War In Heaven Pt.1

Shalom In Yahshua and welcome once again to our study of Yahshua as revealed to us in  Hebrews 1:1-4. 
A Summary of the previous post.
In our previous post we shared several thoughts regarding:
1. the divinity of Yahshua 
2. His eternal nature
3. His proceeding from the bosom of His Father
4. The beginning of the Universe (according to Gen.1:1; Jn.1:1)
5. The creation of the heaven and the foundations of earth before creation week.
6. That we do not believe/teach the 'Gap Theory' to confirm life on earth millions of years ago,
7.  Any theory that teaches life/death on earth before Adam is  not according to Scripture.
8. The creation of the universe includes other worlds.
9. The other worlds were made to be inhabited.
10. The work of creating our world is a type of the work which Yahshua, the Creator, in unison with His Darling (Father) will do after the restoration of all things.


Todays Teaching:


We wish at this time to touch on several related matters in hopes of rounding out this lesson. Namely,


1. The Timing of the War In Heaven
2.The Timing of the Cast out of Satan
3. The Timing of The Creation of Life on Earth
4. The Timing of the Fall of Man


The timing of the War In Heaven


Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.(Eze.28:13,14)


And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation] (Exd.34:6,7)


But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.(Ps.86:15)


The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.(Pe.3:9)


Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Rom.2:4)


Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.(Heb.13:8)


[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: (Rom.9:22)


Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (Jam.1:15)

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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. 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. 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. (Rev.12:7:10)


From the above quoted Scriptures we summaries the following salient points:


1. Lucifer (before He became Satan) was the anointed cherub. [For more on His rank and title see Ps.80:1]
2. He was perfect in His ways from the time He was created until iniquity was found in Him.
3.YHWH is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish.
4.That YHWH endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.
5. Yahshua Messiah is the same yesterday today and forever.
6. From the time lust is entertained in the heart, to the time of open rebellion and revolt, which is sin which brings forth death; time is needed.


The application of the Scripture text and summary statements to the matter at hand: 


Lucifer, little by little began to indulge lust in His heart(Jam.1:15) More and more He came to regard Himself more important than God (Isa.14:13,14). After a while He began to voice these cherished thoughts to the angelic host, and because of His position, He had great influence with them.
YHWH, who is love; exercises great restraint and long suffering towards Lucifer in an effort to save this mighty being from the precipice of eternal ruin.Satan, however, despises the riches of YHWH'S forbearance and long suffering; and therefore turns away from repentance; and becomes a vessel of wrath for destruction. 


He, Satan numbers a third of all the heavenly angels on His side(Rev.12:4) and points to this great number as sufficient to engage in open revolt and all out war against YHWH and His darling Yahshua(Ps.22:20)[Pro.16:18]. He decides to take, by force(Rev.12:7), that which He could not take by deceitful argument(Ps.109:2;Ps.12:4;Jam.3:6); namely YHWH'S position and High and Lifted up Throne of infinite Glory (Isa.6:1; Jer.14:21) 


Yahshua, in counsel with YHWH His ABBA[Pro.20:18], decides to use Satan's plan of war to separate the sheep from the goats. The entire angelic host is convened; and the great separation takes place. The true and loyal angels on YHWH' right hand and the disloyal rebels on His left; just as it will be at the end of time. [based on Ecc. 3:15;Isa.46:10]  


Then Heaven, the place of perfect bliss is now awash with the sound of war(Rev.12:7-9), the noise of battle. He, Satan does not prevail; and is cast out of Heaven into......the earth. He and all the disloyal with Him.


Once again all is peace and quite in Heaven.


We will pause here and, (YHWH desires,) will continue with the connecting thoughts on this topic; as outlined above.


Until next time..........


Shalom and Ahava in Yahshua.