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Original Tumblr Post: Knives as the dragon of Revelation 12
Knives as the dragon of Revelation 12
Ooooh there’s seven heads drawn here!
Revelation 12:1-6; 13-17 (NIV translation)
(1)A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. (2)She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. (3)Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. (4)Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. (5)She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. (6)The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
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(13)When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. (14)The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. (15)Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. (16)But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. (17)Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
The typical interpretation of these verses is that the dragon is Satan, and the woman is the Virgin Mary, the church, or both.
A fallen angel figure waging war on the inheritors of a woman’s legacy – sound familiar?
Hold on tight bookclubbers; we’re getting full on apocalyptic now.