There is an invisible realm that exists all around us, filled with powerful spiritual entities, many of them good, many of them evil, but they all impact our lives greatly in ways that we scarcely understand, and we're going to talk about that on this week's episode of the Faith by Reason podcast.

Welcome to the podcast.

The website behind it all is Faithbyreason dot net.

Please check it out, and we are continuing our series on the our spiritual enemies.

The series is called Note Thy Enemy.

It has proven to be the most popular series on the entire blog dealing with Satan and fallen angels and demons, and so far they have proven to be very popular podcasts understanding who our spiritual enemies are, these fallen angels, these demons, and of course Satan himself.

And I think that the reason that they're most popular, that they're so popular is because that's it's not something that's discussed very often in church, at least not in detail.

Pastors rarely speak about them.

But Christians are concerned about these spiritual enemies because again, they impact our lives and we need to know who they are, what they are, and what their motivations are and what we can do about it?

How do we fight them?

So the first few podcasts we talked about Satan, the main bad guy, who he is, how he felt, what his motivations are, what his intentions are towards us.

And we've also began talking about fallen angels and demons.

We talked about the difference between fallen angels and demons, and now we are going to begin to talk about how they directly impact our lives and our history spiritually and on the physical realm.

And there is an impact even though we don't see it.

It's happening all around us, and it's kind of creepy, it's pretty scary.

And if you don't have that supernatural world view, which I've talked about in the past, then you're going to miss a lot of what's happening around us.

And you may ascribe some of the circumstances and things you're going to just to our normal physical world.

But if you have a biblical world view, and a supernatural biblical worldview, then you understand that we can't just look at the physical.

We also have to keep the spiritual in mind.

And that's spiritual is not just the good guys, not just God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and good angels.

But there are evil spiritual entities and malevolent entities that have our destruction in mind.

And if we ignore them, we don't pay attention to them, if we don't take, if we don't regard them, then we won't buy against them and we won't win.

So it's very important that we understand who are up against who and what work against and that's what the series is all about.

So in this podcast, we're going to start talking about the motivations and the role of fallen angels in this world.

And we may or may not get to demons in this podcast.

Probably not, and we can just take that in the next podcast.

But we're going to start talking about fallen angels.

And as we discuss in the last podcast, there's a distinction between fallen angels and demons.

Fallen angels are far more powerful than demons.

They were able to manifest physically.

They again are extraordinarily powerful, and they seem to have a role of rulership over many things material and spiritual.

I think the best place to start, let's just go to the Bible, and there is a passage in the Bible in Ephesians, chapter six, where it really explains the rank or you can almost say the species of fallen angels.

So let's just go there and read it really quickly.

Ephesians, chapter six, verse twelve, and I'm reading from the New King James version.

It says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

These are the words of Paul to the church at Ephesus, and he is talking about this rank of an angels, and in the Bible fallen angels.

And in the Bible, whenever there's a ranking of anything, it always trys the most powerful to the least powerful.

So the most powerful are these principalities.

That's a rank or species of fallen angel.

Then powers, then rulers of darkness, and in spiritual holes of wickedness in heavenly places.

Principality is a word in Greek is arkhan, power is exusia.

The rulers of darkness is called cosmo krauter in Greek and spiritu hoals of weakness wickedness in heavenly places is a Parno numenikai, and those rules, especially the last one, is going to actually mean a lot when we get into it a little bit later.

So the most powerful of these fallen angels are principalities, and that's going to be important the second when we talk about giving, we're not give you an example of what principalities are.

But let's back up and just talk briefly about where these fallen angels came from.

God did not make them evil.

When God created the angel, it's just like everything he created, he created them good.

All angels were created good, including Lucifer, who eventually became Satan.

But they fell from grace and they pursued an agenda that went contrary to what God wanted, which is why they are evil.

Because once you depart from God's ways, well, there's no middle groundary either going to be good or e.

You're either pursuing God's path or the wrong path.

And of course Satan and the fallen angels and the demons are pursuing the wrong path.

But how did it happen?

Well, there are a couple of general categories of fallen angels.

The first are the ones that fell with Satan.

Himself when Satan rebelled, which I believe happened between Genesis one one and Genesis one two.

And I'm not going to go into that right now, and I have time.

You can read some of the you could listen to some of the earlier podcasts and blogs that deal with Satan's fall, but particularly the podcast on the Age of the Earth and things like that, or the beginning of this whole series on Satan.

You can go into it there.

But if you look at a Revelation chapter twelve, and if you see that as an overview of history, which I do believe that's what it is, as a big picture overview of all history, Revelation twelve says that Satan the great dragon and idiom for Satan, he took a third of the stars with his tail and flung him to the earth.

