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Revelation Chapter 12
1. Woman and her child
2. Dragon’s origin and
his nefarious works
3. Mysterious “woman”
Mother of God?
Queen of All
Queen of All
“In Zeitoun, Egypt, a suburb of
Cairo, a remarkable series of
events occurred. A woman that
onlookers believed was Mary,
appeared in the form of an
apparition, performing signs,
wonders, and healings. . . .”
Queen of All
“. . .This same woman appeared
several nights each week for years.
The vast majority of spectators were
Muslim. . . . Several nights each
week, thousands of Moslems (who
constituted most of the crowds) fell
to their knees on prayer rugs . . .”
Queen of All
“. . . spread wherever space
permitted, and wept before
the magnificent, wondrous,
glorious form of Our Lady
from Heaven.”
Tetlow, Oakland, and Myers
Queen of All, p. 31
Queen of All
“He said, ‘I am a messenger come
from thy Lord, to give thee a boy
most pure.’ She said, ‘How shall I
have a son whom no mortal has
touched, neither have I been
unchaste?’ He said, ‘Even so the
Lord has said . . .”
Queen of All
“. . . ‘Easy is that for Me; and that
We may appoint him a sign unto
men and a mercy from Us; it is a
thing decreed.’ So she conceived
him, and withdrew with him to a
distant place.”
Koran, Surah 19 (“Mary”)
Queen of All
“And to the woman [Mary] who kept
her chastity, We [Allah] breathed
into her of Our spirit, and made her
and her son a sign to all mankind.
Your community is but one
community, and I am your only
Lord. Therefore serve Me. . . .”
Queen of All
“Men had divided
themselves into
factions, but to Us
shall they all return.”
Koran, Surah 19 (“Mary”)
Worshipping
Baal
“We expect that the
Immaculate Virgin
and Mother of God,
Mary, through her
most powerful
intercession, will
bring it about that
our Holy Mother. . .”
Worshipping
Baal
“. . . the Catholic
Church will gain in
influence from day
to day among all
nations and in all
places. . .”
Worshipping
Baal
“. . . and that there
will be one fold and
one shepherd.”
Pope Pius IX
Biblical
“Wonders”
“Great Wonder”
“Another Wonder”
Contrast of two “wonders”
and two “women” in Rev. 12
Queen of All
“The divine Feminine is known by
a thousand names and revered in
as many forms—from Isis to Mary
the mother of Jesus. We know her
through her love, wisdom, grace,
power, beauty, creativity,
nurturing, and compassion. . . .”
Queen of All
“. . . Today she is bringing an
urgent message to people of all
backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths
around the world. She is revealing
that the world as we know it is
coming to an end and from its
ashes will be born a ‘new way of
existence. . . .’”
Queen of All
“. . . This time she will come with
her consciousness of pure light
and love, which will penetrate
everyone and everything on this
planet. It will be, she said, the
Time of the Goddess.”
Hennelly and Hennelly
Mary’s Way
Unifying Power?
“And deceiveth
them that dwell on
the earth by the
means of those
miracles which he
had power to do.”
Revelation 13:14
Unifying Power?
“He who could appear clothed
with the brightness of the
heavenly seraphs before Christ
in the wilderness of temptation,
comes to men in the most
attractive manner as an angel
of light. . . .”
Unifying Power?
“. . . He appeals to the reason
by the presentation of elevating
themes; he delights the fancy
with enrapturing scenes; and
he enlists the affections by his
eloquent portrayals of love and
charity.”
Great Controversy, p. 554
Revelation Chapter 12
“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.”
Revelation 12:17
Revelation Chapter 12
“[Satan] wars against the
invisible church, namely,
‘those who keep the
commandments of God,
and have the testimony of
Jesus’ . . .”
Revelation Chapter 12
“These are ‘the remnant,’
or rest of her seed, as
distinguished from her
Seed, ‘the man-child.’ on
one hand. . .”
Revelation Chapter 12
“. . . and from mere professors
of Christianity on the other. . .
Satan directs his enmity
against true Christians, the
elect remnant: the others he
leaves unmolested.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Revelation Chapter 12
“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.”
Revelation 12:17
Revelation Chapter 12
“. . . which keep the
commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus.”
“. . .for the testimony of Jesus
is the spirit of prophecy.”
