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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:8

And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.And he prevailed not — The dragon himself is principally mentioned; but his angels, likewise, are to be understood.Neither was this place found any more in heaven — So till now he had a place in heaven. How deep a mystery is this! One may compare this with Luke 10:18; Ephesians 2:2; 4:8; 6:12. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 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.And the great dragon was cast out — It is not yet said, unto the earth - He was cast out of heaven; and at this the inhabitants of heaven rejoice. He is termed the great dragon, as appearing here in that shape, to intimate his poisonous and cruel disposition.The ancient serpent — In allusion to his deceiving Eve... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 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.Now is come — Hence it is evident that all this chapter belongs to the trumpet of the seventh angel. In the eleventh chapter, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth verse, are proposed the contents of this extensive trumpet; the execution of which is copiously... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 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.And they have overcome him — Carried the cause against him.By the blood of the Lamb — Which cleanses the soul from all sin, and so leaves no room for accusing.And by the word of their testimony — The word of God, which they believed and testified, even unto death. So, for instance, died Olam, king of Sweden, in the year900, whom his own subjects would have compelled... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 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.Woe to the earth and the sea — This is the fourth and last denunciation of the third woe, the most grievous of all. The first was only, the second chiefly, on the earth, Asia; the third, both on the earth and the sea, Europe. The earth is mentioned first, because it began in Asia,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:1

PERSONALITIES OF THE ANTICHRISTIC WAR, Revelation 12:1 to Revelation 13:18. Satanic dragon and man child Christ, Revelation 12:1-6. 1. And In the opening of this chapter three representative beings appear on the scene. The man child, Christ; the mother; and the dragon, ready to devour the child. The grouping at once suggests the source whence the symbolism is drawn. We at once think of the virgin mother, the infant Jesus, and the murderous Herod. Yet the subsequent wilderness history... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:1-17

IV. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, Revelation 7:1 to Revelation 20:10. Of the trumpets, the first four are mundane, or earthly; each of the four blasts draws down a judgment upon some creational point, as earth, sea, fountains and rivers; firmamental luminaries. It is the sins of men that draw down these bolts of wrath, rendering every point of creation hostile to our peace. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake,” (Genesis 3:17,) is the key-note. This sad status of humanity has existed through all past... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:2

2. Cried Even in her celestial exaltation the woman is writhing in womanly agony. Type of how divine a thing is human maternity! Science may find in it but an animal process of “evolution;” but as the incarnation showed what divinity there is in humanity, so the maternity of the incarnate shows what a divine type is stamped upon human birth. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:3

3. Dragon Name and shape allude to the Edenic serpent. With this primitive serpent the present dragon is very expressly identified in Revelation 12:9, and again re-identified in Revelation 20:2. He is the personal Satan, Revelation 12:9, arrayed in the skin of the Roman empire. So Rome’s great predecessor, Egypt, Ezekiel 29:3, is a dragon: “I am against thee, Pharaoh, the great dragon that liest in the midst of its rivers.” Probably the physical reference is to the crocodile. In the second... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:4

4. Third part of the stars Allusively based on the history of the fallen angels, and given here to magnify the dragon’s power. read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:9

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:10

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:11

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 12:12

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:1-17

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:2

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:3

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 12:4

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