B. DEMONISM AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SATANIC WORLD SYSTEM
Satan as "prince (ruler) of this world" (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11) and "prince (ruler) of the power (forces) of the air" (Eph. 2:2) is chief of the realm of evil supernaturalism, but he is not alone in the exercise of spiritual authority. As an eminent spirit creature, whose position is so exalted that even Michael the Archangel in a dispute with Satan about the body of Moses did not dare to `bring against him a railing accusation (Jude v. 9), he has a vast host of spirit beings under him who fight to hold and extend their dominion over men's lives and who assist in the government of the world system.
Under their king (Matt. 12:26) and supreme military commander,
(We have our own:
"Supreme military commander":
Joshua 5:13-15
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?
15 And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Satan's subjects and soldiers consist of "the principalities" (chief, not inferior spirits, five-star generals over various divisions of the host); "the powers" (subordinate generals and lesser officers) ; the world-rulers of this darkness" (martial spirits, considered in their political rather than their military capacity, who rule, as spirit beings may, in and through human governmental agents in a sphere of darkness, descriptive of "the ethical character of their realm as away from God: Light");13 and "the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (the mass of common soldiers comprising the demon hordes) (Eph. 6:12, R. V.). The Apostle Paul refers to these same evil spirits in Romans 8:38 as "angels . . . principalities . . . powers," in connection with their inability to separate the believer from Christ. They are "emissaries of the destroyer," as Joseph F.Berg points out, `because holy angels would never either desire or endeavor to separate God's people from Jesus Christ "14
1. HUMAN AND SUPERHUMAN AGENCIES IN WORLD GOVERNMENTS
That the Holy Spirit guides and ministers through godly kings, presidents, and governors, of course, no one can reasonably deny. In addition, there is a wide and varied ministry of good angelic spirits to rulers in their temporal administrations, as well as believers in general. "Are they (the angels) not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" (Heb. 1:14).
(Then why was there any NEED to inhabit bodies in Christ time?
If you have been following along?
Then you already know the answer.
Big hint: Book of Enoch, Nephilim, Genesis etc)
There are numerous instances of the ministry of good angels in both the Old and the New Testaments-to ancient Israel, our Lord, and the early Church.',' Scriptural intimation on the other hand is also clear, that as the holy angels are active in behalf of the heirs of salvation, demons are engaged in the interests of the Satanic world system, especially governmentally. "Satan enters into rulers, governors, and kings and uses them to oppose the people of God and the Word of God."" This fact appears in clear light in the tenth chapter of the prophecy of Daniel. The revelation there given concerning demonism in world governments is understandable in the light of the very significant circumstances that evoked it.
Daniel had been fasting and praying "three whole weeks" in deep humiliation of soul, to know the future of the remnant of his nation which had returned to Judah and Jerusalem. The answer when it came was undoubtedly far broader in scope than Daniel had asked, commencing with his own day and culminating in the ushering in of the millennial kingdom (Dan. 10-12). Since the vision extended to the overthrow of the Satanic world system at the Second Advent, it aroused intense demonic opposition through one of Satan's powerful spirit agents-a principality, perhaps, or a power, or age-ruler of darkness-here called "the prince (evil spirit-ruler) of the kingdom of Persia" (Dan. 10:13).
("The prince of the POWER of Persia, Missler stated.)
It's modern day Iran BTW.)
