FBFC Men’s Thursday night Bible study

11 March, 1999

May God watch over us as we look to Him for clarity and unity regarding this great Prophesy that He has left for us. May He guide our thoughts, our words and our conversation and may He grace us by allowing His Holy Spirit to be present with us.

• The Woman and the Child.

What may be the significant in how the woman is described in verse 1?

Note that she is not only pregnant (verse 2) but also at the end of her term, about to give birth.

• The Great Red Dragon

v 3: "…having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads." Significance? (see Chapter 17)

V 4: If the Dragon is so ferocious, then why must he make such a display of violence towards a pregnant woman? If the Dragon is so powerful then how much of a threat can a baby be to it?

12:5

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with

a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his

throne.

12:6

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place

prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two

hundred and threescore days.

12:7

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought

against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

12:8

And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in

heaven.

12:9

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the

Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out

into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

12:10

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,

and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his

Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused

them before our God day and night.

12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word

of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

12:12

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to

the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come

down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he

hath but a short time.

12:13

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he

persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

12:14

And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she

might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is

nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of

the serpent.

12:15

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the

woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

12:16

And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth,

and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his

mouth.

12:17

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.