Stars are an idiom for angels, and most commentators and I have this view, and I believe this view, is that that third of the stars he cast to heaven are the angels that fell with him when he rebelled.

A third he influenced a third of the angels to rebel with him.

So that's one category of fallen angels and I believe there is another category of angels that fell later.

How did they fall?

I think the best way to answer that is once again go to the Bible, where we get a very vivid description of the second category of fallen angels and what their role and purpose is on the earth.

So let's go to the Book of Daniel, specifically Daniel chapter ten.

Daniel Chapter ten is one of the most interesting and frankly pretty creepy looks at what goes on behind the scenes.

Daniel chapter chapter ten lifts the veil into this unseen realm.

It's a pretty rare glimpse.

The Bible does not spend a whole lot of time talking about what the angels, good and bad are doing behind the scenes, and I think for a good reason.

I think that if the Bible did spend a lot of time on it, we as human beings, we would obsess over it too much.

And we'll talk about that maybe a little bit later or in the next podcast is the one after that, when we talk about the relationship between men and angels.

But I think that the Bible intentionally doesn't give us a lot of information about angels because just our nature is we would obsess on it too much to the neglect of God, which is where our focus should be.

But again, Daniel, Chapter ten is one of those rare glimpses into the unseen realm, into that supernatural world.

And for the sake of emphasis, I'm going to to read some selected passages, which I will have the passages in the show notes.

It's January, chapter ten, verses two through six, verse nine, verses twelve through fourteen, and twenty and twenty one from the New American Sandrad version.

Here he goes, Okay, in those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks.

I did not eat any pleasant or tasty food, nor did meat or wine into my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all, until the entire three weeks were completed.

On the twenty fourth day of the first month, while I was at by the bank of the great river that is a Tigris, which is in in Babylon, Tigris and Euphrates, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a certain man dressed in linen, whose waist was dirted with a belt of pure gold of view fasts, whose body was also like a barrel.

His face had the appearance of lightning.

His eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a tumult or a storm.

Then I heard the sound of his words.

And as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the The Angel said to me, do not be afraid, Daniel.

From the first day you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before God.

Your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.

But the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, or the Prince of the power of Persia, withstood me twenty one days.

Then behold Michael, one of the chief princes came to help me, for I have been left with the kings of Persia.

Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains todays in the future.

Do you understand why I came to you.

But I shall now return to fight against the Prince of Persia.

So I am going forth, and behold the Prince of Greece is about to come.

However, I will tell you that this what is inscribed in this writing of truth.

If there is no one who stands firmly with me against these forces except Michael, your prince here, that's the passage.

All right, What in the world is going on here?

Let's give you a little background.

The Book of Daniels written was written by obviously Daniel during the time of the Babylonian captivity.

What happened was Israel was in the Promised Land and they had been disobedient, which they often were, and we'll talk about that a bit more in the next dispensation.

But Israel was perpetually disobeying God's laws, and eventually God had enough of it, and he decided it was time for them.

Justice required that they be punished.

Basically, Israel had been ignoring one of the one of the laws that God is sapped for them, which was the law the jubilee here, which meant that every fifty years they were to set aside one year as a jubilee here, which when they were they were to let the ground life fallow, not farm the ground.

It was a time for recovery, a time for deaths to be repaid, so forth and so on.

We'll talk about this again a little bit more when we get to the to the dispensation of the law.

But basically, Israel had ignored seventy jubilees.

So God said, hey, you know what, you guys owe me seventy I'm a god of justice.

I'm going to get my seventy back.

Those seventy years you owe me back.

So God, through the Babylonian Empire, had the entire nation, or the southern portion of the name, which was all that was up to Israel.

They were captured by the Babylonians by Nebuchaonnazer and shipped off to Babylon for seventy years so that God would get the seventy years that they owed him, that the Lamb would lie fallow.

This happened when Daniel was a young boy, and Daniel grew up in this empire.

And you know, Daniel has a very colorful history.

Is one of my favorite prophets.

Not going to go into that, but the point is that when Daniel, Daniel starts to pray, the seventy years are almost up.

Daniel's an old man at this time.

He sees in his late seventies early eighties, and the seventy years are almost up.

So Daniel starts to pray.

Daniel fasts and prays, he doesn't eat any He goes on a fast of austerioy, he doesn't eat any pleasant food, he doesn't drink any wine or anything like that.

And he's praying for three weeks, for twenty one days, and on date twenty one and Angel appears.

Looks, he says, a man.

