Revelation Chapter 12
Introduction
Chapter 12 is a review of Israel and CHRIST, the devil’s defeat in his war against GOD in Heaven; and his war against GOD’s servants on the earth; with the promise that we can overcome the devil by The Blood of The LAMB, the word of our testimony and not loving our life over death. Psalm 2:8-9; Isaiah 14:12-17, 66:5-11; Daniel 7:23-27, 12:7; John 12:27-33; Genesis 3:1-5; Job 1:6-9; Zechariah 3:1-2; Romans 16:17-20; Luke 14:26-27; Ephesians 6:10-18; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; 1 Peter 5:6-11; 1 John 5:4-5.
:1 Now a Great sign appeared in Heaven: a woman (Israel) clothed with the sun,* with the moon** under her feet and on her head a garland of twelve stars (the twelve tribes of Israel Genesis 37:9-10). Our sun is a star (angel) as we learned in chapter 1 and the moon reflects its brightness on the earth (Like JESUS is The Light OF Heaven (Revelation 21:23) and we are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14-16).
:2 Then being with Child she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. The woman represents Israel and the Child represents CHRIST. Israel was crying out in pain under Roman rule for their Messiah to come deliver them. Since the Ten Nations (Israel) had been exiled by the Syrian king and Judea had been exiled by the Chaldean king the land of Israel had been under foreign rule almost constantly and from the prophet Malachi until the birth of CHRIST, GOD had not spoken to Israel for about 400 years.
:3 Another sign appeared in Heaven: behold a great fiery red dragon*** having seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads (Revelation 17:7-14). (This dragon is Lucifer, Satan, the devil, a serpent Revelation 12:9)
:4 His tail drew a third of the stars of Heaven and threw them to the earth (Daniel 8:10; Revelation 12:9); the dragon stood before the woman (Israel) who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child (JESUS) as soon as it was born (Matthew 2:16).
5: She bore a male Child Who was to Rule all the nations with a rod of iron (Isaiah 9:6-7; Psalm 2:7-9). Her Child was caught up to GOD and His Throne (Acts 1:9-11; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 19:15-16, 20:4).
:6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by GOD, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days (3.5 years, is that how long their family was in Egypt, living off the gifts of the Magi?, Matthew 2:1, 9-12, 13-15, 19-21).
:7-9 War broke out in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail (Daniel 10:10-14; Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10), nor was a place found for them in Heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the devil and satan (GOD wants us to know for certain who the dragon is and that the devil which we fear is already defeated), who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Luke 10:17-20; John 12:27-33).
:10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, “Now Salvation and Strength and The Kingdom of our GOD and the Power of His CHRIST have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our GOD day and night, has been cast down (Job 1:6-12, 2:1-6; Zechariah 3:1-2).
:11 They (the Believers) overcame him (the devil) by The Blood of the Lamb (1 Peter 1:17-21) and by the word of their testimony (Mark 16:15; Romans 10:8-15; Ephesians 6:18-20; 1 John 5:4-5), and they did not love their lives to the death (Acts 6:8-9, 7:54-60; 9:1; 12:1-2).
:12 Therefore, rejoice Heavens and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and sea! For the devil has come down to you having great wrath, because he knows he has a short time (Romans 16:17-20; 1 Peter 5:6-11).
:13-14 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to The Male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle (Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 40:31, 63:9-Revelation 4:7), that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished (taken care of) for a time, times and half a time (From Daniel’s week of years we understand that this is three and a half years Daniel 9), from the presence of the serpent.
:15-16 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood (Revelation 17:15; Isaiah 59:19; Jeremiah 46:7-8 nation after nation has tried to destroy Israel). But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth (2 Kings 7:6-7; 19:35).
:17 The dragon was enraged with the woman and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring (Christians who are the children of GOD, John 1:12-13; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6; Ephesians 6:10-18), who keep the commandments of GOD (John 8:31-32, 15:7) and have The Testimony of JESUS CHRIST (Romans 1:16-17).
* There is only one Greek word for sun used in The Bible: hēliŏs from hĕlē meaning a ray, the sun, by implication light, east, sun; perhaps akin to the alternate of hairĕŏmal meaning to take for oneself i.e. to prefer; probably akin to airō a primary verb to lift, by implication to take up or away, figuratively to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind) specifically to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism nâsâ’ or nâçâh (Psalm:4:6-7) to expiate sin, away with , bear (up), carry, lift up loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
**There is only one Greek word for moon used in The Bible: sĕlĕnē from sĕlas meaning brilliancy, (probably akin to the alternate of hairĕŏmal through the idea of attractiveness) the moon; which means to take for oneself i.e. to prefer; probably akin to airō a primary verb to lift, by implication to take up or away, figuratively to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind) specifically to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism nâsâ’ or nâçâh (Psalm:4:6-7) to expiate sin, away with , bear (up), carry, lift up loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
***Dragon in the New Testament is
only found in Revelation, drakōn probably from an alternate form of dĕrkŏmal
(to look); a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate) dragon.
In Exodus 7:8-10 when GOD tells Moses and Aaron to turn his rod into a serpent
it is the same Hebrew word that is used for dragon in KJV Ezekiel 29:3, Crocodile
in TLV, monster in NKJV.
Strong’s Concise Dictionary of the Words in The Hebrew Bible and Concise Dictionary of the Words in The Greek Testament
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