If sin reigns in your mortal bodies, you are dead in it. Lastly comes the seventh angel, who deals with the world still more decidedly and universally by pouring on the air. From verse 13 the history is pursued not from the heavens, but on the earth. Revelation 11:10 To shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying - During those "twelve hundred and sixty days." And have power over the waters - In and near Jerusalem. When he passes through the waters, God will be with him ( Isaiah 43:2). Just like believers today, Tribulation saints, who live in the final seven years of Daniel's great end-times prophecy, will also overcome the enemy because of their faith in the cleansing power of the blood of the Lamb. PRAISING THE CONQUEROR These words are like the doxology at the end of The Lords Prayer. OPEN HEAVEN 31 OCTOBER 2022 BIBLE READING REVELATION 12:11. Death has been defeated and whether we live or die on earth, we live. And yet, art thou cast down"( Isaiah 14:14 ). He might kill with the sword, but he must be killed himself: indeed, his would be a still more awful doom. The other weapon is for use in spreading the gospel and defeating the devil in his power over our fellow-men. She has an M.A. It is for the ideal community of the chosen ones of God that the woman stands. "He worketh great signs that he should even make fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of those signs which it was given him to work in the sight of the beast.". The Christian religion has been from its infancy the special care of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 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. As the apostle Peter writes, For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. Church-age believers are instructed to, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Horrible. In the first scene in the fourth chapter, when the door was seen open in heaven, there were "lightnings, and voices, and thunderings," but there was not even an earthquake. . Clarke's Revelation 12:11 Bible Commentary And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb - Here is given the reason why the followers of Christ prevailed at this time against all their adversaries. Her being seen in heaven shows that it is not a mere history of what is taking place on earth, but that it is all viewed in God's mind. 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." There is the picture of the escape of Elijah to the brook Cherith, where he was nourished by the ravens ( 1 Kings 17:1-7); and of his flight into the desert, when he was nourished by the angelic messenger ( 1 Kings 19:1-8). Does not redemption by blood hold them fast to their Redeemer? "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and those that have gained the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God." I must close with this last remark, that while they all fought with the same weapons THEY ALL FOUGHT WITH THE SAME SPIRIT; for the text says, "they loved not their lives unto the death." In the Temple of Marduk, the creating god, in Babylon there was a great image of a "red-gleaming serpent" who stood for the defeated dragon of chaos. What does this teach? In short, we have here the harvest and the vintage, the two great forms of the judgment at the close; the harvest being that judgment that discerns between the just and the unjust, and the vintage being the infliction of unmingled wrath on apostate religion, "the vine of the earth," which is the object of God's special abhorrence. In point of fact, what the woman represents will be Israel on the earth. It is easy to discover. Times-two years, and half a time would be, of course, a half-year, so three and a half years; one thousand, two hundred and sixty-two days from the face of the serpent. For Isaiah in the sixteenth chapter, God says to Moab, which is present day Jordan, "Open up your borders and receive My people. And so God was working with this nation preparing them as the instrument, the nation, by which His Son would come into the world. When the glorified saints are caught up to heaven, they no longer require what was set forth by the laver and its water to purify; for the sea of glass attests that the purity was fixed. Man alone of all beings in the earth was made to look up to One above, and is responsible to do the will of God. But they had rejected the prophets before they had rejected His Son. Surely they will respect him." The beast that emerges from the revolutionary Roman world is just adapted for the dragon to fill with opposition to the purposes of God. And when the wisemen didn't come back, he then ordered that all the baby boys in Bethlehem area be killed that were two years and under. It quite often happened in Asia Minor that rivers were swallowed up in the sand only to reappear after travelling a distance underground. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And he goes up there just to harass us before God. Michael and his angels have defeated the devil and his angels in one decisive battle, and by remaining true to their allegiance have chased away from angelic realms the invading power of evil. "And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven, having himself also a sharp sickle. So, here again the earth will open up.Actually this great rift of which they call the Jordan Valley, of which the Dead Sea is a part, and of course the city of Petra on the other side, this great rift they believe was caused by a tremendous earthquake, seismic movement and all, and of course it is the greatest rift in the world. Christ by dying destroyed him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil. As St. Patrick is said to have driven out all the venomous creatures from Ireland, so let Jesus Christ come, and all the serpent's seed fly before him they cannot bear the great truth of the atoning death of the Son of