Revelation 19:10
Revelation Chapter 12
“. . . See thou do it not: for I
am thy fellowservant, and of
thy brethren the prophets,
and of them which keep the
sayings of this book:
worship God.” Rev. 22:9
Revelation Chapter 12
“. . . by the operation of one
and the same Spirit, who
enables me to show you these
revelations and enables you
to record them: wherefore we
are fellow servants.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Gifts of the Spirit
“For to one is given by the
Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of
knowledge by the same
Spirit . . . to another
prophecy; to another
discerning of spirits . . . ”
Identifying the
• Arose after
1798
True
Remnant
• Are a small minority
• Keep the Ten Commandments
• Has the “spirit of prophecy”
• Has global evangelism work
Identifying the
Seventh-day Baptists
Mormons Remnant
True
Jehovah’s Witnesses Roman Catholic
Pentecostals Seventh-day Adventists
Islam
Church of Christ, Scientist
United Society of Believers in Christ’s
Second Appearing, aka “Shakers”
Identifying the
Arose after
1798 — why?
True
Remnant
The true remnant of God
was “hidden in the wilderness”
for a specific period of time —
1260 prophetic “days” or 1260
literal years.
Identifying the
Arose afterRemnant
1798 —
True
• Seventh-day Baptists (1651)
• Mormons (1820)
• Jehovah’s Witnesses (1870)
• Pentecostals (1906)
• Seventh-day Adventists (1863)
Identifying the
Has world-wide
evangelism —
True
Remnant
• Mormons
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Pentecostals
• Seventh-day Adventists
• Roman Catholics
Identifying the
Has the “spirit
of prophecy” —
True
Remnant
• Mormons
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Pentecostals
• Seventh-day Adventists
Identifying the
Seventh-day Baptists
Mormons Remnant
True
Jehovah’s Witnesses Roman Catholic
Pentecostals Seventh-day Adventists
Islam
Church of Christ, Scientist
United Society of Believers in Christ’s
Second Appearing, aka “Shakers”
Who’s
Authority?
“Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy. Six days shalt
thou labour, and do all thy
work: but the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the LORD thy
God”
Exodus 20:8-10
Who’s
Authority?
“Question: Which is the
Sabbath day?
Answer: Saturday is the
Sabbath day.”
Who’s
“Question:
Why do we observe
Authority?
Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer: We observe Sunday instead
of Saturday because the Catholic
Church transferred the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday.”
Peter Geiermann,
The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50
Who’s
“You may read the Bible from Genesis to
Authority?
Revelation, and you will not find a single
line authorizing the sanctification of
Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the
religious observance of Saturday, a day
which we [Roman Catholics] never
sanctify.”
James Cardinal Gibbons
The Faith of Our Fathers (1880), p. 111
Who’s
Authority?
“The observance of the Lord’s
day [Sunday] is founded not on
any command of God, but on
the authority of the church.”
Augsburg Confession of Faith, quoted in Catholic
Sabbath Manual, Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 10.
Who’s
“There
was and is a commandment to keep
Authority?
holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day
was not Sunday. . . Where can the record of
such a transaction be found? Not in the
New Testament – absolutely not. There is
no scriptural evidence of the change of the
Sabbath institution from the seventh to the
first day of the week.”
Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual, in a paper read
before a New York ministers’ conference held Nov. 13, 1893
Who’s
“The Sabbath was binding in
Authority?
Eden, and it has been in force
ever since. This fourth
commandment begins with the
word ‘remember,’ showing that
the Sabbath already existed when
God wrote the law on the tables
of stone at Sinai. . . .”
Who’s
“. . . How can men claim that
Authority?
this one commandment has
been done away with when they
will admit that the other nine are
still binding?”
D. L. Moody
Weighed and Wanting, p. 47
Creeping
“We confess that the Pope has
Compromise
power of changing Scripture
and of adding to it, and taking
from it, according to his will.”
Roman Catholic Confessions
for Protestants Oath, Article XI
Creeping
Compromise
“He is the infallible ruler, the founder
of dogmas, the author of and the
judge of councils; the universal ruler
of truth, the arbiter of the world, the
supreme judge of heaven and earth,
the judge of all, being judged by no
one, God himself on earth.”
Quoted in the New York Catechism
Who is the
Authority?
“The twelfth encyclical of John
Paul’s papacy is dedicated to the
subject of Christian reunification
and appropriately entitled ‘May
They All Be One.’ . . . The pope
identifies five key doctrines that
need further study before we
‘reach full communion’. . .”
Who is the
Authority?
1. Authority of Scripture vs.
church tradition
2. Infallibility of the pope as the
church’s doctrinal authority
3. Ordination of priests
4. Power of the Eucharist
5. Co-mediation of Mary
Identifying the
• Arose after
1798
True
Remnant
• Are a small minority
• Keep the Ten Commandments
• Has the “spirit of prophecy”
• Has global evangelism work
The
Revelatio
n
of
Jesus