Here's my concern. It's flipped.
I'm worried that the deception has ALREADY been in full swing since satan was kicked out by Michael, which happened when the Messiah ascended (and happened even beforehand if you count when the Messiah told the disciples he saw satan fall like lightning).
So that's nearly 2000 years satan had to "taint the daily bread" so to say.
I'm worried that the deception has ALREADY been in full swing since satan was kicked out by Michael, which happened when the Messiah ascended (and happened even beforehand if you count when the Messiah told the disciples he saw satan fall like lightning).
So that's nearly 2000 years satan had to "taint the daily bread" so to say.
Lucifer was kicked out of the 3rd heaven where God dwells with the angels, and his name became Satan to identify his new nature as evil.
Satan is the prince of the power of the air, and the clouds above us is considered heaven.
God is restraining Satan from having too much influence in this world but one day he will be off his leash concerning the wicked.
Paul said the saints will not be gathered unto Christ until there is a falling away first, and the man of sin claims to be God.
Which the falling away first is the condition of the world in response to the Gospel which the nations came together as one to work for peace on earth, and the New Age Christ established peace in the Middle East between the Jews and Palestinians, and then he worked as a great man of peace, and spread the agenda of the new age movement in the world to prepare the world for when he claims to be God, and they stopped the Gospel from being preached in the world for they say it is not the truth, and they want peace not division.
Which after three and one half years it is the falling away when the transgressors came to the full, and then a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences shall stand up, and his power shall be mighty but not by his own power, and he will deceive all people that do not love God.
For those three and one half years repentance and salvation is still available to the world so Satan is still the prince of the power of the air.
God will not give up on the world until the world gives up on Him, and Satan will be restrained from having too much influence in the world until the operation of the world is rebelling against God by hindering His truth as international law to not allow it to be preached.
The 6 trumpets are warnings to the world to repent of their sins, and turn to God by showing the failings of men in trying to establish peace on earth.
Which an example is WW1, set up League of Nations, did not turn to God.
WW2, set up United Nations, then United Religions, did not turn to God.
And that pattern will continue until the 6th trumpet which is probably the religion of Islam against the world, for they stopped the preaching of the Gospel, but they also stopped the preaching of Islam, because of their belief in a God when the new age movement does not believe in a personal God, and Islam will feel they have no choice but to fight for they are hindering them from spreading their religion, and preaching it.
At that time the world is split in to 10 sections with a leader in each section, the 10 horn kingdom which shall rule for a short space three and one half years.
The 6th trumpet will be so terrible as a third of the world dies because of it which the antichrist will pluck up 3 horns by the roots, and subdues them which would be for their rebelliousness, which will probably be in the Arab nations, and the 6th trumpet appears to describe nuclear weapons.
The world is devastated and they lost hope for peace on earth, and the 10 horn kingdom failed, and they turn to the antichrist as the solution to have peace.
After the 6th trumpet the world does not repent of their sins, and turn to God, so He allows the man of sin to rule over them.
War will break out in heaven between Michael and his angels and the dragon and his angels, and the dragon and his angels lose and are cast to the earth, which the earth becomes the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Satan shall possess the body of the New Age Christ, and the devils will deceive all people who do not love God to follow the beast which is the strong delusion God shall send everyone that does not love the truth, but has pleasure in unrighteousness, and the devil will be off his leash concerning the wicked and the man of sin will deceive all people who do not love God.
Luk 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
When Jesus said this Michael and the devil did not fight yet, so He is either speaking of the past when God kicked Him out of the 3rd heaven, or the future when the angels defeat the devils and cast them to earth.
The 70 people that were following Jesus said that the devils were subject to them, and they had power over them, and Jesus is saying that the power that caused Satan to fall as lightning from heaven is the same power available to you to overcome the devils.
That war in Revelation 12 has not happened yet, and will happen when the condition of the world is the most terrible in going against the ways of God, and hindering the Gospel of Christ, and interpreting the Bible according to the new age movement which is based on the occult, and evolution, and people are still evolving to be greater and spiritual, and there is no personal God, which is when the falling away will occur when the transgressors are come to the full.