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Have you ever noticed how every single Hallmark Christmas movie is exactly the same?
Like the same characters and same plot and same everything.
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I talked about this last week.
If we’re not careful, we can tend to think about the Christmas story like a Hallmark movie.
Where the plot id the same year after year movie after movie.
We could rehearse the story from memory and it loses it’s impact on us.
So last week we tried to look at the story of Jesus’ birth from a new angle.
The Snake-Crushing King, the Messiah, was born.
This week I want to try and look at Christmas from Heaven’s perspective.
And as it turns out, there is a super interesting re-telling of the Christmas story found in the book of Revelation.
So, go ahead, get your bible out, and meet me in Revelation chapter 12.
Before we read this text, lets do a little background work.
Revelation was written by who? John.
John was one of Jesus’ inner circle.
When Jesus wanted to really show his disciples something, he took Peter, James, and John with him.
After Jesus’ death and resurrection, John became a leader of the Jesus followers in a place called Asia Minor.
Modern day, that’s the country of Turkey.
John got arrested for his faith in jesus and telling other people about Jesus, and he was exiled to an island called Patmos.
-- Anyone watch the show Survivor in here?
Kinda like that.
Alone.
No civilization.
Having to fend for himself, find food, find water, build shelter.
And while he’s living on this island, God gives John this crazy vision of what is coming in the future.
He wrote it down and we have it now as the book of revelation.
Okay.
Wow.
This is definitely not your Hallmark Christmas story.
This is not your grandma’s manger scene in the front yard.
We get this weird flashback to when Jesus was born, and there’s this woman, and a child, and a dragon, and a war.
It’s nuts.
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense on the first read.
So let’s try to make sense of this passage of scripture together:
And remember, our goal is to see the Christmas Story from Heaven’s perspective.
Who is the Woman?
clothed with the sun, standing on the moon, wearing a crown of stars, she’s pregnant
Eve? ()
Israel?
Mary?
All three?
Yeah probably.
Many prophecies have multiple meanings.
Who is the Child?
Obvi the child is Jesus.
And the picture we get of Jesus here is that is a child destined to rule.
Jesus is KING.
v.5 Rule = shepherd, Jesus is a king who cares, he takes care of us
Who is the Dragon?
Satan, “the accuser”, “the deceiver”
He’s the one who constantly reminds you of:
All the ways you’re not good enough.
All the mistakes you’ve made in your past.
He wants to throw your sin in your face.
He wants to trick you into thinking that God couldn’t love you.
He wants to deceive you into believing that you’ll never get better.
HE IS OUR ENEMY!
What does this mean for how we should look at Christmas?
The birth of Jesus was a declaration of war.
(7-9, battle in heaven)
Declared war on sin, evil, suffering, death, Satan
There’s no playing around!
We’re in a war! but so many of us are so preoccupied by our own little worlds that we miss the fact that bullets are flying and swords are clashing.
“Our battle isn’t against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and forces of darkness”
But so often we play around at being Christians.
We might come to church sometimes.
We might pray a couple times, we might even read the bible a little bit.
But what should our lives look like if we really understood the battle going on?
We’d be armored up, weapons strapped, ready to go.
The birth of Jesus unveiled the world’s rightful king.
The birth of Jesus unveiled the world’s rightful king.
Not only are we in a battle, but we know who are King is!
Jesus is King of the universe, not just the Jews or the church.
Jesus is King of the universe, not just the Jews or the church.
What is on the throne of your life right now?
Every other leader (religious, political, etc.) will be imperfect
The birth of Jesus signaled a warning to the human race.
The birth of Jesus signaled a warning to the human race.
Sin is a huge deal!
Don’t play.
The birth of Jesus initiated God’s plan of salvation for the human race.
Jesus is a savior who saves and a king who rules.
The birth of Jesus guaranteed Satan’s defeat.
The have defeated him by the blood fo the lamb.
The have defeated him by the word of their testimony.
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