Introduction The Fall of Satan is a biblical episode that has continued to raise fascinated debates and discussions by commentators for centuries. The story of Satan goes like this: Satan was once an honored angel in heaven, with a good majestic appearance and status next to Jesus Christ. When God said to his Son, Let us make man in our image, Satan was jealous of Jesus and rebelled. It was the highest sin to rebel against the order and will of God. Some of the angels sympathized with Satan in his rebellion and others felt he was wrong to go against the will of God and his Son. It was decided by the Father that Satan should be expelled from heaven along with the angels who supported him. Then, there was war in heaven. But the good and true angels prevailed and Satan, with his followers, was ousted from heaven. Thesis: Though the fall of Satan has been narrated and interpreted in multiple ways, the underlying theme is that Satan is an angel who falls as a result of his envy, pride, and arrogance and his fall is the reason for the fall of Man. The Fall and the New Testament In the New Testament, there is verbal evidence that Satan is a fallen angel who is “chief among a class of fallen angels” 1 . II Peter 2:4 refers to angels that have erred and were punished by being thrown into hell… Jude 7 writes: “the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling…” No reasons have been provided for the throwing of Satan from heaven in the New Testament. However, two passages in scripture are frequently quoted by experts in the context of the fall of Satan 2 . The first is Luke 10:18, He (Jesus) said to them (the seventy sent out into the harvest-field), “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning”. The second is Revelation 12:1-12, in which John claims to have had a vision of the great red dragon, which he describes using the words, “that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan” (v9). Michael and his angels were on God’s side and they fought against Satan who rebelled against God till Satan was defeated and was thrown to earth along with his angels. 3 . When did the fall of Satan take place? That question is answered in verse 10, when the loud voice in heaven says: “now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down”. However, the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of God did not happen at the beginning of time, but during the crucifixion, when, through the suffering of Jesus, salvation was obtained, the power of the Kingdom of God was established and the enemy was defeated 4 . Jesus too had commented on this timing and the fall of Satan in a statement he made shortly before his death, “Now is the judgment of the world; now the ruler of this world (Satan) be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth (on the cross), will draw all people to myself” – John 12:31. Though it is possible to argue that the two oft-cited passages: Luke 10 or the Revelation 12 passage do not necessarily refer to the fall of Satan from heaven before the beginning of time, it is very clear that both these passages refer to the defeat of the Satan that is wrought by the ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus. Luk