Easter 23:
Date: September 8, 2002
Theme: Christmas 2002 And Our Conflict With The Old Serpent!
– Revelation 12:1-6
– Ude, John
The Order of Worship:
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 446 : Rise, my Soul, to Watch and Pray 
TLH 37 st. 3: Lord, 'tis not that I did Choose Thee
TLH 472 : Rise Ye Children of Salvation
TLH 629 : Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds
TLH 628 st. 1,4: Shepherd of Tender Youth
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 36:12-21, Isaiah37:14b-20, Revelation 12:7-12
Theme: Christmas 2002 And Our Conflict With The Old Serpent!
Revelation 12:1-6
The Woman and the Dragon
12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. 5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, 6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days. (ESV)