Posted on 05/13/2015 1:38:51 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.(Revelation 12:1-4)
There is a special relationship between Genesis 3 and Revelation 12, for both feature a Serpent(Dragon) and a woman, and a special enmity between the woman and the serpent.
In Genesis 3, after the fall, there was an arraignment of the offenders before the bar of Divine justice. Though they had hidden themselves from the Most high, there are shadows of the final judgment to come in the account, for God sought the guilty couple out and summoned them into his presence for questioning.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?(Genesis 3:9-11)
The Lord God asked Adam questions,although He already knew the answers? Why? Because the LORD intended to save the fallen man, and wanted to elicit a humble confession from Adam. But Adam refused accountability, blaming his wife and the LORD who gave her.
The LORD then passed from the man to the woman, seeking by questioning to obtain from her some acknowledgment of guilt also. But the woman also refused accountability at that point.
The LORD then turned to address the serpent but there would be no questions this time, seeing the LORD had no intention to save the Devil. Instead a sure and lasting judgment was pronounced upon the serpent.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.(Genesis 3:14-15)
“I will put enmity between thee and the woman…”. There is a deeper level of meaning in this brief proto-evangel, but on the surface of it lies a profound truth; though Satan hates all of the human race, He harbors a special hatred for women. Satan successfully seduced the woman and her husband into defecting from God, but in God’s mercy the woman would be specially involved in the salvation.
Salvation would come through the birth of a miracle baby, the ” seed of the woman”. He would enter into the world to break the head of the serpent and to undo the primal curse.
Satan hates women. Consider the Satanic religions, such as Islam. How Muslims are taught to hate and despise women! So also the Satanic religion of secular humanism, and it’s deformed spawn, feminism. Feminism isn’t based upon love for women, it is instead hatred and contempt for all that is unique to women, the role of wife, mother, nurturer.
Abortion which springs out of the nihilism of the secular humanistic worldview, is an unnatural act which kills both the baby, and anything it also slays motherly in the soul of the unfortunate young woman talked into the practice. Behold the fruit of the sixties sexual revolution; in the tattooed, androgynous, haggard, jaded, masculinized young women we see everyday in the streets, not to mention the confused and feminized, and at other times barbaric young men also.
The serpent has always harbored a special enmity for women, seeking to denigrate and demean the beautiful God assigned role of wife, mother, nurturer and help-meet.
In view of the specific identity of the woman as being Israel, we see in this vision an answer to the inveterate problem of anti-semitism. Why is there almost universal Jew hatred? The Serpent hates Israel, has always hated Israel, and will eventually seek to marshal the world’s forces to obliterate Israel.
She(Israel) gave the world the Word of God, and through her came the Messiah. Israel’s existence is a constant reminder of the existence of God. Her birth was a miracle, so also her rebirth in 1948. The Devil would wipe Israel off of the globe if He could. Every census, pogram, holocaust, anti circumcision law,intifada, and Jihad that has occurred over these long centuries has borne testimony to the truth that the Dragon hates the woman.
Thus Israel’s longtime song has been;
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.(Psalm 120)
Because you cant trust ‘em. That’s why they aren’t allowed in the mafia either.
Lots of people talkin’ few of them know,,, soul of a woman was created below,,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwSEVbBZl4
Bobby knew the truth,,,
Hello Pastor Randles,
How often do you publish these? Every time I see one, I save it for future study.
In Christ,
‘Pod.
“wanted a woman never bargained for you” :)
said that to myself more than once in my life.
Thanks Sauropod- I am glad to know you find them helpful. All of them are on my blog- billrandles.wordpress.com
Bkmrk.
Rev 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
There’s another clue about why he hates her...
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