But this is obviously a powerful angelic being who looks like he is, you know, decked out, and you know, he's covered in precious light, precious jewelry, and he looks like he's covered and precious jewels and colored light.

That's how Daniel describes him as, just being this extremely luminousent being that is so powerful that when Daniel sees HM, Daniel literally falls into a coma and the Angel has to resuscitate him.

And here's the interesting part about this.

When the Angel says to Daniel, the first day that you started praying, God sent me to you with this message.

And Daniel was going to get this fantastic message from the angel with the prophecy about the future of Israel.

So God sent them answer.

The first day Daniel started praying, But it took the angel twenty one days to get to Daniel to give him the message.

Why because something called the Prince of the power of Persia withstood him or fought against this angel for twenty one days, and the angel could not get past this Prince of Persia until Michael, another angel, which actually Michael the archangel, which who is the angel who is over Israel.

He's the angel that God appointed to be the guardian of Israel.

That's why, that's why the angel calls Michael his prince.

He calls them.

He says that Michael is your prince.

You are being Daniel.

He's Daniel's prince, meaning he's a prince of Daniel's people.

They were able to double team this Prince of Persia and these kings had actually says king's plural, but the King of Persia and the other angels who are with him, they were able to get by him and get this message to Daniel.

So because of this, Daniel was able to receive the message.

Now at this point is want to just take a little aside to give you maybe a little practical message.

Again, the seventy years were up and Daniel was praying.

Why was Daniel praying for the deliverance of the people from captivity when God had already promised them that they would be let go in seventy years, and seventy years were already up.

Why didn't Daniel just say, Hey, you know what, the seventy years are almost up.

I'll just sit back and wait for it to happen.

Because Daniel, who again one of the great prophets, one of the most beloved prophets in God's eyes, he decided to involve himself in the plan of God.

And this is something that delights God.

God wants us to be involved in his plans.

That's one of the reasons for prayer.

One of the reasons for prayer is so that we can be involved in God's will.

When God will something to happen, it's going to happen.

So even if Daniel hadn't prayed the seventy years, the seventy year captivity would have still been up.

But by praying to God for God to do it what was already in his will made Daniel a participant in the plan of God.

And God loves that.

He loved it so much that he sent Daniel this amazing message that would encompass the rest of Daniel ten eleven and twelve.

You can read it on your own, but it's an amazing message that predicts the future and gives basically the Israelites a glimpse of three hundred years of their future in advance.

Because God wants us to be participants.

God is not interested and us just sitting back and observing.

God wants us to be a part of his plan.

God delights in making us a part of what he does.

That's why he made Adam and Eve image bearers.

He wanted them to be a part of his rulership over the earth.

That's why God had the We talked about this in the Eating series.

God had his his counsel, his divine counsel, who he conferred with, and God didn't need to confer with him.

God is all powerful, He's almighty, He knows every He knows everything, He has all the information in existence.

He doesn't need these angels to advise him.

But he delights in making his created beings a part of his plans.

And so here's the practical part of it.

Daniel's prayer was again a part of what God was doing in this in this era, in this in this situation, and he since he sent the angel as soon as Daniels started praying.

And I think in the Bible doesn't say it's explicitly, but I think that Daniel's prayer are what kept that angel going.

It's what kept the angel in power to continue fighting this Prince of Persia whatever he is.

And we'll talk about him in a second.

So the question is what if Daniel had stopped.

What if Daniel didn't persevere for those twenty one days?

What if Daniel stopped at day fifteen, would that Angel of gotten through to him?

I don't think he would have, again my opinion, but I really believe that God wanted to see just how badly Daniel wanted to get this message from him, And because Daniel kept persevering, God eventually decided to send another angel, the Angel Michael, to help him.

Now did God need another angel to do that?

Of course not.

God could have just wiped this Prince of Persia out of the way with the flick of his wrist as it were, not that God has a risk, But you know what I mean, But I think that God wanted to see just how badly.

Daniel wanted it and he delighted.

And the fact that Daniel persevered and kept praying for twenty one days let God know that man, Daniel, he really loves me, he really wants to be a part of my plans.

So I'm going to make sure that this message gets through to him.

So I will send another angel to fight on his behalf.

And that's practical for us, because if you're praying for something in God's will God wanted to happen.

When you pray, there's three possible answers that God can give you.

He can say yes to your prayer, he can say no, or he can say wait.

And sometimes when we pray for something and if it's in God's will, God Jesus says very clear to anything he pray for in my name, meaning in my will, God will do it for you.

But sometimes you pray for things in God's will and it doesn't happen immediately, and we figure God says no and we stop praying.

Well, this passage here shows us that it's not necessarily a no.

