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Revelation 12 is one chapter in the Bible that really grabs the attention. It is an apocalyptic vision of a woman, a child, and a dragon. Each is described with otherworldly features. The woman is clothed with the sun, rests her feet on the moon, and wears a crown of twelve stars. The dragon is colored red, has seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns, a tail that sweeps away stars, and water spewing from its mouth. The child is destined to rule nations with an iron rod. There are angels who battle against the dragon. The earth even helps the woman and child in their distress. This is really fantasy imagery, which sparks the imagination! The vision story of the woman, child and dragon should never be taken in a wooden literal sense. Hank Hanegraaff notes, “The apostle John does not want us to believe that dragons are real, nor does he want us to believe that a dragon’s tail could sweep a third of the stars out of the sky. Instead, he wants to understand the reality of the devil’s ‘cunni...

I came across this article the other day: “ Malaysia's top court: ‘Allah’ for Muslims only .” It was quite the provocative headline, and ruling, which censored the use of “Allah” for God in Roman Catholic newspaper articles, as clarified in “ Malaysian court to Christians: You can't say ‘Allah ’” This might never really strike a chord in many American evangelicals, as a good number of them would may very well get a bit nervous and perturbed at hearing someone referring to the deity revealed in the Scriptures as “Allah,” albeit Allah has be used among many Arabic speaking Christians (See, for example, “ Allah Does Not Belong to Islam .”) What is also unsettling is an example where the court tells the press what words can be used in publications. (This might be just another American idea too, unless there is something universally true about free speech.) ~ WGN