The Fire From Heaven

Revelation 12:3 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.


The dragon "has" the seven heads, etc. meaning...he controls them, he gives power to that first beast...a one world system. Red, as used in describing the great dragon is.... # 4450 ~ fire like, flame colored

• Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Where else do we read of wonders and fire? The second beast of Revelation, the religious beast "doeth great wonders"......

• Revelation 13:13-14 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

The second, religious, beast "doeth great wonders" in making "fire come down from heaven." It maketh the great red dragon, a great wonder, come down from heaven! The fire IS the great red dragon. So, the religious beast is, I believe, the false prophet(s) that are under the great dragon's influence. Those two beasts (political and religious) are destroyed at the end of this age. [Rev.19:20]

What are these miracles of "fire from heaven?" There are two types of fire from heaven....of God and of the great red dragon. His will deceive those that "dwell on the earth?" We that are indwelt by the Holy Spirit no longer "dwell on earth" and we will NOT be deceived by his fire.

• 2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
  
  2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
  
  Psalm 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
  
  Exodus 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  
  Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
  
  Revelation 9:17-18 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
• • Brimstone #2303 ~ of #2304 (in its orig. sense of FLASHING); sulphur: - brimstone. #2304 from #2316 GODLIKE (neut. as noun, divinity): - divine, godhead. #2316 a deity, espec. (with 35888) the supreme Divinity: fig. a magistrate: by heb. very: - exceeding, God, god[ly].

The great RED dragon is "fire like." He is the brimstone, the flashing, godlike, deceiving, great dragon. He is the wonder that will come down from heaven...with his horses and chariots of fire!