War in Heaven: God's Epic Battle With Evil by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Cults, book, REL020000
ISBN: 9781441210807
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2003-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

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ONE MAN

AND HIS PRAYER

Satan’s pride and rebellion cost him his place of honor and privilege in the heavenlies. Many Christians assume that he was permanently exiled from the heavenly regions. They speak and pray as if Satan were in hell, but that is not the picture given in Scripture. According to Revelation 20:13–15, as I have mentioned, Death and Hades (Hell) are satanic angels who rule at this time in the lower world to which the unbelieving are consigned at death, together with other creatures who have been in rebellion against their Creator (see 2 Peter 2:4). This would include the angels that had intercourse with human women, as described in Genesis 6:2–4.

Hades is also a title for the area that they rule. But Satan himself is not confined there with them. Ultimately Death and Hades will be cast into the lake of fire together with all the remaining enemies of God.

In Ephesians 2:2, Satan is called the “prince of the power of the air,” meaning the satanic ruler of the spiritual region defined as “the air.” In Greek, there are two words for air: aither, associated with the English word ether, and aer, associated with the English word air. The second word, aer, denotes the air immediately contiguous with the earth’s surface. The first word, aither, denotes the higher rarefied atmosphere and is never applied to the air contiguous with the earth’s surface.

Significantly, wherever Satan is called “the ruler of the air” it is the word aer that is used. In other words, Satan claims dominion over the entire surface of the globe.

In Daniel 10, we are given a glimpse of the activity that goes on amongst angels, both the angels of God and the angels of Satan. Apparently there is ongoing conflict between the angels of God and the forces of Satan that oppose them. It takes place in the area referred to as the mid-heaven.

Daniel’s Prayer Is Answered

As chapter 10 opens, we find Daniel mourning and semi-fasting for 21 days. He has been seeking God in deep grief because of the enslavement of his people Israel and the desolation of the city of Jerusalem:

In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

verses 2–3

Daniel is rewarded by a visitation from Gabriel, an archangel of God. As we study Gabriel’s visit to Daniel, we need to bear in mind that chapters 10, 11 and 12 of the book of Daniel are a single continuous revelation of events that will bring Israel’s history in the present dispensation to a climax.

Gabriel begins his message with words of encouragement:

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.”

verse 12

Daniel had been praying for 21 days and his prayer was heard the first day.

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