The Angelic Conflict - Part 26 -
The formal presentation of the case: the prosecution presents its case, followed by the defense presenting its case - Old Testament history.

The rebuttal phase: rebuttal arguments of the prosecution [God] followed by the rebuttal arguments of the defense [Satan].

There are only two dispensations where Christ lives inside of man, the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union and the Church-age.

His justice is revealed by His fairness in dealing with the fall of mankind and by judging sin.

His righteousness is revealed by His willingness to forsake His own Son while judging sin.

His love is revealed by His offering salvation to anyone who would believe upon TLJC.

Our Lord and the invisible heroes of the Church-age are the main witnesses for the prosecution.

In the Supreme court of heaven, the laws of evidence demand investigation of each accusation based on two or three witnesses interrogated independently and agreeing to their testimony.

DEU 19:15 “A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.”

ACT 1:8 but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

The third group of witnesses will be Old Testament winners, Tribulational winners and Millennial winners.

The first set of books are records of every good deed every member of the human race has ever done, all adding up to -R.

The book of life at one time contained the name of every member of the human race (unlimited atonement), but names are blotted out when someone rejects Christ as Savior.

The chief witness in all of human history is the humanity of Jesus Christ in Hypostatic Union, the strategic witness.

The other witnesses are invisible heroes, believers who execute the PPOG in the Church-age, tactical witnesses.

Tactical = relating to combat tactics as involving actions or means of less magnitude or at a shorter distance from a base of operations that those of strategy.

Our Lord accomplished the strategic victory of the angelic conflict through His salvation ministry on the cross plus His physical death, burial, resurrection and ascension.

The believer accomplishes the tactical victory of the angelic conflict through his advance to spiritual maturity in the PPOG, at this point he becomes an invisible hero.

The Church-age is the most important phase of all in the angelic conflict, outside of the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union.

Every believer has equal privilege and equal opportunity to execute God’s plan.

A fantastic doctrine like this not only explains why we are really here, but it also should provide for you a personal sense of destiny.

Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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