What would happen on earth if war broke out in heaven? John is allowed to witness a cosmic clash of immense proportions as the Archangel Michael battles Satan and his demonic hordes. When Satan and his demons are subsequently cast down to earth, however, an ominous warning is issued: “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows he has a short time.”
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - War in Heaven, Chaos on Earth | March 28, 2025
- What would happen on earth if war suddenly broke out in heaven?
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- The answer next on israel the prophetic connection.
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- Music
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: on the hills behind me a very famous biblical place
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- It's called bethlehem.
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- The hebrew it's beit-lechem which means house of bread
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- Because bethlehem in biblical times
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- Was surrounded by fields.
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- It was here that boaz found that young moabite woman ruth
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- And they married and of course had children and from them came king david
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- Born here in bethlehem 3000 years ago.
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- And then a thousand years after david
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- One of his descendants named jesus of nazareth
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- Because he was raised in nazareth but he was born here in bethlehem
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- As a fulfilment of all the prophets had said.
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- Wise men from the east were alert to the birth of a newborn king
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- They must have understood the hebrew scriptures
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- But they were looking for signs in the stars as well.
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- And they came here, not here but to jerusalem and they came to herod.
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- So whoever they were they were important enough to gain an audience with herod the king.
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- And they told him we've heard of a new born king
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- And ummm we've come in search of him.
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- And herod was cunning and wiley and he said to them
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- Well when you find him come back and tell me
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- And then i'll come and worship him worship him in the same way you're going to worship him.
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- And we know that those, those three king's of the orient
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- Presented gold, frankincence and myrrh
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- But having seen the king, the newborn king and having worshipped him
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- They were wise enough to go home a different way.
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- They didn't go back to jerusalem and to herod.
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- When herod discovered that they had done that he was livid
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- And in fact he unleashed his soldiers and sent them to bethlehem.
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- He was going to kill every newborn up to the age of 2 years of age all male children
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- Not only in bethlehem but in the surrounding region.
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- He wanted to make sure he had absolutely wiped out this threat to his throne
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- This idea of a new king of judea that had been born according to prophesy
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- And signs in the sky.
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- I see the massacre of the innocents in bethlehem as the work of satan.
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- Satan wanted to snuff out the life of that newborn child as soon as it was born.
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- He didn't succeed then.
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- He succeeded later some 33 years later when christ was crucified in jerusalem
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- And we know that satan was behind that crucifixion.
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- But christ surprised him and in three days he rose again.
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- But the book of revelation talks about a future time
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- When satan will be cast out down out of heaven and down into the earth
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- And he'll have great wrath knowing he has but a short time
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- That hasn't happened yet but the bible says
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- Those days lie just ahead of us.
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- Narrator: chapter 12 is very much like an unfolding drama with a cast of mysterious players
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- Who appear in symbolic ways that makes them difficult to identify much less understand.
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- What is clear however is that there's a coming clash of spiriitual forces in heaven
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- That will mean catastrophe for those living on the earth.
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- Barry: in revelation chapter 12
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- We read about a final war in the heavenlies the third woe
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- Between satan and his fallen angels
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- And also the archangel michael who is also protecting israel and his forces.
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- But this takes me back to another description of satan himself
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- Where yeshua describes him as the lord of the flies baal-zebub
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- Where as yeshua is referred to as adonai shavuot
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- The lord of the armies.
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- Now in the beginning of creation we also read
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- In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.
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- And then when you go the genesis chapter 1 verse 2 it talks about
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- In hebrew that the earth was formless and void but in hebrew it was in a state of confusion
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- Almost like it came out of uhhh
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- Not only just void but conflict
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- Which meant that there could have very well been a pre-adamic race
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- And great war in the heavenlies then that of course was the rebellion of satan against god.
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- Pastor wayne: the destiny of ever saint every child of god is heaven.
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- That's our goal that's where we're headed.
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- On the other hand the devil gets cast down from heaven to the earth
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- He doesn't belong in heaven
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- And as he's fighting against the messiah
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- Wants to be on his throne
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- God will have the last say and he will be cast down.
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- Barry: satan though thinks he's got the upper hand still.
