He replied, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven — the vision of Satan's fall is Jesus' eschatological perspective on the mission's success: the seventy-two's victories over demons are the local expressions of a cosmic defeat already accomplished. Like lightning communicates both the speed and the dramatic visibility of the fall. The mission's victories are the outworking of a battle already won at the spiritual level.

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