Satan: Next Sign in Heaven (Rev. 12:3-4)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 08/06/2005

 

My Worship Time                                                        Focus:  Next sign in heaven:  Satan

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  Revelations 12:3-4

 

            Message of the verse:  “3 And another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.

4 And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven, and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.”

These verses are surely speaking of Satan, and as far as the seven heads and the ten horns this will be brought up again and will be dealt with then.  It has always been the desire of Satan to destroy the way for the Messiah to come, but he failed at that and even though He may have though he succeeded  when he had Christ killed in reality that is what sealed his eventual fate of spending eternity in hell. Verse four seems to speaking about a time in the past when Satan rebelled against God and took a third of the angels with him, but it also speaks of when Satan tried to kill the Messiah when He was born, but of course never happened.  There are times when it is difficult to understand all of the symbolism that John wrote about in this book, however the best commentary for the book of Revelation is the rest of the Scriptures.

 

Spiritual meaning for my life today:   There are many times in my life when it seems like evil will win out over good, however the Scriptures say otherwise and even though times can get bad the end of the story has already been told and we win.  In these verses I am reminded of all of those little ones who were killed after Christ was born as Satan caused Herod to kill those little ones thinking that one of them was the Christ, but God saved His Son from death and caused good to triumph over evil.  This could be the same with the investment that we are involved in because there was much of the proceeds that came out of it that were going for the cause of Christ and yet in the end I do believe that God will work this all out for His glory.

 

The Word of God was both challenging to my heart and it was also refreshing at the same time.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord as we go through these unsure times concerning our investments that God will work it out for our good and for His glory.

Memory verse for the week:  1Thes. 4:3-6

 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification;, that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor; not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.