Come, Lord Jesus by Watchman Nee & Stephen Kaung

Author:Watchman Nee & Stephen Kaung
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780935008166
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1976-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

The Trinity of Satan (12.1-13.18)

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dispensation God is manifesting himself through her. This is her relationship with Christ and with the dispensation of grace.

(2) This woman has the moon under her feet—the word “under”

does not imply “tread upon”; in the Greek the word simply means a lying under her feet. The light of the moon is not self-producing but is reflective. Things in the dispensation of law only reflect the things in the dispensation of grace, for the law is but a shadow. The holy temple, the ark, the incense and the shewbread, the sacrifices which the priests offer, and even the blood of the bullocks and lambs—all these are types. The moon being under the woman’s feet shows how the things of the law are subjected to her, that is to say, they belong to her. So that this description tells of the woman’s relationship with the dispensation of law.

(3) This woman wears upon her head a crown of twelve stars—the distinguished personages who figured during the dispensation of the patriarchs may be counted from Abraham up to the birth of the twelve tribes of Israel. Wearing such a crown of twelve stars shows the relationship between this woman and the dispensation of the patriarchs.

From the above observations we can understand that this woman is related not only to the dispensation of grace but also to the dispensations of law and of the patriarchs, although here her relationship with the dispensation of grace is most intimate. And hence representationally this woman includes in herself the people found in the dispensations of the patriarchs and of law as well as in the dispensation of grace.

[Here ends the translated portion taken directly from Mr. Nee’s Holy and Without Blemish (Shanghai, 1953), pp. 78-79.—

Translator]

12.3 “A great red dragon”—He is the same as “the old serpent”

or “the Devil” or “Satan” found in 12.9. This serpent is the very one

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spoken of in Genesis 3.1. “Red” is the color of war. As a great red dragon he is a killer from the beginning to the end (cf. John 8.44; 1

John 5.19). “Seven heads” (see 17.9,12)—Ten horns represent the

kings under the great king. The head is bigger than the horn and it is the head that makes use of the horns. Hence the dragon will use the so-called revived Roman Empire together with these lesser kings to persecute God’s children.

12.4 “The third part of the stars of heaven, . . . cast them to the

earth”—These stars are the angels cited in 12.9. The third part of the

angels of heaven has followed the devil. The casting down of the dragon will occur after the man child is raptured.

12.5 Who is this “man child”? Some say it represents the children of Israel, but this is not possible due to the following reasons:

(1) The sun, moon and stars already represent the nation of Israel.

(2) This man child is caught up to the throne. The Bible never suggests that the nation of Israel will be raptured, for such a thought is in direct conflict with the prophecies concerning the nation of Israel.

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