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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. (Revelation 12:7,8)

Now the Father is satisfied.

The Divine Word is issued to Michael. From the Throne of God thunders the armed legions-wave after wave of giant warriors, the Divine righteousness in them blazing with the radiance of a thousand suns.

Satan and his angels face the inferno of wrath roaring at them. Some of these evil angels once occupied the high thrones governing the earth-fearful lords of darkness whom to see would be a torment no human could endure.

The authority and power issuing from the highest throne so fills the holy avengers that the dragon and his angels are unable to cling to the places they have occupied for eons.

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. (Isaiah 34:4)

Every wicked lord is dispossessed. Every throne is emptied. The prince of the power of the air is forced down, down, until he and his followers are on the earth-brought down to the level of human beings.

They have overcome him. Through the grace of God given to them, the saints have overcome the accuser. The Divine judgment has been passed in their favor and it is time for them to receive the Kingdom.

The saints always are tried in the furnace of judgment before they are authorized to be judges. We always are judged with the same judgment we ourselves exercise.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (I Peter 4:12)

The context of the above verse is that of judgment.

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (I Peter 4:17)

The fiery trial through which each true saint passes is not a strange thing. It is the expected judgment on his personality in order that he may be worthy of the Kingdom of God.

Every son of God is scourged by the Father so he may be part of God's Holy Nature.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. (Hebrews 12:6)

Why does God bring such suffering upon us? It is not because He does not love us. It is because He does indeed love us and is saving us from the wrath that is to fall on the world.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (I Corinthians 11:32)

God has a controversy with each of us. When we come to Him He completely forgives our sins. Then there is the problem of our wicked, lawless personality. God goes to war against us (as symbolized by the Levitical Blowing of Trumpets). This warfare continues until there is nothing in us that is not found in God.

God is angry with us and wars against us until we are acceptable to Him. As He did Moses, the Lord seeks to slay us after He commissions us to bring His people out of bondage.

And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. (Exodus 4:24)


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