It is Christ who announced when Satan was going to be cast out of heaven down to earth. Five days before His crucifixion, Christ announced in John 12:31 that this casting out of Satan was going to take place. "NOW is the judgment of this world: NOW shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die."
"27 “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,
saying, “I have both glorified
it and will glorify
it again.”
29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard
it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.”
30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world
will be cast out. 32 And I, if I am [
e]lifted up from the earth, will draw all
peoples to Myself.” 33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die."
Funny how one little word changes everything. Look at this verse next to the KJV " Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out." NASB "31 Now judgment is
upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out."
It speaks of a future certainty, but does not tell you when.
And on the night of the Last Supper, Christ again warned the disciples of Satan's imminent coming down to earth, saying, "The Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me" (John 14:30). Satan was about to come down to earth for his "short time" of harassing the inhabitants of the earth and sea.
Once again, when you look at it in context, it changes everything. "30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has [
l]nothing in
regard to Me, 31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, [
m]I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let’s go from here." Stop adding things that are not there simply for the sake of belief.
During Christ's three days and nights in the heart of the earth, the battle raged in heaven between Michael and his angels and Satan and his angels. It was Michael that led this battle instead of Christ because Christ's body was still in the grave at that point, and His spirit was preaching to the spirits in prison, as Peter wrote.
I notice you have no actual Bible verse that says this. (the battle raged in heaven. You have no scriptural support for this. You forget John's first words before the Revelation: " The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which
must soon take place; and He sent and [
a]communicated
it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and [
b]keep the things which are written in it;
for the time is near." For what you say above, John would have to say, for it has already come to pass. This is decades after Jesus died. This is where the war in heaven is recorded. So it had not happened at the time John wrote it down.
During that night of the Last Supper, Christ continued to foretell of Satan's judgment in heaven when he would be cast out of heaven down to earth. In John 16:7-11, Christ spoke of when the Holy Spirit as the Comforter would be given, and that when it came, one of the things it would do would be to convince the world of judgment, because the prince of this world (Satan) would have already been judged by then. That judgment of Satan took place in heaven when the ascending Christ was consecrated as our high priest that resurrection day, and offered His blood sacrifice. This blood sacrifice being accepted on our behalf removed Satan's ability to accuse the brethren, and he was in essence "thrown out of court" at that point.
5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the [
e]Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment: 9 regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer
are going to see Me; 11 and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
Yet the Holy Spirit is still doing this, so it is not final. The sentence has not been carried out yet. How is this any different then when scripture says that those who don't believe in Jesus are condemned already? According to your logic, would that not mean that they should already be in hell?
This is when the Rev. 20 millennium had ended (in AD 33). That is because Satan was given a "short time" and a "little season" at the end of the millennium to deceive the nations again. John warned his readers in Revelation 12:12 that Satan had already come down to earth from heaven at that time (even before John was writing Revelation). That "short time" of Satan's being loosed on earth ended when God crushed Satan under the feet of the believers "shortly", as promised in Romans 16:20.
What did John say at the start of the book he wrote around 90-95 AD? "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants,
the things which must soon take place; and He sent and [
a]communicated
it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and [
b]keep the things which are written in it;
for the time is near." So, in other words, what he wrote in the book had not yet happened. Yet, you say it happened decades earlier. Was John confused? Was God not clear in His Revelation? As for the word "soon" which is used in Romans 16:20, soon is always soon, even if it is a thousand years later. Why use soon? Because Jesus said not even He knows the hour. If you say soon, then everyone is
always waiting, whereas, if you say, it's going to be a while, you just gave license to fall away until a while becomes soon. This is why scripture calls for endurance. Jesus parable on the 10 bridesmaids waiting for the groom to come did not praise those who did not bring oil, believing the time is now, or that soon means now because Jesus knows when He is returning. (He doesn't, He said so Himself.) It was the one's who brought extra oil, the one's who understood that soon does not count out "tarry". What does Daniel say about the 70 weeks? Daniel 9 "24 “Seventy [
u]weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to [
v]finish the wrongdoing,
to [w]make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and [x]prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place." So... where is the everlasting righteousness? Why is sin still here? If sin is still here, would it not mean that the 70 weeks are not yet complete? Why does it stop at the 62 weeks? Why doesn't it say when the destroyer is coming and when he is destroyed? Would that not tell us the exact time of Jesus return, that time that not even Jesus knows? For some reason, the telling of the chronology stops at 62 weeks. The last bit we get is what will occur during the 69th week, after which the above statement on the end of sin, atonement for guilt, everlasting righteousness etc. comes to fruition. Has that come to fruition? If the Messiah is cut off at 62 weeks, than 33 AD is most certainly not the answer.