The Fishing Boats of Denmark

In October 1943, the Nazi regime prepared to round up every Jewish citizen in Denmark — over seven thousand men, women, and children marked for deportation and death. The dragon's jaws were open wide. But a German diplomat named Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz leaked the plans to Danish resistance leaders, and within hours, an entire nation mobilized in secret.

Ordinary Danes — fishermen, schoolteachers, ambulance drivers, pastors — hid their Jewish neighbors in attics, church basements, and hospital rooms. Then, under cover of night, they ferried them across the narrow strait to neutral Sweden in fishing boats, rowboats, and kayaks. Families clutched their children in the dark hulls of herring trawlers, the smell of fish masking their presence from patrol dogs. In just three weeks, Danish citizens smuggled nearly the entire Jewish population to safety. Over 7,200 people reached the prepared refuge across the water.

This is the pattern of Revelation 12. A great and terrible power rises to devour the vulnerable. Yet God has already prepared a place of rescue in the wilderness. The woman and her child are not abandoned to the dragon's fury. Before the threat fully arrives, the Almighty has set deliverance in motion — through unexpected hands, by hidden paths, into a shelter already waiting.

The dragon rages, but heaven declares: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God." The rescue was planned before the danger struck.