SLIDE 1 As much as I dislike giving Satan too much
attention, we need to be prepared for his attacks. Although Revelation describes a hideous red
dragon, we should not expect the devil to appear to us like this. By his name
Lucifer means son of Dawn or Day Star.
*Isaiah 14:12 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art
thou cut down to the ground, who didst weaken the nations! (O Day Star,
ESV Morning Star)
As one of God’s finest angelic creations, he was beautiful
and very prideful. In fact when he tries to tempt us he is very appealing and speaks in a pleasing voice. We must look backward at events. Satan has been trying to destroy man.
SLIDE 2 In Genesis
Satan appears as a serpent in the garden. Lucifer was a prideful Archangel on
the same level with Michael and often they are pitted against each other in
battle. Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible and they were
called princes.
Daniel 10 13 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood
me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of
the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of
Persia,
*Daniel 121 "At
that time shall arise Michael, the great
prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble,
such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that
time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written
in the book.
FOUR FALLS OF SATAN
SLIDE 3 From glorified to profane (Ezekiel
28:14-16)
SLIDE 4 From having access to heaven (Job
1:12) to restriction to the earth (Revelation 12)
SLIDE 5 From the earth to bondage in the
bottomless pit for 1,000 years (Rev. 20)
SLIDE 6 From the pit to the lake of fire (Revelation
20)
SLIDE 7 REVELATION
12 The Woman and the Dragon 1And
a great sign appeared in heaven
*SLIDE 8 Verse 1-2 a
woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a
crown of twelve stars.2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth
pains and the agony of giving birth
Who is this woman? ISRAEL Mary did give birth to Jesus;
however Satan did not chase Mary throughout the wilderness.
SLIDE 9 The woman’s appearance is similar to the dream of Joseph in Genesis 37:9. He told it
to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the
sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” The sun would be Jacob
and the moon Rachel, Joseph’s mother. It makes more sense for the Woman to be
interpreted as Israel bringing the Messiah through the lineage of David. The children of Israel did go through the
wilderness, the twelve stars could represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
*SLIDE 10 3-6
And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with
seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. This goes back
to the vision of Daniel in chapter 7. Three times he mentions a beast with ten
horns.
4 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.5 She gave birth to a male child,
one who is to rule all the nations with a
rod of iron,(Ps.37:7,9) but her
child was caught up to God and to his throne (could
symbolize Jesus transcending to heaven,)
6 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. (3 ½ years
of tribulation.)
SLIDE 11 *7-9 7Now
war arose in heaven, Michael and his
angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,8
but he was defeated, and there
was no longer any place for them in heaven.
9 And the
great dragon was thrown down, that
ancient serpent, who is called
the devil and
Satan, the deceiver of the whole
world---he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with
him.10 And I heard a loud
voice in heaven, saying,
This is not
just war between Satan and Michael but the continual conflict between good and
evil. But we read the back of the book and Satan is defeated.
SLIDE 12 *10-12"Now the salvation and
the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come,
for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and
night before our God.
11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto
death.12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in
them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in
great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"
SLIDE 13 *13-14 And when the dragon saw that he had been
thrown down to the earth, he pursued
the woman who had given birth to the male child.14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so
that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she
is to be for a time, and times, and half
a time.(3 ½ yrs., 1260 days,
SLIDE 14 Three times the eagles illustrates
God’s care and protection of Israel.
·
In Egypt Ex.19:4 … how I bore you on
eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
·
*In the desert Deut.32:11-12 11 Like an
eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its
wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
·
Return from Babylon Isa. 40:31 they shall mount up
with wings like eagles;
SLIDE 15 *15-17 15 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth
after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.16 But the earth
came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the
river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.17 Then the dragon
became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of
God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
The woman, Israel, will be protected through the 3 ½ yrs of
tribulation time. The water pouring from the serpent’s mouth could be symbolic
of blasphemous speech or anti-semantic actions toward the Jews. The earthquake Verse
17 he went off the make war with her offspring.
*Isaiah 59:19, When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. Satan is defeated.
*Isaiah 59:19, When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. Satan is defeated.
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