The following verse was quoted on another thread and to my mind it raised the question....from where is Satan cast out?
John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
This was spoken by Christ just before His crucifixion. The question I ask here is...what is meant by Satan, the prince of this world, being cast out? Is it being, as I once thought, being cast out of heaven or...is more to be understood?
Revelation 12:6-10 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
I submit that because of the crucifixion we are now able to cast him out of us. The war in heaven is a battle we are presently fighting. We who believe are those that dwell in heaven...now...today. Satan is cast out of us into the earth, into those not yet indwelt by Christ.
Spiritually, the holy dwell in heaven....the righteous dwell on earth....the wicked dwell in the sea.
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John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
This was spoken by Christ just before His crucifixion. The question I ask here is...what is meant by Satan, the prince of this world, being cast out? Is it being, as I once thought, being cast out of heaven or...is more to be understood?
Revelation 12:6-10 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
I submit that because of the crucifixion we are now able to cast him out of us. The war in heaven is a battle we are presently fighting. We who believe are those that dwell in heaven...now...today. Satan is cast out of us into the earth, into those not yet indwelt by Christ.
Spiritually, the holy dwell in heaven....the righteous dwell on earth....the wicked dwell in the sea.
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