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6 Then athe woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there bone thousand two hundred and sixty days.  

Satan Thrown Out of Heaven

7 And war broke out in heaven: aMichael and his angels fought bwith the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,  
8 but they1 did not prevail, nor was a place found for2 them in heaven any longer.  
9 So athe great dragon was cast out, bthat serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, cwho deceives the whole world; dhe was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, a“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, bwho accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.  
11 And athey overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, band they did not love their lives to the death.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Revelation 12:8

prevailed not—A and Coptic read, "He prevailed not." But B and C read as English Version.

neither—A, B, and C read, "not even" (Greek, "oude"): a climax. Not only did they not prevail, but not even their place was found any more in heaven. There are four gradations in the ever deeper downfall of Satan: (1) He is deprived of his heavenly excellency, though having still access to heaven as man's accuser, up to Christ's first coming. As heaven was not fully yet opened to man (John 3:13), so it was not yet shut against Satan and his demons. The Old Testament dispensation could not overcome him. (2) From Christ, down to the millennium, he is judicially cast out of heaven as the accuser of the elect, and shortly before the millennium loses his power against Israel, and has sentence of expulsion fully executed on him and his by Michael. His rage on earth is consequently the greater, his power being concentrated on it, especially towards the end, when "he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12). (3) He is bound during the millennium (Revelation 20:1-3). (4) After having been loosed for a while, he is cast for ever into the lake of fire.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 12:8:

Isaiah 65:25
Daniel 12:1
Nahum 1:8
Colossians 1:20
Colossians 2:15
Hebrews 9:23
Revelation 9:1
Revelation 12:1
Revelation 12:13
Revelation 20:3

 

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