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David Guzik commentary on Revelation 12 explains the woman, the child, and the dragon, and the conflict in heaven between Michael and the dragon.
Clarke's Commentary. The woman clothed with the sun, and in travail, Revelation 12:1, Revelation 12:2. The great red dragon waiting to devour the child as soon as born, Revelation 12:3, Revelation 12:4. The woman is delivered of a son, who is caught up unto God; and she flees to the wilderness, Revelation 12:5, Revelation 12:6.
1. We see how the church is represented in this vision. (1.) As a woman, the weaker part of the world, but the spouse of Christ, and the mother of the saints. (2.) As clothed with the sun, the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Revelation 12:10-12) A joyful declaration in heaven. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
Revelation 12:1-17. THE twelfth chapter of the Revelation of St John has been felt by every commentator to be one more than usually difficult to interpret, and that whether we look at it in relation to its special purpose, or to its position in the structure of the book.
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. 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.
The outline of the chapter is: The drama of the woman and the dragon ( Revelation 12:1-6 ). A retrospective parenthesis to explain Satan’s hatred of the woman and her seed ( Revelation 12:7-9 ). A heavenly proleptic doxology, but also including retrospective mention of past events ( Revelation 12:10-12 ).
1. We see how the church is represented in this vision. (1.) As a woman, the weaker part of the world, but the spouse of Christ, and the mother of the saints. (2.) As clothed with the sun, the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1. This episode ( Rev 12:1 - 15:8 ) describes in detail the persecution of Israel and the elect Church by the beast, which had been summarily noticed, Rev 11:7-10, and the triumph of the faithful, and torment of the unfaithful.
The Church, in passing over into the Gentile world, is (1) persecuted; (2) then seduced, as heathenism begins to react on her. This is the key to the meaning of the symbolic woman, beast, harlot, and false prophet. Woman and beast form the same contrast as the Son of man and the beasts in Daniel.
