December 21

There Is a War Over Your Soul and Neutral Is Not an Option

You tell yourself you want peace, but one eye is open at night. You tell yourself you believe things will turn out all right, but your chest is tight. It is not your imagination. Scripture declares a war you did not make, but you find yourself in the middle of whether you want to admit it or not.

In the middle of Revelation 12 the false calm of your life is torn apart. It does not calm, it exposes. John writes, “a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars” ~ Revelation 12:1. God is showing His people redemptive work at work in history. This is not myth, this is God keeping covenant, bringing His promise to pass.

Then the sky darkens. Another sign appears, “a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads” with power and authority, “a dragon terrible, and full of eyes and a mouth speaking great things” and “he was ready to devour” ~ Revelation 12:3. Scripture names him without hesitation. “And the dragon that you saw, the old serpent that is the Devil and Satan” ~ Revelation 12:9. Evil is not a mood or a metaphor. Evil is an enemy that hates God and hates what God loves.

The dragon waits for the child. It is there the tension sharpens. From the start, Satan had one target, to stop the promised Seed. God said the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent’s head ~ Genesis 3:15. The child in Revelation 12 is Jesus Christ. Hell watched His birth. Hell stirred kings. Hell sharpened nails. The cross looked like victory for darkness. It was not.

John writes, the child was caught up to God and to His throne ~ Revelation 12:5. Christ rose. Christ reigns. The resurrection was not comfort. It was conquest. The throne is not empty. The war already turned.

Then heaven erupts. Michael fights. Satan fights. Satan loses. Scripture says, “no more was seen in heaven” because “no place was found for him any more in heaven” ~ Revelation 12:8. The accuser is thrown down. The one who stood before God pointing at sin and shouting guilt is cast out.

Heaven announces it clearly, “Behold, the salvation, and the strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the devil is cast out from before Him” ~ Revelation 12:10. Salvation is not a feeling. Salvation is a change of ownership. Authority shifts. Chains break.

It is here false religion gets exposed. God’s people overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony ~ Revelation 12:11. Not by being decent. Not by being spiritual. Not by trying harder. Blood paid the price. Truth seals the allegiance. And Scripture adds the part most people avoid. “They loved not their lives unto the death.” It wrecks the lie of comfortable Christianity.

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” ~ Revlation 12:12

Then comes the warning the world hates to hear, “Woe to the inhabitants 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” ~ Revelation 12:12. Satan is not relaxed. Satan is desperate. That is what is behind the chaos. The lies. The pressure to call evil good. The religion that offers peace without repentance.

The dragon turns his fury toward God’s people, but God sustains His own. The woman is nourished in the wilderness ~ Revelation 12:14. God does not abandon His people in the fight. He carries His people through it. But the chapter does not end with safety talk. It ends with a line drawn in the dirt.

The dragon goes to make war with “those who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” ~ Revelation 12:17. That is the dividing line Scripture draws. It is not labels. It is not feelings. It is obedience to God and allegiance to Christ.

Jesus made it plain. He that is not with me is against me ~ Matthew 12:30. Neutral ground does not exist. You are either covered by the blood or still under accusation. You are either under Christ’s authority or still owned by sin ~ John 8:34.

If you cling to this world you will lose your soul ~ Matthew 16:26. If you reject Christ you stand exposed when judgment comes ~ John 3:18. But if you repent and believe, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin ~ 1 John 1:7. You are delivered from darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son ~ Colossians 1:13.

Revelation 12 does not invite you to admire the story. It forces a decision. The war is real. The enemy is active. The victory belongs to Christ.

Here is the crossroads God puts in front of you. Believe and live. Repent and be covered. Receive Christ and stand secure. Or resist, and stand alone. There is no third way.

Zechariah 1:1-21
Revelation 12:1-17
Psalm 140:1-13
Proverbs 30:17

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