THEY OVERCAME HIM .

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MARCH 2

 

REVELATION 12:11

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. 

 
What a formidable representation of Satan the context gives us.
 
He is called “the great dragon, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the world.”
 
His power is great, his cruelty is greater.
 
His cunning is deep, and his designs are dreadful.
 
He hates the Saviour, and he hates all who love him. He attempts to destroy, but he will distress those whom he cannot devour.
 
He has tried all means to injure the Church of God, and he still tries to harm us, when he comes slyly, and quietly, as a serpent. 

He is always most dangerous when he assumes the garb of an angel of light, for then we are apt to mistake him. 

But the saints overcame him, yet they were as weak, and as liable to be overcome, as we are. 

They overcame him, but not by reason, or argument, or eloquence; they conquered by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of his testimony.
 
To that blood they looked, when he tempted them to despair; by that word they walked, when he tried to draw them aside.
 
The blood was their plea, the ground of their hope, and the subject of their rejoicing.
 

By the blood of the Lamb the saints overcame,

And its virtue continues for ever the same,

The world and its good shall again be subdued

By the virtues divine of our Advocate’s blood.

 
James Smith