We carry on with our series in Revelation. I hope you have found this helpful, insightful and not too full on. To get a bigger picture or reminder, remember you can visit my blog, or watch messages back online on our YouTube channel, or listen to our podcast. I appreciate that some aspects of this have washed over us. Other parts have gained traction. Wherever we stand on this we need the Holy Sprit to illuminate the Word of God to us. Let’s delve into chapters 14-16. Now, remember, Satan is roaming the earth, the beast of the sea and the beast of the earth have been released. The mark of the beast is in operation. But during all of this there are several voices of victory! Listen; every attack of the enemy brings God’s people closer to victory! As the world moves into the last half of the tribulation, heaven is not silent. The Voice of the 144,000 (14:1–5): Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his n...
Revelation 12—13 introduces us to the three key characters in the drama of the last half of the tribulation: Satan the dragon, the false Christ and the false prophet. These three are, in a sense, an evil trinity, opposing the true God and His people on earth. While these events will be of special significance to God’s people at that time, the message of these two chapters can encourage suffering Christians during any age. Chapter 12: A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 ...