¹⁸ “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning!

⁷ Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. ⁸ And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. ⁹ This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.

The Fifth Trumpet Brings the First Terror

9 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.^[a]

¹¹ Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

³¹ The time for judging this world has come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out.

¹⁰ “Get out of here, Satan,” Jesus told him. “For the Scriptures say,

⁸ But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil.

¹⁴ Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had^[a] the power of death.

² He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains for a thousand years.