The fall of Satan

Note: Most will not be able to skim through this and understand all that I have written. Don’t bother reading it if you are not willing to look up the passages and meditate on them.

In the book of Daniel King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that was a picture of Satan’s kingdom. This is fitting because Nebuchadnezzar was an earthly image of Satan (Isaiah 14:4-17). First let us read again this dream.

“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” (Daniel 2:31-35)

Now we need to compare this to Ezekiel 28 to understand this more fully.

“Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” (Ezekiel 28:13-15)

Satan’s kingdom started out as very beautiful just as the head of gold in the image. However sin was found in Satan and as a result his kingdom has been losing its beauty and being reduce to a iron kingdom. This metal has no beauty, but is very effective for war. Just as Nebuchadnezzar took God’s people into captivity so has Satan taken all of us into captivity through sin. However just as God free Israel so will He free His people from this captivity.

“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” (Romans 8:21-22)

At the end of Satan’s kingdom it becomes a kingdom mixed with clay. Man is referred to as clay many times in the scriptures. So we see at the end of Satan’s kingdom it becomes mix with men. This clarifies a very strange verse.

“And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)

What we see here is the fall of Babylon, where it is cast to the earth from heaven to be destroyed. When it is cast to earth it becomes mixed with men (clay). We can compare few verse here to see the fall of Babylon.

“And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.” (Jeremiah 51:24-25)

“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;” (Revelation 8:8)

“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” (Revelation 18:21)

When does this happen? It happens during the tribulation. This starts in Revelation chapter 8 through 9 with the outline of the fall of Babylon, and it is not speaking of any earthly kingdom (See introduction). There are more details in chapters 10 through 12.

“And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child” (Revelation 12:13-14)

I quote this verse because many think Satan was cast out of Heaven long ago, but here it shows that Satan is cast out after the woman brought for the man, who is Jesus the Christ. Israel is the woman and she brought forth the child, but here she is having birth pains in bring the Messiah as King to rule the earth. Satan is cast to earth with his angles and it brings a great Wow to its inhabitants. Not only is Satan and his angles of darkness cast out, but Satan is given a key to loose angles that have been change up for this moment (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6). These angels are let loose on the earth and the leader is the beast (Revelation 9:11, 11:7). Notice one of the attributes about these angles—they have breast plates of iron.

“And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle” (Revelation 9:9)

This brings us back to the image. At the end of Satan’s kingdom the iron toes are mixed with clay and a great mountain (kingdom) called Zion will crush it and grind it in to chaff. So that it will never exist again.

Babylon will be so destroyed that it will never be inhabited again (Isaiah 51, Revelations 18). There will no longer be a place where the rulers of darkness can dwell.

“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” (Revelation 18:21)