Behind the Curtain: The War Behind the World

The world feels broken because there is a real cosmic conflict happening behind the scenes. Revelation 12 pulls back the curtain on that conflict, showing us a dragon, a woman, and a child whose story is actually the story of everything. The dragon is Satan, the woman represents the people of God across all of history, and the child is Jesus, who ascended to the throne of the Father after His death and resurrection. Satan was cast down and defeated, but he wages war against God's people with great fury because he knows his time is short. We live in the tension of the already but not yet, where Jesus has won but the battle still rages around us. The dragon's most effective strategy is convincing us that our enemy is each other, when in reality our struggle is not against flesh and blood. Victory belongs to those who hold fast to the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. The story of the Lamb, not the story of the dragon, is the one worth living.