God used four fallen spirits to create four spiritual kingdoms to reign in the earth, to reign in succession to punish His elect in the southern kingdom of Israel, Judah, because they did not repent of their idol worship and turn back to Him after seeing what He did to their sister in the northern kingdom by giving them into the hands of the Assyrians around 722 BC.
God held out for about a hundred years for them to repent and turn back to Him. And even warned them that He was going to give them into the hands of old evil Nebuchadnezzar if they didn’t. And because God always keeps His word, He gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, and God anointed Nebuchadnezzar as a king by that first fallen spirit that was sent out.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” (Daniel 7:2-7, KJV).
God was revealing to Daniel that He had created these four spiritual kingdoms to reign in succession to punish His elect in the southern kingdom of Israel, by using four fallen spirits that had been cast out of heaven for whatever transgression, down to this great Sea of darkness that God had created in the beginning, created for the devil and the angels that follow him. God released those four fallen spirits into the earth and allowed them to anoint evil men as kings in those four kingdoms.
Keep in mind as I try to explain all this, when it comes to spiritual warfare, any person that is personally anointed by a kingdom spirit is a king. And the souls that are anointed by a spirit that follows a kingdom spirit, which is what made these four angelic creatures, as well as the good Angel in Jerusalem, kingdoms, are the soldiers on the battlefield between good and evil. And because God allowed Satan to have authority over those four fallen spiritual kingdoms, warfare in the land of the living is between Satan’s kingdom of darkness called Babylon and God’s Kingdom of Light called Jerusalem.
The four spiritual kingdoms that God created to reign in succession:
Babylon Persia Grecia Rome
Babylon: God sent out that first spirit that was revealed to Daniel as “Like a lion, and had eagle’s wings,” to anoint Nebuchadnezzar as a king in both the worldly and spiritual kingdom of Babylon, by that lion’s heart (fallen angel) in the prince of Babylon:
“Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.” (Daniel 2:37-40, KJV).
And because this spirit was faithful in making Nebuchadnezzar God’s king of kings, “It was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.” Symbolic meaning: it was brought back to heaven, to where it was before it was cast out down to the bottomless pit, the great Sea of darkness, from where God released her into the earth to anoint Nebuchadnezzar.
This is the same spirit that God, using Jesus’ flesh and blood body to speak, was making reference to:
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (John 3:13, KJV). We know God wasn’t talking about Jesus, because the next verse says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:” (John 3:14, KJV). Which means Jesus had not yet been crucified, and was still in the earth.
The Spirit of the Lord revealed to me that the greatest title an angelic or human soul can wear is son of God. Son of man is a lesser title. While this spirit was faithful and brought back to heaven, it can never wear that holy title ‘son of God’ ever again.
During my transformation from darkness to Light, the Spirit gave me this parable to help me understand this. As you read the story, keep in mind that worldly and spiritual principles are the same:
“Let’s say you have this four-star general, commander of a base, kicking it in the officer’s club, when one of his officer’s wives comes in. She’s away from home, it’s their first anniversary, her husband was unexpectedly called to the battlefield, she doesn’t know anyone, and decides to go into the officer’s club to have a drink in honor of their first anniversary.
“She sees old Mr. Four-star, and decides to see if there was any good news from the battlefield. She apologizes for interrupting him, explains her situation, and asks how things are going with the battle. After sharing as much as he could, he offers to buy her a drink, or two, in honor of their anniversary.
“After they got a little loose from drinking the juice, old Mr. Four-star suggested that since he was responsible for his men, and seeing that her little love-canal might be a little tight down there, he felt that it was his duty to loosen that thing up. How could she say ‘no’ to the commander of the base?
“Unbeknownst to his wife, her husband had managed to get a 3-day pass in honor of their first anniversary. He wanted to surprise his wife. His plane was a little late arriving, and unfortunately, he walks in on old Mr. Four-star and his wife getting busy. Who’s surprised now?
“In the military, one can be tried for committing adultery. Let’s say Mr. Four-star do a little time in prison. And since what he did was not even a crime in the civilian world, the military decides to bring him back into the fold. If he is lucky, he may have to wear the shame of only having two stars.