It could be that whatever you're praying for is being opposed by spiritual evil, and that if you stop praying God says, well, well, I guess he or she didn't really want what they're asking for, so I'm not going to give it to them.

But if we keep praying, we keep persevering, then that lets God's lets God know how passionate we are about what we're praying for and his will, and God wants that passion from us.

So when you're praying for something and you know it's in God's will and it doesn't happen immediately, don't stop praying.

Keep going because there could be some spiritual opposition that's in the way that is keeping it from happening.

But if you keep praying, if you keep giving that spiritual power, that spiritual currency, that spiritual value of your prayers daily to what you want, eventually it will break through and it will happen.

You have that breakthrough because if you're praying something for something in God's will, God will grant it, but you may need some perseverance.

So that's that.

That's my little pep talk for the day.

So what was this prince of the power of Persia.

Well, you know it wasn't a human being, because no human being could withstand an angel.

I mean, in the second King is this a single angel kills one hundred and eighty three one hundred eighty seven, almost one hundred thousand Syrians in one night, So a human being could not withstand an angel for a nanosecond, let alone twenty one days.

No, this Prince of the Power of Persia was another angelic being, a powerful angelic being, at least as powerful, if not more powerful, than the angel that God sent.

And here's something else.

So it took another angel.

It took two angels to come and break through.

And then the angel says something even more interesting and even more creepy.

He says that after he gives this message to Daniel, he has to go back and fight this Prince of the Power of Persia again.

And then after he fights this Prince of the Power of Persia, he's gonna have to fight the Prince of the Power of Greece.

Now, keep in mind that when Daniel was alive at this point, the Persian Empire was in power.

Now the Babylonian Babylonian Empire is the one that took over, that took Israel into captivity.

But halfway through Daniel's life, the Babylonian Empire was taken over by the Persian Empire, and Daniel was currently living under the Persian Empire.

So this prince of the power of Persia, this evil fallen angel, was the power, the spiritual power behind the physical empire of Persia.

Then after that, the next empire that came after Persia was the Grecian Empire that started with Alexander the Great.

But the Grecian Empire would not come onto the stage until two hundred years after this incident with Daniel and the Angel and the Prince of Persia.

So this angel knew that the Greek Empire was coming online, coming into play, but it wouldn't be for another two hundred years.

So this is this angel is fighting.

These wars are happening in these invisible realm for hundreds of years.

That's some really scary creepy stuff that these wars we can't see them.

Daniel couldn't see these angels fighting, but they were fighting and they're continuing to fight.

In Revelation twelve, when it says there's a war in heaven, that war is ongoing, that war has not stopped, it won't stop until the angels are finally cast out.

And it talked about that again in Revelation chapter twelve, that the angels finally, the evil angels finally lose in are cast down to Earth.

And I believe that happens in Revelation chapter six.

If you want to know more about that, you can read the blog post the blog series I have which I call the false Apocalypse.

You can read those.

It's called apocalypse not in ot so Chef goes out if you're interested in it.

But this war is happening in the background.

So who is this prince of the power of Persia, the Prince of Greece.

Where did they come from and why do they get the power over these nations.

Well, here's a very interesting thing.

There's a couple of verses I'm going to give you that talk about where they came from.

And these happen to be verses that are in most cases poorly translated and poorly interpreted.

So let me give you the first one.

Let's go to Deuteronomy thirty two eight through nine revised Tandard version.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance.

When he separated the sons of men, he fixed the balance of the people according to the number of the sons of God.

Benaia El for the Lord's portion is his people and Jacob his allotted heritage.

So what's going on in this passage?

What does Moses mean by this?

As we talked about many podcasts ago when we were actually going over the Age of the Earth podcast when we talked about why the Genesis narrative was written the way it was, We talked about why Moses wrote these books of the Law, the first five books of the Bible, the way they were written.

And these are these books basically are Moses giving the children of Visceral, the Israelites, their their books of the Law and to separate them from the other nations of the world.

And so he's given them kind of a history of lesson here in Deuteronomy thirty two.

And when he says when the Most High gave the nation's their inheritance, he's talking about the events that happened after Babel.

Remember in Babel the Third Dispensation, God confused the languages and people went off into nations.

And after the Third Dismissation, God no longer was dealing with men as individuals.

He dealt with men with mankind as nations.

And it says here that when he fixed the bounds of the people the nations.

He fixed them according to the number of the sons of God the Banaii Alohem.

Now we know from previous podcasts the Supernatural Worldview and the whole flood narrative that the sons of God bani hih Aloheim is a title of angels of spiritual entities.

