Our Accuser is Cast Down Pt.2
ZEPHANIAH 3:14-15
14 ¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. (Zion is prophetic for the bride of Christ – so this is a prophecy that includes the bride of Christ for this last day)
15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Notice four things…
- The LORD hath taken away thy judgments (he bore all of our judgment at Calvary)
- He hath cast out thine enemy (our accuser is cast down)
- He is in the midst of thee (just like the two on the road to Emmaus, he is in the midst of us, but many still don’t recognise him yet because of the form that he is in)
- And thou shalt not see evil any more (We have a great eternity to look forward to starting with the millennium)
Our Accuser is Cast Down Pt.2
Last week we looked at the three casting downs of Satan. First he is cast out of heaven because of his pride, then he is cast down in Revelation 12 as our accuser before God, then he is cast into the lake of fire in Revelation 20 – but there is another casting down that we want to show clearer in the study today.
REVELATION 12:7-12 (scripture from last week)
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Notice that before the kingdom of God is restored in the millennium, Satin is first to be cast down from being our accuser, his access to God as our accuser is finally over forever, and the reason for that is because final judgement has been passed, and that is what took place at the opening of the seven seals because that was the judge himself coming down and pronouncing final judgement.
So during the seven church ages Satan was accusing the saints before God day and night since the death of Christ, and even before then, so that is why there had to be an intercessor on the mercy seat to plead our case before God on our behalf.
We also saw this last week in the book of Job where Job was being accused as a sinner, and we know that Job is also a type of a man losing his inheritance and going through six thousand years of suffering, but at the end, all is restored to Job again.
Job is also a type of the seven church ages of the suffering and death of the believers, but in the end he has everything resorted to him just as Adam’s fallen race will have everything restored back in the millennium at the end of the seven church ages of the suffering of the church.
Job has 42 chapters which is 6x7=42, which is 6 lots of 7, and 6 is the number of man’s suffering, so we know that we have reached the end of the 6000 years of man’s suffering on the earth, so that means that we are living in the time just before man is restored back to all that he had lost in the beginning – we are in the year and season of jubilee)
11 And 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.
**Notice that immediately after Satan is cast down as our accuser in verse 10, he is then fully overcome by a people on the earth that have the blood and the testimony of the message for their day.
12 ¶ Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! (this is not the bride, this is the unbeliever who has rejected the message of the hour) for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
His short time is between the opening of the seven seals and the end of the third world war when he is bound for 1000 years by a chain of circumstance – and that is why we are seeing so much evil in the world today since the opening of the seals in 1963, because man has been given full access to both heaven and hell, to the both trees that were available in the original garden of Eden – God and Satan.
Messages like “God of this Evil Age” and “Satan’s Eden” and “Souls in Prison Now”, what were all those sermons dealing with? They were dealing with the condition of hell being manifested on earth now.
Last week we mostly showed how that there were 3 major casting downs that happen to Satan, but in fact there is another major casting down that happens to him – and it is happening right now at this time.
1. Firstly, in the beginning before man was even upon the earth, Satan was cast out of heaven like lightning falling, this was after that pride was found in his heart, and his 5 “I wills” were proclaimed, and he had deceived a third of all the angels by the tale and the lie that he told them.
LUKE 10:18
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
2. Then he is cast out of heaven again in his capacity as the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12 as we read in our previous scripture.
3. Then he is cast into the lake of fire in Revelation chapter 20:10
REVELATION 20:10
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
*So there are the three events that happen to Satan concerning him being cast away and separated from God and his people with the last being the lake of fire that he is cast into which separates him forever eternally, and this is because he and his angels are totally annihilated.
4. But if we are not observing closely, we will miss one of the main events of him being cast out, because we also see that between him being cast down to earth as the accuser of the brethren in Revelation 12:10 (which takes place just after the seven church ages have ended), while he is on earth for that short period of time as God of this evil age, just before he is bound for a thousand years, we see that at that time between the opening of the seven seals and the start of the millennium, he is to be cast down by the believers on earth by losing the battle in the minds of the believers, and the reason that he loses this battle is because they are not deceived by his lies, because his lies have been exposed by the opening of the seven seals.
***And so that is his final casting out, when he is cast out of the battle ground of our thinking. That is when he finally completely loses the battle of filling our minds with condemnation and doubts and fears, and he is cast out of our thinking by the revelation of the word of this hour which is Christ.
