What invisibly took place, we read about in Revelation 12:9-12: “Down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

After awaiting world rulership at his Father’s right hand for almost 1,900 years, Christ was now authorized to act against Satan. And act he did by hurling the Devil and his demons out of the invisible heavens down to the earth. From now on, the Devil, although still invisible, was to have his field of activity limited to the earth.

The angels of Noah’s days left heaven and came down to the earth of their own choice; the Devil and his demons in this time of the end have had no choice in the matter. They were simply evicted!

The hurling of Satan and his demons to the earth is a first step in a liberation that the Bible shows will bring about a completely new system of things in “this generation.”—Matt. 24:34.