FM 15:2 (Spring 1998) p. 82 Satan’s defeat at the cross was not fully understood by him until after Christ’s resurrection and ascension. On the cross Jesus paid sin’s price. In the resurrection Jesus conquered sin’s curse. Death was thereby swallowed up in victory (1 Cor. 15:54b). Satan’s subsequent defeat by Michael and his being cast out (for the first and only time) from heaven (that is the heavenly council) further revealed to him and his host that the crushing blow to his head had already come.