Declaration of Christ`s Kingdom Rule.
This voice would be a representative of the Body of Christ - `our God,` our brethren.`
`Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come,
For the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before God day and night, has been cast down.
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.
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!”
(Rev. 12: 10 – 12)
Then we see the outworking of this when Satan is cast to the earth and seeks to destroy Israel.
“ Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea!
For the devil has come down to you having great wrath,
because he knows that he has a short time.”
(Rev. 12: 12)
Satan then sends forth spirits of demons who go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for war against Israel. (Rev. 16: 13 – 16)
`Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth,
He persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.` (Rev. 12: 13)
The great `eagle,` is a symbolic picture of God who `bore them on eagle`s wings,` in times past. (Ex. 19: 4)
`But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time,
from the presence of the serpent.`
(Rev. 12: 14)
The symbolic picture of this great world army is as a flood that covers the land. After Christ has dealt with this great army the blood of the slain then soaks into the earth giving the picture of the earth `swallowing the flood.`
`So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman,
that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
But the earth helped the woman, & the earth opened its mouth
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.`
(Rev. 12: 15 & 16)
We are also shown that it is not only Israel that Satan is against but those who have received the message of Christ, Israel`s Messiah and His coming kingdom.
`And the dragon was enraged with the woman,
and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring,
Who keep the commandments of God & have the testimony of Jesus Christ.`
(Rev. 12: 17)
This voice would be a representative of the Body of Christ - `our God,` our brethren.`
`Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come,
For the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before God day and night, has been cast down.
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.
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!”
(Rev. 12: 10 – 12)
Then we see the outworking of this when Satan is cast to the earth and seeks to destroy Israel.
“ Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea!
For the devil has come down to you having great wrath,
because he knows that he has a short time.”
(Rev. 12: 12)
Satan then sends forth spirits of demons who go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for war against Israel. (Rev. 16: 13 – 16)
`Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth,
He persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.` (Rev. 12: 13)
The great `eagle,` is a symbolic picture of God who `bore them on eagle`s wings,` in times past. (Ex. 19: 4)
`But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilderness to her place,
where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time,
from the presence of the serpent.`
(Rev. 12: 14)
The symbolic picture of this great world army is as a flood that covers the land. After Christ has dealt with this great army the blood of the slain then soaks into the earth giving the picture of the earth `swallowing the flood.`
`So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman,
that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
But the earth helped the woman, & the earth opened its mouth
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.`
(Rev. 12: 15 & 16)
We are also shown that it is not only Israel that Satan is against but those who have received the message of Christ, Israel`s Messiah and His coming kingdom.
`And the dragon was enraged with the woman,
and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring,
Who keep the commandments of God & have the testimony of Jesus Christ.`
(Rev. 12: 17)
