The Prince of Persia

The Prince of Persia - Name: Dubbiel – 3 Enoch 35:12

Daniel 10:12-13 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.

. Paul exhorts us in Ephesians 6:10-18, to put on the full armour of God so that we may be able to stand against the forces of evil in the heavenly realms. This armour will help us stand against the wiles of the devil and his minions, but knowing what they are and how they work will help us to win the battle of life.

. Knowing how the devil works against us can help our battle against the kingdom of darkness and by extension our individual Christian lives as well. Jesus told us in Matthew 16 that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church. Gates are defensive. That means that Jesus intends for us to be on the offensive.

John 10:10. tells us that the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. We live in two worlds at the same time. It is hard for us to understand that. What we see in the natural world is just a shadow of what is happening in the world of the spirit. There is a battle in the heavens and we have a role to play in that battle.

Daniel has an encounter with an angel of the Lord. He had been praying about the future of his people and the Lord sends an angel to speak to him. The people ruling the region at that time was Persia. The angel assures Daniel he was sent by God to answer his prayer on the first day of his 21-day fast. He was delayed because he had to fight past the Prince of Persia.

This was not a natural prince. It was a spiritual prince, one of those spirits noted by Paul in Ephesians 6:12. No one, not even Daniel, knew that there was a battle in the Spiritual world over the Persian Empire at that time. However, there was. An angel had been sent to give Daniel some “intelligence” about the future. The demonic spirit empowering the Persian Empire did not want Daniel to have this information and was fighting to keep the angel from getting through. God sent in angelic reinforcements in the person of the Archangel Michael to see to it that the angel got the information to Daniel.

Daniel 10:20 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come.
This is long before Greece was an empire under Alexander. The Greek empire would defeat the Persians and rise to rule in the region. Those verses Prophecy two empires. Both had natural rulers who controlled the region. The angel tells us that both also had demonic princes that empowered their physical rulers. When the spiritual ruler changed so did the physical ruler. There are princes that rule over every land area. Within each region, there are Spiritual rulers. This is just what the Bible teaches.

Hebrews 1:14 Are they (angels) not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? Here we learn that the angels are ministering spirits sent out for us, the heirs of salvation. This is a perfect picture of what is happening in Daniel 10. The angel was sent to minister to Daniel. He was known as one who stood for the principles of God. Because of his uncompromising stand, Daniel is thrown into a den of lions. In this well-known Bible story, we read that it was an angel who came and closed the mouths of the lions so they would not be able to harm Daniel.

We need to see that we are part of a great drama that is playing out in our world just as it was in Daniel’s world. God is moving to bring about his will on the earth. There are forces opposed to his will and they are currently wielding great power. The degree of instability we see in the natural is allied to an increase in the warfare in the Spiritual places. We have a part to play and God has given us the weapons we need to do that part. That is what the full armour of God is all about and we Christians are soldiers in that battle.

At some future time, Satan and his cohorts will be thrown out of heaven, Revelation 12:7-9 THEN: Literally all hell will break loose on earth!

Nobody who has participated over the past two years in incessant and vehement condemnations of Israel, and fervid attacks on Zionists and Jews, has yet spoken out against the violent and deadly repressions of the Iranian leadership against their own people.

Why is this so? Why the speechlessness, why the indifference to suffering, why the hypocrisy? Where is the genuine sympathy for innocent men, women, and children in Iran? What happened to principled support for freedom and ardent opposition to oppression?

Why have people, who screamed about the "starvation" of Gazans and "genocide" of Palestinians say nothing about the definitive, undeniable, purposeful carnage in Iran?

The reason for this stance by otherwise rational and intelligent people, can only be understood from a Spiritual perspective.

The Iranian leadership are evidently under the control of spiritual forces. Bible Prophecy informs us that they will attempt to destroy the Jewish State of Israel. But God will intervene and the entire Middle East region will be cleared and cleansed. Deuteronomy 32:34-43, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Revelation 6:12, +