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10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, a“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, bwho accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.  
11 And athey overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, band they did not love their lives to the death.  
12 Therefore arejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! bWoe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, cbecause he knows that he has a short time.”  

The Woman Persecuted

13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted athe woman who gave birth to the male Child.  
14 aBut the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, bthat she might fly cinto the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished dfor a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.  
15 So the serpent aspewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Revelation 12:12

Therefore—because Satan is cast out of heaven (Revelation 12:9).

dwell—literally, "tabernacle." Not only angels and the souls of the just with God, but also the faithful militant on earth, who already in spirit tabernacle in heaven, having their home and citizenship there, rejoice that Satan is cast out of their home. "Tabernacle" for dwell is used to mark that, though still on the earth, they in spirit are hidden "in the secret of God's tabernacle." They belong not to the world, and, therefore, exult in judgment having been passed on the prince of this world.

the inhabiters of—So ANDREAS reads. But A, B, and C omit. The words probably, were inserted from Revelation 8:13.

is come down—rather as Greek, "catebee," "is gone down"; John regarding the heaven as his standing-point of view whence he looks down on the earth.

unto you—earth and sea, with their inhabitants; those who lean upon, and essentially belong to, the earth (contrast John 3:7, Margin, with John 3:31; John 8:23; Philippians 3:19, end; I John 4:5) and its sea-like troubled politics. Furious at his expulsion from heaven, and knowing that his time on earth is short until he shall be cast down lower, when Christ shall come to set up His kingdom (Revelation 20:1-2), Satan concentrates all his power to destroy as many souls as he can. Though no longer able to accuse the elect in heaven, he can tempt and persecute on earth. The more light becomes victorious, the greater will be the struggles of the powers of darkness; whence, at the last crisis, Antichrist will manifest himself with an intensity of iniquity greater than ever before.

short time—Greek, "kairon," "season": opportunity for his assaults.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 12:12:

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Revelation 6:11
Revelation 9:1
Revelation 11:10
Revelation 12:7
Revelation 12:8
Revelation 12:13
Revelation 13:6
Revelation 20:13

 

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