It is most particularly at the Fifth TRUMPET, the First Woe, at the opening of the bottomless pit (Re.9:1-2, 12), that Satan knows he has but a short time (Re.12:12 below).
Revelation 12:13 through Revelation 12:17 (below) gives an overview of the persecution of the saints of the most High (Dan.12:12, Re.8:3-4) who will stand against the beasts of Revelation chapter 13 during the last 3-1/2 years/1260 days prior to the sounding of the Seventh, and final, TRUMPET (1 Thess.4:16-17).
The 144,000 (the remnant of
Re.12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them (Re.13:6). WOE to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Re.12:13 And when the DRAGON (Re.12:9) saw that he was cast UNTO the earth (Re.9:1-2), he persecuted the woman which BROUGHT FORTH the man child (Re.12:4-5, Matt.1:21).
Re.12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a 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 (Re.12:9).
Re.12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Re.12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon (Re.12:13) cast out of his mouth.
Re.12:17 And the DRAGON (Re.12:9, Re.20:2) was wroth with the woman (the church of God - 1 Cor.10:32, Col.1:22, Col.1:24), and went to make war (Re.13:1, Re. 13:7, Re.13:11, Re.13:15, Dan. 7:21, Dan.7:25) with the remnant (the rest) of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Re.14:12-13, Re.16:6, Re.17:6 below).
Re.14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Re.14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:
Re.16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Re.17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Dan.8:24 And his (the king's - Dan.8:23/little horn's - Dan.8:9 Dan.7:24) power shall be mighty, but not by his own power (but Satan's, Re.13:11-12): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Re.13:15), and shall prosper, and practice, and shall DESTROY the mighty and the holy people (Dan.12:7, Col.1:22, Eph.1:4).
Dan.12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the END of these wonders?
Dan.12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever (Re.10:6) that it shall be for a time, times, and an half (3-1/2 years/1260 days); and WHEN HE (the little horn - Dan.7:8) shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people (Dan.8:24 above, Re.11:3, Re.11:7), all these things shall be finished (Re.10:7).
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