And according to this passage, when he separated the nations out, he put an angel or angels over each of the nations.

And for his nation, which is Israel, because Gob is gonna deal with the world as nations.

His nation, which he was going to deal with the world or work with the world through, was Israel.

And as we talked about earlier, the archangel Michael is the is the angel that he put over Israel, and all the other nations have an angel over them.

Now, just for clarification and transparency, if you look at this in your Bible, ending on the translation you have or the version you have, it might say that the bounds were fixed according to the number of the sons of Israel, and that's actually not valid, and we'll talk about that in a couple of minutes.

But basically, what this means is that every nation had at least one angel sent by God over them, and these were not evil angels.

These were good angels, but they became evil.

Why we're gonna talk about that in the second.

But let me get back to what I was just talking about with that translation, which which is a gross mistranslation, where some Bibles will say that the balance of the people were fixed according to the number of the sons of Israel.

Well, that can't be.

That is a mistranslation, and the reason is in a couple of obvious reasons why it can't be.

Number one is again, this fixing of the nations happened right after Babel, right after the third dispensation.

The problem is the sons of Israel weren't born yet, because the sons of Israel are the sons of j Well, Jacob wasn't born yet.

Neither was Jacob's father, Isaac.

And it's possible that Abraham, Isaac's father wasn't born yet.

Abraham might have been a lib during this time.

There's a debate about that, not important, but the bottom line is that this was at least four generations before Jacob would be born and before Jacob's sons would be born.

Therefore, how could God number the nations according to the sons of Jacob and sons of Israel when the Sons of Israel wouldn't even be alive for a few hundred and more years.

That doesn't make any sense.

Furthermore, we know that there are at least seventy nations according to Genesis chapter ten, which is the so called Table of Nations.

There are at least seventy, if not more, and there were only twelve sons of Israel.

So he could not have numbered the nations by the number of the Sons of Israel because they're only twelve of them, and there are at least seventy nations.

There are obviously much more.

And by the way, don't get confused with the nations that we have now the border.

You're still on the globe now because borders have been drawn and redrawn due to war and conquests and civil wars and all kinds of stuff.

So even though there are dozens hundreds of nations now, there weren't that many when the Babeli bent happened and the God initially separated him out, there were at least seventy and there are only twelve Sons of Visrael.

So so it cannot be according to the sons of visual doesn't make any sense.

Why does your Bible have this translation?

Most because of something we've talked about in the past, the supernatural worldview and the unfortunate reticence that many Christian commentators have to embrace that supernatural worldview.

They don't want to think about what goes on in this unseen realm of fallen angels and horrible spiritual entities and angels fighting in the back room.

They don't want to think about that because they don't want to deal with the ramifications.

So instead they try to come up with a quite frankly secular explanation.

So instead of acknowledging that God clearly is that he numbered these nations according to these angelic beings, meaning that they're angelic beings over all the nations, they would rather say, well, you know, he must have meant, well, you know, the children of Israel are also called sons of God, and they are they're called children of God, the benaihaih Alohem.

One of the possibilities are the Israelites because they are one of five groups of people that God calls his sons or his children, along with angels, Jesus, Adam, and believers.

Those are the five groups that he can claim the title of being children are sons of God.

So he just decided to say it wasn't angels, it was the children of Israel, and will just say that the sons of God refers to them.

But as I said, that doesn't make any logical or factual sense, you know, based on these circumstances.

So again, if you embrace the supernatural world view, it takes care of all of these contradictions and conflicts you might have in the Bible.

If you don't embrace the supernatural world view, you are never going to fully understand the Bible.

Hopefully you've gotten that by now and you are have embraced the supernatural world view, or you are at least trying to, because otherwise it's gonna look silly.

God, how can God separate the nations based on the number of people who have not even been born yet?

It doesn't make any sense.

So these are according to the Angel.

So every nation had an angel, at least one angel that was over it, and of course the nation of Israel had Michael.

No.

These again, these are not bad angels.

God did not intentionally put falling angels over these nations.

But obviously they fell because you have this Prince of Persia who's opposing God.

And I would dare say that all of the angels, all the seventy plus angels that he put over the nations, they all fell.

And there is a Bible versus another often misinterpreted verse that states just that fact.

So let's go to it.

It is Psalms eighty two, and I'm reading from the American standard version.

God stands in the congregation of God, or more accurately, Eloheim stands in the congregation of the Elohem.

He justjudges among the gods, the Elohem, and he says to them, how long will you judge unjustly and respect the persons of the wicked, Judge the poor and fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and destitute, Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hands of the wicked.

They know not, neither do they understand.

They walk to and fro in darkness.

