Understanding The Book Of Revelation- The Sons Of God Raged War With The Great Red Dragon- Overcomers Reign With Christ

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“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and, behold a great red dragon…and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” (Rev. 12:3-4).

This isn’t some literal firebreathing monster roaming the streets of New York City! The dragon is a spiritual reality — a negative, corrupted, spiritual dimension. Now let us notice something very peculiar about this dragon. His tail draws a third part of the stars of heaven and casts them down to the earth. What does the dragon-tail symbolize? In the time of Isaiah the tail was declared to be the false prophet and his teachings by which the Lord’s people were led astray, and destroyed. Isaiah said, “The prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail” (Isa. 9:1416).

From the very beginning of history this tail has grown stronger, longer, and larger, until today he can lash that tail backward and forward over the whole face of the globe, and then even sweep the starry heavens above with it. Yes, this vision says, that by his tail he sweeps the very heaven where the sun-clad woman is in travail and where the manchild is birthed! He drags down the shining stars therefrom, that they should cease to give their light in the high places of God, but shine dimly in the polluted atmosphere of earth. Stars are heavenly bodies, and signify both divine truths and realities as well as those heavenly ones who walk in the light of those truths and proclaim and express them. Their being “dragged down” signifies the perversion of the truth and apostasy of those who walked in that truth. Satan by his tail of spiritual distortion changes the truth of God into a lie and accomplishes the downfall of those in whom that truth shone.

The dragon uses his tail, the false prophet, the tongue of the religious spirit in man, to cast down a third part of the stars of heaven, the heavenly spiritual truths, casting them down unto the earth causing the Lord’s people to perceive them carnally and not spiritually! The dragon always wants to drag down the high and holy truths of God into a carnal form of man’s wisdom, totally refusing to hear the word of God in the spirit and by the spirit. The head controls the tail, revealing the truth that the lies of the false prophets, whether the outward false prophets in our midst or the false religious spirit within each of us, are spoken by the authority of the dragon and carry and impose the dragon’s authority over men. Out of carnal understanding men proclaim as divine truth that which is mere superstition, legend, myth, folklore, and fairy tales of a carnal interpretation of the word of God.

Consider what I now say with all diligence and prayer. Any teaching that is on a lower level than the heaven where the manchild dwells will rob you of your walk in sonship! Even among the Lord’s elect some are watering down the revelation of sonship, proclaiming that there will be no supersonship ministry with mighty signs and wonders that will empty the hospitals, raise the dead, bring down the kingdoms of men, convert the masses, and restore all creation into God again. Some are saying that “manifest sonship” is just Christ living out His life through you day by day and we are not to look for a “super-duper” ministry that will strike the world with such force that it will change everything. Others try to make manifest sonship function on the church level through mature saints with gifts of the Spirit and through the five-fold ministry. I have no hesitation in telling you that all such are representations of the tail of the dragon and if you heed them they will sweep you down out of your appointed destiny and cast you into a carnal religious earthrealm where you will serve the Lord on a lower level but can never be the instrument to deliver creation from the bondage of corruption! Just because we are of the manchild company doesn’t mean that we don’t have any conflict with the dragon. Oh, yes! It is here in the high places of the spirit we encounter the sweeping power of the dragon’s tail! Will you be swept away by his lies?