In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 12.
THE RESULT "ON EARTH" OF THE "WAR IN HEAVEN."
In today’s study we are in verses 12 through 15. Here we find John warning us what is going to happen when Satan/Lucifer is cast out of heaven.
Now, our study this morning describes the events of what will happen in the career of Satan during this time, after he has been permanently expelled from heaven, cast from heaven down to earth as we studied last week. And because of his embarrassing defeat and because he knows that his time is short according to verse 12 of chapter 12, he will be absolutely furious with rage, and he will vent his bad temper on Israel whom Yahweh will supernaturally protect and ultimately reconcile unto himself and finally establish them in their land in their long anticipated kingdom.
The Dragon, as soon as he is cast down into the earth, at once proceeds to make war with the Woman, and the remnant of her seed. He does this by bringing up the Beast in his superhuman form.
13 “Persecuted” translates a Greek word meaning “to chase” or “to hunt” or “to pursue with the intent to do violence.” And here Satan is depicted as a dragon-monster chasing the woman who, as we know is Israel, the one who gave birth to the male child, the Lord Yahshua Messiah.
14. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle = The most powerful of birds, and among the most rapid in flight. The meaning here is, that the woman is represented as prepared for a rapid flight
That she might fly into the wilderness = Here we find a more full description of what is briefly stated in verse 6.
From the face of the serpent = The dragon - or Satan represented by the dragon.
15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood = First of all I have two thoughts on this. 1. The water here evidently means great multitudes of nations and peoples; for in Rev. 17:15, the interpreting angel says, ‘the waters which thou sawest - are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.’ This water, then, which the dragon cast out of his mouth, must be an flood of heathen barbarous nations upon the land of Israel; and the purpose which the dragon has in view by this flood is, that he might cause the woman, or Christian Church to be swalled up as the Egyptian army was destroyed by the flood in Exdo. 2. Or we can think spiritually and consider the fact that these floods are lies, deceiving the elect of Yahweh. Either way physically, spiritually or both Satan will be trying to destroy us!
So here in verse 15 we see the serpent, through the agency of the antichrist and his forces, sweeping like a mighty flood toward the Jews that have been delivered now miraculously into the wilderness.
Don’t end up like those in Hosea 4:6 ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God (Elohim), I will also forget thy children.’
But, be like those in 2Timothy 2:15 ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God (Yahweh), a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’
Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!
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