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- But he doesn't know he's on the losing end
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- And we the saints of god
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- Will overcome by the power of the blood of the lamb
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- And the word of our testimony
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- Together with our angelic leader michael and his forces
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- And yeshua the adonai shavuot the lord god of heaven and earth.
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- Narrator: but who are these mysterious or symbolic figures
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- That are a part of the drama in chapter 12?
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- Peter: well in this chapter the figurative language uhhh is very interesting.
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- I believe that the four figures that are introduced to us
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- The woman, the child, the dragon
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- And michael the arch angel are playing out this final drama that
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- Has also to with with uhhh with uhhh with biblical history.
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- I think it's clear that the woman is israel
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- And uhhh she gives birth to to the messiah to the christ
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- And though people who are his people that are his followers
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- Would be what we would call the the christian church but it would also include
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- The messianic jews of today.
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- Uhhh michael the arch angel is the is the warrior angel of god.
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- His name (speaks hebrew) who is like god and and
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- He's sent on assignment to make war uhhh against the dragon.
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- And so we have this this working out of this end time conflict
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- And i believe that in these end times this there's going to be an identification between
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- The followers of jesus which are the christian's and the messianic jews and the nation of israel.
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- And that there's going to be a ummm tremendous pressure and tremendous uhhh
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- Persecution placed not only on the believers but also uhhh against the people of israel
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- And the jewish people around the world.
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- Ummm you might say i wouldn't go so far as to say another holocaust
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- But i would go far, as far to say as another wave of world wide antisemitism
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- And i believe that this is something in the in the devil's heart
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- And is uhhh is uhhh satanic plan.
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- And we also we're beginning to see it it surface uhhh
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- In the middle east of course uhhh in a particularly awful way
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- But i believe it's also going to spread around the world
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- In the end times before the return of the lord.
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- Does chapter 12 describe a coming clash of spiritual kingdoms
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- That will occur before the end of days?
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- Pastor wayne: in ephesians chapter 6 paul tells us that our battle is not against flesh and blood
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- But against principalities and powers in high places.
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- Really the greatest battle even now is in the heavenlies
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- Outside of the realm of earth and it will intensify
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- In that third woe where there's michael on one side and his angels
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- And there's the devil and his hordes on the other side.
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- I like the fact that it's not jesus against satan here.
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- Clearly it's not dualism you know
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- Equal powers and you don't know who's really going to win.
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- It's michael taking on the devil
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- And so we're looking at people who don't have ultimate power
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- They're not deity they're not divine.
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- Jesus ultimately is that one who will win that war and will sit on the throne.
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- Narrator: while the images and content of chapter 12
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- May be too much for the rational mind to accept or comprehend
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- If there is an evil spiritual being called the dragon or satan
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- Then surely an ultimate clash between this kingdom of darkness governed by him
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- And the kingdom of light with it's champion michael is all the more likely.
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- If so then this unfolding drama may occur precisely as john the apostle observed in his prophetic visions.
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- And as he described it in revelation chapter 12.
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: when we come to chapter 12 of revelation
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- We have what seems like an unfolding drama
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- With four primary players.
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- We have a woman who is clothed with the sun
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- And then we have figure a man child that comes from the woman
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- That's not really defined beyond that.
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- And then we have a dragon
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- And that's really a synonym for satan or the devil.
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- And then finally we have an individual named michael.
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- And of course michael we know from other scriptures is the arch angel of god.
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- And the whole scene in heaven seems to be about a war that takes place
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- In the heavenlies and the end result is that satan is cast down to the earth
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- But let's take it a step at a time as the scriptures
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- As john writes what he sees and we see the unfolding drama in his words.
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- In revelation 12 and beginning in verse 1:
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- Scripture
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- And obviously she represents something.
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- Scripture
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- So those, those things always, heads represent authority, powers, diadems as the same thing.
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- So these could represent nations on the earth in the time of this particular vision.
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- Scripture
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- And of course this may well be angels or fallen angels
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- Evil angels serving satan who are cast down to the earth.
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- It becomes more clear as the drama unfolds and we come to the later verses in this particular chapter.
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- Scripture
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- Now obviously the child is a threat to the dragon figure.
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- Scripture
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- Now that is a very strong clue to the identity of the child the woman bears.
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- He's going to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
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- Scripture
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- Or if you like 3 and a half years or 42 lunar months.
