UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM Part 3

LOCATION OF SATAN’S RULE – OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel, chapter ten presents certain insights into how the present kingdom of Satan is structured, along with the location of those administrating power and authority in the kingdom. In this chapter a heavenly messenger who has been dispatched to Daniel on the earth from that part of the heavens where God resides and rules, was detained at a point enroute. He was detained in the heavens above the earth by “by the Prince of the kingdom of Persia.” Then Michael was dispatched from heaven, and the messenger remained there with “the king of Persia” while Michael fought with the Prince of Persia for his release (v. 13).

The picture presented is that of powerful angels in the kingdom of Satan ruling the earth from a heavenly sphere through counterparts in the human race on earth. There was a prince (ruler) of Persia in the heavens, and there was a prince (ruler) of Persia on the earth. Then, in the heavens, there were lesser rulers associated with Persia (the king of Persia); and the same would have been true in the earthly kingdom.

Then beyond that “the prince of Greece,” another heavenly ruler is mentioned in (v. 20). And the reason for the mention of this ruler is easy to see. Daniel, throughout his book, deals with the kingdom of Babylon, from the day of Nebuchadnezzar to the day of Antichrist; and Dan. 10:20 (“…the prince of Greece shall come”) anticipated that day when the earthly kingdom under Alexander the Great would conquer the kingdom of Babylon under the Medes and Persians.

Thus, there is not only a breakdown of powers in the heavenly kingdom under Satan corresponding to a breakdown of powers in various earthly kingdoms under fallen
man but there is also a shifting of powers in the heavenly kingdoms corresponding with a shifting of powers in the earthly kingdoms. In this respect, any person occupying a position of power in any Gentile earthly kingdom during the present age is merely occupying a position under Satan and his angels, ruling from the heavens through counterparts on the earth.

(Note that the nation of Israel is the lone exception to the rule among nations on earth presently holding positions of power and authority under angels in the kingdom of Satan. The prince over Israel is Michael (Dan. 10:21), an angelic prince in the heavens who is not numbered among those ruling in Satan’s kingdom.)

Now that you are aware of this fact, don't be surprised by what your government might do; they are under the directorate of their counterpart in the heavenlies, (who is under Satan).

Eph 6:12
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.KJV