Key Thought: Revelation 12 provides us with an assurance that Satan will not win, even though he will wage all-out war against the remnant church. Their only hope and power to overcome is in Christ.
February 23, 2019

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 12:1-5.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What does the woman represent in Revelation 12? Who is the child? What does the dragon represent?
3. Personal Application: How did Satan try to devour the child as soon as it was born? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “The woman is Mary, the mother of Jesus. The devil is always fighting against the Catholic Church and the church He established with Peter here on the earth.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Revelation 12:13,14.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. How did Satan persecute the woman for one thousand two hundred and sixty years?
3. Personal Application: How did the earth help the woman from the flood? What does the symbolism mean here? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What is this wilderness that the woman flees to from the face of the dragon? How would you reply to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Revelation 12:17

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. Who or what is the remnant of the woman’s seed?
3. Personal Application: What does it mean to keep the faith of Jesus and have the testimony of Jesus? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “You Adventists think you are the only ones who are going to be saved. If I don’t join your church, I’ll be lost, right? If not, then why are you so insistent that I join your church and keep the Sabbath, don’t eat pork, and believe that the dead are asleep? Does that save me?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:13,14.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. How does the false prophet deceive people with calling fire down from heaven? What is this fire? Nuclear weapons?
   (Note: Fire represents the presence of God in the Bible. False fire leads people to believe God is with them through the manifestation of fire – like at Pentecost.)
3. Personal Application: How can we discern between what’s true and what is false when it comes to spiritual things? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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