"The Great Conflict: Dragon Versus Lamb"
Message by Pastor Bill Tucker

Revelation 12-13 pulls back the curtain on the cosmic battle beneath all earthly conflicts - a dragon waging war against the woman and her child. These vivid symbols reveal something profound: a spiritual reality lies behind our struggles and society's chaos. The dragon (Satan) couldn't destroy Christ (the male child) and now turns his rage against the church. But God provides protectection in the wilderness. Meanwhile, the dragon empowers "beasts" - corrupt political and religious systems that oppose God's people. Today, we'll learn to recognize these influences in our world while finding hope in the Lamb's certain victory.

Scripture Reading: Revelation 12:1-6
A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to His throne. The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.