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NASB | Revelation 12:7 ¶ And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 12:7 ¶ And war broke out in heaven, Michael [the archangel] and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought, |
Subject: Did this war already occur? |
Bible Note: War in heaven: It is a war with no casualties. Michael and his angels battle Satan and his angels. Michael is to be victorious. Satan and his angels are thrown to the earth. WHEN Satan realizes he is thrown down, he persecutes Israel. This persecution leads to those in Judea fleeing to be fed in the wilderness for 1260 days. Satan will know immediately that He is cast down. It will not take Him years to figure that out The FIRST seal of chapter 6 is a war, but unlike the following seals their are no casualties. The rider on a red horse takes peace from the earth, so the first was not a war on earth since it would have taken peace from the earth. Israel has not had to flee for the wilderness yet, so Satan is still in heaven and not thrown down. IN regard to coming quickly, a thousand years is as a day with the Lord, so it is quick in His view. There is a passage that says men in the last days will be scoffing, and saying that the day of the Lord is not coming quickly but that everything is the same as from the beginning. The reply was that though it seems slow in coming to man, it is in fact not long in the larger view of God. 2 Peter 2: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |