Heaven is Waiting for the Man-child to Arrive to Cast Satan Down and Bring in the Kingdom

God judged and condemned Satan through Christ’s living and His work on the cross, but it is only when the man-child is raptured to the throne of God that Satan is judged and cast down with his angels, and God’s kingdom is manifested. Hallelujah!

Satan was Lucifer before he rebelled, and he was the head of the entire old creation, leading all creation in praise and worship to God; but he looked at his beauty and power, and he became proud, so he rebelled against God.

This created being, the greatest archangel, desired in his heart to be the same as God; he wanted to be like God, so he exalted himself to challenge God and even replace God.

God created Lucifer and gave him everything that he had; however, this created being rebelled against God and tried to exalt himself as high as God.

And a third of the angels followed him in his rebellion so that he now has his kingdom of darkness, which is contrary to the kingdom of God, with all kinds of principalities, powers, and authorities in the heavenlies.

In His wisdom, God allows this one to still exist, for he fulfils a negative aspect of God’s purpose and goal.

If we look at the case of Job, God allowed Satan to touch his possessions and even his body and his health, but not to take his life; none of the excellent angels of God could be used by God to strip and consume Job, but Satan was more than eager to do this.

Especially as it relates to us as God’s people, God allows Satan to “sift us”, as He allowed him to do it with the disciples at the time of the Lord’s death, so that He would gain what He is after.

What God is after is a corporate man who expresses God and represents Him.

Christ came as God becoming man to express God and represent God, and through His living on earth and work on the cross, He judged Satan, condemned him, stripped him of all his power, annulled death, and cast out the ruler of this world.

Christ was fully victorious on the cross, and His victory over Satan was absolute; now God is working to crush Satan under the feet of the built-up local church, under the feet of the corporate expression of God in a locality. Hallelujah!

And the final judgment of Satan as a created yet rebellious being will be by means of the man-child, who will be raptured at the throne of God, war will be in heaven, Satan and his angels will be cast down to the earth, and the kingdom of God will be manifested. Hallelujah!

This is the scene in Rev. 12:5-11; the man-child is victorious over Satan and his angels, and when God gains this corporate entity, He can apply the full judgment to the enemy through the man-child, and the kingdom can be brought in!

The Heaven is Waiting for the Man-child, the Overcomers, to Arrive so that Satan may be Cast out of Heaven!

In its exact application, the man-child refers to the overcomers who have deceased, who are in paradise now with the Lord; however, there’s the principle of the manchild, the overcomers as the stronger part of the woman.

Brothers and sisters alike can and should be part of the man-child, those stronger spiritually; they are not an elite group but rather, they are normal believers within the church who are developing and growing in life.

It is a fact that not everyone in all the local churches will take the way to be part of the manchild in this respect.

In Rev. 12 we see that there’s a great universal woman, signifying the totality of the people of God, and she is travailing in birth to deliver a man-child; the dragon (the devil) is waiting for the man-child to be delivered so that he may devour it.

However, the man-child is raptured to the throne of God, and as soon as these overcomers – which include the firstfruits – are raptured, war breaks out in the heavens, and there’s the application of God’s judgment and punishment.

The man-child consists of the overcomers, who stand on behalf of the church, taking the position that the church should take, and they do the work of the church (Rev. 2:7, 11; 12:5).

They are not for themselves; they are for God, for His will and His purpose, and they are here to act for the benefit of the church.

It is the overcomers who will bring the Lord back, and not the churches in their condition.

The man-child is always engaged in fighting against God’s enemy, Satan, continually on the earth; today we are fighting the enemy and on that day we will continue to fight him.

Heaven is waiting for the man-child, the overcomers, to arrive so that a war may be waged to cast Satan out of heaven.

Even right now, heaven is waiting; Satan still has access to the heavens, he is still accusing us before God, and he still is able to do things in the heavens, but one day is coming when the man-child is raptured, and Satan is cast down! Amen!

We don’t want heaven to wait much longer; we want the man-child to arrive, so that the war may break out!

We were created in the image of God and we were given His dominion, and we are here to express HIm and represent Him with His authority, to recover the earth for God.

The war waged by the overcoming believers against Satan is actually the executing of the Lord’s judgment upon him (John 12:31); Christ has judged Satan, and the man-child – the overcoming believers – will apply and execute this judgement on Satan practically.

The result is that, through the fighting of the man-child, Satan is cast out of heaven (Rev. 12:8-9).

He will be cast to the earth, the great tribulation will begin, and the Lord’s parousia will start – His gradual, hidden, coming with His bridal army will begin.

At the end of the great tribulation, Christ with the man-child, the overcomers, will apply more of the victory of Christ, this time smashing all the human government, and throwing Satan into the abyss! Hallelujah!

Then the power of the coming age will be manifested. Even after one thousand years, there will be one more battle, for the Lord has to try the people who were born during that time; the devil will be released, and there will be a final war, when the beast, the antichrist, death itself, the false prophet, and the devil will all be cast in the lake of fire! Hallelujah!

Today the heaven is waiting for the thing that will trigger it all: the man-child to be raptured so that Satan would be cast down to the earth.

We need to stand in the victory of Christ and preach it to the enemy, declaring that Christ has overcome, we are in Christ the Victor, and Satan is defeated!

The more we speak to Satan, standing one with the Lord, the more we’re released from any of his schemes and stratagems, and the more he is crushed under our feet!

Lord Jesus, we don’t want the heaven to wait much longer: we want to be the man-child who is raptured to the heavens, wages war with Satan, casts Satan down to earth, and brings in the kingdom of God! Amen, Lord, we are created to express You in Your image and represent You with Your authority. We are here on earth to recover the earth for You and to deal with Your enemy! We stand in Your victory, Lord Jesus, and we declare Your victory over the enemy, proclaiming the fact that Jesus Christ has condemned and destroyed the devil! Amen, Lord, we stand in the Body, on the position of the church, and as the church, we condemn the devil, we unmask him, we proclaim the victory of Christ, and we preach to the devil of his evil fate! Hallelujah, Christ is Victor and Satan is a loser!

The very ones whom Satan has accused and consumed, they Overcome him and Bring in the Age of the Kingdom

The devil is right now accusing the believers before God day and night, but the overcoming believers – who constitute the man-child and who have been opposed and slandered by God’s enemy – overcome him (Rev. 12:10-11). Hallelujah!

Satan slanders us and even induces us to speak negative things about ourselves.

But we can overcome him not by being super-Christians or giants in faith but by the blood of the Lamb!

May the Lord strengthen and increase our faith in His blood! We may have had a failure or transgression, but we believe in the blood of Christ more than believing our failure!

We confess our sin, and we believe that God in His righteousness is bound to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness!

We never agree with Satan’s accusations: we answer him by the blood of the Lamb!

Hallelujah, we overcome the devil because of the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 12:11); this blood is for our redemption, and it answers before God all the accusations of the devil against us, giving us the victory over him.

Whenever we sense the accusation of the devil, we should just apply the blood of Christ (Rom. 3:25; 1 John 1:7); we don’t confess our sins to Satan, we don’t agree with him – we agree with God, and we confess our sins to Him!

We overcome the devil because of the word of our testimony; this is our word that testifies that the devil has been judged by the Lord (John 12:31; Heb. 2:14).

Though he is attacking us and accusing us, we apply the blood; he may still be stubborn and remind us of our sins, so we preach to him, we declare to him the facts.

We simply tell Satan,

Look, Satan, Jesus Christ is on the throne, where you wanted to be! He destroyed you on the cross. He is the Victor in every way, and you are a loser. I stand in Christ’s victory. I declare that this Jewish man, Jesus Christ, defeated and destroyed you, Satan, and you have been defeated! Hallelujah, Christ is Victor!

Whenever we sense the accusation of the devil, we should simply declare the Lord’s victory over him!

Brothers and sisters alike, we are in Christ as the Overcoming One, and we can declare His victory over Satan.

We shouldn’t take and believe Satan’s attacks; we should simply open our mouth and declare that Christ is Victor! Declare to Satan that there’s a Man in the heavens whose life is for me, and He is victorious over Satan!

Our wise God used Satan to deal with us, but we stand with Christ to proclaim His victory over the enemy!

The overcomers do not love their soul-life even unto death; not loving our soul-life is the basis for overcoming Satan, for our victory over Satan.

We are not here to have an easy life; we’re here to be for the gospel, and we are willing to lose our soulish enjoyment so that we may gain it in the next age.

