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The twelfth chapter of Revelation requires more discussion when one considers the impact of the birthing of the manchild, the manifestation of the Sons of FATHER.  The first eleven chapters focus on the assessment, training, and maturing process.  This chapter speaks of the manifestation and ramification of pursuing this isolated path.  The Sons are not a majority among those walking the earth and are described as a “few”.  Jesus focused on three disciples within twelve within seventy, not five thousand or more.  Quality, not quantity, is the focus.

The elect are tried and tested by the enemy in many aspects and methods as they are being prepared for service.  You will be devoured with fierceness and wrath if possible and this method speaks of a great dragon.  This method is a head-on attempt to overwhelm and intimidate you into submission and uses fear as the modus operandi .  Secondly,  there will be attempts to slyly seduce and deceive you into submission using lust and pride.  Next, you will be attacked with slander and accusation in order to discredit you.  Your past will be brought up as though everyone else who walks the earth has led an angelic life but you.  People tend to judge themselves by their intentions and everyone else by their actions.  Fourthly, you will simply be confronted by an opposing force that will try to hinder your progress in attempt to make you simply give up your walk.  You feel restrained as though you are walking out a perpetual uphill battle.  These four areas or methods of testing are described and given names in Revelation 12:

9   So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

When we uncover the source of our trials and tests, we have a better perspective and are no longer overwhelmed by the challenges set before us.  The first time you overcome something, you have no past success to draw from at a personal level.  The second time it gets easier.  Bringing the unknown into clarity provides us encouragement and assurance of our goal as we walk this path.  Consider Abraham who was 99 years old when he was told he would become a father.  What past experience could he reference?  He simply believed Our Heavenly Father’s Word to him and now we read of his inclusion in Faith’s Hall of Fame in Hebrews Chapter 11.  The process calls for us to encounter, overcome, and conquer.  Once we conquer, we rule and reign, first at the individual, internal level, then at the external and corporate level.  Without overcoming the internal, how can you ever expect to rule in the external?  This is why I am compelled to direct your focus to the revelation of Love for its power is creative, not derivative.

Revelation 12:12   “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.”

Woe means “great sorrow or distress”.  Those who inhabit the soul realm as well as the sea realm will suffer great sorrow and distress.  Why?  They are unable to overcome the lies and deception and are tossed about by every wind of doctrine.  They are in constant turmoil and are consistently trying to fill a void in their lives.  They attempt to satisfy their longings with entertainment, hobbies, or any other activity that will take their mind off this emptiness.  Some use extreme sports where others rely on substance abuse.  Is the solution to their problem 300 additional channels of entertainment of TV?  All of these serve to drown out the Voice of FATHER Who will immediately respond and minister to them if called upon.  Those who choose to walk in these lower realms will be subject to teaching that omits the revelation of Love.  This is precisely why those at the pulpit speak of impending doom and destruction.  They use fear and manipulation to keep the congregation in subjection.  They promote doctrines where the members of the church need to be under their “covering” as though they have some supernatural power to protect others when in fact they are being deceived themselves.  Paul speaks of these various doctrines in 1 Timothy chapter 4:

1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

Can you imagine what will happen when those who have been deceived come face to face with the GOD of Love?  They will suffer great stress and sorrow as they look back at how they have been deceived and blinded all those years.  HE will wipe those tears away as a Loving FATHER does in response.  The church has placed restrictions on nearly every facet of life in an attempt to evoke loyalty by peer pressure.  You can’t do this and you can’t do that.  If you leave our congregation, you will be shunned.   The Kingdom of FATHER promotes unity and forbearance, not isolationism and elitism.  The Sons of FATHER are called to minister life and unity, not death and destruction causing separation.  Woe to them who omit the revelation of Love from their teaching.

Overcoming the unknown is done by placing your trust in Our Heavenly Father.  All power in Heaven and in earth has been given by FATHER to HIS first begotten Son and He returned to the eleven disciples and announced this Truth in Matthew 28:

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, (ascended) to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.

17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All power and authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

20 teaching them to observe (keep, watch, guard) all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

FATHER is raising up Sons to teach the nations to embrace ALL things He commanded.  What is the greatest commandment Jesus focused on?  Love!  Yet in the current environment, that is the one “thing” virtually no one places as his or her primary focus.  This priority or focus separates those who are ascending and being drawn upward from those who remain in the earth or sea.  HIS Love is like a magnet.  It creates an aura that little children can see and draws them to its light.  It creates a higher vibration in the body and repels sin and sickness.  Rose oil has one of the highest vibrations of all essential oils and it is no wonder that one thinks of Love when they see a bouquet of roses.

