PART 12 THE DEVIL’S ACTIVITIES REVELATION 12

TEXT- REVELATION 12:1-17

INTRODUCTION

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF SATAN'S GOALS TO SEE THE NATION OF ISRAEL ANNIHILATED.

HERE IN THIS CHAPTER WE FIND WHERE SATAN TRIES TO DO THIS VERY SAME THING.

THROUGHOUT HISTORY SATAN HAS TRIED TO DO THIS IN ORDER THAT JESUS COULD NOT BE BORN OR TO TRY TO KEEP HIM FROM PERFORMING GOD'S WILL OR PURPOSE OR TO TRY TO MAKE GOD'S WORD A LIE.

IN GENESIS 6;2 WE SEE WHERE ALL OF MANKIND WAS CORRUPT, BUT IN GENESIS 6:9 WE SEE THAT ONLY ONE FAMILY WAS NOT CONTAMINATED, THIS WAS NOAH'S FAMILY.

IN EXODUS 1:8-16 WE CAN SEE HOW SATAN TRIED AGAIN TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE “SEED OF THE WOMAN” TO BE BORN.    PHARAOH'S OBJECT WAS TO PREVENT THE INCREASE OF THE PEOPLE WHILE SATAN'S OBJECT WAS TO DESTROY THE MALE LINE ALTOGETHER SO THAT JESUS COULD NOT BE BORN.

IN 2 CHRONICLES 21:1,4 WE CAN SEE AGAIN HOW SATAN TRIED TO DESTROY THE ROYAL LINE OF DAVID, BUT IN 2 CHRONICLES 21:16,17; 22;1 WE CAN SEE HOW THAT AHAZIAH WAS THE ONLY DESCENDANT LEFT OF THE ROYAL LINE OF DAVID.

AGAIN IN 2 CHRONICLES 22:10 WE CAN SEE HOW SATAN WORKED TO TRY TO DESTROY THIS ROYAL LINE ONCE AGAIN, BUT IN 2 CHRONICLES 22:11 GOD INTERVENED AND ONE OF AHAZIAH'S SONS WAS RESCUED FROM BEING KILLED SO THAT THE ROYAL LINE COULD GO ON.

IN ESTHER 3:5-6 SATAN ONCE AGAIN TRIES TO ANNIHILATE THE JEWS, BUT HIS PLAN FAILS WHEN ESTHER PLEADS TO THE KING IN ESTHER 7:1-10.

ANOTHER INSTANCE WHERE SATAN TRIED TO PREVENT THE CHRIST FROM BEING BORN AND CARRYING OUT GOD'S PURPOSE IS FOUND IN MATTHEW 2:1-4,7-12, BUT AGAIN HIS PLAN FAILS AND GOD INTERCEDES TO WARN JOSEPH OF HEROD'S PLAN IN MATTHEW 2:13-19, 19-23.

MATTHEW 4:6  "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD," HE SAID, "THROW YOURSELF DOWN. FOR IT IS WRITTEN: " 'HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU, AND THEY WILL LIFT YOU UP IN THEIR HANDS, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"

LUKE 4:29-30  THEY GOT UP, DROVE HIM OUT OF THE TOWN, AND TOOK HIM TO THE BROW OF THE HILL ON WHICH THE TOWN WAS BUILT, IN ORDER TO THROW HIM DOWN THE CLIFF. 30BUT HE WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THE CROWD AND WENT ON HIS WAY.

LUKE 8:22-24  ONE DAY JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, "LET'S GO OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE." SO THEY GOT INTO A BOAT AND SET OUT. 23AS THEY SAILED, HE FELL ASLEEP. A SQUALL CAME DOWN ON THE LAKE, SO THAT THE BOAT WAS BEING SWAMPED, AND THEY WERE IN GREAT DANGER. 24THE DISCIPLES WENT AND WOKE HIM, SAYING, "MASTER, MASTER, WE'RE GOING TO DROWN!"HE GOT UP AND REBUKED THE WIND AND THE RAGING WATERS; THE STORM SUBSIDED, AND ALL WAS CALM.

THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE MANY ATTEMPTS SATAN HAS MADE TO TRY TO PREVENT JESUS FROM BEING BORN OR TRYING TO KEEP JESUS FROM FINISHING WHAT HE CAME TO DO.

THROUGHOUT ALL THESE ATTEMPTS GOD HAS PREVENTED SATAN FROM ACCOMPLISHING HIS TASK,

AND HE WILL DO SO UNTIL THE END.