All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

And I have said, ye are God's Aloheim.

You are all sons of the most High, but not high Alohem.

Nevertheless, you will die like men and fall like one of the princes.

Arise O, God, judge the earth, for thou shall inherit the nations.

Okay, what is going on here?

What Clariticy says at the beginning that God, our God, the God of the Bible, stands in the congregation of the God he judges among the eloheim Elohem is Yes, it is a title of God, but eloheim literally means spiritual entities.

God is an alohem because he's a spiritual entity, but so are angels.

Angels are also eloheim.

They are not the God the capital e eloheim, but they are ilohinkus.

Eloheim does not mean God in the sense that you know the God is the Bible.

Eloheim simply means spiritual entity.

God is a spiritual entity.

The angels are a spiritual entity.

So when God says he stands in the congregation of the spiritual entity, he's not talking about himself.

He's not standing in his own congregation.

He is standing in the congregation of these gods, and he as to them, how long will you judge unjustly?

Basically, he's accusing these gods of being unjust, and he is saying that that he admonishes him, you know, to do right, to judge the poor and fatherless, to do justice, so forth and so on.

So he's saying to them, you are being unjust.

I put you over these nations.

And I strongly believe that these are the angels he's talking to and accusing these angels who we put over the nations of not doing their job, because it says right here in verse three that they are quote unquote judges judge just as the term of rulership the whole book of judges in the Bible, these judges were not you know, the way we look at judges like people sitting on a bench in a black robe dispensing justice.

No, a judge is a ruler.

So God is calling these alohem these spiritual entities rulers over men, and he is telling them they were not doing their job and that they're supposed to bring justice.

They're supposed to serve the poor and the needy and deliver them out of the hands of the wicked.

But apparently they didn't do this.

And he so God says to him, even though you are I say that you are gods who are alohean sons of the Most High nevertheless, you shall die like men.

He is contrasting them with men, which means they aren't men.

If they were men, he wouldn't say you're gonna die like men.

Now he's he's talking about these spiritual entities.

He says, your judgment will be that you will die like men.

And that is a complete juxtaposition with one of the common interpretations of Psalms eighty two, which many commentators will say that God is here talking about human rulers, human princes.

However, number one, God never refers to humans as elohem.

He never calls them gods.

That's the title spiritual entities.

And secondly, again as I said, he contrasts these entities with men.

They will die like men.

And if you die like men, I mean you must not already be a man.

So these are angels who were given authority and abuse their authority, and God puts them under judgment.

I believe that these are the angels that God put over the nations.

Why did they fall?

Why did they all uniformly?

Everything want to makes that Michael.

Michael has remained a good angel, and I think because he had God's dirrect influence, but left on their own.

All these seventy plus angels who were put over the nations.

They fell.

Why for the same reason that Satan fell, pride and the desire to be worshiped.

Because look at what happened when the nations were divided during that bell.

The nations were ruled by Nimrii Simoramis and Samaraimis's court of advisors, which I call the mystics.

And when the nations were separated, there were undoubtedly mystics at all the different language groups, and they took this false religion with them, the false religion that was established at Babel.

You can go back to the series on Babel from more information there.

And they were and they brought with him the worship of spiritual entities.

And these angels, who were good angels at first, who put over these nations, they began to be worshiped because these angels were supposed to interact with the people, They were supposed to help them.

Angels are supposed to be ministering spirits.

They are supposed to serve mankind, but as men are wont to do.

We worship anything we see spiritual.

That's just how we're wired.

We're supposed to worship God, but in our fallen state, we will worship anything that has any spiritual supernatural power.

And they started worshiping these angels.

Now, angels are not supposed to take worship.

They are supposed to just they're supposed to reflect God.

They're supposed to do God's will, not take a worship for themselves.

But these angels were became corrupt.

They started taking worship, and they started masquerading themselves as these gods that the people that the mystics were portraying them to be.

And that's why you have them disguising themselves, masquerading themselves as all these various and sundry gods of the Egyptians, you know, Horrors and Osiris and Isis and talk that said, and all those folks.

And if you go to greet you know you have Zeus and Aphrodite and Hera and Hermes and Apollo.

These were all spiritual entities that were corrupted by the worship.

Because no one can be worshiped except God.

And any time you worship anything other than God, you're going to corrupt that thing.

There is power in the worship of man.

And that's why I think I talked about this before.

During the podcasts on the nature of man.

When you worship celebrities, That's why celebrities act so insane, because we worship celebrities and man, anything other than God cannot handle that worship.

There are some type of spiritual exchange.

It happens when you worship anything.

That's why God wants all your worship to be towards Him, because he can handle it.

