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The Revelation of Antisemitism: Revelation 12-14
December 17, 2025 · 18 min
Exploring Revelation 12-14 to uncover the roots of rising antisemitism and its prophetic significance.
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Setting the Stage: Temple, Judgment, and the Dawn of Revelation 12 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Thanks for joining me this morning. As the sun is about to come up over our nation's capital, we are gonna take a look at Revelation chapters 12 through 14. Do you0:22 know what is behind the rise in antisemitism, even the activities we saw this past weekend? Well, I think we're gonna find a clue right here in this passage this morning. Verse 17 of0:34 chapter 12, and the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Now Revelation is an absolutely0:46 captivating book. It's like the the grand finale at a firework display. There's so much happening at 1 time. It's hard to, to really take it all in. So I would encourage you, to0:57 to read these passages, meditate upon them, take notes, consult a commentary. You know, Matthew Henry is a good 1. But don't1:09 speed read through this. It it's not difficult. It's, it's challenging. But, again, the Holy Spirit is our teacher here. Now I wanna go back, to chapter 11.1:21 We touched on this last time, the temple and the 2 witnesses, but it kinda sets the stage for what we're gonna talk about today. Alright. Verse 1 of chapter 11. Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod, and the angel1:33 stood saying, rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will1:43 tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months. Now what this tells us is the third temple will be rebuilt. And now here's how it could1:55 occur. Okay? The antichrist, as he is ascending to power, will negotiate a peace accord between Israel and the Muslim nations, which the Muslim nations lay claim to2:07 the Temple Mount. It's actually monitored or governed by Jordan at present. Now this will allow the temple to re be rebuilt, and there's a spot there. I mentioned2:19 this last time. That would suggest to me that the Antichrist will come from the Islamic world or be there will be someone who is a political ally of both the Islamic nations and Israel2:31 who will be able to negotiate this peace accord. Again, this is just my speculation, but I would say we're seeing some of those pieces come together. In verse 15, we have the introduction of God's2:43 final judgment. Alright? Let me just read that. Again, then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our lord and of2:54 his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. So after that final judgment is when the reign of Jesus Christ takes place, which we will see here as we continue our journey through Revelation. But, however, what we3:06 have here before this consummation of the final judgment here in verse 15, we have a break in the unfolding narrative of the seventh seal and the seventh trumpet with a historical account that includes3:18 Israel, Satan, Jesus, Michael, the, the church, the antichrist, and the beast here in chapter 12. Alright? So that's where we pick up today in chapter 12. Now a3:30 great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head, a garland of 12 stars. This is Israel'sThe Woman, the Dragon, and Satan's Defeat in Revelation 12 3:42 believed to be Israel, who gave birth to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the promised, the savior of the world. Verse 2. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth, and another sign appeared in3:54 heaven. Behold, a great fiery red dragon, Satan is the dragon, having 7 heads and 10 horns and 7 diadems on his head. His tail drew a third of the4:05 stars of heaven and threw them to the earth, and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born. Now this is believed to be a reference to4:17 Satan being cast out of heaven, taking 1 third of the angels with him. Those are the fallen angels. Now we'll look at this later probably, but it's different than demons. Angels are different than demons.4:29 Now this pattern described here, we've seen throughout scripture. Satan has repeatedly worked to destroy children anticipating the Messiah.4:42 Old Testament, New Testament. Verse 5, she bore a male child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up to God and his throne. This was Jesus. He ascended to the father after the4:54 resurrection. Verse 6. Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should feed her there 1260 days.5:06 Now Israel was scattered after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD throughout all the world. Of course, that's what's so phenomenal about and and we will see this. We've seen it5:18 in scripture in the prophecy of God calling the Jewish people back to that land Began, actually, prior to, 19 48. But in 19 48, it became a political5:29 entity once again in the same land, same name, same language, never happened before in history. Alright. Verse 7. And war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels5:41 fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, called the devil5:54 and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Now this suggest or it is suggested rather that this implies Satan's final6:06 direct assault was after Jesus ascended into heaven, but it was repelled. And Satan was defeated. He was banished from heaven to earth.6:18 And knowing that he had been defeated, he realized it was just a matter of time. Right? It was over for him. So then look at verse 10. Then I heard a loud voice6:30 saying in heaven, now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of the brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down.6:41 Remember when, we had the account of Job back in in the book of Job where Satan was accusing him? After his defeat on the cross, after Jesus6:53 died on the cross, Satan was defeated, cast from heaven. Okay? So he is here on the earth working these last 2000 years seeking whom he may devour. But look at this,7:05 verse 11, and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. This is how we overcome Satan. It is the blood of Jesus that was set on shed7:17 on the cross for our sin. As Paul wrote in Romans chapter 10 verse 9, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.7:30 So we overcome. Now notice here, they did not love their lives even to the death. That does not mean that we necessarily overcome in this life. It says we're not to fear those who can7:42 destroy the body. Alright? This is temporal, and and we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. Satan can't he cannot defeat us.7:54 We will overcome. Verse 12. Therefore, rejoice, oh heavens, and you who dwell in them, woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down8:06 to you having great wrath because he knows that his time is short. Right? He's mad. He's gonna he's gonna destroy as much as he can. He knows where he's going. He wants to take as many people with him as he8:18 can. Now if this speaks of what has happened, then we we see what is behind I mean, this again, this is kind of a historical interlude, I believe, and many8:29 scholars believe that, that this kind of gives us context to what is unfolding here in Revelation. Now this, I believe, gives8:41 us insight into this thread of antisemitism woven throughout the last 2000 years of human history, especially what we see unfolding right now. Verse 13. Now when the dragon8:53 saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman, remember, that's Israel, who gave birth to the male child. But the woman was given 2 wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness to her9:04 place where she is nourished for a time and times and a half a time from the presence of the serpent. So the serpent spewed water. Again, this is the dragon, spewed9:16 water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. Again, this would be the dispersion of the Jewish people that took place. Verse 16. But the earth helped the9:27 woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood, which the dragon has spewed out of his mouth. The nations absorbed the Jewish people. Verse 17. And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he9:39 went to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. So unable to stop the Jewish people I mean, look. We had the holocaust. We that wasn't the9:51 first, and we see what's happening today. Unable to stop the Jewish people, Satan turns to persecuting the church, the offspring, those who follow Jesus. See, the intensity of the10:03 persecution builds as Satan knows that his time is growing shorter. So this is only going to intensify. I mean, could that be why we see this unprecedented rise of antisemitism around the10:14 globe even here in the United States? Even though we know history. We know what happened less than 100 years ago in the 19 thirties in Nazi Germany. But we see the same thing being repeated.10:27 But here's something you need to know. It will not stop here. As we're already seeing globally, there will be an increase in the persecution of Christians. So and we've been warned. Alright? Even this10:39 here warns us that this will happen. Jesus warned us. This warns us so that we can identify it and, I believe, speak out against this spirit of the antichrist. We need to hold10:51 up a standard against it, the word of God. Do not be silent about the persecution of the Jewish people or Christians around the globe. Right? Do not be silent.11:03 Right. On the chapter 13 verse 1, then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having 7 heads and 10 horns, and his 10The Beasts of Revelation 13: Antichrist, False Prophet, and Global Control 11:16 and on his 10 horns, 10 crowns, and on his head, a blasphemous name. Now this is the antichrist. Now the description is similar11:27 to Daniel and the various world empires. The antichrist will be a composite of all of them, perfecting tyranny. 7 heads, that is 7 represents.11:39 That's the number of the completion. And 10 horns, that is the government, represents the government of man. Verse 4. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast saying, who11:50 is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him? So Satan is the dragon who gives authority to the beast who is the antichrist. Verse 7. It was granted to him to12:02 make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority was given to him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. Now here's what we need to understand. The church has been removed, so there's12:14 nothing restraining the man of lawlessness now because the the church has departed. We we read about this in second Thessalonians that who keeps who restrains the lawless 1. It is the there's12:26 the presence of the holy spirit through the church. There are some believers, at this time as we read throughout Revelation. There are some being, saved, but we are beyond the time of the church12:38 and the the and the the the presence of the church. And and we're seeing this even now as the church is losing its influence because it is it's withdrawing itself. I I mean, this is a picture of what happens when we12:50 will be withdraw when the church is withdrawn through the rapture. We need to be the salt and the light. We need to be engaged in our culture. We don't need to say, oh, well, this is gonna happen, so we're just gonna sit13:02 on the sidelines and and wait for it to unfold. No. That is not what scripture tells us to do. We are to occupy until he comes. If you read the parables of the talents, we're to occupy.13:14 Alright. Verse 11. Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had 2 horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And this is getting pretty intense for John. And he exercises13:26 all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs so that he even13:38 makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. So now we have a second beast, which is the antichrist prophet. This is his sidekick that13:50 presides over the world's religion. So the antichrist is the political. The prophet here oversees the world's religion. And by the way by the way, just notice this, Satan's14:02 imitation of the trinity. You have Satan, the antichrist, and the prophet. Right? Satan I mean, everything he does is an imitation of what god has designed because he cannot go beyond that. In the remainder of chapter14:14 13, we see the power and control of the false prophet over the people through deception and idolatry, empowered. Don't miss this. Empowered by control over14:26 economic activity. And I think we're being conditioned even now where the economy is the number 1 issue that political leaders focus on. It is not the economy that is the number 1 issue. I14:37 understand. You know, the the what we call when I was in office, of course, obviously, still working in the political realm. The kitchen table issues are extremely important that14:49 we're able to provide for our families, and we're able to put food on the table and all of those things. Extremely important. But what enables that are the underlying issues of of truth and15:01 morality. And as as believers, we can never ignore the underlying issues that god has called us to, whether it's the sanctity of human life, whether it's the15:13 alignment of human sexuality with his word. The the economy can never trump those issues, And I believe that's what we see happening. That has been happening for for15:25 a long time. I I can remember going back to the 19 92 presidential candidate of, Bill Clinton when, the slogan was put in his campaign headquarters,15:37 it's the economy, stupid. Meaning that don't talk about anything else, just focus on the economy. So, you know, back here to, chapter15:48 13. We're not gonna get to 14 today, but chapter 13. You know, it was not that long ago that what we read here in Revelation did not seem possible. How in the world could that happen?16:01 But now with the advancement of technology and the emerging use of AI, you can see all of this coming together. I do believe the time is short and and in part with16:12 that terminology means where we say, it means it's gonna unfold quickly. It's going to happen quickly. Once it starts, it is going to be, it's going to move rapidly. And I we have to16:24 be prepared. You have to be prepared. Father, thank you for your word, and I pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us, to direct us, and to lead us in our16:36 understanding of your word. And I know some of these things seem are a bit unclear. And and so, father, we don't, we we know what is clear. We know that,16:48 they overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony, and that we see echoed throughout scripture that our hope is in you, Jesus, that it17:00 is in and through your death, burial, and resurrection that we are able to overcome death and the grave and the sin that has enslaved us.17:12 And so it is by confessing our faith in you and that blood that we overcome the grip of Satan and the plans of destruction that he has for mankind.17:24 So may we walk in that victory today and every day on into eternity, And may we share that good news with others, for we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright.17:36 Thanks for joining me this morning. Until next time, keep standing on the word.17:43 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan, available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you17:54 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 Setting the Stage: Temple, Judgment, and the Dawn of Revelation 123:36 The Woman, the Dragon, and Satan's Defeat in Revelation 1211:14 The Beasts of Revelation 13: Antichrist, False Prophet, and Global Control
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