God. This is just what we might have expected when the infinite God speaks to finite men, and it is no doubt intended to humble us and draw forth our reverent adoration. This woman is in labour to bear a child who is undoubtedly the Messiah, Christ, compare Revelation 12:5 where he is said to be destined to rule the nations with a rod of iron. John says that the result as he saw it in vision was, that the persecuted church bore a faithful testimony to the truth, and that the great enemy was overcome. God, I am sure, always attaches a far higher value to the heed paid to the Lord Himself, and this too in those that He sends out. Care was taken of the mother as well as of the child, Revelation 12:6; Revelation 12:6. In the day of the Lord, God with his sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan ( Isaiah 27:1). In a similar spirit St. John, in this prophecy, shows us first of all the male child taken to a place in heaven entirely outside the reach of Satan's malice. His tail drawing a third part of the stars. "And he worketh great signs, that he should even make fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." Therefore to worship the one is pretty much to worship the other; just as in regard to the true God, there is no worship of one person in the Godhead without the same homage to the others. God, therefore, is pleased to reveal to us a variety of ways in which He will put forth His power, and send both testimony and warning suited to the crisis; and this is given with remarkable completeness throughout the seven divisions into which this chapter naturally divides itself. There is no doubt that there are many pictures in John's mind. And they loved not their lives unto the death - They did not so love their lives that they were unwilling to die as martyrs. We have been given all we need to overcome the world. It goes from Syria down into Africa. Man is never thus complete. Scripture is positive. The Lord said, "That is right." "The limitation that God placed upon him. When the evil angels and Satan are thrown down on the earth those in the third heaven rejoice, verse 12, but they warn those on the earth that the Devil is coming to the earth with "great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time". . In this respect, wicked men are very like their father the devil. Satan is the great red dragon, a hideous seven-headed python, horrible to look upon, horned, like the serpent called the Egyptian Cerastes. Supreme authority is to be seen now connected with Israel, instead of her being in a state of desolation, down-trodden by the Gentiles. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matt. And Jesus began to give them the signs of His coming and of the end of the world. First, the blood of the Lamb: it was theirs. . Let it be observed that the second beast it is which more particularly resembles in wickedness what the Lord Jesus was in goodness. To be tempted is common, even to the worst and most reprobate of men, but to resist temptation is the mark of the child of God. He was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you (1 Peter 1:18-20). Glory be to the dying Lamb, the atonement shuts the mouth of the lion continually, for the atonement lasts all the year round. They are called to fear God and give glory to Him; and this is on the ground that He is Judge, just about to deal with His own world. . His wife saw his miserable condition and said, "Honey, why don't you just curse God and die?" Such knowledge will be of practical importance only when the time comes; and therefore I do not doubt that this is just one of those points in which the Lord does not gratify men's minds now. For what can go more practically to destroy the proper relationship of the saints of the Lord? The apostle Paul summarizes this beautifully in 2 Cor. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Many of those which have been offered entirely and obviously fail for instance, "apostacy" and such like explanations. ", The dragons expulsion from heaven 12:7-12. Tribulation for the woman (the church) is only for the period of verse 6--THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN AGE. Next we come to Revelation 14:1-20, where we have neither the counsels of God as opposed by Satan, first in heaven and then in earth; nor the plan and instruments by which Satan gives battle to those counsels. Good morning Beloved. "All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me" ( Psalms 42:7). Financially he was totally wiped out. Satan cannot longer accuse above; accordingly he does his worst below. The attempts of the dragon not only proved unsuccessful against the church, but fatal to his own interests; for, upon his endeavour to devour the man-child, he engaged all the powers of heaven against him (Revelation 12:7; Revelation 12:7): There was war in heaven. This her obscure and private state was for a limited time, not to continue always. "Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." I will be like God. There was, for instance, a case of this near Colossae, an area which John must have known well. "And I heard a voice from heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sing [as it were] a new song in presence of the throne, and in presence of the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, which were bought from the earth. 1. The second picture is of the floods of water cast out by the serpent. When the Antichrist appears, he will not take the place of being a priest; far higher will be his assumption. The salvation and strength of the church are all to be ascribed to the king and head of the church. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that tabernacle in heaven." The first is a certain numbered multitude separated to the Lamb on mount Zion. Posts Tagged 'Revelation 12:11' . 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