Friday, December 09, 2011

War In Heaven?

Revelation 12:7 KJV
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Things are never as simple as we tend to try to make them. Here stands what is in our minds a huge contradiction - war in heaven. Neither can we reason this away as something other than heaven as the throne of God. Michael does not as some have suggested, represent the church and the dragon and his angels represent ancient Roman oppression and persecution. The war is in heaven and between Satan and his angels versus the angels of God in heaven. Conflict invades that place of perfect peace.

This is not to say that God is not sovereign and could not have prevented it. Surely He could have prevented the conflict as easily as He prevailed in the conflict. This is a demonstration of the lengths God will go to develop man into that creature who worships him in spirit and in truth. Nothing is so "sacred" to God that He will protect it against saving His people; He gave His Son for our salvation, His throne would then be a small thing to give so that His saints be protected from Satan's spoiling work. God allowed for Satan. God allowed Satan to violate the sanctity of His throne so that His eternal plan for mankind could be carried out.

Not to worry though. In the eternal state where there is no more sun, moon, sea, death, neither will there be war.

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