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Our Team Is Bigger
Contributed by John Bright on Mar 20, 2026 (message contributor)
We read about a rebellion in heaven in Revelation 12:7-10: “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.” This must have happened before the serpent tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Most of those fallen angels, now called demons, are being held in a pit that will be opened during the Seven Years of the Great Tribulation: Revelation 9:1-3 “Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” These demon locusts will torment those on the earth. It will be bad!
So, are there more angels on our side or demons on their side? We have many, many more on our side! It was one-third of the angels that were cast out of heaven(Revelation 12:4). At that point, it’s two-thirds on our side. Then, the majority of the one-third were locked in the pit. Our percentage is currently way more than 66%.
That means we have the awesome power of the Holy Spirit within us, the authority to use that power to fight the devil, and a vast army of angels that fight for our side! How does that make you feel?
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