Revelation 12 The Woman The Child And The Dragon Herbert R Sim The woman, the child, and the dragon. 1 now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. 3 and another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads. The third symbol of revelation 12—“a great, fiery red dragon” (verse 3)—is described as having drawn “a third of the stars of heaven” and standing “before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born” (verse 4). a few verses later, this dragon is clearly identified as satan: “so the great.
Revelation 12 The Woman The Child And The Dragon Herbert R Sim "the book of revelation" the woman, the child, & the dragon (12:1 17) introduction. with chapter twelve a transition is made between christ's judgment on jerusalem (chs. 6 11) and his judgment on rome (chs. 13 19) to expedite the transition, we are told of satan's effort to destroy the work of christ and his church. The woman points to the theotokos and the dragon points to her adversary, the devil. the dragon seeks to devour her son (rev. 12:4). we recall how herod sought to slay the child. by angelic intervention joseph was led to take mary and the child into the desert and on to egypt where they were safe. It begins with a woman and a dragon in revelation 12. it ends when the dragon (satan) is destroyed in “the lake of fire and brimstone” (rev 20:10) while “the bride, the wife of the lamb” is received in “a new heaven and a new earth” (rev 21:9, 1). by implication, it is the same woman at both the beginning and the end. 1. (revelation 12:3) a fearful, powerful dragon appears. and another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. a. another sign appeared in heaven: again, we are reminded that this is a sign.
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