As for me, I am ready to go and make disciples of all the nations but only after I have been endued with power and authority from Above.  It requires an anointing to operate in this fashion.  Prior to being anointed, we must be fully prepared and commissioned.  We must have the full revelation of Love operating in our lives.  When the fullness of this state occurs, I will know with full assurance and those around me will see it.  I long for its fullness and wake up daily with an expectation of its imminent arrival.  I am not discouraged if today is not the day.  I will continue ascending in Love till that day arrives.  Each day we will encounter the unknown and each day we must rely and trust Our Loving Heavenly Father to lead us down this narrow and rather unpopulated path until the fullness of time arrives.  Once the internal has fully transformed, it will emanate to the external.  This will be the sign to all that one of the Sons is “in the building”.  Suddenly…

Even the Heavens declare Love and joy have come forth:

More on the comet:  http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-years-comet-lovejoy-reaches-its-peak-watch-it-n281561

On September 1st, 2011, I wrote in a blog series titled “Now is the Time”:

“The Word of THE LORD came to me early last month and said “Now is the time!”  Now in this ninth month of the year and it is time to come forth and speak to the “called out ones”. “

Next month will mark 42 months, 3 1/2 years, or 1260 days since I was given this Word by FATHER.  It hardly seems that it has been this long since I was given this Word.  This Word is a specific reference to Revelation 12:

10:   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.

The Fifth Gospel speaks of three realms:  heaven, earth, and the sea.  These three realms refer to us individually and internally as the spirit, soul, and body.   One of the mysteries being revealed is that the revelation of Jesus Christ is specifically directed to those who are called to be raised up as Sons on behalf of the rest of mankind as a Holy Priesthood, a Holy Nation to minister restoration to all mankind.  The mystery of this last book focuses on internal, not the external.  Depending on your perspective, you will either study this last Gospel in seeing the full manifestation of Love or the complete and utter destruction.  In one sense, both views will be satisfied.  Those who currently thrive in the earth and sea realm will see destruction of all they hold sacred.  The current religious order as well as the current political and social systems will collapse into a heap of rubble as the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father descends to cover the earth.

Those who are being matured into being led by the SPIRIT are ascending in Love to the heavenly realm.  Throughout the book of Revelation, this Spiritual realm references heaven.  When the accuser of the brethren is cast down from heaven, we are no longer subjected or moved by the accuser in our Spiritual walk.  Just as Jesus was tempted in the Spiritual realm, we have been also tempted but the Living Word and Holy Spirit provided us with Truth in response to the lies and deceit of the accuser.  This set us free from him and hence he has been cast out of our heavenly realm.

Those who are earthly-minded function well in the Pentecostal church realms.  They rely on religious doctrine, customs, and activities to satisfy their soulish desires.  They are not called to come up hither and instead walk in the earthly realm.  This does not make them bad or evil.  They are often well-meaning individuals who are content with their various church activities and are led by their mind, will, and emotions.

Those who dwell in the sea succumb to fleshly desires and cravings.  They follow after idols and live in constant turmoil for they walk after the flesh.  Their wicked intentions are manifest at all levels of society.  They are constantly sinning and dealing with enemies of some type.  They have no peace so they are always restless looking for the next big thing to satisfy their fleshly desires.  They have been given over to a reprobate mind.

These three groupings each represent a “third” and represent a relative location of destination.  When the accuser is cast out of heaven into the earth, he is removed from those who walk in the Spirit and no longer affect them.  They focus in a different dimension where the Divine and Spiritual are located, not in some distant galaxy.  This higher dimension is accessible to us who physically walk this earth just as those who walk according to the soul do so while covering the same real estate in the physical.  Heaven is all around us just as radio waves are all around us.  We simply need the correct “receiver” to tune in to the Spiritual.  When we walk in this Heavenly conscious state we are no longer moved by the lower temporal states because we know they are subject to change.  The higher Spiritual Laws supersede the lower natural laws.  Jesus fully understood this when He performed miracles of healing, speaking to the winds and sea, and disappearing/appearing.  As we fully embrace this higher dimension, greater works will we do for the Kingdom.  Paul reveals this dimension motivated by the Love of FATHER in Ephesians Chapter 2:

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Jesus made this totally clear in Luke chapter 17 when He was dealing with the Pharisees who were looking for an external sign of the coming Kingdom:

20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Jesus directed our focus to the “internal” yet men have continued in their quest to redirect our attention to the “external”.  Why?  To keep us from ascending and walking in the higher realm where FATHER’S Love resides as the primary, Divine Intent of all those who access this realm.  They love not their lives to death but instead have given themselves as a Holy, acceptable sacrifice.

