TEXT:
Revelation 12:1-6
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Introduction:
THE SCENE IN HEAVEN
(Rev 12:1-6)
THE CHARACTERS
(Revelation 12:1-5)
1. The Woman (Rev 12:1-2)
(cf, Isaiah 50:1; Hosea 9:1; Eph. 5:32; 2:11-14;
Gal. 3:10-15, 29; 1 Peter 2:9)2. The Dragon (Rev 12:3-4)
(cf, Rev. 12:9, 20:2; Eph. 2:2, 6:12; Rev. 13:1;
2 Peter 2:4-9; Jude 6; 1 John 3:12)3. The Child (Rev 12:5)
(cf, Psalm 2:9; Rev. 2:27;
Gen. 3:15; Gal. 4:4)
THE VICTORY
(The Victorious Story of the O.T.)*
-The Promise (Genesis 3:15)
-From Seth to the Flood
-From the flood to Jacob
-From Jacob to the Jews in the desert
-From the Jews in the dessert to David the King
-From David to Queen Athaliah
-From Athaliah to King Ahaz
-From King Ahaz to Esther
-From Esther to Bethlehem
THE WILDERNESS
(Revelation 12:6)
(Cf, Ex 16:4ff)
*(Source: More Than Conquerors, William Hendricksen)
