This article is taken partly from the article posted as Part xxxv – The CONFLICT of Persia. CLICK HERE to read the complete article.
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Persia
The Land of Strength and the Land of Division
The Beginning of Confusion
Man finds locations through a system called GPS (Global Positioning System); however, God has His own global positioning system called God’s Powerful Spirit. The Persian Empire is the location where the nation of Israel is enslaved in the book of Esther, and through God’s powerful Spirit He reveals where the last kingdom of man will be based . . . in the Persian Empire, formerly known as the Babylonian Empire. The first Persian Empire (before Persia existed) was in the land of Babel, the land of Shinar, known as Babylon. Through the millenniums borders have fluidly fluctuated according to the numerous battles and conflicts of this land, names changed, tyrants changed, but the battle for this territory has always existed from the age of Nimrod into the age of the last tyrant called The Beast. Don’t analyze a current map of the Middle East and Western Asia and consider that the contemporary lines dividing one nation from another nation has always been a constant . . . demarcation lines and set boundaries have never been a constant in history. We will be viewing a land historically without boundary limits but limited only by their ability to militarily control their territory.
You may say that the Persian Empire no longer exists, but you are incorrect. Geographically Persia may not be acknowledged as a great powerhouse, but spiritually Persia has never ceased to play a role in the affairs of man’s governments. In contemporary and secular history from 1941 to 1979 the Shah of the Imperial State of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, ruled over Iran as the Emperor of Persia. Although he was pro-Western in his foreign policy, and he encouraged economic development he was nevertheless removed from power by the clandestineness of the United States who underhandedly brought in the hardened anti-Western religious fanaticism of those who currently rule over the people of Iran today. Anyone who is seen as uncontrollable by the UNSEEN and sometimes SEEN uncontrollable rulers of the United States is never allowed to remain in power. The Shah of Iran was seen as a person who could possibly unite a vast region of the Middle East and western Asia and become a threat to the power structure of the West and specifically to Washington. (This post is NOT about the pro’s and con’s of the last Emperor of Persia, for the Shah was still a man of the East, a political man caught between two extremely different philosophical and religious entities while seeking to secure a lasting and powerful dynasty for himself and for his descendants.)
The Shah was seen as a serious future threat to Washington, D.C., as President Trump is seen as a threat, and as Mr. Putin is seen as a threat to Washington because of the rich resources of Russia, and he and his nation cannot be easily overtaken by the insane madness of WOKENESS through so-called ‘social issues.’ Washington covets Russia’s wealth and power (the energy war) and its strategic geographical location that serves as a bridge to the top of the world; to the rich empires of the south in Mongolia, the ‘stans’, and to China; to the Middle East and Western Asia, to the east to the Sea of Okhotsk which lies a few miles from Alaska; to western Europe; and to the Nordic countries and to the North Sea. Russia has the largest extensive land mass of 11% of the entire globe, whereas the United States is 4th in land mass at 6.1%. It is no wonder that through greed and envy that Washington is engaged in outright war against the Bear doing what they do best: pretending that it is really Ukraine who is at war. But it is the larger goal of Satan to achieve his goal of ruling over a world united under his man, The Beast. (The current situation with Ukraine is NOT a recent development, regardless of what the propaganda news agencies report. The big war-scared Bear has been poked and poked and poked by the plucked Eagle and the other birds of prey with cloaked sticks wrapped in a false moral indignation tapestry of ‘the bad guy, good guy false morality syndrome’ for decades by agents trained to cause regimen changes, and wars. If you are ever bored, I suggest you check out all the treaties signed between the Bear and the Eagle since 1947, and particular in the 1970’s and 1990’s as both sides are NOT treaty trusty.)
Through Washington’s actions to destroy Russia, they are really destroying themselves: financially and militarily. Remember when President Trump, in his first term as President was inaugurated, that people screamed that he was a war monger. But now that we have an unelected and an illegal government who are currently aggressively demanding that the nation go to war against Russia, where are the screamers against war? There are no decent words that can describe the madness of the Empire of Washington. The only President for peace is President Trump. The only true statesman is President Trump. WAR is on the lips of every evil. WAR without reason and purpose, but that mankind may be culled from the earth through blood shedding. Who benefits from WAR? I can only think of the prime one and his agents: Satan and the extreme wealthy. What is the first thing to die in WAR? TRUTH. Who suffers from WAR? certainly NOT THOSE who create war. When the mind is controlled, the body is controlled, the spirit of man within relinquishes its dominance and the soul of man is enslaved.