This prince, as Edward J. Young correctly says, "is not the king of Persia (Calvin, Haevernick), for the thought here is that of spiritual warfare. (Cf. Rev. 12:7.) Furthermore, the earthly kings of Persia are designated by the words kings of Persia; Israel has an angelic `prince,' Michael: hence it is expected that the prince of Persia should also be an angel."17 To be sure, an evil angel (demon) ; and so powerful was he that he was able to hinder Daniel's prayer for three weeks, the answer to which was given "from the first day" that Daniel set his heart "to understand" and to chasten himself before God (Dan. 10:12); but the angel dispatched with the revelation was intercepted by the hostile spirit of the kingdom of Persia and was not able to convey the vision to Daniel until the archangel Michael, special guardian of the interests of Israel (Dan. 12:1), came to the assistance of the messenger. Carl F. Keil aptly defines "the prince of the kingdom of Persia" as "a spirit-being; yet not the heathen national god of the Persians, but, according to the view of Scripture (I Cor. 10:20-21), the daimonion (demon) of the Persian kingdom, i.e., the supernatural spiritual power standing behind the national gods. ..."18 H. A. Ironside makes the significant observation that the prince is "not Cyrus himself, but an evil angel evidently, delegated by Satan to seek to influence the hearts of the Persian kings against the people of God."19 And Edward J. Young notes, "this spirit influenced the kings of Persia to support the Samaritans against Israel."20
(Things aint changed all that much.)
At this very time, it will be recalled, efforts were being made by appeal to the Persian kings to frustrate God's purposes concerning the Jews. Sanballat and his henchmen sought maliciously in every possible way to stop the work of the Lord at Jerusalem. What is of the utmost importance is that what was transpiring upon the earthly scene (commonly considered to be simply the activity of human governmental leaders) was most intimately connected with, in fact was the result of, what was going on in the upper air. The episode, as W. C. Stevens points out, "suggests to our minds that governmental organizations in Satan's interest exist in the skies corresponding to and interlocking with the governmental organizations of the earth."21 Human and superhuman agencies in the government of the earth were interacting. Satan as the prince of the power of the air and his evil spirit subordinates were clashing with God's holy angels. The attempt was being made to thwart the purpose of God for His earthly people; they knew full well that the divine plan invoked challenge to their sway in the world system. In this instance this was true in a pre-eminent sense; for Daniel was about to be given a momentous vision, looking forward to the Second Advent and the establishment of the Messianic earthly kingdom over Israel,
(It's over the world, not just Israel.
There is simply no need for
imaginary geopolitical boundaries
in Christ Millennial reign.
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he
that hath part
(The martyrs that share)
in the first resurrection:
on such the second death hath no power,
but
they shall be priests of God
and of Christ,
(Who are they gonna be priest to?
Themselves?
They already lost their minds
and/or were killed for Christ.
Christ is their priest.
One thing I read
said they will be priest
"to God and Christ"
themselves.
I'm like:
The High Priest needs a priest?
God needs a priest?
For what?
They are gonna be priest
for all who never heard the word.
The Gospel shall be preached
in every nation.
(For the skeptics out there?The
Oriental Orthodox/Syriac churches
were in China a long time ago BTW)
Not every person.
I mean it makes sense.
I can just see God being like:
You know what?
Every time I tell my creation what is up?
It just ends up in disaster.
The Flood,
now our turn, ect.
Know what?
Ill just do something
different this last time.
I'll take the people
who have never heard
(so their minds arent polluted
by false teachings, doctrines etc)
I'll give them the best teachers
(martyrs/lost their minds for Christ)
and Ill lock out evil for 1000 years.
Then I'll let evil out for a lil while
to test and see which ones remain true
to what they were taught.
Covered all of this in the Noah to New Earth series.
Did a 90 minute presentation on
Revelation 20:1-3.
Its out there somewhere.
Honey is in charge
of the cross referencing lol.
But where is the need
for geographical borders
or political entities
in the situation I just described above?
There isn't any need,
because there are not none.
and shall reign with him a thousand years.
which would ultimately spell the doom of Satan's rule through human governments. The great passage on the spiritual conflict of the believer with the evil spirits operating in the Satanic world system in Ephesians 6:10-18 ties up inseparably with this passage in Daniel 10, especially in the matter of demon forces in human government. "The principalities . . . the powers . . . the age rulers of darkness of this world . . . the wicked spirits in the heavenly places (v. 12, literal translation) are the Christian's foes as they were the inveterate enemies of God's ancient people Israel. These wicked spirits, like the prince of the kingdom of Persia, are ruling the hearts of unregenerate men, especially men in places of power and authority, in these days of darkness.