Anything else, Man or other spiritual entities cannot handle being worship but it will corrupt them.

It corrupts the celebrities that we worshiped, and it corrupted the angels.

They began to covet that worship.

They began to possess, want to possess it as their own, and they wanted more and more of it became an addiction.

So they became all the various gods of all the different ancient and frankly modern modern pantheons of gods.

They interacted with people, they pretended to be these gods over harvest and light and lightning and whatever, and they began to rule over the people wickedly, and that's why God wanted to judge them.

And just bringing this back to the very beginning of the series, I started it because it was part of the Fourth dispensation where God sent the ten plagues on Egypt.

And that's I said in that first podcast on the subject these entities.

Each one of the these entities were judged through the plagues.

Every one of these plagues was basically designed to show the impotence of the spiritual entity that the Egyptians were worshiping as gods.

So these gods quote unquote small g gods, these elohem they are real.

They are not just something that these people made up because they were so primitive.

They didn't know the sun from the moon and the stars, ages, they didn't have any science, so they just made up gods to represent Him.

No, as I've said before, these were not dumb people.

They were sophisticated.

They had been in mathematics and language and astronomy, things that we still used today.

They were not stupid.

The reason they believed in these so called false gods was because these spiritual entities interacted with them.

Janis and Jambreez, the two mystics at the court of Pharaoh, they were able to duplicate the first few miracles, the first few plagues.

It says, the Bible is very clear that they were able to do that.

They had supernatural power because they got it through these falwn entities that were ruling over Egypt.

The supernatural is real, folks, and if you don't believe in that, then you maybe the Bible is not for you, because the Bible is full of supernatural events and the supernatural world view.

And if you don't have that worldview, then maybe Christiananity is not for you.

Because you cannot believe in the God of the Bible and not have the supernatural world view.

You're going to miss a lot of stuff.

And this is one of the things that you're not going to understand if you don't have that worldview.

And speaking of worldviews, modern world views, and going back to the whole Prince of Persia thing, I believe, I strongly believe that the Prince of Persia is alive in well.

Obviously he's a lot.

Obviously he's a lot because he's a spiritual entity.

But I think he's alive and influencing our world today.

I believe that the Prince of Persia is the entity that the Muslims worship as Allah.

I think it makes sense regionally from a power standpoint and from an influence standpoint that Allah is the prince of the power of Persia.

Allah or el Elah, which is the Mesopotamian moon God, is that entity.

If you've noticed that the all the symbols for Islam, it is a crescent moon.

That's because the moon god all Ela.

That's who Allah is.

When you pronounce his name the way it should be pronounced.

And yes, he's not He's not guy.

It's not the same as the God of the Bible.

They are not the same person.

Allah is not just another name for God, as well as we consider him the Judeo Christian God.

Despite what one of our former presidents, George W.

Bush said that we Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God.

Jehovah Yahweh, the God of the Bible, is not the same as Allah.

They bear no reism resemblance to each other.

They were actually contradictory if you look at with their nature, what they say about themselves, what they say about humanity, their their ideas for humanity's destiny, and what they feel about mankind completelytory.

They're not the same entity.

We've talked about that in the past, and I'm not saying it's because I hate Muslims or anything silly like that.

I don't hate Muslims.

I don't hate anyone because of what they believe.

I do hate fallen spiritual entities that deceive people.

And I believe that this evil entity is has deceived the Muslim people.

But because he is worshiped, he is powerful, and obviously his power and influence is tremendous.

Over a billion people worship this fallen entity, and that's made him quite powerful and quite influential in the world.

And because of that, he has continued what he's done in the past, which is opposed God's plan, oppose mankind, and it's just, you know, brought a great deal of destruction in his wake.

And you can clearly see that he is guilty of all the things that God said, These these eloheem, these fallen rulers are guilty of in Psalms eighty two, judging unwisely, not representing the poor, and and not protecting people from wickedness.

I mean, look at how women are treated in Islamic countries.

Our media doesn't like to talk about it because I believe that when you get to the higher levels that a lot of our media types and our world rulers are all influenced by these creatures, so they don't say the obvious, which is how horribly women are treated, how horribly children are treated in these countries.

It just how bad human rights are.

Yet again it's not talked about.

We're just told to treat them with kid gloves and to you know, not to bring attention to just some of the terrible conditions that are around the world under Sharia law.

It's just horrible, horrible stuff.

And I don't want to get too far into it now.

