20240616 - Revelation 12

The most famous Leonid meteor shower was in 1966 which produced,

they said thousands of Meteors falling per minute.

This is a time exposure, actual photo of that night.

Many people who saw it,

they said that they got the impression that earth was moving through

space and it always is. But they meant it more.

I think like we see in Star Wars here flying through space and these

stars are just whizzing past you because there were so many of them.

The really cool thing is this Leonid meteor shower is actually set to occur again

this year in mid November.

It might not be as strong as the one in 1966. Most of them aren't,

but it will still be cool to see.

And I think they said in the US,

we'll be able to look out and they estimate who knows how close

this is but 12 to 15 m an hour or a minute,

we'll be able to see in the skies even in Minnesota, this November.

So that would be kind of cool to see,

to remember back to jesus' birth and this vision and revelation see

a recurrence of what we think might have happened back then.

The term for these famous meteor showers is Leonid, like I said,

and it comes the word comes from the constellation Leo,

the lion,

because these Meteors fall from Leo, the kingly lion in the sky.

Although it appears that way and why they named it that way.

It's actually coming from the north star,

which we have talked about that God's throne in the Bible appears to be in the north.

And if we're talking about the skies,

the north star would be as north as you could get.

So looking up at the sky from Israel back then at that time,

it would appear then that Draco,

the serpent was wrapped around the north star. He's up in God's in

heaven with God, but he would be coming down toward earth along with

there really was this meteor shower,

thousands of fallen stars or Meteors shooting down to earth.

That's what it says in our chapter.

It says that he was cast out and thousands and thousands of these fallen angels fell.

So it looks like exactly what John is describing

with Satan being thrown out from the North star

where God's throne is and being cast to the

earth with his fallen angels in this meteor storm.

I think all of that is pretty intriguing and

can look into it even more.

But I also think we can just simply see it play out biblically,

John has already associated stars with angels.

And now he symbolically describes the fall of Satan and

the evil angels with him who join him in rebellion.

We don't have to guess,

rely on astronomers or scientists to prove this part.

The Bible tells us that this is what was being depicted.

We just have to skip ahead a couple of verses. We read this before

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.

So Satan has been cast out of heaven.

He

has no access to the throne.

He can't just sit there and accuse the brethren any longer.

We're gonna look at this aspect quite a bit next week.

We keep going for today though.

The next verse or part says,

and the dragon stood before the woman who was about

to give birth so that when she bore her child,

he might devour it.

The dragon's goal is to abort the work of Christ to devour and kill him

once again,

both literally in Jesus but also in jesus' teaching and his converting of the saint

the dragon wants to kill Jesus. As soon as

as he was born,

John is again using astronomy as we have seen, right?

As Virgo is about to give birth,

the dragon's mouth is right at her belly and it

appears that Satan is about to catch the woman's child,

right?

As he is born,

if you look at how they're moving, it's amazing if we, I believe that it was tissue

1 September 11th that this happened

literally on those days,

the mouth of the dragon is just about to touch the belly where the, where the birth of

what they think is Venus is about to come out.

It's amazing how much it coincides

this conflict between the woman and the dragon is told to us, right?

From the very beginning,

Genesis 315 says,

I will put enmity between you and the

woman and between your offspring and her offspring,

your seed and her seed.

He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

So there's been a war since the beginning

between the seed of the woman and the seed of the dragon.

All throughout history.

Satan was trying either to keep Jesus from being born

or to kill him as soon as he was born.

This is why Cain killed Abel under inspiration under the from the dragon.

The killing of Abel was an attempt to destroy the sea.

It was unsuccessful though because Adam and Eve

gave birth to another child named Seth,

the appointed one

in place of Abel. It says and through him, the seed was preserved,

the dragon then tried to corrupt that line of Seth who within a few generations, all,

almost all of Seth's descendants had a posits

by marrying the cute pagan girls that they saw.

And again, the seed was in danger through this corruption

except for one righteous man and his family.

Noah.

Satan's rage was so great that it led to the whole world being destroyed.

Yet he still failed.

The seed was preserved with a single family on the ark.

The dragon doesn't give up easily though

next, he attacks Abraham and tries to murder the seed twice.

It happens. He tries to get Sarah raped by these pagan kings.

So it would be his seed, not

God's seed.

He tries the same thing again with Rebecca.

We see it play out in the M and T between Jacob and

Esau,

a

struggle that began all the way back in the womb.

We see from the womb all the way until Isaac was attempting

to go against God's plan by cheating and giving the inheritance to

Esau rather than Jacob.

It's just constant trying to battle the seed.

We flip over to Exodus. We see Pharaoh

try to destroy the seed by killing all the male

male babies because he thought the deliverer was coming.

Well, Moses was a great deliverer and he delivered the people out of Egypt.

But even he wasn't the deliverer.

500 years later, the seed was passed through a young shepherd boy named David.

The dragon attacked David in the seed through Goliath.

Who if you remember was scaled just like a dragon.

Then again, David was attacked twice

by the dragon by inspiring a demon possessed King Saul

to throw javelins at him to try to kill him.

Eventually,

the whole kingdom of Saul's was almost exclusively aimed at killing David.

Similarly, Queen

Athaliah, when her son was killed,

she tried to destroy all the royal line of the house of Judah.

It says

yet the seed was once again preserved this time in the infant

Joash who they hid away in God's house,

Haman.

