Rev. # 41~12:1-17 ~the War Continues~ Series

for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

At this point a voice is heard in heaven, we’re not told who the voice is but It’s a voice of praise announcing the millennial kingdom with its salvation accompanied by the power of God and authority of Christ.

Salvation here in this context refers to deliverance from the reign of Satan and the Tribulation and to the completion of that which God will do to establish the reign and rule of Christ on earth.

We know that Satan is always accusing the brethren because we read it in Job 1: & 2:

Although he was cast out of Gods heaven he is still allowed entry to accuse the brethren.

Each and every time we Christians sin he is there informing God all about it as though God don’t already know.

The accusations are many and varied and they go on night and day, but the Lord Jesus is seated

there at God’s right hand to intercede and plead our case as our Advocate and Great High Priest.

1 JN.2:1-2

My little children,** these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate **intercessor} with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2And he is the propitiation**

{The Only satisfying Sacrifice} for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Jesus, as He is seated next to the Father might say in our behalf something like this;

“Yes it is true Father, he has sinned and he don’t love me as he should, but I love him and I have died and paid the penalty for his sins—all of them. Past present and future, All of Your divine requirements have been propitiated or satisfied by my Personal work on the cross. Satan has no case”

Maybe Satan thinks that when God sees that we still sin that God may spare him, but his doom is sealed.

Isaiah 14:15 yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

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11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. –Martyrs death-***

This verse teaches us how Tribulation saints will overcome Satan and his attacks in the Tribulation.

We read about the Tribulation Martyrs back in chapter 6:9--11

9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:-they held to their belief in Jesus.

10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

So we understand by these words that there was going to be others that was going to die just like these did in chapter 6:

The word of their testimony refers to the proclamation of the Word, and believing it and applied by faith in Christian living, believers are able to put to silence the accusations of Satan and to reveal him for what he is.