“Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole Heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His Kingdom will be an everlasting Kingdom, and all the dominions/rulers will serve and obey Him.
As long as the ‘accuser’ still has access to Heaven, the children of God have the greatest lawyer they could wish for – the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the great Advocate, who hears and answers prayers and brings them before God.
The image of the Exodus from Egypt continues. Pharaoh pursues the people furiously, but they escape into the desert. Ahab hunts furiously for Elijah, but he escapes into the desert, where he also was out of the reach of Jezebel, who hates him even more than Ahab.
Creation comes to the help of God’s children. The Lord makes use of the forces of nature to save His people. The earth opens up, as it opened its mouth to receive the blood of Abel It opened up to swallow up the rebels who belonged to Korah.
What stands out time and again in the Book of Revelation is how the Lord is able to protect those who are His: the two witnesses, the ‘hundred and forty-four thousand’, the ‘great multitude’, the ‘worshippers in the Temple’, the ‘woman’.
