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ENCOURAGEMENT TO ETERNAL FOCUS IN UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP OF THE GOSPEL
What happened in the kingdom of heaven when Satan was authoritatively removed from the presence of God?
Satan and others made a tragic decision sometime after their creation. Satan’s decision took place before the written creation of Genesis in recording the history of man’s purpose in God’s plan. As Satan oversaw the material kingdom he began to peddle or trade something new. He introduced a concept and idea that had never before entered the heart of a creature of God’s kingdom. The created decided and persuaded others in heaven that he was equal with the Creator. Isaiah speaks of this disastrous choice.
Isaiah 14:12-14
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." NIV (Emphasis mine)
Scripture tells how some of the angels and stars of God agree with him. The “stars” are a description of God’s angels based on their appearance of light. Unfortunately when Satan sinned these angels followed these new sinful thoughts. In describing historically the ruling power of the devil the Apostle John showed he held “a third of the stars.” These angels had been “flung to the earth” and there assisted him in his evil desires to hinder God’s plan of redemption through Israel to bring forth the birth of His Son.
Revelation 12:3-4
3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. NIV (Emphasis mine)
In Ezekiel’s account of this time he told how Satan much like a politician went from angel to angel persuading them to follow his scheme.
Ezekiel 28:15-17
15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. 16 Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. NIV (Emphasis mine)
Angelic War in God’s Kingdom
Jeremiah mentions God judged sin bringing ruin whereby the material creation became “formless…empty… and dark” for the first time ever. In God’s kingdom there must have been an incredible power of energy involved when God dealt with Satan and the other stars of heaven when iniquity was found. The disagreements between God the Father in His Kingdom are not friendly tolerated differences by a God of pluralistic views. Consider John’s revelation that gives a possible description of a coming heavenly disagreement when Satan is removed from the Father's House of the Second heaven where he has access today as shown in Job. [This probably occurs at the rapture when Jesus leaves the throne of God of the third heaven to gather the saints in the clouds of the second heaven. Satan will be authoritatively removed and confided to the dimension of the earth. It is then he commits the abomination that brings desolation of the Anti-Christ.]
Revelation 12:7-9
7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. NIV (Emphasis mine)
God calls this disagreement and resulting conflict a “war.” Two disagreeing parties “fought.” John clearly identifies the instigator of this war as “hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” This angel used all his strength to win. John says, “he was not strong enough” to defeat “Michael and his angels.” As powerful as this angel is described in Scripture the force involved in the altercation of these angels has to be great.
Jesus was an eyewitness to a pervious similar war between God the Father and the devil in heaven. As the seventy-two ministers rejoiced over their newfound power to cast out demons Jesus told them of His experience with Satan in the past.
Luke 10:17-19
17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." 18 He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. NIV (Emphasis mine)
Satan as “lightening” was cast from heaven and hurled to the earth. The description of lightening illustrates the brightness and noise of thousands of volts of electricity passing through the air to the earth. Imagine the flash and thunderous power. The verbs God uses to describe this action are all words of intense energy– drove, expelled, threw, hurled, cast, fought, fall, lightening, war.
Satan was an “angel of light” before his fall and we now know him as “the prince of darkness.” No one in the creation now sees Satan as “light.” He lost his light energy God created for Him. What happened to all his power and light energy when thrown to the earth? Einstein gave us the equation showing the relationship of energy to mass and light. We know it as E=mc2. When Satan’s light in God’s judgment was changed to energy it must have been enough to destroy everything. Note how just a little exposure to light can give sunburn. What about when Satan’s created light and power was translated to energy? This was not a friendly disagreement where Satan nicely left town to prevent a schism in heaven. This flash of destruction in Eden the beautiful garden of God is probably what we see today scientifically as the big bang. Scientists who view the expanding universe from an apparent explosion of energy wonder how it could have happened. God’s description of Satan’s fall and violent expulsion just may be the explanation for what is theorized by science today. [See Appendix 2- The Fulfillment of the Times].
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