Revelation 12:7

The War in Heaven, Revelation 12:7-12

7. there was war in heaven This must refer to an event subsequent to the Incarnation not, therefore, to the "Fall of the Angels," as readers of Paradise Lostare apt to assume. Milton may have been justified in using this description as illustratingor suggestingwhat may be supposed to have happened then: but we must not identify the two.

Michael Daniel 10:13; Daniel 10:21; Daniel 12:1. The two latter passages seem to tell us that he is the special patron or guardian angel of the people of Israel: and it may be in that character that he is introduced here.

his angels He is called "the archangel" in Judges 9: the angels are "his," as well as "angels of the Lord," just as either a general or a king can talk of "hissoldiers."

fought Apparently the right reading is to fight the sense is "there was war in Heaven, so that Michael and his angels made war with the Dragon." R. V. "going forthto war."