Learn what will happen during the tribulation period from beginning to end
Your comments and questions are always welcome. To send comments and questions please click here to go to our main page Revelation 12:12 says concerning Satan: "The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Satan doesn't know at this time that he has but a short time until after he is removed from heaven. Infact, he's never really had much of a grasp of God's time table. That’s why the demon cried out at Jesus in confusion, " Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" (Matthew 8:29). Satan did not then understand that there were going to be two comings of Christ. He had no knowledge of the plan for divine redemption. He knew Jesus had come to earth 2,000 years early, but he didn’t know why! He will at this time understand that he only has but a few short years from the time when he will be bound in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years (Revelation 20:1-3). Three and one-half years before Satan is cast into the bottomless pit, he will try once again to overthrow God from his throne in heaven and to take that rulership for himself. However, the archangel Michael and his army will fight against Satan, and Satan will be defeated. It is at this time that Satan is cast out of heaven and confined to the earth. Revelation 12:l2 says; "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." When Satan realizes that he once again has been defeated, he will be exceedingly angry. He will know at this point that he only has three and one-half years left in which to work. In the evil of his imagination, he will still believe that he can defeat the Almighty God. He will launch his plan to accomplish on earth what he has been unable to achieve in heaven.