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What does Revelation chapter 12 mean? Answer. In Revelation chapter 12, John sees a vision of a woman "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (Revelation 12:1). Note the similarity between this description and the description that Joseph gave of his father Jacob (Israel) and his mother and ...
The last great angelic battle and Satan’s ultimate expulsion from heaven are described in Revelation 12:7–12. In this passage, John sees a great war between Michael and the angels of God and the dragon (Satan) and his fallen angels or demons that will take place in the end times. Satan, in his great pride and delusion that he can be like God, will lead a final rebellion against God. It ...
The dragon is hurled to the earth (Revelation 12:9), the authority of the Messiah is locked in place (verse 10), and the believers are victorious: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death” (Revelation 12:11, NKJV).
In Revelation 12, the apostle John witnesses a terrible tribulation period before the second coming of Jesus Christ. His revelation includes a sweeping, down-through-the-ages look at the ongoing spiritual battle between Jesus, God’s people, and the devil.
Revelation 12:10 is part of a chapter encompassing past, present, and future events. As the scene unfolds, a resounding voice proclaims, “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.” This declaration follows a ...
Both Daniel and John include the detail that the terrible beast has ten horns. The dragon, or Satan, as identified in Revelation 12:9, gives power to the beast so that he might act as an evil proxy and carry out Satan’s bidding. The beast will have a seemingly fatal head wound that will be healed, and he will have tremendous influence over ...
What is the sea of glass mentioned in Revelation 4:6 and 15:2? What does it mean that God is the one who was and is and is to come (Revelation 4:8)? Who are the four horsemen of the apocalypse? Who are the twenty-four (24) elders in Revelation? What is the verse about casting our crowns before the feet of Jesus?
In Revelation 12:17, keeping the testimony of Jesus is linked to keeping God’s command, showing the relationship between both in a Christian’s life. The gospel motivates us to love God by keeping His commandments. Holding to the testimony of Jesus also involves steadfastness in the face of trials. John wrote the book of Revelation to ...
In Revelation 11 and 12, John mentions 1,260 days in two prophecies concerning another persecution of the Jews during the end times. Daniel 8 speaks of 2,300 days in a prophecy concerning a persecution of the Jewish people during the intertestamental period.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down’” (Revelation 12:10). Satan is relentless in his accusations—he accuses God’s children continually. He hates God and all that God is, which means he also hates God’s mercy and forgiveness extended to sinful humanity.