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NOTES ON CHAP. XII., BY J. E. C.
Verse Revelation 12:3. _THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER-A GREAT RED
DRAGON_] The dragon here is a symbol, not of the _Roman empire_ in
general, but of the _HEATHEN Rom...
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AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN - Represented as in
heaven. See the notes on Revelation 12:1. That is, he saw this as
occurring at the time when the church was thus about to increase.
AND...
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REVELATION 12. THE VISION OF THE WOMAN, THE CHILD, AND THE DRAGON.
This chapter has always presented difficulties to the student of
Revelation. Two questions present themselves: (_a)_ What is the
conn...
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"And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold. great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,...
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THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST (Revelation 12:1-17)
It is necessary to read this chapter as a whole before we examine it
in detail. A great sign appeared in the sky--a woman clothed with the
sun, and with t...
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ANOTHER. App-124.
BEHOLD. App-133.
DRAGON. Greek. _drakon._ First of thirteen occurances in Rev. only.
(App-10 and App-197) See Revelation 12:9.
SEVEN HEADS... HEADS. "Signs" of universality of ear...
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_dragon_ The word in classical Greek means simply "serpent," though
perhaps it was always specially applied to the larger or more
formidable kinds. But in St John's time the conception seems to have
b...
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Revelation 12:1-6. THE WOMAN WITH THE MAN-CHILD
This Vision is clearly not to be closely connected with that of the
Witnesses: not only is it separated by the arrangement of the
prophecies Revelation...
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Revelation 11:15-19; Revelation 12:7-12. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET...
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ΔΡΆΚΩΝ. The word in classical Greek means simply “serpent,”
though perhaps it was always specially applied to the larger or more
formidable kinds. But in St John’s time the conception seems to have
be...
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_A WOMAN AND A GREAT RED DRAGON REVELATION 12:1-3:_ Who is this
woman?_ _ The woman is the true Israel of God. "Sing, O barren, thou
that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou...
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_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_
PART III
THE TWO SIGNS IN HEAVEN
CHAPTER XII
_Text (Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17)_
19 And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there
was seen in h...
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Strauss-' Comments
SECTION 35
Text Revelation 12:1-6
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; 2
and s...
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And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads.
APPEARED - `was seen.'
WONDER - `sign.'
RED. So A...
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Temple Section-The Male Son the same historical events from two sides,
Kings from the human, Chronicles from the divine, so this section
reviews the period which has already been presented in its r...
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CROWNS] RV 'diadems,' i.e. kingly crowns....
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THE WOMAN AND THE MAN-CHILD. THE DRAGON
The persecution which the Church had already suffered, and which was
about to burst forth again, is the great fact which underlies the
whole 'Revelation.' The s...
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FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME
REVELATION
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 12
WAR IN HEAVEN AND ON THE EARTH - REVELATION 12:1-14
THE WOMAN AND THE *DRAGON - REVELATION 12:1-6...
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AND THERE APPEARED... — Better, _And another sign was seen in the
heaven; and behold a great red dragon._ This, too, is a sign, and has
a meaning. The dragon stands for some dread and hostile power. “...
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CHAPTER IX.
THE FIRST GREAT ENEMY OF THE CHURCH.
Revelation 12:1.
THE twelfth chapter of the Revelation of St John has been felt by
every commentator to be one more than usually difficult to interpr...
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πυρρός, Vergil's serpents which attack Laokoon have blood-red
crests, and Homer's dragon has a blood-red back, but here the trait
(_cf._ above) is reproduced from the red colour of Typhon, the
Egyptia...
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“HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER”
Revelation 11:14; Revelation 12:1
The kingdom is even now Christ's, but it is hidden, even as He is. One
day it will be manifested. For a long time David was the an...
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In this and two subsequent Chapter s we have an interpolation in the
account of the actual procedure. Two signs are described, a woman and
a dragon, between whom is antagonism. Symbolically, it covers...
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Verse 9 tells us the dragon is Satan. The seven heads could represent
wisdom, vitality or, as in the case of the woman in scarlet,
mountains. (Revelation 17:9) The ten horns could be power of kings.
...
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And there appeared another wonder in heaven; (4) and behold a great
red dragon, having (5) seven heads and ten (6) horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.
(4) That is the devil or Satan, see (Revelati...
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Another wonder in heaven; that is, in the Church of Christ, though
revealed to St. John, in the visions, as if they were seen in heaven.
--- A great red dragon; a fiery dragon, with seven heads and te...
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(1) And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars: (2) And she being with child cried, travailing in...
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We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation.
The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this
point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
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Revelation 11:19; Revelation 12:1-17
War
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance
planning. --Richard M. Nixon
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants,...
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Chapter 12 gives us a brief but all-important summary of the whole
course of events, viewed, not in their instruments on earth or the
judgment of these, but the divine view of all the principles at wo...
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AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN,.... Or "sign"; which
represents the woman, or the church's adversary, Satan; not that he
was in heaven, in the third heaven, the place of glory and happine...
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And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads.
