Here, meet the first of six entities accounted for in John's final two chapters of Revelation. Satan appears in the guise of the Dragon in Revelation 12. His behavior depicted here in John's Revelation parallels his behavior in the OT's Job. But, as Job overcame Satan in the Age of Patriarchs, the brethren overcome Satan at the other end of redemptive history! Both Job and the brethren in the Tribulation justify God's faith in their endurance on the front lines of most dire spiritual warfare. I offer this as a study in light and darkness.

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In which we see Satan warring on the
Saints and being defeated by them.

2. Satan is one of the six protagonists who
figure throughout John’s Revelation. This
slide set focuses on him. The next five slide
sets feature the remaining five.
I intend to collect information on Satan’s role
in the Tribulation from scattered entries in
Revelation Chapters 5-13.
But first, let’s take a look at Satan’s role as
Job’s tormentor and challenger.

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5. SATAN, JOB AND
THE 70TH WEEK

6. SATAN, JOB AND
THE 70TH WEEK
UGGESTION: Satan’s
S
behavior and purposes in
rmenting the Patriarch
to
Job serve as a model for
nderstanding his behavior
u
purposes in tormenting
and
the people of God in the
70th Week.

7. SATAN, JOB AND THE 70TH WEEK:
The Mechanics of Satan’s Work
Satan has frequent access to God in Heaven (Not
citizenship, access!) in both Job’s time and ours.
Job 1:6 “And the sons of God came to present themselves before the
Lord, and Satan also came among them.”
Rev 12:9 Satan thrown OUT of heaven . . . must have been IN heaven,
accusing the brethren before the throne of God (12:10)
Satan defames Job and us before God.
Job 1:9-11 “Put forth Your hand now and touch all that he (Job) has
and he will surely curse You to your face.”
Rev 12:10 “He (Satan) who accuses them (the brothers) before our
God day and night.”

8. SATAN, JOB AND THE 70TH WEEK:
Satan’s Purposes and Means
Satan challenges God’s ability to fulfill His promises. If
God fails at any point, God fails in all!
Job: Satan thinks that God cannot establish a lasting relationship with
fallen man! Even the best of them (Job) will fail under enough pressure.
Revelation: Satan thinks that NT salvation changes nothing in the
Christian’s selfish heart. ‘New creature’, indeed! Bah, humbug!’
Satan thinks that we believers represent the weak link in
the God-human believer relationship.
Job: I’ll oppress Job so he’ll curse God and die
Church Age: I’ll oppress believers so severely that at least ONE ‘true’
believer will reject Jesus and He shall have died for nothing! I win!

9. SATAN, JOB AND THE 70TH WEEK:
Satan’s Motives
Satan’s Pride Drives Him–here’s how he thinks:
I’m more worthy of worship than God-I do not limit my power with a
silly necessity to behave righteously. God’s weakness = my opportunity!
God dotes on mere men! He trusts them! God’s foolish obsession = my
opportunity
He Has an Intense Hatred
OF GOD: God cramps my style, hedges me in and limits me unfairly.
God’s jealous and afraid of me.
OF HUMANS: God forgives humans their folly but damns me for mine!
God plays favorites!
OF WOMEN: It’s all Eve’s fault! (See: Origins of Sin and Evil!)

10. SATAN IN REVELATION 12
The full scope and breadth of Satan’s aggression: Rev 12:1-6
A Bare-Bones Outline of Key Events:
IN HISTORY: Satan has aggressively fought against
The Woman: Israel (for OT parallels to imagery of pregnant Israel +
birth of Messiah, see Gen 27:9, Jer 4:31, Is 26:17, 7:14, 66:7, Mic 5:3.)
The Angels: 12:4 The “third of the stars of heaven” refer (IMO) most
likely to Lucifer’s Fall and its enlistment of 1/3 of heaven’s angelic host.
Against Male Child: Christ? Church? 144K? I choose Child=Jesus
and therefore verses 4+5 would refer to Satan’s aggression against Jesus,
from Bethlehem to Gethsemane to the Ascension.
IN THE FUTURE: A flash-forward! Against the Woman, Israel in 70th
Week: 12:6 and against the ‘rest of her children’ (Saints)

