REVELATION 12 Pg 2

 

During the final days of this age, Satan attacks the saved remnant of Israel:

these overcome by death

 

12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,

[1] Now is come [Jesus is about to establish His Kingdom, apparently within 75 days (Dan. 12:11-12)]

                        [a.] salvation, and

                        [b.] strength, and

                        [c.] the kingdom of our God [the millennial reign of Jesus over the earth], and

                        [d.] the power of his Christ [His Anointed One]: for

                                    [11.] the accuser of our brethren [Jews]

[aa.] is cast down (Rev. 12:9),

                                    [12.] which accused them [for rejecting their Messiah in His first advent]

[aa.] before our God day and night.

 12:11  And they [our Jewish brethren]

[1] overcame him [Satan]

                        [a.] by [reason of] the blood

                                    [11.] of the Lamb, and

[b.] by [reason of] the word

            [11.] of their testimony [testimony about the blood of Jesus (c/p. Rev. 1:9; Rev. 6:9; Rev. 20:4)]; and they

            [2] loved not their lives

                        [a.] unto the death [these overcome by death (c/p. Rev. 20:4)].

 

The third woe is announced:

the Antichrist Covenant week is over

 

 12:12  Therefore rejoice,

[1] [ye] heavens, and

[2] ye that dwell in them [your prayers of Rev. 8:1 are being answered].

Woe to the inhabiters

[a.] of the earth and

[b.] of the sea [people are living in the sea (Rev. 16:3)]!

[11.] for the devil is come down unto you [this is the third woe],

[aa.] having great wrath, because

[111.] he knoweth

            [aaa.] that he hath but a short time [approximately 75 days before the second coming of Jesus to reign over the earth (Dan. 12:11-12)].

 

The saved remnant of Israel is persecuted by the Devil

 

 12:13  And when the dragon saw that

            [1] he was cast unto the earth [by Michael and his angels; Rev. 12:9],

            [2] he persecuted the woman [the remnant of the seed of Israel (vs.17), two-thirds of which are killed (Zech. 13:8-9]

[a.] which brought forth the man [child] [the 144,000; Rev. 12:5].

 

Parenthetical detail from midweek

 

12:14  And to the woman [c/p. Rev. 12:6]

            [1] were given two wings of a great eagle,

[a.] that she might fly into the wilderness,

[11.] into her place [possibly the rock-hewn city of Petra in Jordan],

                                    [12.] where she is nourished

[aa.] for a time, and times, and half a time [3 ½ years; c/p. (Rev. 12:6)],

[111.] from the face of the serpent.                       

 12:15  And the serpent

            [1] cast out of his mouth

                        [a.] water as a flood [1]

            [11.] after the woman,

                                    [12.] that he might cause her to be

                                                [aa.] carried away of the flood.

 12:16  And

            [1] the earth helped the woman, and

            [2] the earth opened her mouth, and

            [3] [the earth] swallowed up the flood

[a.] which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

 

Satan’s final attack against Christian Jews

 

 12:17  And the dragon

            [1] was wroth with the woman [because he couldn’t destroy the Jewish nation], and

            [2] went to make war

[a.] with the remnant of her seed, which                 

[11.] keep the commandments of God [the Sabbath/Jews (Rev. 14:12)], and

[12.] have the testimony (Rev. 12:11)

            [aa.] of Jesus Christ [the Anointed One] [these are born again Jews, saved since the midweek Rapture of the Church under the ministry of the two witnesses and the 144,000].