AUG 12

Revelation 12:1-17
Memorise Isaiah 43:1-4
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman”

WHAT WILL BE TAKING PLACE IN HEAVEN?

Now, leaping across the centuries to the last years of this age, when Israel will come in full view and will be in conflict with all the hostile nations surrounding her, we are given to understand that spiritual forces are also simultaneously clashing in conflict. There is war in the heavenly regions between Michael the Archangel and his angels against the dragon and his angels, demons unnumbered!

That battle will not be long, and the result is a forgone conclusion. Satan will certainly lose, and he and his demons will be cast down to earth in defeat. Seeing that he has but only 3½ years left before his final defeat, like the Japanese invasion of the Pacific had reached high tide and ebbing was setting in, Satan will go all out, like the Kamikazes, to persecute Israel. But to the woman were given two wings that she might fly to the wilderness. The Wilderness, indeed, is a cryptic name of the Promised Land as used by Moses in his demand to Pharoah, “Let us go, we pray thee, three days journey into the desert [wilderness], and sacrifice unto the LORD our God” (Exodus 5:3 cf 5:1).

When the Jews were gathered back in their Homeland, the Serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood, but the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

The prophet Isaiah has this to say of God’s protection over His people, “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee” (Isaiah 43:2). We believe, in times of utmost testings, God will break through from heaven to save His people. As He caused the Red Sea to divide and allow Israel to go over dry land, so will He cause the earth to swallow the flood that Satan will send to drown His people.

Thought: “My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do.”
Prayer: O Lord, save us by Thy almighty hand.