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1 | The Fall of Satan | Rev 12:4 | drbloor | 166226 | ||
Hi Ocelot, And thanks for your post. A lot of my posts appear to have been sucked into the void for good or ill ... Either way, I'll certainly only make a non-doctrinal, non-argumentative point here. Revelation is a book of future prophecy, not a book of history. You can see this in the very first verse: Rev 1:1 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass." This indicates that the book of Revelation concerns future incidents which "must shortly come to pass." The book of Revelation was written somewhere between AD 67 and AD 96, which means that anything recorded in the Revelation must happen after this date. So whatever Revelation 12 is discussing, I don't believe that it could have occurred prior to the date of the Revelation, and so could not be the origin of the fall of Satan. That is something I am still searching for :). I think you may have made the same mistake I did, which is to assume that the fall of Satan was a physical fall from heaven, but I am now learning that the doctrine of this forum is actually that of metaphorical fall from a state of perfection/grace. Okay for now and thanks, Dr. B. |
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2 | The Fall of Satan | Rev 12:4 | Ocelot | 166233 | ||
You said: “I think you may have made the same mistake I did, which is to assume that the fall of Satan was a physical fall from heaven, but I am now learning that the doctrine of this forum is actually that of metaphorical fall from a state of perfection/grace.” I actually believe it was both a physical fall and a fall from grace. I believe the physical part of the fall was more of a getting kicked out of heaven fall. Maybe I just misunderstood what you’re saying. Ocelot |
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