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- Now let me just pause here for a moment
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- And try to give you a bit of an interpretation of who these characters may be.
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- The twelve stars are a clue to the fact that israel had 12 tribes
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- And they may well be represented.
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- So the woman and it's an interpretation and probably if you read various commentaries
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- You, you'll find different interpretations because remember these
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- John is describing what he sees
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- And we have the disadvantage of trying to understand what he's trying to convey to us
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- When there are 2000 years between john's times and our times.
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- But be that as it may let me suggest that this woman
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- Clothed in the sun with the moon under her feet may well represent the nation of israel.
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- And the dragon we know because it's explained is none other than satan.
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- And the male child born to the woman who is a son of israel obviously
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- Well could be jesus of nazareth the son of god.
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- And of course as soon as christ was born
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- Uhhh we know that herod became the instrument of evil and dispatched his army to bethlehem
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- To kill all of the male children 2 years old and under
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- Because he wanted to wipe out the birth of this child.
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- He didn't want this child the newborn king being a threat to his kingdom and his throne.
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- And of course satan came later 33 years later
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- And succeeded where he had failed the first time
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- And christ was crucified somewhere back there
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- Outside the city walls of jerusalem according to the gospel account.
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- But of course satan hadn't anticipated
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- That he would be resurrected from the dead
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- And would rule as king of king's and lord of lord's.
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- And the woman fleeing here
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- May be synonyms with the fact that according to the book of revelation
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- A time of great trouble is coming for israel.
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- And of course jesus talked about that and told the people to flee
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- Get as far away from jerusalem as you possibly can
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- Because of the events taking place in jerusalem
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- I believe this is the coming of the anti-christ figure
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- The armies of the nations that are going to surround jerusalem
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- And when this begins to happen you don't want to be in the city you want to be far from it.
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- And just beyond the hills you can see in the distance
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- Is the wilderness and beyond the wilderness the jordan valley
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- And beyond the jordan valley the kingdom of jordan and over there
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- A place called petra a red rock city which some think
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- Could become a place of refuge for the jewish people.
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- So i continue to read in john's gospel in chapter 12:
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- Scripture
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- You know there's a scripture that says that satan has access to the presence of god
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- And that he accuses the brethren the christian's before god day and night.
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- But this particular verse seems to suggest a line in the sand
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- A line of demarcation and after it satan has no more access to the throne room of god
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- He can no longer accuse the brethren day and night.
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- So we read in verse 9:
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- Scripture
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- And here he is identified very very clearly
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- Scripture
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- There's a, michael appears in daniel chapter 12
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- Which is an apocalyptic passage
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- Where daniel is shown things the same way john was shown the prophetic future
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- But then daniel is told to seal up the things that he saw and not reveal them.
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- But michael appears there and he seems to appear as the arch angel with a special responsibility
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- For the children of israel for the nation of israel.
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- That's a matter of interpretation but very clearly michael was there then
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- In babylon 2500 years ago
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- And ummm here is again in the prophetic future so
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- As always angels are are not limited by time and circumstance.
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- But he is the primary angel who leads the armies of heaven
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- In the battle against satan who himself is simply a fallen angel
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- Who tried to ummm unseat god from his glorious throne.
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- And then we read these words and of course satan's cast down to the earth together with his angels.
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- Now as the drama continues and it is a wonderful drama being played out for us in the scriptures.
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- Scripture
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- Meaning satan
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- That line in the sand that i'm speaking of.
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- Scripture
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- That is christian's overcame him the devil
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- Scripture: meaning jesus
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- Scripture
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- And then these words in verse 12:
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- Scripture
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- In revelation chapter 8 verse 13
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- Episode 8 of this series on revelation
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- We saw that there were three woes to come.
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- Well this then is the third and final woe
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- When satan is cast out of heaven down to the earth.
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- That's described as the third woe which completes the three woes we read about.
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- And it says a warning to the inhabitants of the earth
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- Ummm because the devil has come down to you
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- Having great wrath because he knows he has a short time.
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- Somehow he understands that he's on a short leash that the coming of the lord
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- Uhhh the king of kings and the lord of lord's is coming.
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- So satan is going to do as much damage as possible
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- In the time he has at his disposal
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- And that's the point of the verse i believe.
