There is war in heaven (Revelation 12), and Michael casts the dragon from heaven to earth. Good thing for heaven; not so good for earth, because the dragon comes down enraged and begins to attack the mother and her children.
But the dragon is eventually cast out of earth too, into the lake of fire (Revelation 20). And he is cast from earth in the same way he is cast from heaven – by the blood of the Lamb and the testimony of those who do not love life even to death (12:11).
Michael’s heavenly war is to be reproduced by the saints on earth: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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