The enemies of the Shah of Iran, the last Emperor of Persia, didn’t fear war, they feared that their control over nations would be diminished. They saw in him a man who could build a powerful and economically strong nation that would benefit the people, as they see in President Trump a man who can build a strong and powerful nation that would benefit the people (not the sick corrupt establishment). That is why the true current (2023) President of the United States, President Trump, is NOT allowed to remain in power, because he cannot be bought, neither will he bend to their agenda, nor will he accept the surrender of this nation to the UNSEEN global one world conquest. It may not make much sense to you until you understand that conflict/war means money . . . a lot of money. Corporations become richer through war, military leaders become richer though war, politicians add millions to their offshore accounts through war . . . war is where it is at. It’s about MONEY and MONEY is POWER . . . enough MONEY AND POWER TO CONTROL THE WORLD. Yes, the Shah saw himself as an Emperor along the lines of complete authority of the former Emperors of that great historical nation, and yet, while he reigned his people flourished economically, and since anti-western fanaticism has ruled, the people have ceased to flourish and have become enslaved to religious maniacs. There is, however, one major point that I failed to connect when I wrote that it’s all about MONEY and POWER. It’s about controlling the souls of men. Why do you think that what is called ‘social issues’ is the major dominant news today? When the mind is controlled, the body is controlled, the spirit of man within relinquishes its dominance and the soul of man is enslaved. The satanic power directing the overthrow of nations will never be satisfied until they own the souls of men. (Revelation Chapter 18)
Although Persia’s secular history is necessary in order to understand our current global conflict, let’s leave secular Iran/Persia behind and venture into the supernatural spiritual conflict between Lucifer/Satan and his Persian land of turmoil. The meaning of the word Persia is seen through ‘land of horses,’ and ‘land of division.’ In the ‘land of horses‘ we can view this in two ways: the first, the talent of the people of this territory was and is in their appreciation and knowledge not only for the beauty of this animal, but their heritage in horsemanship. And on the other side of their extraordinary horsemanship skills, we have the biblical meaning of man placing his confidence and security on the creature instead of on the Creator. Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. (Psalm 32:9) An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength. (Psalm 33:17)
Now let us look at the ‘land of division.‘ Persia/Iran/Iraq/Babylon/Shinar all as one territory began in the roots of division when God divided Babel. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (Genesis 11:8) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:9) The last mention of the word divided is found in Revelation 16:19, And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. CLICK HERE to further learn of this land of division and confusion.
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The Resistance of the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia
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The Kings of Persia
Secular and historical Persia is central to the purposes of Lucifer/Satan and Persia is also central to the spiritual conflict on planet Earth. Through the prophetic book of Daniel, in Chapter 10, we have the spiritual and physical conflict between ‘the prince of the kingdom of Persia‘ which is Lucifer/Satan and the Lord Jesus Christ in verse 13. Of course, it has to be verse 13.
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. How do we know that it was the Lord Jesus Christ? Then I (Daniel) lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: (Daniel 10:5) His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. (Daniel 10:6) This is the same description of the Lord Jesus Christ in Revelation Chapter 1, verses 14 and 15, His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Don’t quickly glance over the words of the Holy Spirit of God as He describes this battle in the realm of the UNSEEN. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. We have the prince of the kingdom of Persia, who is Satan Himself and then we have the kings of Persia, the kings of this land were the leaders of the apex of man’s strength based totally on man’s strength alone, and these kings ruled over a land of division, a land of separation that divided mankind from God.
There is also another revelation in that the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me, yet there was no resistance or opposition of the kings of Persia with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit of God simply states, and I remained there with the kings of Persia. God opened a door into the spiritual realm to allow us to understand more about His Christ, the Lord Jesus.
And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. (Daniel 10:10)
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. (Daniel 10:11)
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. (Daniel 10:12)
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. (Daniel 10:13)
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. (Daniel 10:14)
This scene is documented in Chapter 10, the number that represents God’s perfect order not only in the heavenly sphere, but His order is perfect over the realm of the rule of man on earth. For twenty-one (21) days (earth time) the Lord Jesus Christ was engaged in a spiritual battle with the prince of the kingdom of Persia (Satan). This battle was not in the heavenly realm, but it was in the spiritual realm on earth. That is one of the reasons why the Spirit of God set earth time of twenty-one (21) days into the story line.
