Revelation Chapter 12


The twelfth chapter of Revelation has a dual fulfilment in Israel and the Church, both of which we shall look at. It is an interesting chapter because it spans from Lucifer’s fall in Heaven all the way to the Great Tribulation. The first verse opens with a great wonder in heaven, whereby John saw a woman who was to be a mother. The woman is Israel, the mother nation that produced the promised Son, Jesus the Messiah. Her being clothed with the sun speaks of the grace of God toward the nation despite its rollercoaster history throughout the ages. The moon under her feet represents the Law of Moses, upon which foundation the nation of Israel stood. As the moon reflects the light of the sun, so the Law was a reflection of good things to come in the ministry of the S-O-N. But the moon under Israel’s feet also speaks of when it shall have crossed the chasm from the Law to Grace under the ministry of the two Jewish prophets. The crown of twelve stars represents the twelve patriarchs who formed the nation of Israel.

The woman also represents the Church who was clothed with the S-O-N as it came into existence. The moon under Her feet speaks of Her being established at Pentecost, whereby She was to reflect Christ during His physical absence from the earth. The crown of twelve stars are the twelve apostles, upon which foundation the Church is built (Ephesians 2:20). The Bride of the last days is the full realization of the woman John saw, because She has the original doctrine of the twelve apostles, the lost truths of which were restored to Her by the message of the prophet.

After John saw the woman who is heavily pregnant, he then sees a great red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns upon its heads. The dragon is ultimately Satan (Revelation 12:9) who was the spiritual power behind the might of the Roman Empire. The seven heads are the hills upon which the city of Rome was first built: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal. The ten horns are ten barbarian tribes over which the revived Roman Empire would establish itself (the Alemanni, Anglo-Saxons, Burgundians, Franks, Heruli, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Suevi, Vandals, Visigoths). The barbarian tribes that destroyed the Roman Empire inadvertently ended up helping the pope rise to power on the ruins of it, by exalting him over the barbarians in Europe. The ten horns also look forward to ten military dictators, who will elevate the last pope (the Man of Sin) during the Great Tribulation.

The seven crowns began with Julius Caesar who was pontiff of the Babylonian mysteries, and destroyed the Roman Republic, after which he set himself up as dictator for life. Five members of his family followed him as emperors to establish the pagan Roman Empire as well as assume the role of pontiff, thus uniting politics and religion in one man. They were Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The seventh would be Galba, a military general who usurped the position of emperor for seven months before being killed.

The dragon is said to have cast down a third of the stars by its tail. The prophet of God tells us that the spelling ought to be t-a-l-e, because it was by deception or misinformation that the Jews would turn against their Messiah and kill Him. The Jews as Abraham’s seed were likened to the stars of heaven in Genesis 15:5, but when they rejected Christ, then they were cast down by having their names struck off the Book of Life. Jesus would say in Luke 10:20: Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Judas Iscariot was one of those stars whose name was written in Heaven, but when Satan entered into him and he sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, then his name too was struck off the Book of Life.

Though Satan was set on killing Jesus as a man, he was also equally set on killing Jesus as a young boy. The Bible tells us in Matthew chapter two of how Herod killed all the male boys under two years of age upon hearing from the magi that a King had been born. The man child was later caught up to Heaven via His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. This same man child whom the dragon failed to kill as a young child, would at the end of days become the ruler of the nations during the Millennium (Revelation 12:5), wherein Christ shall rule the world with a rod of iron; in other words, the nations will be subservient to His Word which will be enforced most rigorously.

The Jews were cut out of God’s plan at Calvary, and will come back into God’s plan again during the Great Tribulation. In the gap between their being cut out and grafted back in, the Gospel went to the Gentiles during the seven church ages. Verse fourteen is also connected with verse six, for it speaks of how the two Jewish prophets (represented by the two wings of a great eagle) will spiritually sustain the 144,000 Jews with the truth of the Gospel during the Great Tribulation, which is three-and-a-half years or 1260 days. Whilst bringing the Gospel to the Jews, the two prophets will provide protection to the nation of Israel by smiting the earth with plagues and calling down destruction upon the enemies that oppose them; for the nation of Israel and its Jewish people will be cut off and isolated from the nations of the world who hate them at that time. Israel’s isolation will be their spiritual wilderness.

Verses six and fourteen also have relevance to the Gentile Church, for they describe the terror and turmoil endured by the true Church during the Dark Ages of Catholic persecution. The early Church gave birth to the Word of God during the beginning of the first church age in the writing and compilation of the New Testament by eight different men. Despite all of Satan’s attempts to destroy the truth of God’s Word, yet it was miraculously preserved, for nothing can destroy that which has been established in Heaven. The Old Testament and the New Testament were the two wings of the great eagle in which the believers placed their faith, and found the strength and endurance to press on despite the persecution they faced.

As the two wings of the great eagle carried the woman into the wilderness, so the pilgrim fathers from England (whose faith was firmly established in the scriptures), tired of the endless persecution in Europe, sailed over to North America and landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. In the new world of America, they were safe from Catholic persecution and started a country without a king and a church without a pope, and eventually built America into the mightiest nation on earth.

