15 September 2019
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The Angel of the Lord Encourages Daniel (TMF:1220)

Friday, September 20, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Angel of the Lord Encourages Daniel (TMF:1220) - Daniel Litton
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       As we continue to look at the passage here in Daniel, we can see from the vision that as Daniel interacts with the angel that he is still afraid of him and has lost his strength. And the angel encourages him all the more by reiterating what he had already said in verse 19. For he says to him again, ““O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage”” (ESV). He reminds Daniel that he is greatly loved by God, to not fear, to be at peace, to be strong, and to be of good courage. And, going to verse 20, the angel says he’s going to tell Daniel the answer to his prayer—for that is why he had come. He was there to provide Daniel an answer for the prayer he had been praying to God. In Daniel’s case, it was to tell him what has been written in the Book of Truth, which is about the future. Let us recall the words of the Prophet Isaiah, in Isaiah 46:9, 10, which state: “Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose” (ESV).

Negative Influence from Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1219)

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Peace to Live By: Negative Influence from Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1219) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, the symbol for that movement is the rainbow, and the rainbow happens to also be one of God’s favorite images, as we see in The Book of the Revelation when getting a glimpse into his throne room (see Revelation 4:3; also 10:1). So, Satan takes one of the most precious things to God, the rainbow, and associates it with one of the most hated things by God, the practice of homosexuality. Obviously, Satan is trying to get under God’s skin. And there is also the aspect where the rainbow represents the fact that God will never again destroy the world by a flood. That’s what it represents to us, as humans. And it’s as if Satan is trying to egg God on—trying to challenge his promise—by associating his bow with something that provokes is anger. Of course, we know that God isn’t going to destroy the world because he is provoked by Satan, but because he is a holy, righteous, and just God, and cannot let sin go unaddressed.

Negative Influence from Fallen Angels, Part 1 (TMF:1218)

Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Peace to Live By: Negative Influence from Fallen Angels, Part 1 (TMF:1218) - Daniel Litton
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       So, interestingly enough, there are many out there who think they are just doing right, who think they know better than God, but they are actually being used as pawns from Satan’s forces to accomplish Satan’s will. They are deceived themselves and Satan works through them to deceive more and more people, to get them to move away from God. That is pretty sobering. As I was thinking about this there is one thing clearly that, for me, is easy to see when it comes to the spiritual war bleeding from the spirit realm over to our own realm. I think if you just look at the symbol of the pro-homosexual movement around the world we can see the demonic forces clearly at work. We know that one of God’s most hated sins in the practice of homosexuality. We know that because quite a long time ago he destroyed two entire cities for that sin, including the surrounding cities. Now, the symbol for that movement is the rainbow, and the rainbow happens to also be one of God’s favorite images, as we see in The Book of the Revelation when getting a glimpse into his throne room (see Revelation 4:3; also 10:1).

The Fallen Angels Around the Globe, Part 2 (TMF:1217)

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Fallen Angels Around the Globe, Part 2 (TMF:1217) - Daniel Litton
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       This picture we get here in the kingdom of Persia is insightful because it goes to show us that Satan and his demons have set up camp in certain areas of our world, certain kingdoms, certain cites, around the globe. And I’m sure many of you were already aware of this fact, but it shows us in Scripture that there are established demonic forces on our earth. And they seek to promote their agendas against humans—and even working through humans—to try to keep people away from God, from accepting the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They want to prevent as many people as they can from coming into right relationship with God. Often times people think they are just living freely, for instance, when they are promoting things that are against God, like anti-marriage positions, or abortion, or gay rights. They think they are just promoting what they feel is right for the world. But the Bible tells us that behind these anti-God positions are demonic forces influencing people’s minds to promote these agendas.

The Fallen Angels Around the Globe, Part 1 (TMF:1216)

Monday, September 16, 2019
Peace to Live By: The Fallen Angels Around the Globe, Part 1 (TMF:1216) - Daniel Litton
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       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. This angel also mentioned here in verse 13 that he “was left there with the kings of Persia.” That’s an important and interesting statement. Perhaps this angel of the Lord had been bound, we’re not really sure, but for some reason he could not leave from these kings of Persia. Now, these kings of Persia denotes that there was actually—watch this—more than one demonic being who was holding this angel up. Yes, the angel spoke of the prince of Persia, but here he also speaks of the kings of Persia. So, it would appear then that the first fallen angel was the chief ruler in Persia, and that the other fallen angels were spirit rulers within Persia who answered to the chief ruler. This picture we get here in the kingdom of Persia is insightful because it goes to show us that Satan and his demons have set up camp in certain areas of our world, certain kingdoms, certain cites, around the globe.