For us not to love our soul-life means that we’re willing to give up our own soul-life and that we do not care for our own soul-life (Mar. 8:34-35). This is the kind of people that Satan is afraid of: those who don’t love their soul-life.

May the Lord cause us to realize that there’s something more precious than our soul-life; there’s a joy set before us, the wedding feast of the Lamb which starts with being raptured to Him and descending with Him in His parousia to reign with Him in His kingdom!

We are not here aimlessly, we are not here practicing asceticism – we’re here following the Lord at any cost, and the enemy should be afraid of us!

Hallelujah, we were created by God, redeemed by Christ, regenerated, transformed, and constituted with the Triune God to execute God’s judgment over Satan!

What a shame this is to him, for a woman – the wife of the redeeming God – will apply the victory of Christ, her Husband, to the enemy!

The man-child is related to God’s most important dispensational move (Matt. 6:9-10; Rev. 11:15; 12:10).

God wants to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom; for this, He must have the man-child as His dispensational instrument.

This is our joyful expectation, that the Lord would end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom!

The rapture of the man-child brings the church age to an end and introduces the age of the kingdom. The rapture of the man-child to the throne of God, the casting of Satan to the earth, and the declaration in heaven signify that the man-child will bring the kingdom to the earth; this is God’s greatest dispensational move (Rev. 12:5, 9-10; 11:15).

We want to be those who compose the man-child, for we were created by God to express Him and represent Him!

Even though we were taken over by Satan, we have been redeemed and regenerated, and by His mercy, we have seen the heavenly vision; in response to this vision, we consecrated ourselves, we told the Lord to do whatever He wills in us, with us, and through us, for our life is in His hands, and we are not here for ourselves.

Based on our consecration under the heavenly vision, the Lord begins to work in us, as He did in Jacob; at certain points, He may not do something directly but He would allow the enemy to do it, even allowing him to sift us as he did with the early disciples.

But what a glory it is to the wise God who gains the man-child, the dispensational instrument, and this man-child becomes the bride of Christ, without blemish, defect, or wrinkle, matching God in every way.

And Satan, unwittingly, has accomplished something in God’s will, as he tried to reduce her to nothing; yet God came in to work Himself into her without any hindrance and reluctance on her part, and now the bride reigns with Christ, executing the victory of Christ over the enemy and carrying out God’s judgment over Satan! Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You in response to Your loving heart; make us part of Your counterpart, Your corporate expression, Your warrior-bride, to fight with You the final battles! Amen, Lord, You are our Victor and soon You will be our Husband! We pray for Your ultimate move, Lord: move through us, move in us, and move with us, so that You may gain a dispensational instrument to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom! Amen, Lord, may You be glorified in all the earth and may Your enemy, Satan, the adversary, be put to shame and utterly defeated! We worship You, sovereign God, for Your amazing wisdom, for the way that You govern this complicated universe with the evil powers present there. We worship You from our whole being. Lord Jesus, You are our Lord. Work Yourself into us day by day and hour by hour so that You may gain us as the man-child, the overcoming ones, part of Your corporate expression to open the way for Your kingdom to come! Amen, Lord Jesus, we are one with You for You to gain the man-child, the Body built-up, the new man matured and manifested, and the bride ready for Your coming! Yes, Lord, gain the joy set before You: gain Your bride, Your overcomers who apply the victory of Christ to the enemy, and hasten Your return!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ron Kangas for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Revelation, msgs. 35, 36, 38, 39, 45 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes (2020 winter training), week 2, God, Man, and Satan.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Praise Him! praise Him! Christ is Victor! / He has won the victory! / Sin is judged, old Adam finished, / Full redemption now we see! / Vanquished all the evil powers / Thru the Cross triumphantly! (Hymns #124)
  – There’s a Man in the glory / Whose Life is for me. / He overcame Satan; / From bondage He’s free. / In Life He is reigning; / How kingly is He! / His Life in the glory, / My life must be. (Hymns #505)
  – Hallelujah! sing to Jesus, / His the scepter, His the throne; / Hallelujah! His the triumph, / His the victory alone. / Hark, the songs of His redeemed ones / Thunder like a mighty flood: / Jesus out of every nation / Hath redeemed us by His blood. (Hymns #125)