At which trumpet will Michael and his angels boot Satan and his angels from heaven to earth?
At which trumpet will Michael and his angels boot Satan and his angels from heaven to earth?
In harmonizing all the scriptures on the matter, we see that Satan and his fallen angels were locked up on Tartarus at the time of the Flood of Noah. Their containment prohibited them from actually materializing into flesh an interacting with humans like they did before the flood.
2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartaroo], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Jud 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
We are living in the time of the seventh trump--the Day of Judgment--they day when they will be loosed. Their loosing will bring about the Great Tribulation such as never was since their was a nation. That if those days were not cut short, no flesh would be saved.
The book of Revelation is a book of symbols. It gives us a pictorial history of the Gospel Age. Revelation starts out with the seven churches which prophetically picture the transformation of the Church from the days of the Apostles (Paul and John being the first two messengers or angels to those churches) right down to the end of the Gospel Age where we are today--the prophetic/symbolic Church of Laodicea. We think we are rich and in need of nothing, but from God's perspective we are lukewarm (indifferent to prophecy, moral issues, God Himself or any combination of these and more), we are poor--we have His Word available to us unlike the Church throughout history, but we make poor use of it, we don't read it or study it or properly appreciate it, we are blind in that we do not understand prophecy or even that this condemnation applies to us. This prophecy is a general condition (shall I find faith)---this is a warning to His true Children who are not living up to their consecration to Him---there are those who are and they will be rewarded with a higher reward, glory.
As I said the book starts off with the history of the Church, its falling away and allowing Jezebel (false church) to take control----the other chapters go into more depth of certain time periods, so they zero in to the time periods described by the broad brush of the 7 churches. They also may look at the same time period from a different perspective. One perspective from God's view, and then it might back up and look at it from the False Churches view--which is why Revelation is so hard to interpret.
The Michael in Revelation is not the True Michael but the false. The Woman who is run out to the wilderness is the True Church--The book of Daniel proves that if one cannot see it from the context of Revelation.
This Michael puts himself in the position as "Who as God", or another way of putting that is "God on earth," "Vicar of Christ."
It shows how Satan by using civil power was able to swallow up a portion of the True Church and turn them into his own tool. All will be destroyed at the end of this age. Heaven in Revelation is a picture of Ecclesiastical power--Religious power.
In harmonizing all the scriptures on the matter, we see that Satan and his fallen angels were locked up on Tartarus at the time of the Flood of Noah. Their containment prohibited them from actually materializing into flesh an interacting with humans like they did before the flood.
2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartaroo], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Jud 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
We are living in the time of the seventh trump--the Day of Judgment--they day when they will be loosed. Their loosing will bring about the Great Tribulation such as never was since their was a nation. That if those days were not cut short, no flesh would be saved.
The book of Revelation is a book of symbols. It gives us a pictorial history of the Gospel Age. Revelation starts out with the seven churches which prophetically picture the transformation of the Church from the days of the Apostles (Paul and John being the first two messengers or angels to those churches) right down to the end of the Gospel Age where we are today--the prophetic/symbolic Church of Laodicea. We think we are rich and in need of nothing, but from God's perspective we are lukewarm (indifferent to prophecy, moral issues, God Himself or any combination of these and more), we are poor--we have His Word available to us unlike the Church throughout history, but we make poor use of it, we don't read it or study it or properly appreciate it, we are blind in that we do not understand prophecy or even that this condemnation applies to us. This prophecy is a general condition (shall I find faith)---this is a warning to His true Children who are not living up to their consecration to Him---there are those who are and they will be rewarded with a higher reward, glory.
As I said the book starts off with the history of the Church, its falling away and allowing Jezebel (false church) to take control----the other chapters go into more depth of certain time periods, so they zero in to the time periods described by the broad brush of the 7 churches. They also may look at the same time period from a different perspective. One perspective from God's view, and then it might back up and look at it from the False Churches view--which is why Revelation is so hard to interpret.
The Michael in Revelation is not the True Michael but the false. The Woman who is run out to the wilderness is the True Church--The book of Daniel proves that if one cannot see it from the context of Revelation.
This Michael puts himself in the position as "Who as God", or another way of putting that is "God on earth," "Vicar of Christ."
It shows how Satan by using civil power was able to swallow up a portion of the True Church and turn them into his own tool. All will be destroyed at the end of this age. Heaven in Revelation is a picture of Ecclesiastical power--Religious power.
