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The Conquering Weapon~What Sword did the Saints use to Overcome the Great Red Dragon?
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"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." – Revelation 12:11
In Revelation Chapter 12, the devil is called the "great red dragon." He is great in capacity, intelligence, energy, and experience.
Whether or not he was the chief of all angels before he fell I do not know. Some have thought that he was such, and that when he heard that a man was
to sit upon the throne of God, out of very jealousy he rebelled against the Most High. This is also conjecture.
But we do know that he was and is an exceedingly great spirit as compared with us. He is a being great in evil: the prince of darkness, having the power of death.
He shows his malice against the saints by accusing the brethren day and night before God.
In the prophets we have the record of Satan standing to accuse Joshua the servant of God.
Satan also accused Job of serving God from mercenary motives: "Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and all that he hath?"
This ever active enemy desires to tempt as well as accuse: he would have us, and sift us as wheat.
In calling him the dragon, the Holy Spirit seems to hint at his mysterious power and character.
To us a spirit such as he is, must ever be a mystery in his being and working.
Satan is a mysterious personage though he is not a mythical one.
We can never doubt his existence if we have once come into conflict with him; yet he is to us all the more real because so mysterious
But yet, dear friends, powerful as this infernal spirit certainly must be, his power is defeated when we are resolved never to be at peace with him.
We must never dream of terms or truce with evil. To suppose that we can let him alone, and all will be well, is a deadly error.
We must fight or perish: evil will slay us if we do not slay it.
Our only safety will lie in a determined, vigorous opposition to sin, whatever shape it assumes, whatever it may threaten, whatever it may promise.
The Holy Ghost alone can maintain in us this enmity to sin.
According to the bible verse above, it is said of the saints, "They overcame him."
What is the conquering weapon?
Listen!
"They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb"
[link to boston.server101.com]
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