(That was the 50's.
Look at us now.)
It is against the subtle stratagems of these evil spiritual forces that the Word of God especially warns.
(Subtle being the key there)
So cunningly deceptive are these hosts of evil that nothing short of the whole armor of God for the protection of the whole body of the believer will avail. The girdle of truth and the breastplate of righteousness for the body proper (v. 14); shoes-the gospel of peace for the feet (v. 15) ; the shield of faith for the hand (v. 16); the helmet of salvation for the head (v. 17); the sword of the spirit for the mouth (v. 17) .22
The world of unregenerate humanity and human leaders, unprotected by God's armor, are, except by the restraining grace of God's Spirit (II Thess. 2:7), utterly at the mercy of the deceptions of these crafty perverters of the truth.
(That's never been more true than it is today. All this Anunnaki, Alien, Atlantis, cafeteria style mumbo-jumbo, Buddhist, Eastern philosophies, pick whatever you like, put back what you don't, cant make any of it the least bit coherent start to finish, has simply already reached it zenith.)
As Joshua and the people of Israel were deceived by the trickery of the wily Gibeonites (Josh. 9), many of God's people, not availing themselves of the full armor of God, are becoming a prey to the cults; and multitudes of the unregenerate throughout the world are falling helpless victims to the utopian lies of communism.
(Written in the 50's mind you.)
The most interesting designation of the evil spirit forces behind the scenes in world governments mentioned in Ephesians 6:12 is "the world rulers of this darkness." Who are these world rulers? They are not the dictator of the Soviet Socialist Republic, nor the queen of England, nor the dictator of Spain, nor of Yugoslavia, nor the president of our own great Republic, nor the men associated with them in human government. Human rulers are frequently great and good men, "the powers that be" who are ordained of God (Rom. 13:1);
(Never forget, that applies only until the entire Satanic world system becomes so complete that Gods people are commanded to resist it. Ref Revelation 13)
yet even these good and great men, except as God's restraining Spirit and the prevailing prayers of believers intervene, are like pawns on the international chessboard, moved to and fro by the real rulers of this darkness. Wicked rulers and dictators, on the other hand, renouncing Christianity and abandoning themselves to pride, ambition, conquest, and rebellion against God, offer the ideal medium for the untrammeled operation of these evil ruling spirits.
History, since the fall of man, has been an unbroken attestation of the ominous fact of evil powers working in human rulers, whether it be a Pharaoh of Egypt, oppressing the people of God, or a Nebuchadnezzar, leading them into captivity, or a Nero, brutally torturing and massacring them. However, perhaps the most solemn demonstration of the utter barbarity and horrible cruelty and wickedness of men energized by demon power has, it seems, been reserved for the boasted civilization and enlightenment of the twentieth century. Hitler, the demon-energized and demon-directed scourge of Europe, has come and gone, leaving behind him only a trail of agonized suffering and a state of chaos upon which atheistic communism is determined to perpetrate even greater evils. This system proclaims more blatant doctrines of demons, enslaves more persons, and murders even greater numbers of innocent victims, people whose only crime is opposing communist lies with truth and the communist program of slavery with ideas for human freedom. Under Hitler, Europe underwent an intensive process of demonization, resulting in the horrors of the second World War. From the fourth in a series of leaflets entitled "Leaves of the White Rose," issued by an underground movement of German Youth under Hitler's regime, come the following significant thoughts, which might also be aptly applied to present-day communism and its leaders: Every word out of Hitler's mouth is a lie. If he says peace, he means war, and if he calls frivolously on the name of the Almighty, he means the power of Evil, the Fallen Angel, the Devil.
(Nazis did have a fascination with the occult.)
