Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

From Background Notes [BN] for August 10^th & 11^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What Revelation wants the church to understand is that the birth of a special Son (12:5) and a war in heaven (12:7-8) have resulted in the expulsion of Satan from heaven and from the monotonous accusation of God’s people. Heaven is now free of Satan’s presence on the council.

 In Revelation 12, the writer draws a clear connection in powerful poetic terms between the birth, the war, and the defeat of Satan. He draws a sharp line between those things and the overcoming of Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the Word of his testimony. Of course, the little drama told here is another way of telling about the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus, using language taken from ancient epic tales about defeating evil monsters. So, whatever else might be read into the text at this point, the main idea is that the Gospel of the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate defeat of Satan. He doesn’t get to accuse God’s people anymore!  [BN,8]

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