Revelation 12:7: Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon.
Revelation 12 speaks of a woman birthing a male child, a dragon, and a war in heaven. The general flow is this:
A woman gives birth to a male child; the great red dragon unsuccessfully attempts to kill the male child; the child is taken up to heaven; the woman flees into the wilderness; the great red dragon, having been exiled from heaven, furiously makes war against the woman’s remaining offspring.
Many see this as a panoramic view of world history: Satan’s fall from heaven, his attempt to kill Christ, and his furious persecution of the church. Not John Gill. He sees a different picture entirely.
Gill & Prophetic History
As documented before, Gill reads Revelation as prophetic history. Two seminal events stand out in his purview: (1) Constantine’s Christianization of the Roman Empire and (2) the Protestant Reformation. Revelation 12, to Gill, depicts…