15-3 THE.REVELATION.OF.JESUS.CHRIST - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.1
Now remember this. Christ in the True Church is a continuation of the Book of Acts. But the Book of Revelation shows how that the antichrist spirit would come into the church and defile it, making it lukewarm, formal and powerless. It exposes Satan, revealing his works (attempted destruction of God's people and the discrediting of God's word) right down to the time he is cast into the lake of fire. He fights that. He cannot stand it. He knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. If they get a true revelation of the two spirits within the framework of the Christian church, and by God's Spirit discern and withstand the antichrist spirit, Satan will be powerless before her. He will be as definitely thwarted today as when Christ withstood his every effort to gain power over Him in the desert. Yes, Satan hates revelation. But we love it. With true revelation in our lives, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us, but we will prevail over them.
14-4 THE.REVELATION.OF.JESUS.CHRIST - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.1
Have you ever noticed how Satan hates two books of the Bible more than all others? Through liberal theologians and pseudo-scientists he is always attacking the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation. In both of these books we find Satan's origin, his awful ways and his destruction. That is why he attacks them. He hates to be exposed, and in those books he is exposed for exactly what he is. Jesus said about Satan, "He has no part in Me and I have no part in him." The devil would like to prove that different; but he cannot, so he does all he can to destroy confidence in the Word. But when the church disbelieves Satan and believes the Spirit's revelation of the Word, the gates of hell cannot prevail against her.
Opening scripture:
ZEPHANIAH 3:14-15
14 ¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
If there is ever a people that have seen evil, it is the bride of this age because we are living in the time of the greatest evil age – but we are promised that we will not see evil any more after this time.
***This same Christ that casts Satan out as the accuser after the seven church ages have ended, is the same one that comes down to earth and enters into the heart of the believer by the message of the hour as given through the 7th angel, and that same Christ who is now in the midst of us in word form is casting the accuser out of our minds by the unfolding of the revelation of the word for this age.
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
13-1 This great first battle that was ever fought begin in heaven when Michael and his Angels fought against Lucifer and his angels. It first started--the first battle was in heaven, so sin did not originate on earth; it originated in heaven. And then it was thrown down from heaven, cast out of heaven to the earth and fell on human beings. Then the battle from Angels become human battles. And Satan come to destroy God's creation. What God had created to be for Hisself, he had (Satan), come to destroy this. That's what his purpose was, was to destroy it.
Then the battle begin here on earth and begin in us (he is talking about humanity), and it's been raging ever since.
Notice when he is speaking this message – March 1962, so from the beginning of man being upon the earth, the battle has been raging in the battle field of the mind of man for 6000 years, from Eden until March 1962, but now a prophet of God is declaring that now is the time and the season for this battle to end, because 1962 is at the end of the 6000 years, and it is also at the end of the seven church ages, and so this is what takes place in Revelation 12:10 which is the second time that Satan is cast out since before the beginning.
REVELATION 12:7-12
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (So Satan is cast out is at the end of the seven church ages and just before the millennium, so this is the time that we are living in right now between the second and third woe – and so this explains why we see so much evil in the world today, because he has been cast down into the earth in a capacity that we have never seen before, and he is like a roaring lion because he only has a short time before he is to be bound for 1000 years.)
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (It wasn’t that we weren’t saved before this time, but this is the time when our deliverance is to be made manifested, and all our mind battles can cease right now – this is the time of full salvation, this is the year of jubilee)
11 And 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.
12 ¶ Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Notice carefully in these verses that there are clearly two overcoming’s of the accuser of the brethren, one in verse 10 when he is overcome in heaven by Michael and his angels (and we know that Michael is Christ), and this is where Satan is cast down into the earth, but now that he is in the earth, he is overcome by the believers on the earth in verse 11 in such a way in this hour that it renders him totally powerless, because the same Christ that fort Satan in heaven is now fighting him in us, because Christ is the word for the age that we have received into our hearts.
And that is why all who do not have the revelation of the message of the hour in their hearts by revelation cannot overcome the god of the evil age.
BE.CERTAIN.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-12 SUNDAY_ 59-0125
57 There was Job of the Old Testament, when Satan, our accuser, accused him of being a secret sinner. But Job knowed that he had not sinned. He knowed that he'd confessed everything that he'd done and put a burnt offering out there. That was God's requirement. That's all God required, was that burnt offering and a confession. And Job done those things.
Each age cast out a portion of the devil and the deception for that age by the revelation that God gave through the messenger for that age, but in this age the entire truth of the word has been given to the bride, so it is at this time that Satan is completely cast down; and where is he cast down into? He is cast down into a bottomless pit of a chain of circumstance.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1093-Q-340 340. …So it's that Sabbath day when the church will no more labor against sin (he is referring to the seventh day, the thousand years millennial reign with the restored kingdom again). And Satan is bound for a little season, a thousand years, 'cause his subjects is all in hell, and his... The church that's on earth is redeemed and right in the Presence of Christ, so he has nothing he can work on. So it's not a chain, as I said, a log chain; it's a chain of circumstance; he has nothing he can do. He's helpless and hopeless, just waiting for the resurrection of the subjects; then they're separated as the sheep from the goats.
