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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 12:3
Behold a great red dragon. Another wonder is seen, also in the
sky, a great serpent-like figure, red, with seven heads and ten horns.
This figure, we learn from Revelation 12:9 is a devilish manifestation. The
devil uses it for his purposes. The red color implies a persecuting
power.
Having seven heads and ten horns. The seven heads are explained
in Revelation 17:9, where the seven-headed beast appears again, to be seven
mountains, and also seven kingdoms; the ten horns are there said to be
ten kingdoms which did not yet exist. We have also this monster
appearing substantially in Daniel 7:7. I will discuss it more particularly
in chapter 17 (see PNT "Re 17:12), but will here say that there
is little doubt that it represents the persecuting powers of the earth
which have opposed God and his Israel; the great world powers arrayed
against God. This world power appears as Pagan Rome in the persecution
of the Woman; the Church. The dragon was the standard of Pagan Rome in
the third century, as testified by many ancient writers.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 12:5
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