And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. v.3
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A dragon with seven heads. Mystical sounding right? Remember though the word dinosaur didn't come in to our English language till the 1800s, so before then dinosaurs were called dragons. Yet here this is most likely more of a mystical creature of what we'd call today a dragon as we have never uncovered any dinosaur with seven heads. This dragon is evil, it's no Pete's dragon, and we see it's Satan in verse nine. The dragon has 10 horns whereas the lamb had 7 horns, appears to be copying the righteous in appearance as Satan always tries to copy God and deceive others so. The dragon has 7 diadems, or crowns for each of his seven heads for the appearance probably of authority. The dragon tries to devour the child of the woman who just gave birth that we read in the whole of this chapter. The woman we have to realize is the nation of Israel (see Gen. 37:9-10, Is. 66:7-9) and her child is a new nation or company of people being born in this tribulation period: the overcomers (Revelation 20:4), thus why the dragon wants to kill them. When the woman flees, Israel fleeing into the wilderness as we read in Matthew 24, the dragon is enraged and war breaks out in heaven between good angels and bad angels (those that followed Satan)- seems like we're reading some Marvel movie right now. Just like the movies the good guys always win and we will see that come to pass soon though now for a time it seems like the bad guys are winning.
How does reading about dragons and angel wars in the Bible affect your belief? Does it seem real or fake?
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