REVIEW OF ACT I

Throne Room of God-4 Scroll on God’s lap-5 Lamb to open scroll-5 Six seals opened-6-9 John gets another scroll-10 Seventh seal--11

ACT II

John sees a woman standing on the moon, sun around her shoulders, and 12 stars around her head

She is about to bear a child Standing by to devour the child

is a great, red dragon

WOMAN AND DRAGON

SATANS 1ST ATTACK

The Dragon isSatan

The child isChrist

Satan’s first attack is to stop Christ’s work on earth

SATAN’S 2ND ATTACK

Satan tries to prevent Christ from taking His place as Savior

Michael and the good angels defeat Satan and the bad angels.

The accuser is thrown down

SATAN’S 3RD ATTACK

Satan attacks the woman God protects her for a time,

times, and half a time. This equals three and a half

years, 42 months, 1260 days This is the time of persecution

led by the beast

SATAN’S 4TH ATTACK

12:17—against the offspring or children of the women

These obey God and hold the testimony of Jesus

Christians of the early centuries

Satan will attack Christians

THE WOMAN

But who is the woman?1. Gives birth to Jesus2. Attacked by Satan but God

protects her.3. The mother of Christians

THE WOMAN

Mary?—birth to Jesus But not mother of Christians Jews?—birth to Jesus But not mother of Christians

for they rejected Jesus

THE WOMAN

God’s Eternal Plan Began before the world began

—Eph. 1:3-11 Gave birth to Jesus Satan wanted to stop it Gave birth to Christians

WOMAN=GOD’S PLAN

SATAN’S FOUR ATTACKS

1. Christ on earth2. Christ in heaven3. Woman (plan) of God4. Christians by persecution

Revelation is to help Christians meet this fourth attack

What do you remember about the 1st beast?

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

The First Beast—7 heads (kings & hills)Like Daniel’s 4th beastRules over the earthPersecutes ChristiansAll worship him

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

So the first beast is The Roman Empire whom Satan brings up to help

him destroy the church A very powerful ally Now Satan brings up another

ally—another beast

What do you remember about the 2nd beast?

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

Satan’s second beast has two horns like a lamb

He has one purpose: To make people worship the

first beast, mainly its heads Thus this is the Cult of Emperor

Worship

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

So Satan thinks he will win— If Christians refuse to worship

the Emperor they will be killed. If they do worship the

Emperor, they will have abandoned their faith.

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

Either way, Satan wins. Christ is urging a third way.

For Christians to be faithful to Christ even if it means their deaths. Thus people will be drawn to a religion that means enough to die for

SATAN’S TWO ALLIESRevelation 13

The Roman persecution on the church lasted from about 90 AD to about 300 AD. The symbolic 1260 days

Millions of Christians killed. Their faithfulness defeated

Satan’s fourth attack.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FALL

What does 14:1, 3-4 say of the martyrs.

They are on Mt. Zion Heaven Following the Lamb. Singing a song

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FALL

14:8 Fallen is Babylon A code name for Rome So the announcement that God

will soon destroy Rome Rev. 11 and Rev. 11-14

overlap.

DESTRUCTION OF THE PERSECUTOR

Revelation 15 Those victorious over the beast Martyrs but they won the

victory These anticipate the defeat of

their enemy.