War In Heaven

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Revelation Introduction Part One Introduction Seven Spirits Of God Walking Amidst The Candlesticks The Seven Angels - A Mystery A Sharp Two Edged Sword The Little Horn And The Synagogue Of Satan The Throne Of God The Lamb Of God Part Two Introduction The Seals - Shifting Identity The Tail Of The Dragon Is Constructed The Removal Of The Restrainer Behold A Pale Horse Last Three Seals - Alignment The Last Three Seals - The Resurrection The Last Three Seals - Triune Part Three Introduction The Trumpets - Shifting Octal Subgroups The First Trumpet The Second Trumpet The Third Trumpet The Fourth Trumpet Wormwood = 'Death' Part Four Introduction The Fifth Tumpet The Sixth Trumpet. Why Serpents, Why Not Just Scorpions? Seven Angels And Seven Candlesticks The Angel Of The Church On The Earth And Sea Witnesses To Left And Right The Two Witnesses The Trumpets Rest Part Five Introduction The Woman Clothed With The Sun The Dragon War In Heaven The Angel's Mechanism To Salvation God's Sovereignty Questioned Michael Fights Back With His Angels Time No Longer The Dragon Defeated Jesus' Epistle To Satan The Flood From The Dragon The Beast From The Sea The First Beast Explained The Beast Come Up From The Earth Part Six Introduction Life To The Image I Life To The Image II Life To The Image III Life To The Image IV Life To The Image V The Three Angels To The Right And Left The Wrath Is Come Part Seven Introduction The Wrath Poured Out - Part I The Wrath Poured Out - Part II The Wrath Poured Out - Part III Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs I Come As A Thief Mystery, Babylon The Great The Woman Riding The Beast Explained The Angel Of The Church Overcomes Laodicea The Smoke Of Her Burning Part Eight Introduction The Victor The Spoils The Lake Of Fire Does Not Equal Reign One Thousand Years The Millennial Reign? A Caveat The Second Coming Is When? The Judgement The More Sure Word Of Prophecy Part Nine Introduction A New Earth The River Of Life The Final Promises Redux Introduction Section One Static Subgroups Spirits, Candlesticks And Stars A Sharp And Two-Edged Sword The Lord's Bow, The Elders, The Four Beasts The Book, The Lamb, The Right Octal Reversals, Alignments Horses, Bows, Crowns, Swords And Balances Death, Hell And The Earth Section Two The Altar - Two Parts Cut Off The Sun, Moon And Stars Of Heaven Mountains, Islands, Blood And Trees The Four Winds Of The Earth The Blood Of The Lamb The Censer And Prayers Of The Saints Hail And Fire Mingled With Blood Section Three The Third Part Of... Voices, Thunderings, Lightnings And Earthquakes Flying Through The Midst Of Heaven The Bottomless Pit Smoke, Locusts, Green Things Tormented Five Months The Appearance Of Locusts Section Four The Great River Euphrates The Army Of The Horsemen And The Rest Of The Men The Little Book Power To Tread On Serpents And Scorpions The Reed, Rod and Temple Witnesses And Olive Trees Rain, Waters Into Blood, Plagues On The Earth Section Five The Beast That Ascendeth Overcome -The Great City The Spirit of Life, Clouds And An Earthquake The Tenth Part The Kingdoms Of Our Lord Wonders In Heaven The Beast Risen Up From The Sea Section Six Worshipping The Dragon The Beast Coming Up Out Of The Earth The Last Trumpet Six Hundred Threescore And Six The Mark, Number And Name Of The Beast Stood On Mount Zion The Harvest Of Sharp Sickles The Temple Filled With Smoke Section Seven The First Vial Of Wrath The Second Vial Of Wrath The Third Vial Of Wrath The Fourth Vial Of Wrath The Fifth Vial Of Wrath The Sixth Vial Of Wrath The Rest Of The Wrath Section Eight Divided Into Three Parts The Judgement Of Babylon The Beast That Was, And Is Not The Beast Dissected The Beast Rebooted Babylon The Great Is Fallen Death, Mourning And Famine Section Nine It Is Done The Sabbath Continues After The Wrath The Word Of God Predestination And Deliverance The Last Day Burn In Hell? The Tabernacle Of God With Men The City Descends The Final Word Sayings Faithful And True Structure, Sequence and Segue Introduction The Seven Letters In Ephesus In Smyrna In Pergamos In Thyatira In Sardis In Philadelphia Of Laodicea Seven Thunders Uttered The Seven Trumpets The Seals - Loosed Restraint The Seals Opened On The Earth The Seals Opened In Heaven What Or Whom Is Being Restrained? The Seventh Seal Of Rest The Trumpets And Viols The Trumpets - In Or Out? Overcoming In Stages - Treading The Winepress The Alignment Of Trumpets To Viols The Completion Of The Viols Is The Wrath In Reversal? The Scope Of Wrath The Peculiar Structure Of The Viols. Sequence Within Segue Wonders In Heaven The Burning Of Babylon The Descent Of New Jerusalem Gathered Together To Armageddon Alignments In The Sequence Sequence Completed Babylon Fallen No Millenium Those That Have The Victory The Book Of Daniel I Introduction An Opening The Statue Dream The Matter Gone A God That Reveals Secrets The Dream And It's Interpretation The Dragons Tail Revealed The Image And The Fiery Furnace Imitating The Kingdom Of God Falling Down - Instruments Of Ishtar That God That Shall Deliver The Tree Dream Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Daniel's Interpretation Is Not This Great Babylon? Babylon The Great Is Fallen The Party To End All Parties Daniel Interprets The Writing The Kingdom Is Taken Daniel In The Lion's Den Working In The World Daniel Breaks The King's Decree Interred To Be Devoured Delivered From Evil The Four Beasts Racing The Restrainer The Four Beasts The Ancient Of Days Did Sit The Fourth Beast Explained The Book Of Daniel II Introduction The Ram And He-Goat Greece Subdues The Medes And Persians The Little Horn The Interpretation In Summation Daniel's Seventy Weeks Daniel's Prayer Seventy Weeks Determined Skill And Understanding A Matter Of Timing? The Kings Of The North And South I Daniel's Revelation Of Christ To The End Of Persian Rule The 1335 Days - The Power Of The Arm The 1290 days - The Abomination Identifiers In The Text The Abstraction Of Daniel's Vision The Kings Of The North And South II The South Establishes His Kingdom His Sons Stirred Up Casting Up A Mount The Strength Of The Kingdom A Raiser Of Taxes The Kings Of The North And South III A Vile Person Stands Up Stirring Up His Power And Courage Lies At One Table The Kings Of The North And South IV The Restrainer Removed The Ships Of Chittim The Abomination - A Little Help Given That That Is Determined Shall Be Done At The Time Of The End The Final Clash Made Succinct The Conclusion - The People Are Tried	War In Heaven The text tells us that there is war in heaven -- Click To Expand/Collapse Bible Verses -- Rev ch12:v7-12 Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, Rev 12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Rev 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. Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. (KJV) The time line of Christ's day shows that the devil fell already. When Christ sent out His disciples in pairs He exclaimed on their return that "I beheld satan fall as lightning from heaven". Jesus was exclaiming that the apostles (to whom even the devils were subject in His name) had overcome the devices of satan. Satan is in the text of revelation referred to as possessing a seventh crown with which revelations third woe is concerned. Michael as the captain of the heavenly host casts satan down from heaven. The stars drawn by satan to form his devices with a "counterfeit product" is shown to be empty - Jesus' resurrection shows that Christ is God and that the 666 system is empty. The shift from the earthly kingdoms of satan to the heavenly kingdom of God is such that the devil and his angels are cast out as not having any more place - the devices of satan are proven to be falsehood. In the modern time line however it is the devil Himself who is no longer permitted any place before God. This is indicated in verse 11 above, since those that overcame the devil have washed their robes in the blood of the lamb. I.e. Why would satan be heard any longer in heaven to accuse those who overcame (after the resurrection here) if he is cast out? The escape of the angel from the captivity of the modern neo-babylonian church (the least of the flock) has shown that not only does the device have no effect on Christ, but that it has no effect on the least of the flock obeying Christ - and by extension or a well ordering principal, the whole flock itself. Satan truly is fallen. The devil is cast out to the Earth - indicated in the throne vision by the four beasts. (We see the four seals as the "setting up" of the tail of the dragon - actually three concurrent kingdoms making a fourth, like the fourth beast but comprised of lion, bear and leopard as in Daniel's vision but in the revelation setting.) His angels are cast out with him, they comprise the third part of the stars - then alluded to in verse 12 as the Earth and the "sea" upon whom the devil is cast down. However the presence of two wars in heaven fought by Michael in which both time lines are fulfilled separately is tricky - the devil doesn't have "two places to lose" does he? The answer can be found in the war lasting all this time including two fulfillments, (for the last two thousand years), it being one war and Christ's victory with the deliverance of the angel two battles, (though the war was won on the cross.) How can the kingdom of God come twice? It comes once in Christ. However the salvation and strength is demonstrated in the angel and is the power of Christ shown by saving the least of the flock. We must learn that the heavenly time line is not worldly time. The seals and trumpets overlap with the rest of unity between and preceding them: We can not expect a single war lasting 2000 earthly years to have two separate heavenly events to it. In fact the church age (as it is) is over in the time it takes Christ to open the seven seals, which includes the seven trumpets - the devil is then cast down in this sixth trumpet to be a recipient of God's wrath. Dual time line fulfilment is then plausible. We see that the two witnesses that follow the angel and preach the strength of salvation for 1260 days are required because not only has Christ been ascended up to heaven in victory, but the angel caught up (for safety) also in dual fulfilment. The angel is no longer present to witness of his work in Christ. So if the least of the flock is raptured, what of the rest? (Close but no cigar satan,.. there is no church rapture.) It may be possible that the "hour of temptation" the angel is kept from (see Philadelphia letter) is merely the forcing upon him of the mark of the beast, (or the temptation with it.) The angel as the least of the flock must as necessity be kept from this forced mark in order to free under all grace the greater of the flock to refuse it. That satan would certainly and forcibly "mark" the angel under all circumstances implies that he must be necessarily raptured - but though it is true that the mark is not a logical necessity and can be refused - it follows rather that satan requires to mark the least in some sequence, (and therefore all) - of the whole flock. Perhaps the least (angel) just walks through the tribulation without incident: but dual fulfilment may indicate this, that he is to be "raptured". However there is math (or pseudo-math) to describe these events described in the text. We see that the devil's devices are effective with the removal of the restrainer, that an element of unity supplied is replaced by the empty set {}. The devil then has enough sway with the device to "appear to be an angel of light" in that the remaining earthly elements are similar in operation to a K4 group and also hold correct some basic laws of logical inference. What we see in this passage that there is war in heaven and that satan is ejected affirms that the dragon may not send an element of the static subgroup to the empty set. (The K4 form of the ultrafilter is unaltered by the devil's devices, Jesus is victorious and this victory stands firm in heaven.) Whereas we would send unity to {} for a "dialectic logic" device (see creationism area) There is no such empty set in the K4 form. We now see the dragon's devices (shown in the trumpets) are valid on ONLY the earthy elements of the four beasts about the throne of God. 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