This podcast explains John's vision from Revelation 12:7, where he saw the war in heaven that began when the premortal church of God was restored on Kolob from the wilderness of God's celestial residence. This occurred in the likeness of the restoration of the church on earth in 1830.

The war in heaven was a literal war between armies led by Lucifer (the Dragon), on the one hand, and Michael the Archangel, on the other hand. This was not a physical war that involved bloodshed. It was an ideological war between premortal spirits and spiritual death was the consequence to those who succumbed to the lies and half-truths of Lucifer and his sons of Perdition. During this conflict, the missionary armies of Michael and Lucifer contended for the undecided and lukewarm spirits that failed to commit themselves either to Jesus Christ or to Lucifer dur ...