Satan’s wrath in Revelation 12 is his intense fury, persecution, and deception directed at believers and the Church after being cast out of heaven to earth. Knowing his time is short—a "short season" before final judgment—he intensifies his efforts to destroy the followers of Jesus through deception and tribulation.
Key Aspects of Satan's Wrath and Short Season:
CONTEXT: Following the birth and ascension of the "male child" (Jesus), Satan is defeated in a heavenly battle and cast down to earth, limiting his domain to the earthly realm.
TARGET: Realizing he has lost his position in heaven, he focuses his fury on the woman (symbolizing God's people/the church) and her offspring (the Great Tribulation saints).
THE "SHORT TIME" (REV 12:12): This refers to the period between Christ's ascension and his second coming, a time often interpreted as the church age, specifically the final, intense persecution (often associated with 3.5 years or 1,260 days).
NATURE OF THE WRATH: It involves unleashing "great wrath" because he knows his time to deceive and disrupt is limited.
THE "LITTLE SEASON" (REV 20:3): Sometimes distinct from, but related to, the Revelation 12 wrath, this refers to a final, brief period of deception permitted at the end of the Millennium before Satan is cast into the lake of fire permanently.
While Satan’s power is significant during this time, it is ultimately restrained and doomed to failure.
When will Satan be thrown down from heaven?
The Bible describes more than one “casting down” of Satan. God’s judgment of Satan occurs in different stages through history.
1) We see Satan and his demons being cast out of the highest heavens at the time just before the creation of humans on earth (Isa 14:12-15; Ezek 28:12-15; Job 38:6-7) and they were angry to cause chaos to creation initially, before God began to recreate his creation rightly (Gen 1:1-4). God said light was good, because until then because of fallen Angels chaotic behaviour of sinfulness, it was all not at all good for the earth to be void, shapeless and covered with darkness to the deep.
2) Then the ultimate test for humans was looming large, lo and behold through a snake, Eve was tempted and Adam sinned, the whole humanity lost their heavenly authority which actually was theirs to enjoy. God handed over the second heaven authority to the fallen Angels at that time (Heb 2:5), not willingly but because of the hope of a New World without sin, he subjected all things (Luke 4:6).
But then because Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour restored that same rights back to the Church, the spiritual authority over Fallen Angels has been demonstrated by the Church for the past two thousand years time (Eph 1:20, 21-23; 2:5-7; Acts 19:15-16).
But then because we still are in our physical bodies, we can only exercise this spiritually in fullness like Jesus only after our Resurrection. So we shall be like him, when he comes again to fetch us to our Father's House at the time of Rapture (1 John 3:2; John 14:1-6).
3) In one way, Satan and his angels fell two thousand years ago partially in power, when he lost control over the people of God fully because Jesus overcome Satan at the time of his temptation itself (Luke 10:17-20), but then on the Cross and his resurrection he dismantled the whole network of power over death (John 12:31; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14; 1 Cor 15:57). Now for the past two thousand years, Satan holds his power still over unbelievers through fear of death (Heb 2:15; 2 Cor 4:4). But at the mid-point of the Daniel 70th week, when Satan realizes that he has been thrown down to the earth having no more power even over unbelievers because it has been given to the two prophets Elijah and Enoch who never died, but have come at that time from the Presence of the throne of God (2 Thess 2:6-8; Rev 12:13), he will immediately go after the Saints to make them get drowned by the lies and deceptions that will come as a flood through the 666 Mark of the beast (Rev 11:1-6). But the earth will open its mouth and resurrection of all the Saints will happen to make them meet Jesus and be with him forever and ever.
Immediately he will come after the left behind offspring of the Church on earth, which will be the Laodicean one to force his 666 seal upon them. But they will die as MARTYRS and will OVERCOME SATAN and his FALLEN ANGELS through partaking in the FIRST RESURRECTION OF MARTYRS with a thousand year Millenial body to LIVE AND RULE ON THIS PRESENT EARTH as priests under the direct care of Jesus (Rev 12:17; 13:6-10; Rev 7:13-17; 14:9-13; 16:2; 20:4-6).
3) After JESUS' Second Coming in which he will defeat both the Antichrist and the False Prophet and will cast them alive directly into hell fire burning with brimstone (Rev 19:20), "1: Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2: He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3: and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while." (Rev 20:1-3). Hallelujah!
4) NOW SATAN'S WRATH IS SPIRITUAL DECEPTION AND PHYSICAL PERSECUTION:
Satan's last try will be to deceive the Millennial unsaved earth dwellers who lived in the midst of God's Presence, but remain Unsaved. Thus to judge these people, God does use Satan for one last time, before he will be judged forever and ever to be in the lake of fire, where his Son the Antichrist and the False Prophet will have already spent more than a Millennium in torment.
Revelation 20
7: Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8: and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
9: They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
10: The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
THUS SATAN'S SHORT SEASON OF TIME WILL BE OVER AND DONE.
Finally, "Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him (GOD THE FATHER) who put all things under Him (JESUS CHRIST), that God (IN THE REVELATION OF TRINITY) may be all in all." (1 Cor 15:28).
Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Much Blessings.....
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