips - Author of OnceDelivered.net 12:1-14:20 PICTURES OF CONFLICT AND TRIUMPH, The woman, the child and the dragon (12:1-17). Then they received strength: note that word. "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." It is dead. Revelation 2:10; Mark 8:35; Luke 14:26; John 12:25). 1. Pastor Prince shares a testimony about a lady who was delivered from deep depression from his new daily devotional, The Healing Power of the Holy Communion. In the millennium this will not be wholly out of sight as now under Christianity, but reappear only it will be in manifest subordination, as we may see in Ezekiel's prophecy. And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who liveth unto the ages of the ages. But we read thatthey gained victory over Satan because they were cleansed by the blood of Christ, and they defeated him by the word of their faithful witness. The pressure against His messengers will be enormous. The good news of God's Word in Revelation 12 is that we will win the battle. The world of sinners redeemed will never be converted till we bring forth that grandest of all miracles, the Paschal Lamb and the blood by faith sprinkled on the door. Some of us have been styled the echo of the Puritans: yes, the honorable title of "Ultimus Puritanorum," the last of the Puritans, has been assigned to us. "salvation" was come when christ obtained it by his sufferings and death, and comes to particular persons in the effectual calling, and it will only be fully come when it is perfectly enjoyed in heaven: but here it designs a deliverance from satan, as the god of this world, who was now dethroned, and cast down from his power, authority, Revelation 12:11 Satan is the great accuser of the saints of God who has pursued the people of God down through the centuries with an intense hatred. But this is not all. We see how the church is represented in this vision. Revelation 10. (i) In the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, when it was death to keep the law and to worship the true God, many "who sought after justice and judgment went down to the wilderness to dwell there" ( 1Ma_2:29 ). This Matthew, in accordance with his design, calls rather the "gospel of the kingdom," because Christ is going to be King. "The fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. The reason is here explained. and who is able to make war with him?" And by the word of their testimony By constantly testifying against the errors and follies of mankind. The dragon which is the arch-enemy of God is a common and terrible figure in the thought of the east. Accordingly this I believe to be the key to the two horns of the beast. May the Spirit of God give you strength and power in your inner man. Such is the difference. Let us never be ashamed of our hope. This principle runs all through the gospel ( Matthew 10:39; Matthew 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; Luke 17:33). Here is the great truth of all times: that God, the God who has now revealed Himself in Christ and by redemption, alone is the due object of worship. 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