Symbolism (Rev 12:1-6)
John saw this appear in heaven.
What is a great sign?
This broke out in heaven.
What is war?
He was confined to the earth.
Who is the dragon?
This spewed from the dragon's mouth.
What is water?
Incense offered in Rev 8 can also be these.
What are the prayers of the saints?
Who are the woman, her son, and the enormous red dragon?
The two armies that battled in heaven.
Who were Michael & his angels warring against the dragon & his angels?
The means of escape given to the woman.
What are the two wings of a great eagle?
How the serpent tried to destroy the woman.
What is "sweep her away with the torrent" or drown her?
This is who the woman in Revelation 12 could represent (two answers are possible).
Who is Mary or the nation of Israel?
These represented the dragon's might & authority.
What are the seven heads, ten horns, & seven crowns?
This praised God's triumph yet warned of Satan's fury.
What was the loud voice in heaven?
The woman was cared for here.
What is a place prepared for her in the wilderness, out of the serpent's reach?
This is how the woman was miraculously protected.
What is the earth swallowed the river?
The amount of time that went by in silence when the Seventh Seal was opened (Rev 8).
What is half an hour?
The baby who would one day "rule the nations with an iron scepter" symbolizes this person.
Who is Jesus?
God's people triumphed over their accuser, Satan, by these things.
What is "the blood of the Lamb" and "the word of their testimony"?
Satan was filled with fury because of this.
What is "his time is short"?
The dragon reacted this way to God protecting the woman.
What is he "went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring"?
What is Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea?
The primary truth illustrated by God snatching up the child to heaven and providing a safe place for the woman.
What is the Main Truth: God rescues His people from Satan's power?
The one who lost his place in heaven is known by these four names or labels.
What is the great dragon, the serpent, the devil, and Satan?
The exact words describing how long the woman would be cared for.
What is "a time, times and half a time"?
The behavior of God's people in the face of Satan's attacks.
What is they "keep God's commands & hold fast their testimony about Jesus"?
In Revelation 6, what were the colors of the horses of each rider?
What is white horse & rider, red horse & rider, black horse & rider, pale horse & rider named Death? White symbolizes conquest, red symbolizes power to take peace & make people kill each other, black symbolizes poverty & famine, pale symbolizes sickness or a corpse.