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Living Hope SDA Church

Chris Holland

Revelation’s Victory Cry

It is the victory cry of the book of Revelation.

Have you ever struggled with what it means to really follow Jesus?

Have you ever struggled with overcoming sin in your life?

Have you ever had difficulty finding peace?

Or maybe you find it even difficult to know what peace actually even looks like.

Revelation's victory cry is the answer to the great challenges of life.

Today we will look to the Bible and see what the Word of God says about the victory cry of the book of Revelation.

Heavenly Father, as we have gathered here, and as we are gathering around your word, we pray that you would lead us and help us to understand Revelation's victory cry, but more than understand it, today, dear God, we want to experience it.

We want to experience life transformation.

So dear God, please bring this about today.

Throughout time, Victory cries have been used by different groups of individuals in a variety of battles and circumstances.

Of course here in the United States, you had the cry, remember the Alamo.

The Japanese, as they would enter into battle during World War II, would cry out, Banzai!

The Roman legions, which would march in absolute silence to produce order.

As they would begin to encounter their enemy, they would lift up their shields to create an echo, and they would begin murmuring the Beratis, a war cry borrowed from the Germanic tribes.

And as they drew nearer and nearer to their enemies, Their murmur would begin a fervent chant and eventually a terrifyingly frightening sound.

The Soviets went attacked by Germany during World War II.

As the Nazis were invading the Soviet Union, the Soviets with their backs against the Volga River developed this victory cry, there is no land for us beyond the Volga.

Many historians believe that that battle in World War II was a pivotal moment in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

And yet 1 of the most famous victory cries in the United States happened not too far from us here in Haymarket, Virginia.

It occurred on March the 23rd, 1775 at the St.

The event was the Second Virginia Convention.

The meeting was all about the gathering of Virginia troops to take part in the Revolutionary War.

A Baptist minister who was watching the proceedings described the young man as he got up to speak, and these are the words that he used.

He had an unearthly fire burning in his eyes.

I have but 1 lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last 10 years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house.

Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?

Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?

Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?

Our remonstrance have been produced additional violence and insult.

Our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.

An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left.

The walls of the building and all within them, the war is actually begun?

The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" and then young Patrick Henry held his wrists together as though they were manacled and raised them toward the heavens and said these words, Forbid it Almighty God, I know, know, I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, and as he broke his hands, or give me death.

The cry of this young man, victory cry, give me liberty or give me death.

It's been utilized by other countries throughout the centuries.

It has formed in other areas a context of battle cries.

But that cry, give me liberty or give me death, formed the very foundation of the basis of the Declaration of Independence where it talks about Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Those 3 are endowed by the Creator with these uncertain, excuse me, with these certain unalienable rights.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is the foundation of the freedoms that we experience here in the United States.

This sermon is about the victory cry of God's people.

What is the freedom that God wants His people to experience in these last days?

What is it that forms the very foundation of Christianity itself?

What is it that provides life-giving power to each and every individual Christian.

The book of Revelation written by the apostle John as he sat on the rocky crag of an island, Patmos.

There in the midst of the Aegean see the last of the living disciples.

John was given a vision of those things that must shortly take place.

Revelation chapter 12 is a pivotal chapter in the book of Revelation.

There are 404 verses in the book of Revelation.

The very center of the book of Revelation comes in Revelation 12, 7.

The book of Revelation is all about 1 thing, and that 1 thing is the pinnacle moment, which is the very center of the book of Revelation.

Revelation 12, 7, and war broke out in heaven.

Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought.

The book of Revelation is about the cosmic battle between Christ and Satan.

And at the very heart and the very center of the book of Revelation, literally the center of the book of Revelation, is demonstrated this cosmic battle.

And when we study the book of Revelation, let us not get all caught up in the symbols and lose sight of the message.

The most simple message of the book of Revelation is this, Jesus wins, The devil loses.

If you lose sight of who the harlot is, and who the beast that rises from the sea is, and who the beast that rises from the land is, who are the 3 frogs?

Revelation 12 We will not study the entirety of this chapter verse by verse.

Revelation chapter 12 though begins, it begins with insight, it begins with a woman which is a symbol of the church.

And the woman is being attacked by the dragon.

Now we learn in just, we learn here in verse 9 that the dragon is the devil or Satan, but that dragon that the book of Revelation 12, 1 begins with rather, is the dragon's agent that he is using.

And who was the agent that the dragon used to persecute the church and try to kill the man-child that we see in these first few verses of the book of Revelation?

He utilizes the Roman Empire, and so he works through the Roman Empire, the dragon does, to attempt to bring an end to the Messiah.

But then the book of Revelation takes a step back to try to help us understand the background to what's going on and in verse 7, which we just read, and war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found from them in heaven.

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