War in Heaven

I have a question and have sent it to End Times Ministry (Irvin Baxter) and to The Word for Today (Chuck Smith and Don Stewart). We'll see what response I receive:

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I have a few questions, please.

Revelation 12 is commonly used to describe a future time when Satan and a 1/3rd of the angels are taken out of heaven.

From the following verses it appears Satan was cast out a long time ago.

Thoughts?

Also Revelation 12:6 describes a time when “she” was kept in the desert for 3 ½ years. Would you take from this that Jesus was in Egypt for 3 ½ years?

It seems at least some of these verses are describing both events from long ago and events from the future.

I would appreciate your insight – please.

Job 1:6-7 (NASB)
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Isaiah 14:12 (NIV)
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!

Luke 10:18 (NIV)
18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Revelation 12:3-8 (NASB)
The Red Dragon, Satan
3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. 4 And his tail *swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

The Male Child, Christ
5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

The Angel, Michael
7 And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, 8and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

The Heavens Declare your glory - Watching the Clouds

Genesis 1:14 (NASB)

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

Psalm 8:1-4 (NASB)

1 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

Psalm 19:1-6 (NASB)

1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
6 It rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Matthew 17:5 (NASB)

5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”

Matthew 24:30 (NASB)

30 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.

Matthew 26:64 (NASB)

64 Jesus *said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.”

Luke 19:40 (NASB)

40 "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."

Luke 21:28 (NASB)

28 But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Romans 1:20 (NASB)

20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Revelation 1:7 (NASB)

7 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.











Perseid meteor shower, with the Milky way in the background, as viewed from the California desert (note the Joshua tree in the background