Week 51 Revelation 12
It’s pretty obvious that some bible passages are more interesting than others. I thought once about doing an exercise where I’d organize the 1189 chapters of the bible into an ordered list that went from Most Interesting Chapter to Least Interesting Chapter. It’d be very time-consuming. I doubt I’ll ever do it. But the basic idea came back to me while I was reading chapter 12 today.
Chapter 12 seems pretty important – really important actually – and I wondered if it was the Most Interesting Chapter in Revelation. (I can’t say for sure since I like the letters to the seven churches. But twelve is right up there.)
A couple of years ago I was thinking about the pregnant woman and the dragon. The dragon is furious with the woman and plans to kill her boy the minute he’s born. But he’s unsuccessful. The boy is born: a boy who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. An important boy. An important man.
So then the dragon can’t kill the mother either. Now he’s even more enraged because he failed twice. He starts looking around for substitute victims: the dragon…declared war against the rest of (the woman’s) children.
John spells out who these other ‘children’ are. They are a) people who keep God’s commandments and b) people who confess that they belong to Jesus.
Meaning that anyone who loves and obeys the Lord is in the dragon’s crosshairs.
Note: quotes from Revelation 12:5 17 (NLT)