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Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The seer reports a loud voice in heaven, spoken at the moment the dragon is hurled down (v. 9) and before the explanation of how the saints overcame him (v. 11). It is a declaration, not a command or question.
The words — megalēn (μεγάλην), "great," intensifies phōnēn ("voice") and marks this as a major heavenly pronouncement; the same collocation recurs at Revelation 11:12, 11:15, 19:6, and 19:9.
The thread — The image of Satan as accuser before God is drawn directly from Zechariah 3:1, where he stands at Joshua's right hand; the triad of salvation, power, and kingdom echoes the seventh-trumpet declaration in Revelation 11:15.
Why it lands — The verse relocates the believer's conflict from a question of personal merit to a legal verdict already rendered: the one who has been prosecuting you day and night is no longer in the courtroom. It asks the reader to stop litigating their own case and accept the sentence that has been pronounced.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Cross-references
- Zechariah 3:1 Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
- Luke 22:31 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.
- Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Daniel 2:44 In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
- Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Job 1:9 Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- Job 1:11 But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- Psalms 2:8 Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.