Satan's Headquarters Part 2



The Lord said, "Where have you come from Satan?"  The Lord did not immediately banish Satan from His presence, but actually had a conversation with him.  Therefore, we know that in the time of Job, Satan still had access to the presence of God in heaven.  10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say "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, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down." (Revelation 12:10 NIV) 

The "accuser of our brothers" is Satan.  Notice that at this time he is still accusing God's people before God day and night.  Revelation 12:11-12.  11 "They overcame him [Satan] by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.  12"Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!  He is filled with fury because he know that his time is short."

That passages indicates that Satan still has access to the presence of God, and he uses his access to accuse God's people in the presence of God.  Clearly, all the above passages that I have quoted refer to periods long after the original rebellion of Satan.  So what is the answer?  there is more than one heaven. I believe this is clearly indicated all through Scripture.  For instance, in the first verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:1, it says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  The Hebrew word for heavens is shamayim,  "Im" is the plural ending.  The first time heaven is introduced, it is introduced in the plural.

In 2 Chronicles 2:6, we have this utterance of Solomon in his prayer to the Lord at the dedication of the temple:  "But who is able to build a temple for him [the Lord], since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him?" (NIV)  Where the translation says, "the highest heavens," the Hebrew says, literally 'the heaven of heavens."  Either translation clearly indicates there is more than one heaven.  The word "heaven" of the phrase 'heaven of heavens" suggest a heaven that is as high above heaven as heaven is above earth. Amen