08 September 2019
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The Manifestation of The Angelic Battles (TMF:1215)

Friday, September 13, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Manifestation of The Angelic Battles (TMF:1215) - Daniel Litton
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       When we see bad things happen in our world, this is the overflow of the battle between God’s angel’s and Satan’s fallen angels. Of course, we see this quite a bit in our modern times, with the availability of news to us from around the world. To state it plainly, we see the fallen angels work through entities like ISIS, and we see God’s angels push them back through the work of the Israeli and United States armed forces. We’ve seen demonic forces attack schools, killing and hurting children, and how the casualties were far less than they could have been due to the work of God’s angels. This spiritual war is very real in our world today. The angel tells Daniel that he gained some greatly needed help when he was being stopped by the demonic angel. Now, whether he called out to God for help or whether it had come to the Lord’s mind that the angel needed help, we really don’t know. But, it turns out that God sends Michael, who, interestingly enough, is listed as one of God’s chief angels, one of his chief princes, to help this angel.

Fallen Angels Also Have Great Power, Part 2 (TMF:1214)

Thursday, September 12, 2019
Peace to Live By: Fallen Angels Also Have Great Power, Part 2 (TMF:1214) - Daniel Litton
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       So, it stands to reason that these beings too also have great power. Of course, they don’t have the power of God behind them, and there are two of God’s angels for every one of Satan’s angels, since only one-third of the angel’s left with Satan in his rebellion against God. Really, they were thrown down to the earth with Satan, and some of them we even locked up in Hell, and are there today waiting to be released in the future, during the times of the Book of Revelation (see also Luke 8:31). So, really, Satan doesn’t even have one-third of the angels available to him right now. It is these types of battles, as we get a glimpse into here, that are going on in our world frequently. We often see the overflow, the manifestation, the negative consequences, and even sometimes positive consequences, of these battles. When we see bad things happen in our world, this is the overflow of the battle between God’s angel’s and Satan’s fallen angels.

Fallen Angels Also Have Great Power, Part 1 (TMF:1213)

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Peace to Live By: Fallen Angels Also Have Great Power (TMF:1213) - Daniel Litton
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       We get a glimpse here in Daniel 10 into the spiritual world, that unseen realm where God’s angels do battle, or fight against Satan’s fallen angels. We can notice from the passage here in Daniel that fallen angel’s can also have great power in their working, as again this prince of the kingdom of Persia had kept God’s angel preoccupied for twenty-one days. That’s quite a long time here. As powerful as we know God’s angels to be, as powerful as they are, the fallen angels are also powerful because, recall, they were created alongside the good angels. They used to be good angels themselves, and were with God in Heaven, serving him. So, it stands to reason that these beings too also have great power. Of course, they don’t have the power of God behind them, and there are two of God’s angels for every one of Satan’s angels, since only one-third of the angel’s left with Satan in his rebellion against God.

Even Believers Working Against Believers? (TMF:1212)

Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Peace to Live By: Even Believers Working Against Believers? (TMF:1212) - Daniel Litton
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       And sometimes Satan can even capture the heart of a believer to work against another believer. He can capture the believer’s heart through sin—things like jealously, a faultfinding attitude, and the like—so that the person feels justified in attacking another believer when that believer hasn’t done anything wrong. Like, for instance, in regard to this, I’ve heard from a couple different sources lately that the Gospel ministries that truly matter, the ones that really have an impact on others, are those which work in one-on-one relationships, and that ministries that don’t do this aren’t as affective for the Gospel. Well, surely God disagrees since he often uses ministries on a grand scale that don’t involve one-on-one relationships. Let me provide a basic example of how this argument isn’t true. Personally, I don’t know John MacArthur. I’ve never met the man. He doesn’t know I exist. Yet his life through his ministry has had more of an impact on my life than any relational ministry ever has, period.

The Tools that Satan Uses Against Believers (TMF:1211)

Monday, September 09, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Tools that Satan Uses Against Believers (TMF:1211) - Daniel Litton
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       So, we can see how Satan can try to hinder God’s work as with Paul and his companions, and he had hindered God’s angel here in Daniel chapter 10 in coming to Daniel. It certainly is true that Satan will use external circumstances, unbelievers, and, believe it or not, sometimes even believers to try hinder the work God has called us to do. We understand how Satan, by his power—for he does have a lot of power—can control external circumstances in order to try to stop God’s servants from doing what he wants them to do. And often it’s not difficult for Satan to use unbelievers because they are on the same page with him—in trying to stop the work of God. They don’t believe God’s ways are the right ways, but believe their own ways are the ways that should be followed, and so Satan can use these individuals to work against believers, like protestors would often work against the Apostles, for instance.