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greatest test for Michael, who seemed to produce from thin air a heavy linked
chain with which he was able to hog-tie the monster.
It rolled onto its back, snorting flames, hissing and drooling, struggling
against the restraints. Its tail swept again and again at the angel, its great
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head shaking back and forth. Michael finally succeeded in lassoing the neck
with the remains of the chain and with a powerful yank pulled the head toward
the torso, rendering the dragon virtually immobile.
It lay there, snorting and writhing, and anyone watching knew what it would do
if it could somehow free itself. Finally it appeared to relax, but that only
preceded its final incarnation. The dragon gave way to what appeared to be one
more angel, brighter than the archangels and the three angels of mercy,
including Christopher, the angel with the everlasting gospel. Yet its light
paled to insignificance next to that of Christ, whose glory lit the whole
world.
Now the being stood docile, the chain having slid into a tall coil on the
ground. It looked menacingly at Michael, who did not retreat. Gabriel spoke
with a loud voice, "Lucifer, dragon, serpent, devil, Satan, you will now face
the One you have opposed from time immemorial."
"Oh no!" the being rasped. "The last time you contended with me, Michael, it
was over the body of Moses, and you dared not even bring against me a reviling
accusation, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!' I do not answer to you!"
"No," Jesus said quietly, though Rayford heard Him distinctly. And with the
authority of the ages
He said, "But you do answer to Me. Kneel at My feet."
"I will do no such thing!"
"Kneel. "
And he did, shoulders hunched in rebellion and anger.
"I have fought against you from shortly after your creation," Jesus said.
"My creation! I was no more created than You! And who are You to have anything
against me?!"
"You shall be silent. "
The angel of light appeared to Rayford to try to stand, but he could not. He
also appeared to try to speak, straining, shaking his head.
Jesus continued: "For all your lies about having evolved, you are a created
being. "
The creature violently shook its head.
"Only God has the power to create, and you were Our creation. You were in
Eden, the garden of
God, before it was a paradise for Adam and Eve. You were there as an exalted
servant when Eden was a beautiful rock garden.
"You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Every
precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl,
onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship
of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created.
"You were the anointed cherub who covers; God established you; you were on His
holy mountain; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You
were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was
found in you.
"But you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore We cast
you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and We destroyed you, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones. Your heart was lifted up
because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your
splendor; We cast you to the ground, laid you before kings, that they might
gaze at you.
"You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the
iniquity of your trading;
therefore God brought fire from your midst; it devoured you, and He turned you
to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
"All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; you have become a
horror, and shall be no more forever. "
The kneeling angel of fading light seemed to writhe in pain, eager to
retaliate.
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Jesus said, "You have opposed My Father and Me from before the creation of
man. A third of the angels in heaven and most of the population of the earth
followed your model of rebellion and pride. This will earn for them and for
you separation from Almighty God in the everlasting fire prepared for you and
your angels.
"You deceived Eve into sinning. During the next millennia you attempted to
pollute the bloodline of Adam, putting it into Cain's heart to murder Abel and
thus eliminating Adam's first two sons.
You encouraged the cohabitation of fallen angels with human women to produce
Nephilim, fallen
ones. Because of you, within sixteen hundred years, only eight humans were
found faithful and worthy of preserving from the Flood.
"It was you who attempted to establish a universal, idolatrous religion in
Babel, then the largest city in the world, to keep mankind from worshiping the
one true God.
"It was you who tried to destroy the Hebrew race, filling Pharaoh's mind with
the idea to kill the male babies at the time of Moses' birth.
"I lay at your feet all the suffering of mankind. The earth was created as a
Utopia, and yet you brought into it sin, which resulted in poverty, disease,
more than fifteen thousand wars, and the senseless killing of millions. You
and your sin of pride spawned the rebellion of mankind against
God, hatred, murder, and the damning of billions of souls from the time of
Adam.
"You tried to attack Me upon My earthly birth by filling Herod's mind with the
idea of killing all the male babies in Bethlehem. You tempted Me in the
wilderness and tried to destroy My church through persecution and false
teaching. You brought the storm to the Sea of Galilee while I slept. It was
you who entered Judas Iscariot, you who filled the heart of Ananias with
deceit. It was you, as the god of this evil world, who blinded the minds of
those who do not believe.
"You were at work in the hearts of those who refused to obey God. It was you
who prevented My servants from ministering, you who sowed discord in the
churches, you who attacked the weak, the suffering, the lonely. "
By now Satan had toppled onto his side, gasping and snorting, struggling to
get back to his feet, to fight back, to speak.
"It is contrary to the will of God not only that humans sin, but also for them
to reject Me. It is the will of My Father who is in heaven that not one of
these little ones should perish. He is not slack concerning His promise, but
is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance.
"During the last seven years," Jesus said, "you have deceived millions with
false teachers, false messiahs, a false prophet, and an antichrist. You gave
him his power, his throne, and great authority. And all the world marveled and
followed him.
"They worshiped you who gave authority to the Beast; and they worshiped the
Beast, saying, 'Who is like the Beast? Who is able to make war with him?' And
you gave him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given
authority to continue for forty-two months.
"He opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His
tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. You granted to him to make war with
the saints and to overcome them.
And you gave him authority over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
"All who dwelt on the earth worshiped him, whose names have not been written
in the Book of
Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He performed great
signs, so that he even made fire come down from heaven on the earth in the
sight of men.
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