Armageddon... a Lamb stood on it and with him 144,000! (Rev. 14:1)

Study: "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. ... and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born . And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne." Revelation 12:3-5 Revelation 12 & 13 have their foundation in Daniel 7 . This will be most obvious when we study the sea beast of Revelation 13 . According to Daniel 7 , a beast is a line of kings, a dynasty  or a kingdom. "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth." Daniel 7:17 "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break i...

Study: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered ." Revelation 12:1,2 What is this pregnancy? Notice the words of Jesus: "Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.  A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.  And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart...

Study: Recall Revelation 12 and the structures of it. We will just look at the top of the structures. Revelation 12:1-4b Revelation 12:7-9 ... And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon... And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and did cast them to the earth :...       And the great dragon was cast out , that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth , and his angels were cast out with him. Recall that "...that old serpent ... which deceiveth the whole world..." references the Fall of Adam and Eve in the garde...

Text: "For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:12 ; "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:18 Quote: [...] Nor was glass in ancient times, so far as we know, ever applied to the production of mirrors. These were made of some sort of metal---the larger and more expensive ones of silver, and those in more common use of what is denominated brass, though it is understood to have been a compound of copper and tin, not copper and zinc, which are the real ingredients in brass. Hence the laver for the tabernacle was made of the looking-glasses which had belonged to the pious women who statedly attended upon the services of the sanctuary, Ex. xxxviii. 8. Hence also in Job the sky is ...

Study: Recall the structure of Revelation 12 : Revelation 12:1-6 Revelation 12:7-17 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. vss. 1-3 And there was war in heaven : Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven . vss. 7,8 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a ma...

Quote: Σατανᾶς, Satanas. Rev. [...]      12: 9. called the Devil, and  Satan,      20: 2. which is the devil, and  Satan , Wigram, George Vicesimus, The Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the Greek and the English texts including a concordance to the proper names with indexes Greek-English, and English-Greek , 2nd ed., London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1844, p. 861 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/englishmansgreek00wig Book Images:

Study: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne . And the woman fled  into the wilderness , where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven : Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; ...

Quote: διάβολος, diabolos. Rev. [...]       12:9. that old serpent, called the Devil ,          12. the  devil  is come down unto you,       20:2. that old serpent, which is the  devil ,          10. the devil that deceived them was Wigram, George Vicesimus, The Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the Greek and the English texts including a concordance to the proper names with indexes Greek-English, and English-Greek , 2nd ed., London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1844, pp. 143 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/englishmansgreek00wig Book Images:

Text:  "And  the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood  after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman,  and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth ."  Revelation 12:15,16 Quote: W ashington  (E.), Wassingatun, Town of Wasa's race or descendants . Wasa or vasa, faun, satyr .    W illiam de  H ertburn , Lord of the manor of Washington, co. Durham, was living in the thirteenth century. His descendant, J ohn  W ashington , of Whitfield, is believed to have been the first who assumed the name of Washington. From him sprang J ohn  W ashington , who emigrated to America, and was great-grandfather of G eorge  W ashington , Pater Patriæ, n. 1732, ob. s. p. 1799. Dixon, Bernard Homer, Surnames , Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son, 1857, p. 79 . Online Source:   archi...

Text: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth ." Revelation 12:15,16 Quote: Tu'n, es; m . [ Plat . tuun m. a hedge, garden: Dut. tuin m. a garden, hedge: Ger.  zaun m. a hedge: Old Ger. tune, zun: Not. steinzun a wall: Icel. tún n. viridarium, pratum domesticum: Wel. din, dinas a city: Gael. tuin f. a dwelling-place: Ir.Gael. dun m. a fortress, a tower, a fortified hill, a hill, hedge, heap: Ir. taim f. a town. --- tynan to enclose ] [...] [...] 3. A place of residence, house, dwelling, village, Town, a territory lying within the bounds of a town; habitaculum, domus, vicus, villa, oppidum. [...] Bosworth, Joseph, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language , London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brow...

Text: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth ." Revelation 12:15,16 Quote: [...] the word was-a, gen. wasan (masc.), satyrus , faunus , a sort of genius of the woods, also wudewasa, faunus sylvaticus . This word is allied to the clearly formed word wasjan, insanire , furere , bacchari; also to the Old Norse vasa, licentius incidere; vas (neut.), licentior incisus , animosior progressus . [...] [...] Wassing is derived from wasa, faunus , and is a patronymic---the descendant of a vasa. Examples: Wassingburg, Wassingatún, Wassingwel. Leo, Heinrich, Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, as exhibited in the "Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici," London: Edward Lumley, 1852, ...

Text:  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman  Jezebel , which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.  Revelation 2:20   Quote: Jezebel, chaste. Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight, Hitchcock's New and complete analysis of the Holy Bible or, The whole of the Old and New Testaments arranged according to subjects in twenty-seven books , New York: A.J. Johnson, 1871, p. 1109 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/hitchcocksnewcom71hitc Book Images: