#revelation 12

[peeta-mellarks-smile]

I've had the sentence "did you ever hear the tragedy of blorbo from my shows" rolling around in my brain for the last couple of days courtesy of @accidental-spice reblogging this one post, but then I started thinking about the actual scene and mentally continuing the dialogue and when I thought "I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you" my brain legit EXPLODED because--

That's the exact way Satan talks!!! It sounds just like how he spoke to Eve in Genesis 3!!

"Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’? ... You will not certainly die... For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." -Genesis 3:1b, 4-5 (NIV)

The devil plants doubt in our minds, asking us if that's really what God said. If he's really giving us everything we need. If he's really good.

"It's not a story they would tell you." ... "It's not a blessing He would give you." Like, bro, hold on a minute--

I've always known Star Wars is one of the most Christian pieces of secular media out there due to its morality (there is real good and there is real evil; killing a person is evil no matter what justification you give it; etc) and many of its themes (Anakin being an almost god-like Chosen One who has no human father, Luke relying on his father to save him, prophecies of good overcoming evil), but for some reason it never really struck me just how much Palpatine is like Satan.

And obviously the Jedi Council aren't God, but the parallels are there-- they've got the highest power and authority in this situation and Anakin is in their care. And Palpatine is tempting Anakin to spurn their judgement. The Council isn't all-powerful or all-knowing or incorruptible, but Palpatine is still exercising his core trait of being a liar and deceiver.

"And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." -Revelation 12:9 (ESV)

Anyway. There are glimpses of God in every story a human being creates as long as there is some truth in it. I just though this was cool.

[carb0n-m0n0xide]

The Woman, The Child, and The Dragon

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[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Woman and the Dragon

1 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon underneath her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

2 And she was with child, and she cried out, travailing in birth and being in pain to bring forth.

3 And another sign was seen in heaven; and behold, there was a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

4 And his tail drags away the third part of the stars of heaven, and he cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bring forth, so that when she brings forth he might devour her child.

5 And she brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place there prepared by God so that they might nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.

7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels went to war with the dragon. And the dragon warred and his angels.

8 And they did not prevail, neither was their place found any longer in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast down, the ancient serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole inhabited earth; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, for the accuser of our brothers has been cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.

12 Therefore be glad, O heavens and those who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you and has great rage, knowing that he has only a short time.

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who brought forth the man-child.

14 And to the woman there were given the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent.

15 And the serpent cast water as a river out of his mouth after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by its current.

16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon became angry with the woman and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

18 And he stood on the sand of the sea. — Revelation 12 | Recovery Version (REC) The Recovery Version of the Holy Bible © 2016 Living Stream Ministry. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 3:1; Genesis 3:15; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11; Job 1:9; Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Psalm 2:9; Psalm 96:11; Psalm 104:2; Song of Solomon 6:10; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 66:6-7; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:10; Daniel 10:13; Daniel 10:21; Daniel 12:12; Matthew 2:16; Matthew 23:24; Luke 14:26; John 16:33; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 John 2:3; Revelation 11:12; Revelation 20:2; Revelation 20:11

[theexodvs]

Christ is King. Adam was also king, but he failed to exercise dominion over the serpent. Jesus has conquered the serpent, and all authority on Heaven and on Earth has been given to Him. He is enthroned at the right hand of the Father and will reign until His last enemy, death, is subdued.

Hosanna!

[nsfwbible]

‘And war broke out in heaven’

In Revelation 12, John of Patmos envisions a battle in which the archangel Michael and his forces fight the rebel angels allied with Satan:

“The dragon and his angels fought back, but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.”

Flemish artist Frans Floris made the painting in 1554 as the central panel of a triptych. (The outer two panels were destroyed in 1566 during the Beeldenstorm attacks on church art).  KMSK, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, holds the surviving panel.

[megan-theebride]

𝒲𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒?

[quotesfromscripture]

So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to wage war on the rest of her children (seed), those who keep and obey the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus [holding firmly to it and bearing witness to Him].

- Revelation 12:17 AMP (2015)

[skin--slave]

We'll paint the town red.