Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies. And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So now verse 10. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,

now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ have come

for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down.

So you can see how that's factoring into

St. Andrew's interpretation, right? So this clearly is whatever he was doing is to be replaced by

the reign of Christ. That has to do with his ascension, right? And now he's no longer able to

accuse. Verse 11, and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony,

and they did not love their lives to the death.

So the they here is the brethren.

So first it's he can't accuse the brethren, but now talking about the brethren. So first it's he can't accuse the brethren,

but now talking about the brethren,

Christ's brethren,

the ones who he went after

because he couldn't get to Christ.

They overcame him,

they overcame the devil

by the blood of the lamb

and by the word of their testimony.

So there's two pieces there, right?

There's what Christ did for them with his blood purifying them from their sin.

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