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- Now verse 13:
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- Scripture: satan
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- I'm back to israel again.
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- The woman representing israel.
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- Intense persecution, listen we would have said that the
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- Persecution of the 1930's in the prelude to the second world war
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- When hitler's hordes were already persecuting the jewish people
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- And then that awful holocaust
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- That claimed 6 million men, woman and children, jewish lives
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- In christian europe so called at that time.
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- We would have said that can never happen again
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- But look what's happening in the world around us.
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- Jew's are targeted in paris
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- In when they go to the supermarket.
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- And so we're seeing the rise of antisemitism again and even on university campuses
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- In the western world jewish students if they seem to be jewish students by the way they dress
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- Ummm are at risk in the same way they were so long ago.
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- Scripture
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- Now that's interesting because it says god she has a place.
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- It's obviously a place that god has prepared
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- A place of safety, refugee from this antisemitic ummm
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- Tidal wave that's coming against the jewish people again at least that's how i interpret it.
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- That's how i believe it and that god says he (not audible)
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- And the two wings of a great eagle.
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- You know in the history of modern israel
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- There have been a number of airlifts.
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- Certainly there were airlifts of jewish people out of ethiopia some years ago
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- And john has never seen an aeroplane.
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- So he sees what as far as he's concerned two wings of a great eagle
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- And that's how he describes it but he might well be describing what he saw in the vision
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- An aeroplane or numerous aeroplanes
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- Ummm airlifting the jewish people to safety.
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- But that's not all that happens in chapter 12.
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- Scripture
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- So if we say a time is one
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- And times plural is two more
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- And a half a time that can be interpreted in symbolic language of 3 and a half years
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- And of course that's what the passage tells us.
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- In john's language again a time times plural meaning 2 and a half a time meaning half a year.
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- So for 3 and a half years this woman is nourished
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- And if, if i just interpret that a bit more i would say
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- Perhaps this is in the second half of the tribulation period
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- The seven year period of great tribulation
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- That christ said would come and the prophet's write about as well.
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- And then (not audible) listen to this, this is a miracle
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- A supernatural miracle, verse 16:
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- Scripture
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- Now let me interpret that for you
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- He goes after the jewish people who are fleeing from him.
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- Perhaps they're airlifted, who knows.
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- But when his army pursues them over the landscape
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- The earth opens up and swallows them.
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- And this has happened before in scripture as well.
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- So the point is that he can not pursue
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- The jewish people to their place of refuge
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- Which could be in the kingdom of jordan or somewhere else.
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- So then he turns his attention cause he's so full of hatred
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- He turns his attention then to the other half of god's people
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- Described as those having the testimony of jesus christ.
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- So what do we have here?
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- We have a drama that's yet to come
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- That will be played out in heaven.
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- Who the characters are is certainly open to interpretation
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- But there are enough clues in there to identify some of them at least
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- Very clearly and certainly the christian's we can identify
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- Because they have the testimony of jesus christ.
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- This is what the future looks like from john's perspective.
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- And living in the 21st century the world we live in today
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- When we see this huge antisemitic purge
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- And the persecution of christian's
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- It's not hard to believe that we're on the edge
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- Of the fulfilment of the drama of revelation chapter 12.
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- Rev. dr. john tweedie: many people today are so busy keeping up with the demands of life in the 21st century
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- That they don't realize that the prophetic clock is ticking.
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- I believe it began to count faster with the rebirth of israel in 1948.
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- According to the book of revelation
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- It will count down toward armageddon
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- As the judgements of god are poured out on the earth.
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- I'm standing on a main street in the city of tiberius
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- On the western shore of the sea of galilee.
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- This community of a mixed population of arabs and jews is thriving.
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- It has been thriving for almost 2000 years
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- Unlike 3 other communities around the shores of the sea of galilee that jesus cursed
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- And we read that in matthew chapter 11.
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- But even these people as they go about their daily work
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- How many of them i wonder are aware that the prophetic clock is counting down toward
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- The valley of armageddon not very far from here.
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- In revelation chapter 12 the third woe occurs
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- And really the third woe is when there is a war in heaven and satan is cast out into the earth.
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- And then it says:
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- Scripture
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- People go about their daily lives
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- But all the while the prophetic clock is counting down
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- Towards armageddon.
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