Rev 12:7-17 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Rev 12:7-9: 12:7-9 This scene clarifies the dragon’s identity and power. • God dispatches Michael , the warrior archangel (see Dan 12:1 ; Jude 1:9 ), to confront the dragon and his angels . God does not have to engage in the battle himself (see Matt 26:53 ), and Satan is defeated.

Summary for Rev 12:7-9: 12:7-9 ^a This scene clarifies the dragon’s identity and power.

• God dispatches Michael, the warrior archangel (see Dan 12:1 ^b; Jude 1:9 ^c), to confront the dragon and his angels. God does not have to engage in the battle himself (see Matt 26:53 ^d), and Satan is defeated.
Summary for Rev 12:10-11: 12:10-11 ^e Satan’s defeat is encouraging for Christians who, like the recipients of Revelation, are not afraid to die (see John 12:24-26 ^f).
12:13 ^g When the dragon realized: The scene picks up from 12:9 ^h.
12:14 ⁱ two wings ... of a great eagle (see Exod 19:4-6 ^j; Deut 32:10-11 ^k; Isa 40:29-31 ^l): God strengthens his people; he does not promise that they will escape persecution or death.

• a time, times, and half a time: Usually understood as three and a half years (see Rev 11:2-3 ^m).
Summary for Rev 12:15-16: 12:15-16 ⁿ John pictures Satan as Leviathan (cp. Job 41:1 ^o) trying to destroy God’s people (the woman; see study note on Rev 12:1). The protective earth responds and the waters of chaos are contained, as at creation (cp. Gen 1:2 ^p, 6-7 ^q, 9-10 ^r).
12:17 ^s The dragon turns his hostility against the woman’s children (believers) who keep God’s commandments and continue in their testimony for Jesus.
Summary for Rev 12:18-13:18: 12:18–13:18 ^t John portrays the dragon conducting its war (12:17 ^u) through two beasts who with Satan form an evil trinity. 12:18 ^v on the shore beside the sea: By contrast, the Lamb stands on the rock of Zion (14:1 ^w).