Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying. The picture John has seen in Revelation 12:7-9 is now explained by what he hears. Satan has been "thrown out of heaven" in the sense that he has lost his place as the "accuser of our brothers." Compare Romans 8:33-34. Now God's salvation has come! This is the first effect of Christ's atonement.

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