Revelation: The Bride, the Beast & Babylon Page #2

pretty definitively tell us

That this is Jesus.

Now let's consider

the arch villain

In this important prophecy:

The dragon.

"And another sign

appeared in heaven:

Behold, a great,

fiery red dragon..."

I wish I could just give you

a fanciful theory here,

But the bible tells us

who the dragon is.

The dragon is the devil.

Both in the old testament

and the new testament

Who tries to destroy?

That is Satan,

the angel, the devil.

And so he attacks

As soon as Christ comes

upon the face of the earth;

The attack is there.

"So the great dragon

was cast out,

"That serpent of old,

called the devil and Satan.

"Who deceives the whole world;

"He was cast to the earth,

And his angels

were cast out with him."

What we see here

in the first part of revelation 12

Is a symbolic portrayal

Of the age-Old conflict

between Christ and Satan.

And we find this description

Going all the way back

to the garden of Eden

Where you have

a snake with wings.

What's a snake with wings?

It's a form of a dragon.

And we have this serpent,

this dragon,

Coming all the way down

through scriptures.

All through the life

and ministry of Christ

Satan tried to disrupt

Jesus' plans

To provide salvation

for humanity.

"But he was wounded

for our transgressions,

"He was bruised

for our iniquities;

"The chastisement

for our peace was upon him,

And by his stripes

we are healed."

At various points

they kicked him out of synagogues

And wanted

to push him off a cliff.

They tried to silence him.

They tortured him

to death publicly.

But Satan's scheme

to derail the plan of salvation

Was utterly shattered

when Jesus rose from the dead.

"And her child was caught up

to god and his throne."

With the son of god

now physically beyond his reach,

The devil directed all of his fury

at the followers of Jesus,

The new Christians.

He did much of this

Through the cruel power

of imperial Rome.

"Now when the dragon saw

"That he had been cast

to the earth,

"He persecuted the woman

Who gave birth

to the male child."

Christianity was a struggling,

small persecuted minority

That didn't have official status

in the roman empire

And there were

a series of persecutions,

Some of which were quite severe.

One of the roles of religion

in the roman empire

Was to ensure

the well-Being of the state.

The idea was if the gods

were worshiped properly

Then they would favor the empire

And if they

were worshiped improperly

Then bad things

would happen to the empire

As a result of divine wrath.

They do not want

to sacrifice to the gods

And the gods at that point

include the emperor.

So it's easy

to consider these people

Religious scapegoats.

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