Full Rev 12:1–5. The Bible opens with a promise (Gen 3:15) and closes with its cosmic fulfillment (Rev 12:5). The woman crowned with stars, the dragon (the serpent, Rev 12:9 — "that old serpent called the Devil"), the male child who will rule with a rod of iron. Gen 3:15 and Rev 12:5 are scripture's most distant bookends.
Revelation 12 — The Enmity Fulfilled
The woman, the dragon, the male child — Genesis 3:15's three characters resurface at the end of scripture.
Primary passage:Revelation 12:5 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
R E V E L A T I O N. CHAP. XII. It is generally agreed by the most learned expositors that the narrative we have in this and the two following chapters, from the sounding of the seventh trumpet to the opening of the vials, is not a prediction…
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