We have been birthed out of the Woman (church) and caught up to this Heavenly realm.  The devil does not focus on the woman since the church presents no problem to him.  It is this manchild who ascends to the highest realm that demands the devil’s attention.  Only those who walk in Heavenly places will overthrow the temporary dominion claimed by the devil.  The result of the warfare waged against the devil is that a loud voice announces “Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ”.  What is the result of this declaration?

Revelation 12:12   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.”

Of the three groups of people mentioned above, those who dwell in Heaven- rejoice!  Those in dwell in earth- woe!  Those who dwell in the sea- woe!  Wrath is coming.  This loud voice in Heaven is none other than Our Lord Jesus Christ, the chief of all messengers and messages originating out of Heaven for He his the Word made flesh for all of us to be able to see and hear.  You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free!  The Sons are able to fully embrace this Truth and have been prepared for this particular point in history.  The Apostle Peter wrote of this aspect of salvation in his first Epistle, chapter 1:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In Matthew 28:18, Jesus said “All power and authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.”  As the first of many Sons, He revealed that all power is given for the ministry by the Sons of FATHER.  Also in Matthew, Jesus had just presented the parable of the talents and differentiated between the good and faithful servants and the unprofitable servant being cast into outer darkness.  Immediately He speaks of the Kingdom:

31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

We have been summoned to come up hither.  We have been told to “Come, you blessed of My Father”.   Now is the time to come!

Jesus was the first begotten Son and represents the pattern and process of Sonship.  Those who are called to the Order of Melchizedek will follow the same path to maturity and the New Testament provides us with sufficient examples of this maturing process.  Many are called but few are chosen so we must realize that overcoming obstacles will differentiate those who are chosen.  Mysteries are given to the initiated and are not intended for those who are not chosen.  These mysteries are unlocked through the revelation of Love thus we see why overcoming is tied directly to Love in the following passage:

Revelation 12:. 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.

The blood of the Lamb was given to us by FATHER’S Love and the overcomers Loved FATHER more than their own lives, even to the point of death.  Men will attempt to pressure you to submit to their way of thinking by accusing you of missing the mark in any area of your life possible.  They will attack you from any and all points just as the Pharisees attacked Jesus and tried to trap Him on more than one occasion.  They would incite followers to attack Him as well:

Luke 23:1  Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate.

2 And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

Here in the above passage the Son of the Lord God Almighty is being accused by the multitude.  Why?  Because the Pharisees, those held in high esteem, had already been accusing Jesus in Luke 11:

53 And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

54 lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.

These are the very same men that Jesus went to the Cross and loved not His life unto death.  We will be accused by those who disagree with what FATHER is showing us as we ascend to the highest realm.  The accusers have no basis of Truth to accuse us and don’t Love us so they will use any means necessary to discredit us.  Be not dismayed and continue to Love them in spite of their backbiting words and let the words from your mouth express Love for all mankind.  Sometimes it is best to just be silent:

Matthew 27:11 Now Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” 12 And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.

13 Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?” 14 But He answered him not one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

When the accuser is cast down, FATHER’S Word is what proceeds out of our mouths and we know what to speak because we are led by THE SPIRIT and have the Living Word in us.  Our lips are fruitful because we walk in the assurance of HIS Word to us individually.  Though the heathen rage, we are not moved for we live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of FATHER.  We understand that these accusers are motivated by their carnal nature.  This nature will accuse you in attempt to disconnect you from FATHER’S Love and Presence.  The accuser will bring up every lustful thought, evil desire,  and fleshly emotion of the past.  He will convince you that you are unworthy and hopeless and that you are not holy enough to come into FATHER’S Presence.  This is why we must understand the power of the blood of the Lamb, that perfect sacrifice that resolved the past, dealing with all of our sins.  The past is done, finished, cancelled, voided out, and we must let it stay that way.  We must let the Word of our testimony express the Love of FATHER WHO restores us, matures us, and raises up in Heavenly places.  We leave the old things behind and no longer allow the accuser to impact our testimony.  We cast him down from our thinking and not allow his lies and deception to impact our walk.

