(Chapter 6 - Revelation 12:16 revisit)
I believe that I already explained
verse 16 eariler so we will move on to verse 17:
Rev 12:17
(17) And the
dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which
keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Satan is enraged or wroth with the woman because she is of God. He goes to make war with the
remnant of her seed. Her seed is
Christ! The remnant of her seed are
all those left after Satan's fall. Namely, the 1/3 who were not cut off but brought through the fire. This is the remnant Chosen by Grace. Satan makes war with those who keep God's word faithfully, and whose testimony is faithful.
Revelation chapter 11 talks about the Church that testifies the same 1260 days (the "2" Candlesticks, Olive Trees, Prophets, Witnesses) and who keep the testimony of Christ and says the is loosed and makes war with them. It's the same symbolism. The Church in the wilderness 1260 days or time, times and a half, until her testimony is finished and Satan is loosed.
NOTE: Makes war with them (
scripture says)
ONLY AFTER their testimony is finished, only after the 1260 days (
synonymous with time, times and a half - Rev. 12:6, 14) are accomplished as in Revelation 11:7.
Only then will the
beast overcome the Church and "
spiritually"
kill the Witnesses. That is not an insignificant point!
This is the remnant of the woman's seed whom satan will war with. These are those who have the testimony of Christ. This will take place
after the 1260 days (spiritually speaking). The Churches are made Apostate by the beast. It's as if the Two Witnesses (
Where two are gathered together in My name, there am I in the MIDST of them; -Mat.18:20) are dead because the Word which is the Life, is no longer in the Churches. When a Church goes Apostate, Christ is taken out of the Midst, and it is as a dead church. That's what Revelation chapter 11 speaks about. The gospel truth is silenced in the Churches, and no one cares that it is no longer preached. When Revelation 11 says they rejoiced when the Lord's witnesses were killed, this is the picture in view. They rejoiced because the
truth torments those who don't want to hear it. They are delighted that it's no longer in the Churches because they are deceived into thinking they are true Christians and can exchange gifts of false doctrines. The last 3 and 1/2 (time, times and a half) is what takes place after they are killed. It's the 3 and 1/2 days that they lie in the street, no one caring to bury them, signifies that when the gospel witness is silenced, no one cares that it's dead. It's what's spoken of in:
Dan 7:25-26
(25) And
he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and
think to change times and laws: and
they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
(26)
But the judgment shall sit, and
they shall take away his dominion, to
consume and to
destroy it unto the end.
Satan comes through men (aka false prophets and christs) speaking great Words against God in His Temple (Congregations). THIS is an abomination that will leave it desolate. They will
wear out the Saints who are given into his hand. In other words, the false prophets and christs look like they has triumphed over faithful witnesses with lies and false doctrines. People are glad that they don't have to deal with the true Word of God in the Churches anymore. They are happy there is liberal thinking in the churches. They rejoice that those who quote Scripture are dead (symbolically) and they don't care about them. That's the symbolic language of Revelation 11 of people seeing their dead bodies three and half days and not bothering to bury them with respect. For example, when you love someone and they die, you bury them. But these don't love the truth, they don't care that it's gone. They rejoice that it's gone. This is how they are DECEIVED by the beast, but after 3 and 1/2 days, these believers rise up and come out of this Church, as the spirit of life from God enters them to move them.
The first half of the week is what is happening to the Church preaching the Gospel to the world, safe from Satan's harm, for a time, times and a half or 1260 days. They are building the Holy Temple, filling in people who have been sealed by God. We are "LIVING" stones in this Holy Temple. The last half of the week is what happens
after their testimony is complete. This is when Satan is loosed and starts to overcome and eventually kill the Faithful Witnesses in the church, again, symbolically. IN other words, the truthful witnesses has been silenced.
Messiah the prince came to confirm (Strengthen) the Covenant by His Death. (Hebrews 9:15,16,17)
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The overview of Revelation Chapter 12 is of the Church Israel as Christ comes and delivers her to the assault on her by satan and his minions. She is typed as a woman bringing to birth and fed in the wilderness while the time of her testimony is nigh. It starts from before the cross, illustrates the birth of her deliverer, his work, the wilderness journey, to Satan's final attempt to
conquer the remnant of her seed for a short season. It's a symbolic picture of the New Covenant with Israel confirmed by Jesus Christ.
Revelation 12 has absolutely nothing to do with counting literal days, with national Israel after Christ’s ascension, with the 70 AD destruction theory, with some future antichrist, with a seven-year peace treaty, or with a so-called third temple. None of that! To twist the chapter into those man-made ideas is to completely miss the point of God’s revelation.
End of study!
@rwb
