The devil unknowingly will move Israel to repentance!
The Beloved Disciple wrote what he saw and heard by The Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 12:
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the Kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11 And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Satan and his minions have been persistently accusing you and me in any area of weakness they can find. However, as we plead The Blood of Christ over ourselves in all areas, his accusations are of none effect. Further, as we testify of what GOD has done in our lives, we diffuse the enemy’s ability to lay hold on us.
Verse 12 differentiates between the pilgrims (you and me) where Heaven rejoices, and the earth dwellers who are subject to the three woes.
13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman (Israel) who gave birth to the male Child.
14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time (1260 days), from the presence of the serpent.
15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
At this point, the devil knows that he has only a short time before losing all aspects of his kingdom of the world. He knows that once Israel repents of its rejection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, his kingdom is lost.
There is a prerequisite for the second coming of Christ at the end of the 70th week, Israel’s repentance which was recorded by THE SPIRIT in Hosea chapter 5:
15 I (THE LORD) will return again to My Place Till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My Face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Jesus had to “leave” His Place in order to return to it. He awaits Israel’s acknowledgment of their offense of rejecting Him and coming into full repentance. This is one of the many reasons we must not redefine who Israel is.