11. SATAN IN REVELATION 12
Refocus Your Lens: A Close-up of Satan in 70th Week:
Rage and Hatred Unshackled: Rev 12:7-17
IN HEAVEN: Satan fights against Michael the Archangel and the faithful
host. Thrown down to earth in defeat. (12: 7+8) No more access to heaven.
ON EARTH: With only a short time left to him, Satan persecutes 2 entities
The Woman: Israel’s 70th Week edition (12:13-16)
Offspring of the Woman: (12:11,12,17) Satan attacks those who 1)
keep the commandments of God and 2) hold to the testimony of Jesus.
(Can these two descriptors signal any other spiritual group but bornagain believers in Jesus Christ? IMO? No!)

12. Get set to look at Revelation 12 w
ith two competing
mindsets:
Pessimism and Fear
VERSUS
Courageous Steadfast Hope

13. Get set to look at Revelation 12 w
ith two competing
mindsets:
God enables believers
to beat the odds! Right?
The bigger they are . . .
Pessimism and Fear
VERSUS
Courageous Steadfast Hope

14. REVELATION 12
Mindset 1: The Case For Fear

15. SATAN SPARES NO ONE HIS W
RATH
He’s determined to do his very w
orst to disrupt God’s
stated intentions to save Israel, p
reserve the Saints
and redeem the Earth from the c
urse and its tyrant.
Aware of His Crisis: 12:12 tells us that Satan,
thrown from heaven, knows his time is short! Satan
proceeds without hesitation to destroy God’s plan.
1260 days left
42 months left
Time, times and half a time left

16. SATAN SPARES NO ONE HIS W
RATH
He’s determined to do his very w
orst to disrupt God’s
stated intentions to save Israel, p
reserve the saints
and redeem the Earth from the c
urse and its tyrant.
Full of Wrath: 12:12 again. Satan unleashes his
aggression and wrath, holding nothing back.
Unrestrained: II Thessalonians 2:6-8 God
removes Satan’s restrainer–nothing holds back his
hatred, cruelty and strength. Satan will reveal his
protege, the AntiChrist, because nothing keeps him
from doing so. He uses the Harlot to increase the
AntiChrist’s reach.

17. S NO ONE HIS WRATH:
SATAN SPARE
ry worst to disrupt God’s
He’s determined to do his ve
e Israel, preserve the saints
stated intentions to sav
m the curse and its tyrant.
and redeem the Earth fro
Flexible Strategist 12:13-17 Satan engages
targets of opportunity in quick succession, never
lingering too long over any setbacks
The Woman-Israel
The Saints
The gullible (13:3+8)
Clever Administrator: 13:2 Satan delegates
authority and power to the Beast/AntiChrist.
Mimics Christ’s incarnation

18. S NO ONE HIS WRATH:
SATAN SPARE
ry worst to disrupt God’s
He’s determined to do his ve
ael, preserve the saints
ted intentions to save Isr
sta
m the curse and its tyrant.
and redeem the Earth fro
Powerful Adversary 13:3+ Satan resurrects the
Despicable Person who will become the Beast,
grants him power to perform miracles. Mimics
Christ’s resurrection.
Focuses on the Saints 13:7 Satan’s war on the
saints succeeds on many physical and political
levels–Bible says AntiChrist will ‘overcome’ them!

19. REVELATION 12
Mindset 2: The Case For Hope and Courage

20. AN’S FAILURE ASSURED
SAT
erce determination and
or all his great power, fi
F
s on virtually every front.
cruelty, Satan fail
Fails in History: 12:1-6
Falls from Heaven (vs 4) long ago-loses
citizenship, as it were.
Cannot disrupt Christ’s ministry
Fails in Heaven 12:7-14 His assault on Heaven in
the End-Times fails when Michael defeats him and
throws him to Earth-never to ‘visit’ Heaven in any
capacity again.

