of our brethren was cast down".  This has been changed in the latest C.V. to

cast (out)'.  But the `ignorant' reader is left still asking what really does

happen to Satan according to chapter 12 of Revelation.  It is one comfort to

notice that even X the critic has not the temerity to suggest that Michael and

his angels were endeavouring to put Satan upon a more solid foundation.  If

Satan is not said to be `cast down', John needs to be corrected in his further

testimony for he says `the devil is come down'  and that he was `cast unto the

earth' (Rev. 12:12,13).  If he does come down, then to all intents and purposes

kataballo is correctly translated in the Authorized Version.  If X desires to

leave Satan `suspended', Michael and his angels will act otherwise.  Thank God,

the accuser of the brethren will be cast down.  Cunnington, whose accuracy is

often acknowledged by X translates Revelation 12:9 `he was cast down unto the

earth' and verse 10 `was cast down'.  In the former passage the simple verb

ballo is used, in the later the intensive form kataballo.  If ballo can be

translated `cast out' or `cast down' kataballo when referring to the same event

can mean nothing else than `cast down'.  No wonder X treats chapter 12

Just before the overthrow of Jericho under his leadership, Joshua is

reminded of the heavenly army that was led by `The Captain of the Lord's host'.

One so holy that Joshua was told to take off his shoes (Josh. 5:15).  All that

Israel did was to compass the city, led by the priests, an invisible host

destroyed the defences of the city.  The emphasis upon the seven times seven,

the blowing of the Jubile `trumpet' and the `shout', help us to see that here

once again is a type of the overthrow of the Satanic system at the time of the

end.  If Michael was this Captain, or Prince (see margin Dan. 10:13,20,21), then

at the Second Coming of Christ, we have the fulfilment of this type, the last

trumpet, the shout, and the voice of the Archangel (1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess.

When Adam was placed in the garden, he was told not only to `dress' it,

but to `keep' it, and what this `keeping' involved can be gathered from the next

occurrence of the word, `Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way,

to keep the way of the tree of life' (Gen. 3:24).  Adam failed as a good

soldier, he let down his guard, he was deceived by the enemy, and the war took

another serious turn.  This feature of course has been repeated again and again,

and is a matter of present history.  The employment of the `fifth column' is as

old as Eden.  Elisha the prophet, knowing of this heavenly host or army,

reassured his fearful servant saying:

`Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them

... and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots

of fire round about Elisha' (2 Kings 6:16,17).

All this and more is implied in the first use of kosmos by the Septuagint

translators.  This earth is the battle ground upon which the conflict of the

ages is being fought.  The collapse of Adam gave Satan a grip upon the world and

mankind, and Satan became `the god of this age', `the prince of the world' and

`the prince of the authority of the air'.  The nation of Israel was used by God

against the Canaanites, but there is also a heavenly phase of this warfare, and

with this the church of the Mystery is involved:

`For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,

against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against

spiritual wickedness in high places' (Eph. 6:12).