Now!

I am grateful that Your creation reflects Your loving care for us all to see!

Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

Revelation 12:10

Me: Good morning, Father!

Abba: Good morning, Jon!

Me: This is a marvelous verse, Father! Can You please tell me something about its temporal language? It uses words like “have come”, “has been”, “now”, and “accused”.

Abba: I Am glad to point out that “has been” is applicable to the accuser.

Many have speculated as to when this “now” is referring. In Job 1:6 and 2:1-2, Satan’s access to heaven is mentioned. He accuses both Job and I that Job only honors Me because of the blessings I bestowed on him.

Jesus said, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.” (Luke 2:10) Though the English translation of this verse seems a strong past-tense rendition, this is not so in the original. Rather, it emphasizes that it was an event, something that happened at a particular point in time.

Consider how Revelation 12:10 links a moment (now) with salvation and the power of the Christ, with Satan’s casting down. In Revelation 12:7, leading up to verse 10, “war in heaven” is the setting. Verse eleven in Revelation 12 says this:

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

So, this victory, in which you stand, was won by Jesus at the cross. And the victory enfolds all who put their trust in Him. The Accuser, then, has no more standing to accuse those who have repented of their lives of sin and put their faith in the work of the sinless Son.

For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2, Isaiah 49:8

While a person has breath, there is a moment – now – when it is possible to enter in to the salvation provided. None knows whether another moment is coming.

Me: Hallelujah! Thank You Father! I love You! Thank you! Thank you!

Abba: You are welcome! I love you!

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Awestruck son of the Sovereign of the universe, from whom all rights and responsibilities of men derive.

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