21. AN’S FAILURE ASSURED
SAT
erce determination and
or all his great power, fi
F
s on virtually every front.
cruelty, Satan fail
Overdriven by Time Constraints: 12:12 Satan
knows his time is short, his doom all but sealed.
Hate drives him and blinds him at the same time.
He behaves desperately, loses knack for subtlety
and tries to bull his way to victory.
Fails Against the Church 12:11 The brethren
overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, the word
of their testimony and they did not love their life
even when faced with death!

22. ’S FAILURE ASSURED
SATAN
, fierce determination and
For all his great power
fails on virtually every front.
cruelty, Satan
Fails Against 70th Week Israel: 12:14-16 When
cast to earth by Michael, Satan pursues The
Woman. God supernaturally protects this remnant.
Fails to God-proof His Own Kingdom: God
bruises and strikes Satan’s Kingdom throughout the
deployment of the Seals, Trumpets and Bowls. God
demonstrates His omnipotence in plague after
brutal plague and Satan can do nothing to prevent
the drubbing!

23. REVELATION 12
Relevance for ‘Everyday’ Christian Living

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26. MOST IMPORTANTLY,
REVELATION CALLS US TO

27. MOST IMPORTANTLY,
REVELATION CALLS US TO
Deepen our focus on the
risen Lord, not the beaten
Adversary.
Invest m
ore time
in the
Word, n
ot in the
worry.
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29. Greater
is He who is in you
than he who is in the
world! I John 4:4
I
am convinced that
neither death nor life . . .
can separate us from the
love of God . . .
Romans 8:38-9
But
in all these things
we overwhelmingly
conquer through Him
who loved us
Romans 8:37

30. And
the angel laid hold
of the dragon, Satan,
and bound him for a
thousand years.
Rev 20:2
And
the devil who
deceived them was
thrown into the lake of
fire and brimstone.
Rev 20:2

31. The
kingdom of the world
becomes the kingdom of
our Lord and of
His Christ . . .
Rev 11:15

32. The
kingdom of the world
becomes the kingdom of
our Lord and of
His Christ . . .
Rev 11:15
The
brethren overcome Satan
because of the blood of the Lamb,
the word of their testimony and they
did not love their life to the
death. Rev 12:11

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39. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so
that you will be able to resist in the evil day,
and having done everything, to stand firm. 6:13

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41. Get a Spiritual Spine: ‘Beloved, do not be
surprised at the fiery ordeal among you . . . I Peter 4:12
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Bathe yourself in the Word, in
Christian
fellowship and determine that
you will take back
any ground you have yielded to
the Adversary.

42. Get a spiritual spine. Pursue Godliness and the love of the brethren.
Prune your character; weed your thoughts; sharpen your knowledge
of the Word. Crave holiness.
Do these things and you’ll be ready for anything!

43. Get a spiritual spine. Pursue Godliness and the love of the brethren.
Prune your character; weed your thoughts; sharpen your knowledge
of the Word. Crave holiness.
Do these things and you’ll be ready for anything!

44. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
Next: XXXI Prince
Who Is to Come

45. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
rybody’s central figure of the
AntiChrist. Eve
don’t overlook the Harlot!!)
Tribulation. (But
and loathing. AntiChrist.
Generator of awe and fear
does, and for all his blazing
For all the damage he
there’s actually less here
hatred of the brethren,
e of the imagination. “Lo, his
than meets the ey
mn. His doom is sure.
doom is sure”, goes the hy
Next: XXXI Prince
Who Is to Come

46. OUR NEXT FOCUS . . .
rybody’s central figure of the
AntiChrist. Eve
don’t overlook the Harlot!!)
Tribulation. (But
and loathing. AntiChrist.
Generator of awe and fear
does, and for all his blazing
For all the damage he
there’s actually less here
hatred of the brethren,
e of the imagination. “Lo, his
than meets the ey
mn. His doom is sure.
doom is sure”, goes the hy
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