Ver. 3. _Another wonder in heaven_] That is, in the Chur...
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_And there appeared a woman clothed with the sun_ “It was a
well-known custom,” says Lowman, “at the time of this prophecy, to
represent the several virtues, and public societies, by the figure of
a w...
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A GREAT RED DRAGON; the pagan Roman empire, considered as the agent of
the devil, and animated with his spirit. Red or purple was the
distinguishing color of the Roman emperors, as it has since been o...
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THE BATTLE OF MICHAEL WITH THE DRAGON.
The woman clothed with the sun:...
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AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN; AND, BEHOLD, A GREAT RED
DRAGON, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON HIS
HEADS....
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A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN: ISRAEL
A great sign now appears in heaven. We thus are looking at things from
heaven's viewpoint, and the vision goes back in time to connect the
past with the future so...
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_ 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red
dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his
heads._
A. John next sees the fiery red dragon. This dragon is al...
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WONDER:
Or, sign...
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1-6 The church, under the emblem of a woman, the mother of believers,
was seen by the apostle in vision, in heaven. She was clothed with the
sun, justified, sanctified, and shining by union with Chri...
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AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN; there appeared to John,
being yet in his vision, another amazing sight, which was a sign or
type of something differing from what it appeared like. AND BEH...
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Shepherd of Hermas Vision Fourth
proceeded. But the size of that beast was about a hundred feet, and it
had a head like an urn.[7]...
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Revelation 12:3 And G2532 another G243 sign G4592 appeared G3700
(G5681) in G1722 heaven G3772 G2532 behold...
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‘And there was another sign in heaven, and behold, a great red
monster having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven
diadems.'
This is the second sign in heaven.
‘A great red monster'. In...
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Revelation 12:3. AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER SIGN IN HEAVEN. In every
respect this second sign is the counterpart or opposite of the first;
and, like it, it is described in three particulars. The first...
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The third Woe, or the seventh Trumpet, came to an end with chap. 11;
and, as the seven Trumpets followed immediately after the seven Seals,
we might now have expected that these, in their turn, would...
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ANOTHER SIGN
(αλλο σημειον). "A second tableau following close upon the
first and inseparable from it" (Swete).AND BEHOLD
(κα ιδου). As often (Revelation 4:1; Revelation 6:2; Revelation
6:5;...
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Revelation 12:1. _And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars:_
This is that woman of whom the pr...
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CONTENTS: The woman clothed with the sun (Israel). Satan drawing the
stars. The man-child (Christ) caught up to the throne. The arch-angel
and his angels fighting Satan. Satan and Israel in the great...
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Revelation 12:1. _There appeared a great wonder in heaven;_ that is,
in the church or kingdom of heaven below; for the church has long been
called a woman, and a fruitful mother, the bride, and the La...
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ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS SIGHT APPEARED IN THE SKY. In the vision, the huge
red dragon is Satan. The seven heads, ten horns, and the crowns are a
lot like those of the beast in _Revelation 17._ [Compare not...
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_A great red dragon._
THE GREAT WAR
A contest here is waging which enlists and engages the mightiest
powers that exist. It is the great and far-reaching conflict between
good and evil, between truth...
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:1 Two signs appear in heaven—a
WOMAN who gives BIRTH, and a DRAGON intent on destroying her
offspring. Twice John sees the dragon defeated. B
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 12:3 The GREAT RED DRAGON is “that
ancient serpent, the devil and Satan” (v. Revelation 12:9; compare...
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Vs. 3, 4 And there appeared a great red dragon, having seven heads and
ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. His tail drew the third part
of the stars, and did cast them to the earth, and the drag...
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THE MISSION OF CHRIST’S CHURCH AND ITS GREAT HINDERER
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
“IN the set of visions now before us, the Apocalypse unveils the
spiritual aspects of the conflict, that we may k...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter commences another series of revelations. Again St. John
returns to the beginning, and traces the spiritual history of the
Church and the Christian in their warfare with Satan....
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_3 AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER WONDER IN HEAVEN; AND BEHOLD A GREAT
RED DRAGON, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON
HIS HEADS._
This other wonder in heaven is the Devil. Scripture...
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And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the
sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head [the sun and the
moon under her feet, and on her head] a crown of twelve stars...
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Daniel 2:42; Daniel 7:20; Daniel 7:24; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 7:8;...
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Red [π υ ρ ρ ο ς]. See on ch. Revelation 6:4.
Dragon [δ ρ α κ ω ν]. Satan. See ver. 9. The word is found only
in Revelation. In the Septuagint, of the serpent into which Moses '
rod was changed. In Is...
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THE WAR IN HEAVEN
Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation,
at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...
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And behold a great red dragon — His fiery — red colour denoting
his disposition. Having seven heads — Implying vast wisdom. And ten
horns — Perhaps on the seventh head; emblems of mighty power and
str...
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The church was described before: her arch-enemy, the devil, is
described now: he is called. DRAGON for his subtility,. GREAT dragon
for his power,. RED dragon for his fiery curelty. His SEVEN HEADS
de...