He tried to destroy all the Jews next.

He definitely had the dragon inside of him.

He had evil intent and he would have succeeded

in the dragon's plans to destroy all the Jews.

If it weren't for the courage and wisdom of Queen Esther.

The funny thing is maybe not so funny,

but the thing is that is maybe the

best example throughout Israel's history from the Exodus

to the exile of this dragon trying to take down the seed is from Israel themselves.

They constantly are unfaithful.

They're constantly tempted to kill their own seed like ahab

and offer them up as sacrifices to demons like Molik

and Ashraf.

It all boils down to

Emy between the two seeds that we saw all the way back in Genesis.

The dragon was trying to destroy Jesus, the Messiah,

the culmination of the seed.

This pattern comes to a climax at the birth of Christ depicted in the heavens

by these signs that we're talking about today when the dragon possesses King Herod,

the edomite ruler of Judea

and he inspires him

to once again kill the Children of the seed.

We read that in Matthew. Matthew two.

It's supposed to be Matthew too.

Now, when they had departed, behold,

an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, rise,

take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt and remain there until I

tell you for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.

And he rose and took the child and his mother by night

and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod.

This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet out of Egypt.

I called my son.

Then Herod when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise man became furious

and he sent and killed all the male Children in Bethlehem and all that

in, in all that region who were 22 years old or under.

According to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men,

the dragon doesn't stop there.

Once Jesus is identified, Satan throws everything he has at him.

He tempts him in the wilderness.

He raises up jesus' own people against him to kill him.

We read this in Luke four when they heard these things,

all in the synagogue were filled with wrath

and they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow

of the hill

on which their town is built so that they could throw him down the cliff.

Jesus is subjected to all kinds of demonic opposition throughout his ministry,

leading up to one of his own disciples being possessed by the dragon himself.

John 13 tells us during supper,

when the devil had already put it into the

heart of Judas Iscariot Simon's son to betray him

and then continue on later in the chapter, it says that after he had taken the morsel,

Satan entered him,

Jesus said to him, what you are going to do do quickly.

We're told explicitly that the dragon entered and controlled Judas.

This led to the dragon orchestrating the Jewish leaders

and the Roman leaders to crucify Jesus Christ.

We typically think of this kind of as the end when the dragon was finally defeated

and it was in a way the climax.

But we'll see in coming verses that this actually comes

to its fullest fulfillment if you want to call it that

when Jesus ascended to heaven and was given all rule and authority.

So today, I don't know how long it's been now,

but I debated on continuing on in revelation 12

because I think it's a little short today,

but there's so much that I didn't wanna cut short in the rest of this chapter

because it starts getting really good when we start hearing the story.

So we're gonna stop here for today.

We'll pick it up and continue the story now that we kind of have the foundation,

we've looked at the cast out of our show that we're watching here,

we've seen the main characters and next week we'll see how it all plays out.

We'll let the show actually begin

the show. What we're about to see

is really important to our understanding of Christ's

reign and our current state of the church.

Maybe more than anything else that we've seen in Revelation up to this point.

So like I said, I'm gonna wrap it up today

right here.

If we were at the omni theater,

watching a movie or a documentary about these great signs

in the heavens that John is describing here in Revelation.

If we don't know what's gonna happen next, we might start getting sweaty poems,

we might be start gripping our armrest a little tightly

because reading up to this point in Revelation 12,

it doesn't look real good.

The dragon is huge.

It's getting right up to the virgin ready to devour her baby.

What's a lady and a little baby going to do against this massive serpent?

What changes

we'll see more next week? But I know you know the story so we can rest easy.

We know how the story next week plays out in the rest of Revelation 12

when Jesus was crucified Satan, this dragon of old, he thought he had won.

It was a whole lot of things, but it was especially at that moment

that the dragon was officially defeated

and wounding the seeds, healed, the dragon's head was crushed.

Satan probably wouldn't have done this if he had understood fully. I don't think

at least the people would. God tells us that.

But God tricked Satan into fulfilling his purposes according to his hidden wisdom.

First Corinthians 27 and eight says,

but we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God

which God God decreed before the ages for our glory.

None of the rulers of this age understood this for if they had,

they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

What's Frank?

Gently, father? We thank you for revelation.

We thank you for this chapter that we started going through today.

We thank you for the signs that were given back then.

So people could know and understand who you were and what was happening.

Dear Lord, help us to understand these mysteries,

Lord that you have now revealed in your scriptures fully

help us to be able to see all that you're showing us,

help us to gain levels of knowledge and understanding.

So when we go through the rest of the Bible,

when we feel emotional or we feel connected to you in certain ways, Lord,

it's based on truth.

It's not based on our own feelings or emotions,

but we can have those feelings and emotions because

we've grounded ourselves so firmly under your word.

We know what you're telling us. We know what the signs are,

help us Lord, as we go through our lives to

have both sides of the coin.

Lord,

that we can have knowledge and wisdom and we

can also use the emotion that you've given us because

we fall deeper and deeper in love with you. The more that we do understand,

we thank you for your word. Help us as we go out today.

Plus all of the fathers. Lord, we thank you for this good group of fathers here.

Lord that do desire to follow your ways and lead our families.

Well, I just pray Lord that we go out and celebrate them today.

Thank you for all that you've done for us.

Give us a great day in fellowship in your name. Emma.

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