I know I'm getting way off on a tangent here, but it just, honestly, it really really annoys and irritates me that in this country, where certain political extremists are quick to denounce anyone who says anything bad about women or disparage as women in any way which is truly agree with your gender should not subject you to any type of mistreatment, the same people say absolutely nothing and promote Islam and say we shouldn't say anything bad about it, as looming people wouldn't.

Actually under these Islamic Xuria law, women are treated exponentially worse than they're ever treated here in the United States.

And it's just really unfortunate, but it shows their agenda that they don't really, honestly don't care about women.

They don't care about women's rights.

They care about their agenda.

Because they really cared about women's rights, they would not be out of one side of their mouths defaming people here in America who don't treat women well, and they should be defamed, but completely ignoring the fact that in other parts of the world that are under the influence of this prince of Persia of Islam, women are treated absolutely horribly.

And these same people, and I say, they're they're on the left side of the spectrum.

They tell they say, you know, you can't treat women badly, but you can't say anything bad about Islam either.

You can't have it both ways.

You can't both say that women in America should not be treated badly and then say that a religion which defames women, makes them dressed from head to toe in black and only have their eyes seen, dehumanizes women like that.

You can't say that that's okay.

You can't do both, all right, So enough of that, all right, So we'll summarize this podcast by just be I just wrap up this podcast by summarizing the things we've been talking about.

First of all, fallen angels are very powerful.

They have different levels of power, and they fall in those categories you know, principalities and powers and spiritual into spiritual weakness and high places, which by the way, that is parneo numanecai, and that has to do specifically a sexual sense.

The principalities are rulers.

The powers are a lesser level of rulership, going back to the Ephesians six twelve.

So again the principalities are the highest level of angels are a little lower.

Rulers of darkness are lessen that and then the spiritual holes of weakness and high places are the lowest.

And that's Parnello on Newman Kai that that really you can tell just by the language porneo where we get pornography.

So the lowest form of all and angels are the ones that are over sexuality and sexual sin.

And you will and you will find often that many of these occult rituals that empower these spiritual entities have they have sexual rights to them.

They want you to they want these sexual acts bring them power.

They want you know, virsions particularly, they want to corrupt something that's innocent.

That's why they are gonna get a little graphic here, so I apologize, but they want blood sacrifices, but more innocent the blood the better, like the blood of babies and small children.

Horrible stuff.

I'm sorry, but it's that's that's what it is, and they want.

Then they get empowered by, you know, the sexual act, particularly with the pure virginal people.

So that's that's what they want.

It's it's some weird, weird, creepy stuff and I'm not going to get too deeply into it.

It's not part of my ministry.

There are other ministries that do specialize in it, and thank God for them because they're doing a tough job and dealing with all this stuff.

But the bottom line is that these fallen angels are They're very powerful.

They fall into different categories.

They are generally rulers.

They can embody themselves, they know they can take on physical form, and they rule over nations, They rule over people and communities, and they are the ones that impersonated these so called gods that people worshiped in the past, and by doing that, by taking on that role, by accepting worship, they became corrupt and they are now the enemies of God, and we need to be aware of them because they are over all the nations.

So one question you might want to ask is is there a prince of the power of the United States of America.

Well, I mean it was a prince of Persia, there was a prince of Greece, there was no doubt a prince of Rome that came after that.

And there's probably princes in Europe, and these princes in Asia and South America.

So all these nations have these fallen demonic presence and I'm sorry follow these fallen angel presences as their principalities.

Is their power over the United States?

I think so.

Have you looked at what Congress has been doing lately.

It's unfortunate and it's something that we need to be aware of.

We cannot ignore the supernatural.

It's there, it's happening, and it is something that we cannot if we don't pay attention to it.

If we think that everything that's happening, all the evil in the world, is only due to men, then we are missing it.

A lot of these men who are in power, they are empowered by these false entities, These these I'm sorry, these fallen entities who massurway themselves as false god and they false gods, and they have real power, real power that people use.

And when you think about people, who how do these people ascend to power?

How do they get how do you know how these how these folks get into these positions where they seem to be the evil people who seem to be running the world.

It's not just because they're smart and charismatic.

No, they have spiritual help, you know what.

I'm getting ahead of myself.

I want to talk about this more in the next podcast.

I want to wrap this one up now because in the next podcast we talk about fallen angels in this podcast.

In the next podcast, I'm going to spend half the podcast talking about demons.

How you know, we know that they're different, that they are actually the spirit of spirits of Nephelin, and we're going to talk about what they do and what they seek.

And then we're going to spend the last part of the next podcast talking about the relationship between these demonic fall and spiritual entities and man and how man and how they empower man to do their will.

And these are people we call the mystics, all right, so about ten minutes over.

Sorry about that, but I appreciate you listening.

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