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DECEMBER 22
14 Draw your water for the siege! Revelation 12:1–17
Fortify your strongholds! Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a
Go into the clay and tread the mortar! 12 woman clothed with the sun, with the
Make strong the brick kiln!
15 There the fire will devour you, moon under her feet, and on her head a gar-
land of twelve stars. Then being with child, she
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The sword will cut you off; cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
It will eat you up like a locust. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven:
Make yourself many— like the locust! behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven
Make yourself many— like the heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on
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swarming locusts! his heads. His tail drew a third of the stars of
16 You have multiplied your merchants
more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.
17 Your commanders are like swarming
locusts, 12:3 great, fiery red dragon. The woman’s
And your generals like great mortal enemy is Satan, who appears as a drag-
grasshoppers, on 13 times in this book (v.9;20:2).Red speaks of
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day; bloodshed (John 8:44). seven heads and ten
When the sun rises they flee away, horns, and seven diadems. Figurative lan-
And the place where they are is not guage depicting Satan’s domination of 7 past
known. worldly kingdoms and 10 future kingdoms (Dan.
7:7,20,24).Satan has and will rule the world until
18 Your shepherds slumber, O king the seventh trumpet blows (11:15).He has inflict-
of Assyria; ed relentless pain on Israel (Dan.8:24),desiring to
Your nobles rest in the dust. kill the woman before she could bring forth the
Your people are scattered on the child that would destroy him.
mountains,
And no one gathers them.
19 Your injury has no healing,
Your wound is severe. heaven and threw them to the earth. And the
dragon stood before the woman who was
All who hear news of you
Will clap their hands over you, ready to give birth, to devour her Child as
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For upon whom has not your soon as it was born. She bore a male Child
wickedness passed continually? who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
And her Child was caught up to God and His
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Psalm 145:17–21 throne. Then the woman fled into the wilder-
ness, where she has a place prepared by God,
17 The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works. that they should feed her there one thousand
18 The LORD is near to all who call upon two hundred and sixty days.
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Him, And war broke out in heaven: Michael and
To all who call upon Him in truth. his angels fought with the dragon; and the
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19 He will fulfill the desire of those who dragon and his angels fought, but they did
fear Him; not prevail, nor was a place found for them in
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He also will hear their cry and save heaven any longer. So the great dragon was
them. cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil
20 The LORD preserves all who love Him, and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he
But all the wicked He will destroy. was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the out with him.
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LORD, Then I heard a loud voice saying in heav-
And all flesh shall bless His holy name en, “Now salvation, and strength, and the
Forever and ever. kingdom of our God, and the power of His
Christ have come, for the accuser of our
Proverbs 30:16 brethren, who accused them before our God
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16 The grave, day and night, has been cast down. And they
The barren womb, overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and
The earth that is not satisfied with by the word of their testimony, and they did
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water— not love their lives to the death. Therefore re-
And the fire never says, “Enough!” joice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!
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