The woman and the dragon

Rev 12.

The woman and the dragon.

The woman clothed with sun and moon and 12 stars on her head depicts Israel.

Her child, a son, a male child who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter, snatched up to God and his throne depicts Jesus Christ.

The dragon, seven heads, 10 horns, and seven crowns on his heads, trying to devour the male child depicts the devil or Satan (v:8). The one-third of stars swept by its tail depicts one-third of the angels that fell along with him. The devil is hurled to the earth and his angels with him.

Till a point of time he has access to heaven, where his main job is to accuse the brethren before God. In earth he leads them astray(v:9) and in heaven he accuses(v:10). But in an appointed time he is hurled out of heaven.

Rev 12:10 Now have come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, for the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

So how do we, who are being accused, overcome the devil himself?

Rev 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

The blood of the Lamb is power for those who believe. It cleanses us, purifies us, protects us, and it also helps us to overcome the devil.

And also by the word of their testimony, making statements of faith aloud, affirmative words of faith, loud prayers makes the devil flee. He runs away shuddering in fear when the almighty God's name is uttered. That is why doubt is his major weapon. Trust being the opposite of doubt makes him flee.

Seeing himself on the verge of defeat, the dragon now unleashes his attack on the woman. But God's divine protection is always there on the nation.

1260 days.

Three and a half years.

A time, times, and a half time.

42 months.

These keep recurring in Revelation. Talks about the second half of the great tribulation.

I wouldn't be there in the face of the earth to know what's happening because I would be taken up raptured. I would see that from heaven. That's why it is written beforehand.

What about you? Where will you be during those 42 months?

Image credit: gemini

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