This twelfth chapter speaks of war and conflict and conveys the the good news of overcoming all of it.  The battle takes place in the mind and by being Spiritually perfected we no longer are moved by the accuser and those men and women who are used as vessels of dishonor, as instruments of condemnation.  Those who accuse you reveal who sits on their throne… the father of lies.  Further, they reveal that they do not worship Our Heavenly Father Who is the GOD of Love.  Being your enemy, they then become the focus of your Love.  How beautiful!  You see, the real enemy is how we react internally to the external forces.  Each of us must assess our internal reaction, not what we project to others.  That is actually a form of manipulation and deceit in itself.  As the Living Word cleanses us, we are no longer moved by the external for THE SPIRIT leads us.  We must not take on the role of accuser ourselves whether verbally or in thought.  We must see those who accuse us as being overcome by the devil and that FATHER’S Love will ultimately intervene in their life.  If everyone had the revelation of Love, there would be total peace throughout the earth.  We must not forget the Overcomers are to lead all of creation to this final result so we must not be critical of those who are blinded by their own lusts.  Paul reminds us of this reality in Ephesians 6:

12   For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We must look at the accuser of the brethren as part of our maturing process.  When we are not moved or impacted by the accuser, it is another indication of being spiritually mature.  After all, FATHER created the adversary who plays a vital role in our testing and maturing process.

Revelation 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.

FATHER is omniscient.   This word means “all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing”.  HE is omnipotent or “having unlimited power; able to do anything”.  Finally, HE is omnipresent or “present everywhere at the same time”.  These three attributes are difficult for the human mind to comprehend yet Christians assign these same attributes to the devil who is not omniscient, omnipotent, or omnipresent.  So if the devil cannot be everywhere at once, where is he relative to us on an individual level?  He is the voice of the carnal nature coming from the depths of our flesh.  He is called that great deceiver and what a job he has done.  He has deceived many of the five-fold Pentecostal ministry and they assigned him great power and authority, the ultimate lie.  If the devil would have had sufficient power and authority, he would have killed Jesus at any point in His ministry.

Do you think Our Heavenly Father is unaware of our deepest thoughts?

Hebrews 4:12  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

HIS Word penetrates every aspect of our being.  After all, HE created every GOD particle that makes us into what we are and HE breathed the life that keeps every aspect of our being functioning.  Yet just as Adam attempted to hide, our carnal man wants to hide from the reality that Our Heavenly Father is not in some distant galaxy unreachable and uninterested in our individual situations.   Preachers tried to convince us that GOD was mad at us and HE would wipe out most of us in the final judgment.  Those that would make it to Heaven would do so… barely.  They never knew HIM as FATHER who Loves us.  Thus when they were preaching and teaching on the book of Revelation, they inserted their bias into the message.  They have done the same with the teaching on the devil.

How can the devil affect so many people?  Man’s carnal nature is deceptive and redirects our focus outward to a hideous, ugly, powerful demonic man-like creature who is lurking in every shadow.  The carnal nature wants to externalize the enemy rather than expose the enemy within.  Paul speaks of this enemy in his two “I’s” writing in Romans 7.  However, after the Sons are processed through the seven trumpets, a casting down occurs.  The accuser no longer has any power to deceive the brethren.  He is not accusing us to GOD, he is accusing us before  or in the presence of GOD.  Do you think he could deceive Our Heavenly Father Who is omniscient?  FATHER sees through every lie and deception no matter what the source.

Romans 8:1   There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

The elect who have been Spiritually matured and perfected walk according to the SPIRIT and all accusations have ceased.  What a blessing!  This reality comes with salvation, strength, the Kingdom, and power.  Paul encourages us in 2 Corinthians 5 to cast down all lies and deception:

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

5 casting down arguments (imaginations) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

This Fifth Gospel is fully consistent with the rest of the New Testament and does not diverge from what the other Gospels and Epistles have been urging us to consider.  This is why I am fully convince that until you read this final book with the perspective of a Loving FATHER, you will miss the point of every topic contained therein.  Instead, you will focus on the bloodthirsty interpretations that promote fear and failure of all mankind.  To reaffirm this, let us consider what Paul wrote in Romans 8:

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall  tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written:

​​​“For Your sake we are killed all day long;

​​We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

​37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Paul understood that the accuser of the brethren had no power or authority to keep us from FATHER’S Love.  Nothing in Heaven or earth will prevent HIM from restoring every person who ever lived.  This Fifth Gospel provides the plan.  We must let go of half-truths and look at every verse with a view of restoration.  Jesus saw through the half-truths when He was tempted.  We must do the same.  As we walk in the SPIRIT and according to the Living Word, we will be able to easily detect any attempt to accuse us or dissuade us from ascending to full Spiritual perfection.  When we finally have that revelation, we will cast down the accuser out of our “heaven”.  As Jesus said, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Revelation 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.