Verses seven to nine look back to Eternity, when Lucifer made war against Michael (Christ) in Heaven. This was not a war of guns and bullets, but was a war of words, for if we remember back to how the dragon (Satan) later cast down a third of the stars (Abraham’s seed), he did so by the tale he told; by words or information. Lucifer and the angels he gathered to himself never did have eternal life. They only have temporal life, for their end is to be destroyed in the Lake of Fire. But the angels that stayed faithful to Michael, they could not be deceived nor fall because they always possessed eternal life.

And who were the angels that did not fall? The answer is twofold. The angels that did not fall are firstly the theophanies (Matthew 18:10) or heavenly representation of God’s sons and daughters. Our existence was firstly in Heaven, and because we were not deceived in Heaven, then when our attribute or soul lived out its existence in flesh on the earth, there was no way that we could be deceived here. Secondly, the angels are God’s created servants (supernatural beings) who are sent to forth to watch over God’s sons and daughters on the earth (Hebrews 1:14).

When Lucifer and his angels were cast out of Heaven, they lost their position in the economy of God and became disembodied spirits which were deformed into hideous devils. Lucifer had his name changed from “light bearer” to “adversary” (Satan), and his new abode became Hell (which was created for the Devil and his angels). The earth too became Satan’s domain as a squatter and as the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2) after Adam and his wife fell. Having lost their angelic bodies in Heaven, Satan and his devils then found flesh to dwell in via the stream of human beings. This we learned about under the fifth trumpet in Revelation Chapter Nine.

A space of thousands of years elapses between Satan being cast out of Heaven in the beginning, and his being cast down from Heaven at the end. When the Bride of seven church ages is raptured into Glory, then Satan as the accuser of the brethren (Revelation 12:10) will be cast down from Heaven, meaning that he no longer has access to accuse us before God. As the public prosecutor, Satan is currently allowed this official place in Heaven (Zechariah 3:1).

The Bride will be rejoicing in Heaven at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Revelation 12:12) whilst the rest of the world experiences the shock and horror that shall be unleashed upon it during the Great Tribulation when Satan incarnates himself inside the Man of Sin. Upon being cast down, Satan will go after the woman which is Israel. Israel will be invaded by Russia and the Beast, the invasion of which will be stalled by the two Jewish prophets whilst the 144,000 Jews are experiencing a revival by the revelation of the seven trumpets being preached to them, for what the seven seals are to the Gentile Bride, is what the seven trumpets will be to the Jews.

The long succession of popes which the Catholic Church claims started with Peter is in essence the long curvaceous body of the serpent, whose head will be the Antichrist or Man of Sin whom Satan will incarnate (Revelation 12:14). The Jewish prophet with Moses’ ministry will be especially familiar with Satan as a serpent, for Moses cast down his rod and it became a serpent, which he then picked up by the tail (Exodus 4:3-4); but at the end time, Moses shall confront the serpent face-to-face. Furthermore, as Moses had to take the serpent by the tail, so the ministry of Moses will prove all of Satan’s lies (his t-a-l-e) to be false by taking everything back to the scriptures.

Satan’s attempt to destroy the woman (Israel) will be as a flood. The flood represents the multitudes of people (Revelation 17:15) or the whole world which is uniting against Israel, and shall gather against it at Armageddon (Zechariah 14:2). It also represents the abundance of fake news designed to demonize Israel and stir-up antisemitism. This flood of evil, before it is entirely concentrated against Israel, is concurrently being pushed against the Bride in an attempt to destroy the woman in whom the Word (the S-O-N) is being made flesh again.

But the earth will help the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing up the flood which the dragon casts out of its mouth (Revelation 12:16). This speaks of the great supernatural that will take place under the ministry of the two Jewish prophets whilst they are calling the Jews back to the true Atonement. The two prophets will call forth earthquakes that will swallow up the advancing forces of Russia and the Beast, they can call forth flies to fill the air and choke the engines of the latest fighter jets in mid-flight, and they can command a mountain of Israel (Matthew 21:21) to be hurled into the Mediterranean Sea, creating a tsunami that smashes into the armada of enemy ships stationed there, sinking many of them. These are but examples of the tremendous and advanced capabilities that God has over any technological assault of the enemy in this age of rising artificial intelligence, which man believes can successfully war against the supreme intelligence of God.

In failing to overrun the nation of Israel and exterminate the Jews whilst the two prophets are bringing the true Atonement back to Israel, Satan will turn his fury upon the remnant of the woman’s seed (Revelation 12:17) who will be mercilessly hunted down and brutally murdered during the Great Tribulation. The remnant of the woman’s seed are the thousands of foolish virgins in the message of the hour who are left behind when the Bride is translated, because they were never sealed by the Holy Ghost, which is the garment that clothes the soul, and is the robe we must wear in order to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

The foolish virgins are called the remnant because they are of the same cloth as the Bride, but the pattern of the Word was not placed upon them; so whilst the Bride is “cut out,” the foolish virgins will be “cut off” and discarded into the Great Tribulation where they will seal their testimony with their blood. The foolish virgins are saved, for they have the testimony of Jesus, but they just were not ordained to walk in the Light of the revealed Word for the age. However, the measure of understanding that they do have, this they will willingly lay down their lives for.

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