Why was there war in heaven?

The Bible shows the sign from a God outside of time.

In 68 AD, the Apostle John was called up to heaven and received a series of stunning visions and signs that would be compiled into the Book of Revelation, the most misunderstood book in the whole Bible. When you stop viewing the Book of Revelation as a play by play of the end-times, and start seeing it as a display of the seamless fabric of God's victory in all time, the Book comes to life in a whole new way. The Book of Revelation is not a book pointing only to the distant future, far from John. The Book shows the majesty of God's plan by combining events from past, present and future. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in chapters 11 and 12.

One particular event recorded in these chapters is absolutely from the distant past. In fact, it predates even the Garden of Eden.

Revelation 12 ⁷ Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸ But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹ The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Protestant futurists must confront the question of why this event, from eons past, appears in the 2nd half of a book they assumed was dedicated to the events of the distant future. In that examination, I respectfully ask you to look past the when to the what and why.

"Then" is translated from the Greek ginomai which means ''began to come into existence''. The sense ofThis-then-that is a cornerstone of basic logic and is integral in programming. Reason presupposes then, that the war in heaven was triggered by something....... or someone.

If you look at this logically and biblically, you realize that a war is between enemies.

Romans 5:10 told us that we had become enemies of God through our sin but who was the enemy of Satan that caused this war in heaven? Was it God, who rules heaven? Was it Saint Michael who he fights with here?

The Bible only prophecies 1 person who would be created with enmity towards the devil and that person's prophecy is shown in Genesis chapter 3. It is shown again Revelation 12:17. "The Woman" and, by extension, "her seed" (children) would be perpetual enemies of the serpent and his children.

When the Hebrews were first confronted with this prophecy, they were astounded. It defied any Scriptural precedent before or after. It also defies biology.

It is well known that the "seed" comes from the man. Yet, here we have a prophecy predicting that the Messiah would come from the seed of "the woman".

In examining 120 recognized Eucharistic miracles + the Shroud of Turin, I asked Grok to calculate the chance that all would return blood type AB+, the universal receipient type. The number was a decimal point followed by 178 zeroes before the first positive digit.

What is astounding is that the blood is shown to be from living heart tissue of a severly injured man yet no Y chromosome can be found. In other words, a man, with no human father.

His flesh- the flesh that bled and died for us- comes entirely from "the Woman".

His flesh was conceived and born at enmity with the serpent because He received it from someone created with that enmity.

This flies in the face of protestant sotierology that posits that Roman 3:23 proves "all have sinned". The verse says, all races and types of people have sinned, not all persons.

If all persons, Jesus would be included and so would babies. Clearly not the writer's intent.

They also point to Romans 3:10 and insist it says "there are none righteous, no not one". No. It says "It is written, there are none righteous, no not one". Paul is quoting the old testament (Psalm 14, Psalm 53) which refers to the fool who says in his heart "there is no God".

None righteous? Not one?

Luke 1 says Elizabeth and Zechariah were righteous and blameless before God. James 5 says the prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Protestant eisegesis abuses these verses out of necessity in order to preserve a narrative. They believe holiness for humans is impossible. We believe holiness for humans is impossible without Grace but certainly possible for humans with it.

Knowing this, that Luke 1:28 calls Mary "Kecharitomene"- she who is edured with perfected Grace- seals the case of the Immaculate Conception.

Protestants say Christ alone is sufficient and faith alone is sufficient but Jesus said " My Grace is sufficient" ( 2 Corinthians 12:9).

True, Ephesians 2:8-10 says that grace is a free gift and that is not OF WORKS. It is, however FOR WORKS.

Grace is the fuel that makes the engine run.

If you don't understand that, you can't explain the difference between Mother Theresa and Adolph Hitler and you must pretend they are the same. If you do understand it, the Immaculate Conception of Mary falls right in line with Old Testament prophecy and New Testament fulfillment. The Ark of the Covenant was made of incorruptable wood and the purest gold. We know why. It points forward to Mary.

She was created to stomp and humiliate the serpent because he needed to be stomped and humiliated. He exalted himself up to the level of God, God humbled him all the way down to be beneath a woman's foot.

WE saw this in Genesis 3. The devil saw it before the foundation of the world and that's why he declared war.

The first Bible ever created ( the Latin Vulgate) and the first English Bible (the Douay Rheems) render Genesis 3:15 as saying that SHE (the woman) would crush the serpent's head.

Later Bibles, starting with the 1611 KJV thought that might be elevating the Woman a bit too much and changed it to "HE".

The truth is that the phrasing can allow for either rendering so many Bible versions have adopted the second.

For me, Mary settled the debate in 1830 when she appeared to Catherine Laboure, standing on a snake.

Make no mistake. This is not a promotion for Mary as much as a demotion of the snake. He wanted to raise himself up to God? God let him eat dirt, squashed beneath a woman's foot, instead. What's more? God let him know in advance.

In Revelation chapter 12, heaven shows John what happened.

12 ^[a]And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; ² she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. ³ And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. ⁴ His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; ⁵ she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ⁶ and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

"Behold, Lucifer" God may have said, "a mortal....a woman......will be the Queen of heaven"

The next line in Scripture? " and war broke out in heaven".

In Luke chapter 1, the Angel Gabriel told Mary that her son would sit on the throne of David as King. In the Davidic kingdom, the Queen was the mother- not the wife- of the King. If Jesus is the King of Heaven (and He is), Mary is the Queen. Equal with Christ? By no means! Above Lucifer? You bet!

That was a bridge too far for the proud Angel. That's why he declared war.