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Senior Sunday School 4 : Book of Revelation : Lesson 36

Text: Revelation 12:13-17
25 May 2025

Revelation 12

13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:13-17

THE DRAGON CAST OUT OF HEAVEN

Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

Revelation 12:13

1. He was cast out of heaven

2. He was cast to earth

3. The dragon’s wrath

a) Against the woman (Israel)
b) The Messiah came from the line of Judah

THE PROTECTION OF ISRAEL

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

Revelation 12:14

1. Given the wings of a great eagle

2. She was able to fly to the wilderness for her protection

3. She was nourished for 3.5 years

4. She was kept safe from the wrath of the serpent

MORE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL

15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

Revelation 12:15-16

1. The serpent’s attack

a) He spewed water from his mouth
b) He wanted to destroy Israel with a flood

2. The help of the earth

a) The earth helped
b) God will always send help to Israel
c) The flood did not destroy Israel

WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS

17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:17

1. The war effort against Israel failed

2. This was an attack against the nation of Israel

3. The dragon was now even more incensed against Israel

4. The attack tactics changed

5. The attack was now focused
“War with the rest of her offspring”

a) Those who keep the commandments of God
b) Those who have the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