Michael the archangel, a prince of Israel, and one of the chief princes, and a Warrior angel entered into the scene to assist the Lord Jesus. And then next we have this statement by Christ, and I remained there with the kings of Persia. WHAT!? WHEN? WHY? The Spirit of God does not expand further but to add in verse 14 that Christ was then with Daniel to reveal to him what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days. Why did Christ remain there with the kings of Persia? Where was ‘there?’ (I know that grammatically that makes no sense, but nevertheless . . . where was ‘THERE?’) Let us compare scripture with scripture. There is a verse in the New Testament in 1st Peter 3:18 and 19 that is very similar to the situation in Daniel 10:13.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1st Peter 3:18) By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; (1st Peter 3:19) Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.(1st Peter 3:20)
Delving into the unknown spiritual world can become a dangerous place without scripture leading the way. Peter revealed that Christ WENT and PREACHED to THE SPIRITS IN PRISON, the prison of death, where the souls of dead men are restrained BEFORE their final judgment, or the second death, at the great white throne of God. And to be exact, Peter (through the Holy Spirit) informs us who these spirits were. They were the spirits of those who perished in the universal flood.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Genesis 6:6) And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Genesis 6:7)
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (Genesis 6:13)
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. (Genesis 6:17)
Whom did Christ PREACH to? He preached to the spirits of disobedient men. Where did He preach? He preached to the spirits in their prison. When did Christ preach? He preached to them at the end of the Old World, when the Old World was no longer. What did Christ preach? He preached what Noah had preached: the righteousness of God (2nd Peter 2:5), that the world was condemned (Hebrews 11:7), that the earth was full of violence (Genesis 6:13), and through their own sin and rebellion against the righteousness of God they were righteously judged.
In essence, Noah preached the gospel to the first world; Christ preached that He IS the gospel, the good news that they had rejected. Noah preached that God is righteous and because He is righteous ALL who would come to Him, He would save, and all who rejected Him He would judge. Christ preached that they had rejected HIM, the righteousness of God. Noah preached that the world was condemned. Christ preached that they would face another condemnation in the second death. Noah preached that the earth was full of their own violence. Christ preached that their own sin witnessed against them and therefore they were without excuse. Noah preached of Him who was to come, and Christ preached that He was and IS the ONE to come.
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. (Romans 1:19)
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (Romans 1:20)
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Romans 1:21)
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Romans 1:22)
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:23)
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? (Romans 2:3) Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Romans 2:4) But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; (Romans 2:5) Who will render to every man according to his deeds: (Romans 2:6)
As Christ preached unto the spirits in prison, to those who perished in the flood in the Old World, He also preached unto the spirits in prison of those in the New World. But Daniel 10:13 reveals that there was a major difference between the Old World and the New World. These were specific spirits, the kings of Persia. These were not the spirits of man, but the spirits of kings, and kings of a distinct territory.
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. (Daniel 10:13)
God the Holy Spirit not only deals with the kings of Persia, but through them, the prince of the kingdom of Persia. Where did it all begin? Nimrod in the land of Shinar, the land of Shinar (the territory of Babylon), Babylon (the land of Persia), and these specific spirits, the kings of Persia. What do these spirits represent? Christ remained with them to preach to them that He alone was King of kings and Lord of lords. He preached that He alone should be praised and extolled and honored as the King of heaven. And that all His works are truth, and that His ways are judgment and that He alone rules in the kingdom of men. By Christ remaining with the kings of Persia, the prince of the kingdom of Persia also heard His preaching; thus, reinforcing to Satan his sin and iniquity that as Lucifer he failed to praise, extol and honor the King of heaven.
As Christ preached to those who lived and perished in the Old World condemning them for their unbelief and sin, He also preached to those who ruled over the ancient empire of Persia in the New World. The kings of Persia represented not only their own time period, but they represented ALL kings throughout all time . . . that there is ONLY ONE KING of kings. Even in death, God will be heard. Even in death, man cannot escape from the words of God. Even in death, Christ continually preaches what joys man has rejected. Even in death ALL WILL BOW! That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; (Philippians 2:10) And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:13)
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. (Revelation 19:15) And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19:16)
This article is taken partly from the article posted as Part xxxv – The CONFLICT of Persia. CLICK HERE to read the complete article.