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11 illustrations for sermon preparation
This ancient adversary possesses characteristics we must understand clearly.
Many professing Christians require conversion; many churches require Christianization.
When Abram fled Ur of the Chaldees, renouncing idolatry in a pagan land, westward distance became his sanctuary.
This final biblical reference to Christ's Cross corresponds with the recurring phrase in *Revelation*, "the Lamb slain" (*arnion sphazō*), reaching backward to Genesis 3:15's promise of the bruised heel.
First, this voice summons every saint at the appointed hour.
First, Yahweh operates through dual instruments: the judgments of God's mouth and the judgments of God's hand—the word and the work of God.
First, the phrase "If any man have an ear, let him hear" signals that spiritual discernment is required to grasp this mystery.
Yet it remains what it always was: a beast, combining antagonism to both God and humanity.
This vision discloses three critical truths about Adonai's character.
The first is the "great red dragon" of Revelation 12—Satan himself, bearing seven heads and ten horns, the ancient serpent who wars against heaven and hungers for the saints' blood.
First, her frailty: Scripture compares the church to vulnerable creatures—a vine requiring constant support, a lily without defense, a dove without gall, sheep amid wolves.
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