Revelation In Christmas

1. Have you ever seen a
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   in your nativity scene?
2. We’re all used to hearing about Christmas from Matthew 1&2, Luke 1&2, Isaiah 7&9, and Micah 5, but today our main text will come from the Book of
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3. According to John’s vision in Revelation 12, we can see that nothing was calm in heaven when Jesus was
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4. In Revelation 12, John mentions only
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   characters: a beautifully dressed woman, a fiery red dragon, and a baby boy.
5. For hundreds of years the Jews had waited for the arrival of the Messiah. We read in Galatians 4, that “when the time had FULLY COME (meaning something
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   and fully developed) God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.”
6. At just the right time, Emperor Augustus issued a decree that required everyone to register for a
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7. At the right time, Mary became pregnant by the Holy Ghost and Joseph was told by an angel not to fear and to
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   her.
8. At the right time, a star began to shine in the East leading the 3 wise men hundreds of miles in search of Mary’s baby. They found him in a stable in the “little town of Bethlehem” where the
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   in history took place.
9. Study shows us that throughout the Book of Revelation - 13 different times in fact - John calls the devil a
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10. While the Devil, or Dragon, may appear to be an angel of light, he is really a fierce dragon bent on
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    .
11. In Daniel’s vision, he saw four beasts: - one looked like a lion - one like a bear - and one like a panther, but the 4th one was so horrendous, that there weren’t any ferocious wild animals to
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    it to.
12. Theologians agree that Revelation 12:4 speaks of the dragon who swept away
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    of the angels in heaven, sending them to the earth with him, when he was evicted because of his pride!
13. Nowhere in Luke chapter 2 is there any mention of animals in the stable, but we know that the dragon was there, because he loves
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    !
14. The devil tried to kill Jesus because he knew that the birth of Christ meant his
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    !
15. The Bible says that when Jesus entered into hell - He stripped the dragon of his power and came forth with the
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    of death and hell in his hands.
16. The day Adam and Eve surrendered their “God-given-authority” to the dragon, there launched a “counter-kingdom” to the Kingdom of God with the
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    as the central battlefield in a war between those two competing kingdoms.
17. In order to reclaim the world from Satan, God entered the human race in the person of his
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    , the Lord Jesus Christ.
18. When Jesus rose from the dead, He
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    Satan’s stolen authority,
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    the “title deed” to planet Earth, even though Satan refuses to give up his territory.