DO WE UNDERSTAND THE CONFLICT OF THE AGES
REVELATION 12
Part 1
Above the softness of our blue green planet there are hostile forces poised.
They range across space lurking and flying about at their master’s bidding.
They are former angels. They are Satan the Dragon’s army. They are deadly,
vile, malignant and very intelligent. In fact, the word demon in Greek means
“intelligence”. These aliens to our planet are highly skilled, incredibly
powerful, usually invisible warriors. They can hear us talk, they can pass
through walls, they can fly through space, they inhabit human and animal bodies,
they alter human behavior, and they afflict humans with disease, anguish and turmoil.
These extra-terrestrial beings can take on various forms looking human, looking powerful,
and looking fearsome. They are watching over the realm of the serpent and his seed.
You see, we saints of God are at war . There is a conflict going on the likes of which
most of us haven’t fully comprehended. Swirling around us the unseen beings of the spirit
world are locked in mortal combat. Behind the scenes in every boardroom, political planning
session, military strategy session, classroom, worship service and everywhere else, these
unseen spirits watch, listen and whisper their lies. It is the battle for the Earth that
rages. The god of this world has dispatched his demon warriors with one target, blind the
minds of Earth’s inhabitants until they can’t see and won’t follow – God!
Seventeen verses lay before our minds and hearts in Revelation 11:19-12:17.
In no other place in the Word of God is the situation more clearly laid out.
God names the key players in the Conflict of the Ages: The Battle for Earth.
And Revelation 12 is His Battle Plan!
“The Mystery of Jesus”
These verses are divided into three powerful insights for our lives today:
* VICTORY IS IN JESUS BECAUSE GOD IS FAITHFUL (11:19-12:6)
Rev. 11:19 the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark
of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake,
and great hail.
Rev 12: 1-6
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
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.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child
was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should
feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
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* VICTORY IS IN JESUS BECAUSE SATAN IS VANQUISHED (12:7-9)
Rev 12:7-9
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought
and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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* VICTORY IS IN JESUS BECAUSE SAINTS WILL SUFFER (12:10-17)
Rev 12:10-17
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of
our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused
them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved
not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and
of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath
but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness,
into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be
carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the
dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep
the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
DO WE UNDERSTAND THE CONFLICT OF THE AGES REVELATION 12 Part 1