The Dragon:
The book of Revelation’s idea about the number 13 is not a good number. It is actually connected to a dragon that stood on a beach. It is also believed to have a biblical way about it. Sometimes thought to have a connection to the deep areas of the sea.
A dragon today in most cases is heard about in stories that are fairytale like. Its look can be like a serpent, and be also associated with the sea.
Revelation 13:1 is a symbol that comes directly from the Torah, from Genesis, from a promise made to Abraham. “
Rev. 13:1b“Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads were blasphemous names… And the dragon gave him his power and his throne, and great authority.”
(Genesis. 22:17).
I will indeed bless you greatly, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.”
The beast creature being discussed in this book has many horns on his head and diadems. It can be not nice looking. Many people are suffering a lot of persecution due to the pagan empire and the dragon is looking to walk all over the people.
In ancient Israel, one key duty of priests was to guide people and help distinguish holy from common. Israel was to be a “kingdom of priests” living by higher standards
(Exodus 19:6).For me you shall be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” Those are the words you are to say to the Israelites.’
Many of the people in Israel are told to eat only animals that are clean and a lot of plants. The dragon was also given the freedom to cause a lot of trouble for people and given power over the sea at times. The blending of these beasts into one results in increased power and prolonged reign of the monster.
The beast and the lamb in the book of Revelation end up fighting each other, but Our Heavenly Father seems to always to break up the fight.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise their heel.” (Gen. 3:15 )
Isaiah 27:1-3 27:1 That day Yahweh will punish, with his unyielding sword, massive and strong, Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will kill that dragon that lives in the sea.
27:2 That day, sing of the splendid vineyard!
27:3 I, Yahweh, am its guardian, from time to time I water it; so that no harm befall it, I guard it night and day.
Many dragons are worshipped because they have an athority over the beast. . ▪ Both receive worldwide worship (5:8 -14 and 13:4, 8). ▪ Both have a final coming or manifestation, though one is to destruction and the other to eternal victory.
The persecuted and the martyrs in Revelation wonder, “How much longer the Lord would allow such evil to prevail?” The answer they receive is an acknowledgment of their pain and an assurance that evil was currently being allowed to reign, but the end of its power was near.
Revelation 6:9-11 6:9 When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of all the people who had been killed on account of the Word of God, for witnessing to it.
6:10 They shouted in a loud voice, ‘Holy, true Master, how much longer will you wait before you pass sentence and take vengeance for our death on the inhabitants of the earth?’
6:11 Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little longer, until the roll was completed of their fellow-servants and brothers who were still to be killed as they had been.
Closing Prayer; Heavenly Father, thank You for the simplicity of the gospel of grace and for dying for us, to pay the price for our sins. We pray that you will open the eyes of our understanding to the deeper truths contained in Your Word, and that we will come to know You more each day. We pray that the eyes of many, who have been deceived by Satan’s lies, will come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whose name we pray, AMEN.
Prayer of Salvation to become a child of Our Heavenly Father. Lord Jesus, we confess my sins and ask for your forgiveness. Please come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. Take complete control of my life and help me to walk in Your footsteps daily by the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you Lord for saving me and I know you will answer my prayers. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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