My Sheep Hear My Voice-Rev. 12:7

My Sheep Hear My Voice-Rev. 12:7

Before Jesus was crucified He told the disciples to watch and pray, something so simple, but they let their physical bodies take over and they fell back asleep. In these last hours of time you need to hear His voice. When He tells you something, it is very important, but most ignore my voice or just discuss it and go on with what they were doing. You will see many things start to happen shortly and if you do not hear and obey His voice,... it will mean death for some of you....Jesus has only your best interest in mind. Christ knows you heart, and if you are truly His you will hear His voice. He awakes many of you at 3am on the dot, but most will roll over and go back to sleep. There are a few who will get up and pray. Your day is filled with so many things and Jesus is the last thing many of you give your time to. But Christ needs to talk to you,... to fellowship with you and only when you are still and quite (3am) can you hear Him,... the rest of your day is so busy you do not have time for Him,... but you need to make time, for time is short and the Lord has instructions for you.

Satan Thrown Down to Earth

"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, Rev. 12:7

War in Heaven

war in heaven... This war in heaven will be the last actual struggle between Satan and God over the possession of the heavenlies where Satan reigns (Eph_2:2; Eph_6:12). Satan still has access to God’s heaven to accuse the brethren, but from the time of this casting out he will never again enter heaven (Job 1:6; 2:1; Rev. 12:7-12; Zec. 3:1). The tumultuous events on earth during the Tribulation find their counterpart in heaven. A state of war has existed since the fall of Satan (compare verse 4, compare Dan. 10:13; Jude 9). Something will intensify that warfare, possible the raptured saints passing through the realm of the prince of the power of the air (compare Eph. 2:2).

I really believe that Michael is a very high-up angel directly under Jesus' command. The dragon here is Lucifer, which was an evil archangel.

Five facts about the war in heaven:

1. The fact: there will be a war (Rev. 12:7).

2. The time: in the middle of Daniel’s 70th week (Rev. 12:6-14; 13:1-5)

3. The place: in the heavenlies (Rev. 12:7; Eph. 2:2; 6:12)

4. The combatants (Rev. 12:7)

5. The result (Rev. 12:8-12)

The war predicted here could not be the same as the one in heaven (Isa. 14:12-14; Luke 10:18). That was in the dateless past before the six days’ work of Genesis 1:3-2:25. This war is yet future, for all events of Rev. 4:1-22:5 must be after the churches (Rev. 4:1). The only truth we find here in connection with the original war in heaven is that revealing how many angels originally fell with Lucifer (Rev. 12:4).

Michael and his... Dan. 10:13, 10:21; 12:1; Jude 1:9.

dragon fought and... Angels fight by physical contact in the same way that people do. They are capable of operation in the material and earthly realm. After all, heaven and other planets are of material substance like the earth. Angels have done and can do all things that men can do, plus some things people cannot do before becoming resurrected, immortalized, and being given glorified bodies like Christ who can appear and disappear, going through material substance (John 21:14). Angels are capable of being captured and confined by chains and prisons like people (Dan. 10:13-21; 2Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6-7; Rev. 9:11, 9:14; 20:1-10). Here one army of angels is going to defeat and cast down another army of angels to the earth and confine them there (Rev. 12:7-12). All fallen ones will be confined to hell forever (Mat. 24:41; Rev. 20:10).

4. The Fourth Personage: Satan Cast Out Of Heaven (Rev. 12:7-12)

Michael the archangel (cf. Jude 1:9) and his angels fought Satan and his angels, that is, demons. The time of this war in heaven was not indicated but the context refers to the end time. The efforts of some expositors to make this coincidental with the first coming of Christ, linking it with Luke 10:18, are not justified by the context in Rev. 12:1-17. Also Satan is most obviously active throughout the period of the Church Age (cf. Acts 5:3; 1Cor. 5:5; 7:5; 2Cor. 2:11; 11:14; 12:7; 1Tim. 1:20; 1Pet. 5:8).

The concept that Satan is inactive in the present Age is a false conclusion based on an attempt to place the binding of Satan at the first coming of Christ (Rev. 20:1-3). However, the binding of Satan is still a future event that relates to the millennial kingdom.