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FASCINATING FIGHTING (22 OF 32)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Revelation 12:1-17
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Title: Fascinating Fighting (22 of 32)
Series: The Book of all Books
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Revelation 12:1-17


I - The Weeping Woman (1 - 6)

II - The Winless War (7 - 12a)

III - The Wretched Woe (12b - 17)

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The "Book of Books" is tough to interpret, if you get certain scriptures incorrect, you get the entire book wrong. I am a firm believer that the book was written with three distinct purposes, which we are clearly told in the opening chapter of the book. This is the entire template to understanding this book, John was to write down three phases of this encounter on the Isle of Patmos:

Revelation Part 1 "The things thou hast seen" Chapter 1

Revelation Part 2 "The things which are" Chapters 2 - 3

Revelation Part 3 "The things which shall be hereafter" Chapters 4 - 22

Part 1 "The Sovereign Christ" Chapter 1

Part 2 "The Seven Churches" Chapters 2 - 3

Part 3 "The Spectacular Conclusion Chapters 4 - 22

The chapter before us is one of the most confusing and the most misinterpreted chapters of the entire book. If you decipher the various characters of this chapter wrong, then you get the whole thing wrong. I came across the following insight from Pastor Alan Carr, and he is spot on in his assessment:

We are moving into the second half of the book of Revelation today. This second portion opens with an amazing vision of some great wonders on the heavens.

Let me remind you that the book of Revelation is not written in chronological order.

- Chapters 4-9 take us all the way through the end of the Tribulation Period.

- Chapters 10-11 are passages that stand as like a parenthesis in the action. They reveal some of the "behind the scenes" activities of the Lord.

- Chapter 11 takes us to the very edge of eternity. It closes with the Lord Jesus claiming His rightful dominion over this universe and it reveals as the inhabitants of th ...

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