Revelation Chapter 12

12 ¹And 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:

Israel-12 stars, 12 tribes, also… Jesus was born from the tribe of Judah in Israel.

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.

Satan

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.

One third of the Angels fell with Satan.

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.

Jesus

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.

There is a timelessness to the linking of this verse to the other one kind of… the first few verses are giving the historical accounting…and now we are looking at the future events where Israel is told to flee into the mountains. Matthew 24:15-18¹⁵ When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)¹⁶ Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:¹⁷ Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:¹⁸ Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

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.

Satan and the fallen 1/3 of the Angels are cast out of heaven and can’t go back anymore to accuse Christians before God.

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.

The only way to make it… to be saved…. The Blood of Jesus…. and Your Testimony of salvation by the Blood of Jesus (Jesus laid down his life, but we still have to receive this free gift of cleansing from sin). Salvation is by the Blood Of Jesus alone….Not good works… not going to church… not donating things to the poor…. not anything we could do for ourselves…. also, our sins won’t keep up out either…if they are under the blood of Jesus, then they are washed away. We are sinners by nature… helpless to the nature of sin….but God, who loved us sent Jesus to pay the price…. THE LOVE that GOD HAS FOR US……. How very much God wanted to reconcile us to himself….. so he knew we were sinners… and he made a way for us….so our sin won’t keep us out, rejecting the blood of Jesus will…because the Blood of Jesus is the only way to be reconciled to God, but you have to receive it.

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.

The two great eagles wings are the protection of God… it’s not the US because of the Bald Eagle symbol… it’s the divine protection of God.

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.

My thoughts are that the flood is all the nations that align themselves against Israel.

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.

My thoughts are that the natural disasters, famine, disease, lack of weapons etc. hinder the flood from effectively coming after Israel.

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.

He’s coming after the Christians. This is where loving not our lives even until death comes in, because this is mostly likely what will happen.