8.  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
    heaven.

    9.  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called
    the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:  he was
    cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10.  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:  for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

    11.  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
    word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
    death.

12.  Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.  Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

    13.  And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he
    persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

14.  And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

    15.  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after
    the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
    flood.

    16.  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her
    mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon east out of
    his mouth.

    17.  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make
    war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
    God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

In this vision we have a series of events covering exactly the same period of time as that of the preceeding one; namely, a history of the church up to and including her flight into the wilderness, and of the same opposing dragon.  In this description, however, the events are more perfectly detailed.

Because this dragon was called the Devil and Satan, many have been led into the idea that it signified the Prince of darkness himself.  But surely we could not suppose that Beelzebub has any such appearance as this dragon.  The foregoing explanation concerning his heads and horns shows conclusively that the Pagan Roman empire is meant, and not Beelzebub.  Why, then, was it called the Devil and Satan?  Among the Hebrews the term Satan was frequently used in a very liberal sense and applied to different objects, signifying merely an adversary or opposer.  According to Young’s Analytical Concordance the Hebrew word for Satan is translated adversary in a number of texts, a few of which I will refer to.  Num. 22:22:  “And the angel of the Lord stood