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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 12:12 - 12:12
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Therefore - because Satan is cast out of heaven (Rev 12:9).
dwell - literally, “tabernacle.” Not only angels and the souls of the just with God, but also the faithful militant on earth, who already in spirit tabernacle in heaven, having their home and citizenship there, rejoice that Satan is cast out of their home. “Tabernacle” for dwell is used to mark that, though still on the earth, they in spirit are hidden “in the secret of God’s tabernacle.” They belong not to the world, and, therefore, exult in judgment having been passed on the prince of this world.
the inhabiters of - So Andreas reads. But A, B, and C omit. The words probably, were inserted from Rev 8:13.
is come down - rather as Greek, “catebee,” “is gone down”; John regarding the heaven as his standing-point of view whence he looks down on the earth.
unto you - earth and sea, with their inhabitants; those who lean upon, and essentially belong to, the earth (contrast Joh 3:7, Margin, with “Phi 3:19, end; 1Jo 4:5) and its sea-like troubled politics. Furious at his expulsion from heaven, and knowing that his time on earth is short until he shall be cast down lower, when Christ shall come to set up His kingdom (Rev 20:1, Rev 20:2), Satan concentrates all his power to destroy as many souls as he can. Though no longer able to accuse the elect in heaven, he can tempt and persecute on earth. The more light becomes victorious, the greater will be the struggles of the powers of darkness; whence, at the last crisis, Antichrist will manifest himself with an intensity of iniquity greater than ever before.
short time - Greek, “kairon,” “season”: opportunity for his assaults.