Over the years I have heard many sermons about the three archangels (Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer) and assumed those mature speakers had done their homework.  Wrong!  There is only one archangel.  This word means “chief of the angels” or “ruler over angels”.  With this in mind, let us read from Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians chapter 4:

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

Jesus Christ is the head over all the messengers of Heaven.  There is only one archangel and He is the Chief Messenger of the Divine Intent of FATHER.  All others are of His army.  After Joshua had crossed the Jordan river, entered the Promised Land, and had his warriors circumcised,  he encounter a mighty Captain of the Lord’s host.  This captain or commander is the “commander-in-chief” and there is only One thus described in the book of Revelation- The King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  The name Joshua means "Jehovah is salvation" and is a type and shadow of the man Jesus leading the army into battle.  The Captain of the Host represents Jesus leading the Spiritual battle.  The revelation of Jesus Christ brings forth victory over all realms in our lives- spirit, soul, and body.  Jesus is represented throughout Scripture in many facets and manifestations.  He is known as the fourth Man in the furnace in the book of Daniel.  In Ezekiel He is the Four-Faced Man.  We must not restrict Jesus by our own limited view for He manifested Himself to the disciples after His resurrection:

Luke 24:36  Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.”

John 20:19  Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

John 21:7  Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”

Do you think Jesus Who was with FATHER “in the beginning” had any restriction from appearing prior to 2 B.C.?  This message of salvation is found throughout Scripture.  Jesus is the Chief Messenger of FATHER’S Divine Intent thus when we read that Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, we must dig deeper into this Archangel’s underlying meaning.  Michael = "who is like God".  Who else is described in such a manner?

Revelation 19:11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.

13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.

Jesus Christ will descend from Heaven with an archangel’s voice, a shout, and a trumpet, then the dead in Christ will rise first.  Let’s compare this portion of John’s vision to Daniel’s vision in Daniel 12:

1 “At that time Michael shall stand up,

​​The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;

​​And there shall be a time of trouble,

​​Such as never was since there was a nation,

​​Even to that time.

​​And at that time your people shall be delivered,

​​Every one who is found written in the book.

2 ​​And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,

​​Some to everlasting life,

​​Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

3 ​​Those who are wise shall shine

​​Like the brightness of the firmament,

​​And those who turn many to righteousness

​​Like the stars forever and ever.

This passage speaks of the end time, the same as John’s vision in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  Both speak of a “time of trouble” which in turn reveals that Our Heavenly Father in not unprepared but will once again deliver all of creation from the effects of the prince of the world.  This will be a time unparalleled in human history so we should refrain from placing FATHER in some box of limited expectation.  Be ready to cast down all of your preconceived ideas, doctrines, past assumptions, and anything else that will be subject to a higher level of understanding.  Likewise, the accuser of the brethren has been cast down from the high place (our thinking) and the Blood of the Lamb, the word of our testimony, and the death of our flesh provided this victory.  The past is dead and behold all things are new.

In other words, expect the unexpected!  Salvation, Strength, Kingdom, and Power are now at hand.

Satan is not lurking around every corner and has no inherent power.  His only power is that which we give him.  Our true issue is the carnal nature inside us and that is where the battle rages.  The contemporary Christian singer Carman had a hit song called “The Champion”.  This song represents the current religious view that the devil has nearly the same power and authority as Jesus Christ and only after a fight to the end does Jesus prevail… barely.  This view has been supported by countless sermons describing the book of Revelation as an external drama played out as various location of earth.  Could those locusts be fast attack helicopters?  The carnal man wants to externalize any major revelation that could result in his demise.  The external is a result of the internal.  When Love permeates men’s hearts, peace will break out.  We do not need another thousand laws to bring forth peace on earth for those laws only deal with the symptoms of the problems found within the hearts of men.