His mouth is the stinking throat of hell, and his power is fundamentally rotten. Certainly one has to fight against the Nazi terror state with rational weapons, but whoever still doubts the real existence of demonical powers has not understood the metaphysical background of this war. Behind the concrete and perceptible things, behind all real and logical considerations, there is the irrational, there is the fight against the Demon, against the messenger of Anti-Christ. Everywhere and at all times the demons have lurked in the dark for the hour when man becomes weak, when he arbitrarily abandons his human situation in the world order
(Trans tribe anybody?
"arbitrarily abandons his human situation".)
founded by God for him on freedom . . . After the first voluntary downward step he is compelled to the second and third with rapidly increasing speed; but everywhere, and at all times of the
greatest human distress, men and women who
have retained their freedom have risen as
prophets and saints, and called on men to turn
back to God. Certainly man is free, but he is unprotected against Evil without the living God; he is like a boat without oars, exposed to the tempest, or like a baby without a mother, or like a cloud which dissolves 23
Under communism, satellites in Europe and Asia are undergoing a more fearful process of demonization than under Hitler; this, unless averted by divine grace, must inevitably lead to a third world war, more frightful and terrible than its predecessors.
(Its here now, we are seeing it:
Ukraine
Russia
North Korea
NATO allies
Iran
Israel
Syria
Turkey
Yemen
Iraq
Lebanon.
To think that its not here,
or that it wont go nuclear at some point?
Is simply folly.)
Never before have demon forces, as though let loose from the abyss (compare Revelation 9), so blatantly published their lies as truth, paraded their slavery as freedom, pronounced wrong as right, been so ambitious of world conquest, so cunning in their deception, or so malevolent in their lawlessness and rebellion against God, as they are today in the program and propaganda of Russian communism.
(My argument would be that our current times
have by far superseded:
"...the program and propaganda of Russian communism..."
And what has been let loose from the abyss is
the return of the Ottoman Empire.
that we are currently witnessing.
With the locust from the deep in Revelation 9
being Gods destroyer angels
not demons as was the presumed posistion
of so many for so long.)
The only effectual weapon, as in the case of Daniel in his struggle against the wicked spirit of Persia, who hindered the answer to his petition for three whole weeks (Dan. 10:12), is the earnest, prevailing prayer of the believer, accoutered with the full armor of God (Eph. 6:10-20).
(Earnest being key,
you can pray all you want
and not really naan it
and it doesn't count for anything,
in fact
it angers God instead. Mark 12:40)
For if our real foes are spiritual-"we wrestle not against flesh and blood" (Eph. 6:12)
(And they most certainly are.)
-our effective weapons are also spiritual;
(You had better believe it.)
"for the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but mighty
to the pulling down of strongholds"
(II Cor. 10:4).
(Witness:
All of the following strongholds
are currently bein pulled down:
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
None of them
can withstand
the truth of Gods own word.
Not one.
This ignorant nonsense
has went on long enough.
"We dont fight for victory
we fight from victory."
Brother Joseph Kim.
Our battle has already been won.
Christ defeated death on the cross.
God is making it
ABUNDANTLY CLEAR
its time to reexamine some things.
QUICK LIKE IN A HURRY.
BTW?
Did I mention there's a Turkish Militia 130 miles outside of Damascus? Proving Gods words true, yet again?
He will make things so obvious
(as he already has/is)
that to deny what is happening in our world today
with Gods word being proven true right in front of our faces?
US sees increasing possibility that Syria’s Assad falls
That to deny what is happening
in our world right now?
Is to deny Gods word,
Is to condemn your own self
to hell forever.
Were not astonished.
Not at all.
We knew what was going to happen:
(some of us years ago BTW.)
Reconstituted Ottoman Empire
Rev 17:8
The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.
Enjoy
if that's what you want.
As for me and my household?
We shall worship the lord.
REGARDLESS
OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES,
FOR AS LONG
AS WE ARE ABLE TO
PERIOD.
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