As a result of a great war, Satan and his angels are cast out of the heavenly realms, relegated to earth. No longing having access to what
God is doing from the heavenlies, they are constrained by time and dimensional space.
This war which results in Satan being cast out of the heavens to the earth, occurs before the actual blowing of the 7th trumpet (before the rapture), but within the same 3.5-month period that overlaps the two 3.5-year periods of the tribulation.
For now, the dragon is the deceiver, causing the whole world to roam astray. This deceiver’s work is to provide not so much anti-faith, but a substitute faith: an acceptable way-and-means to trust anything and anyone other than Yahweh. He perverts grace and leads us into idolatry, evidenced in the “work of our hands.”
