Revelation 12 Speaks: (v.1)
The Woman is
Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” And he related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?” – Genesis 37:9-10 (NASB95)
(vv.3-4) The Dragon is always a symbol of (v.9)
Daniel 7:7-8
A Third of the Stars: (vv.4&9)
(v.5) The Male Child is
‘Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, Thou shalt shatter them like earthenware.'”
– Psalms 2:9 (NASB77) (Also Revelation 2:27)
Why Devour the Child? To stop
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” – Genesis 3:15 (NASB)
(v.6) Back to the Middle of the Tribulation (Matthew 24:15-21)
Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion…Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive. “Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer – Isaiah 16:1-5 (NASB)
“He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon. – Daniel 11:41 (NASB)
Moab is modern day
Selah is the “City of the ” (called “Petra”)
Cela: Sela – the rock-city of Idumaea (Strong’s)
(Look up: City of Petra in Jordan)
(vv.7-9) Satan is not the counterpart
Satan is the counterpart to
Satan’s Mission: (v.9)
(vv.10-11) Satan’s Mission:
3 Ways:
Accuses believers
Accuses
Wants me to
3 Weapons (v.11)
The Blood of the Lamb: A reminder
The Word of Their Testimony: What God
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
– Psalms 40:2 (NASB95)
Did not love their lives unto death:
(v.14)
…where she was cared for and protected from the Serpent, the Dragon, for three and a half years.
– Revelation 12:14 (TLB)