THE.SIXFOLD.PURPOSE.OF.GABRIEL'S.VISIT.TO.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN DA 45-88 SUNDAY_ 61-0730E
96 …Now, we're going to... I want you to catch this, because when we bring that woman and the dragon cast out, you're going to come right back to this same Scripture again. Be sure to put It down. When Israel's transgression has come to an end, Satan, who is their accuser and our accuser, Satan will be sealed up in the bottomless pit.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
REVELATION 11:14-15
14 ¶ The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. (The second woe is the Second World War)
15 And the seventh angel sounded (This is the same angel of Revelation 10:7, so between the Second World War and the third woe which is the Third World War is the sounding of the seventh angel’s voice which is to first make known the mysteries to the bride; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (But also connected to the seventh angel’s message is the announcement of the oncoming judgement and the kingdom of God)
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
13-4 …Now, don't get--miss this. When this great battle started on earth, there had to be a mutual meeting place; there had to be a place selected for the battle to begin, and for the battle to rage; and that battlegrounds begin in the human mind. There's where the battle starts. The human mind was chosen for the place of the battle, where it was to begin; and that is, because that decisions are made from the mind, the head.
So the mind was where the battle started, and so it must also be the last place where the devil gets cast out before he is bound for a 1000 years during the millennium – and that is what is happening right now by the revelation of the word that has come to us in this hour, and that is why we have total power over Satan today because he has been cast down by the exposure of his lies – he has been thrown out of the court room never to return again.
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
47-2 Satan's army brings diseases, and God's army is commissioned to cast them out. Amen. There you are. Every time Satan throws anything on--onto you, God's army is to cast him out. Amen. Cast out, that's the very tactic that God used. Satan used the army of destruction to disbelieve God's Word, and set him up a better kingdom than Michael had, and God cast him out.
God's method is cast out the evil, cast down reasoning, cast down superstitions, cast down weary, cast down diseases, cast down sin. Amen. You're above it, resurrected in Christ Jesus setting in heavenly places with every devil under your foot. If he starts to stick his head in there, what...
47-4 You know, you are dead; your life is hid. What is dead? You're dead to your senses; you're dead to your conscience (your own human will would say, "Yes I guess I..."), dead to your reasonings, dead to all those things, and you are buried in the Name of Jesus Christ and raised with Him. And wherever He is, there you are also.
What happened when them--one of them doubters got in heaven? God kicked him out. And what did He say to the soldiers that's raised in Christ? When the devil comes along kick him out. Cast him out.
Last week we read this quote:
THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST_ SHP.LA V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_ 65-1125
269 You're standing, completely. You never sinned at the first place. God don't even know. It's in the Sea of Forgetfulness. You never did it. You were accused of it, by the accuser. But really, from the beginning, you were predestinated to be a son and daughter of God. You're standing there, washed. And your old book of divorcement is put away, and it's dead, absolutely out of existence, even in the mind of God.
270 You're the virtuous Bride of Christ, washed in the Blood of Christ. Precious, virtuous, sinless Son of God standing with a pure, unadulterated Bride-Word that He washed by the Water of His Own Blood; that become flesh and manifested, that He might take you which were predestinated in the bosom of the Father, before the beginning, the same as He was. He was that great attribute of God, called "love."
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
48-... That's how God's soldiers take sin, sickness: just as they come to it. Amen. That's the way they overcome their doubts, and fears, and things. When one rises, they chop him down, move out of the way. Oh, my. That's it.
God cast them out, like He did in heaven. Our great Chief Captain showed us how it was done.
How did he do it? He did it by declaring his final judgement of innocence to the bride of Christ - she never even did it in the first place, that is your verdict.
So by that you know that any thought that tries to suggest different to that final verdict of God concerning you is Satan trying to bluff your mind to believe a lie, so just cast him down into the bottomless pit again where he belongs.
If he tries to bring up old memories of how people hurt you and let you down, then cast that thought out because that is Satan again trying to bring up the memories of the past in order to keep you down – but we are to kick him down.
We are overcomers in this hour because of the fullness of the revelation of the word in our hearts.
“They (you and I) overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb (the blood of the lamb is accessed by the spirit of the word for the age), and by the word of their testimony (our confession of the revelation for this hour);
Our Accuser is Cast Down Pt.2