Chapter 12 -- The Book of Revelation

Please read Revelation 12!

The Woman and the Dragon

Verses 1-2: Great Significance... What makes this event so significant?  When I see this phrase, I feel like I'm supposed to pay extra special attention!

Verses 3-4: Here's the Significant Event again!  The creatures in the end times prophecies are hard for me to picture/imagine... (maybe I don't really want to picture some of the things mentioned) Seven heads and ten horns... Does that mean it has seven necks too?  Are the heads all attached to each other? Are the "horns" on it's heads or on its back or what?  Ten is not symmetrical to the seven heads, so how would that work?  Would they all look the same or all be different?

Verses 5-6: Who is this child?  It would seem that he has not been born yet... But it is impossible to say really... It could have been Jesus...? Here again is listed the 1,260 days...

Verses 7-9:  In Job we are shown that Satan has been able to "present himself before the Lord." (Job 1:6) This is now permanently put to an end!

Verses 10-12: The end is near!!  Verse 12 points out what I think every time I read verse 9... The devil wasn't using full force on us when he could be elsewhere, but now he'll have nowhere to go except earth...  Could be very bad for some people.

Verses 13-17:  So we know that the dragon is Satan, but who is the woman?  Many times (Especially in Proverbs) Wisdom is referred to as a woman.  Maybe this woman is Wisdom??? Verse 14 once again mentions the times, times, and half a time... Are we Wisdom's children??? (Proverbs 8:32)

So what did we learn from this chapter?  Maybe that wisdom gave birth to Jesus, and now Satan has been thrown down to earth with no possibility to get back into Heaven.  So now he is creating as much destruction and chaos as he can while he still can... But if this theory is correct... What about the 1,260 days that are mentioned a couple times in this chapter?  Is it the amount of time Jesus was ministering on earth before he ascended into Heaven?  What do you think!?!

Blessings!

~ S*