This next event, a war in heaven, will not be able to be seen with the naked eye by the people still left on the earth as the 7 year Tribulation starts to unfold. What happens in this next incredible event is that Satan and his angels are cast out of "heaven" and cast down onto the earth by St. Michael and his army of angels. There will literally be a war in the "heavens" between God's angels and the Devil and his fallen angels.

To really understand what is happening with this war in heaven, you need to know that there are apparently three "heavens." The apostle Paul says that he was taken up to the third heaven - Paradise, where I believe he encountered Jesus and possibly God the Father. He says he does not know if he was in his body or out of his body when he had this experience. Here is the verse: "It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago - whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows - such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man - whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows - how he was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words, which is not lawful for a man to utter." (2 Corinthians 12:1-4) Many believe that Paul was talking about himself - that he was the one who had the experience. If this verse is telling us that there is a third Heaven, then there must be a first Heaven and a second Heaven. If God and Jesus live in the third Heaven, then the first Heaven has to be our earth. The second heaven then has to be the "air" or the atmosphere between heaven and our earth. Satan is called the prince of the power of the "air" in the Bible. This is where he and his demons live and roam in.

I believe Satan and his fallen angels were cast out of the third Heaven where God and Jesus live long before we humans were ever created. Satan had rebelled against God before we were created and thus was cast out of the third Heaven down into the second Heaven - the Air. The Bible calls Satan the "prince of the power of the AIR." Here is the verse that specifically tells us this: "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience." (Ephesians 2:1-2)

Satan is not confined to the bottomless pit or the lake of fire and brimstone at this time. He is free to roam in the "air" until Jesus comes back for His second coming. After Jesus comes back, Satan is then thrown into the bottomless pit for a 1000 years and then eventually into the lake of fire and brimstone at the end of the 1000 Millennium Kingdom.

What happens in this event is that Satan is cast from the second heaven down to the first heaven - which is the earth. The Bible says he really gets mad when this event occurs because he knows he has but little time left before Jesus comes back for His second coming to throw him into the bottomless pit.

The Bible then says woe to the people still left on the earth when this event happens - for Satan will then start to release his wrath upon the earth! He first goes after the Jewish people, but God will provide protection for 1/3 of the Jews so he won't be able to kill all of them. The Bible then says that he will then turn his attention to the rest of God's people - the saints in Christ - and this is where you get the 42 months that God's saints will allowed to be given into the hand of the Devil and the Antichrist for persecution.

The war in heaven will probably occur right around the midpoint of the Tribulation. This event may also explain why the Antichrist, all of a sudden in the middle of the Tribulation, breaks off his peace treaty with the Jews and proceeds to sit himself in the Jewish Temple proclaiming himself to be God - and then starts the mass persecution of the Jewish people and G