Revelation 12:7   And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,

8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The devil and his messengers were cast out of Heaven.  Jesus did not have to put on boxing gloves and enter the ring to duke it out with the devil.  The devil’s only power is that of deception and he has done a great job of deceiving men concerning the intent of the last book of the Bible for centuries.  We only have to look as far as the first verse of this book to know its intent- “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants”.  Its simplicity has been a mystery to the highly intelligent.  Just as the Pharisees did not recognize Jesus as He stood before them, the mysteries contained in this last book have been kept from the masses who walk according to the flesh.  These mysteries have been reserved for His servants who are represented by the manchild.  It was critical for this message to be hidden until now so that this group called “the remnant”, “the elect”, and “the overcomers” would be able to grow into maturity just as Jesus was allowed to grow in anonymity until such a time as this.

When you exalt the devil and his perceived power, you are actually worshipping him, you are a devil worshipper.  Ugggh!  Nobody wants to hear that but in the strictest sense, it is the truth.  Jesus overcame the deception of the devil at the end of the forty days in the wilderness.  At the weakest point of the flesh, He overcame the devil and his attempts to use the Word of GOD as a basis of the deceit.  This is given for our instruction in order that we are not deceived by the subtleness of the devil in whatever form he may take.  If the devil had all the power assigned to him, none of us would be sharing FATHER’S Love but instead we all would be roasting in hell forever.  This battle was in the spirit realm, not the physical realm with a red suited figure wielding a pitchfork.  This battle occurred in His mind just as it has been occurring in yours and mine.  The devil isn’t omnipresent as many would have you believe.  He is your carnal nature warring in your members.  This allows you to appreciate what Paul said in Romans chapter 7:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!  So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

The name Michael means “Who is like GOD”.  When you take on FATHER’S attributes and HIS message, you are able to cast satan out of your midst.  He is no longer welcome in the spirit of your mind.  He is no longer exalted or accepted in determining your course of action and is cast out of your “heaven” and his deceptive thoughts and intents are no longer entertained.  When this finally takes place and this carnal man no longer prevails in your life, then and only then- “but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.”  The carnal nature and his messengers (aka messages: counterfeit revelations) are removed from your midst and you can no longer be deceived by your own flesh or the doctrines, philosophies, creeds, interpretations, and religious views of others.  You will now be led only by HIS SPIRIT.

With this understanding we can see that only after the manchild is caught up to the third Heaven and in THE SPIRIT does this war brake out.  As long as you are “in the sea” of humanity” or “in the earth”, you are right where your carnal man wants you and he will be fed at this lower level by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.  This is exactly why the devil started out as a serpent and ended up as a monstrous dragon.  This occurs as we feed him and allow him to devour us through lusts and pride.  It is by this worldly path is he exalted in our lives. The outward man simply reflects the inward spiritual state.  This carnal man deceives the whole world but one man at a time.  He then uses men to further his agenda by creating scarcity and competition by way of war and greed.  When the devil and his message are cast out of Heaven, you will walk in complete peace just as Jesus was describing in His own life in John 14:

27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.

30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

The devil showed up when Jesus had reached full maturity as a Son.  This process had been sealed by FATHER when HE spoke these words:

Matthew 3:17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

There is no record of this during the 30 year maturing process which was broken up into two distinct periods: 12 years + 18 years with those two periods being marked by Jesus proclaiming that He had to be about HIS FATHER’S business.  Don’t you think that if the devil conjured up by men really had all the power attributed to him that he would have killed Jesus when He was in His youth?  Only after Jesus was exalted to Sonship by FATHER was the battle waged by the devil and it was within the Heavenly place of Sonship.  Jesus was fully led by the SPIRIT.  The devil had no power over Jesus in this highest Spiritual realm though he tempted Jesus in all facets.  Jesus was not deceived by the prince of the world and the result was:

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

After the devil was cast down, the power and authority from Heaven began operating in full measure.  This is true for the Sons as well.  This war in Heaven is described by Paul in Ephesians chapter 6:

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We must cast down every high thing that exalts itself contrary to Christ in us and this opposition is the adversary called the devil.  This adversary must not take its place on the throne reserved for Christ but must be cast out of our own highest Spiritual place.  Paul spoke of this in 2 Corinthians chapter 5:

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

As the devil is cast out, we then have the Mind of Christ and are led by THE SPIRIT and the devil has no place in us.  “As HE is, so are we!”