“He runs across an old friend, and while catching up, his friend notice that he has only two stars, and makes the comment: “Didn’t you use to have four stars?” With shame, Mr. Four-star who is now Mr. Two-star, shares how he committed adultery and did a little time in prison.
“While he was brought back into the military, Robert, now he has to wear the shame of having only two stars. And the principles are the same for the fallen spirit in the prince of Babylon, the one God used to anoint Nebuchadnezzar as a king. Even though it was brought back to heaven, it can never wear that holy title ‘son of God’ ever again. Only ‘son of man’.”
When it was time for the second kingdom to reign, God allowed Satan to inspire Belshazzar the king to make a great feast to a thousand of his lords:
“They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.” (Daniel 5:4-5, KJV).
God used an angel to make it appear as if fingers on a man’s hand was doing the writing. Daniel broke the message down for Belshazzar:
“O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” (Daniel 5:18-28, KJV).
In that same night Belshazzar was slain, and great Babylon was given to the allied kingdom of the Medes and Persians. Both Darius the Mede and Cyrus of Persia were anointed kings by that second kingdom, the prince of Persia.
Persia: Daniel’s vision of the ram is symbolic of that second kingdom, the prince of Persia, God sent out to punish His elect:
“And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.” (Daniel 8:2-4, KJV).
The two horns is symbolic of the spiritual kingdom of Persia anointing first Darius the Mede, and the one higher than the other that came up last is symbolic of Cyrus the Great. But God used the prince of Persia to anoint both of them as kings. And would allow Satan to use this spirit to anoint Darius III of Persia as a king, when it would be time for mighty Persia to fall, and for that third kingdom, the prince of Grecia, to reign.
“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.” (Ezra 1:1-3, KJV).
Remember this part of the dream that God revealed to Daniel:
“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.” (Daniel 7:5, KJV).
History teaches us that the first dynasty of the Persian Empire was created by the Achaemenids, established by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC with the conquest of the Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires. Which is symbolic of the three ribs in the mouth of the bear like beast, the beast being the prince of Persia.
When it was time for this kingdom to fall and the third kingdom to reign, God allowed Satan to use the prince of Persia to anoint Darius III of Persia as a king, and God used the prince of Grecia to anoint Alexander the Great as a king, to conquer Persia.
Grecia: Concerning the third beast, the kingdom of Grecia, God revealed this in that dream He gave to Daniel:
“After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.” (Daniel 7:6, KJV).
The four wings of a fowl is symbolic of four spirits from the kingdom of Grecia anointing these four generals: Lysimachus, Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus. They are known in Latin as the Diadochi, from the Greek, Diadokhoi, meaning “successors”. This vision is also symbolic of the division of Alexander’s empire after his death, when it was divided among those four generals.
“The beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it,” which meant God had also given the prince of Grecia authority to anoint those four generals as kings in the fallen kingdom of Grecia. And God’s elect in the Jews would first come under the authority of Ptolemy of Egypt, after Alexander’s death, and then Antiochus of Syria. They also were anointed kings in the kingdom of Grecia by the prince Grecia.
The prince of Grecia is the reason why Alexander the Great had a keen desire to conquer the world. But the spiritual kingdom of Grecia is still alive and well, and I believe had a big influence over Obama when he was President. I also believe that this kingdom has many priests in the Christian churches.
“To the best and the strongest.” It has been reported that these were Alexander the Great’s last words when asked “To whom do you leave your kingdom?” Which would explain why his empire was divided among those four generals. But the prince of Grecia would reign over God’s elect until it would be time for the fourth spiritual kingdom to reign, the prince of Rome.
Rome: The beginning of the fourth beast’s reign began with the death of the notorious dictator Julius Caesar, which marked the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire. Augustus Caesar was the first Roman Emperor of the Roman Empire. God anointed him as a king in the spiritual kingdom of Rome by the prince of Rome, while Jesus was anointed a King in the Spiritual Kingdom of Jerusalem by Jerusalem.
While salvation was of the Jews when God came to the body of Christ, their house was left unto them desolate once again, after God had restored His everlasting and holy Kingdom to the southern kingdom around 539 BC, when God put it in the heart (prince of Persia) of Cyrus the Great to allow the exiles to Babylon to return and rebuild that city in the earth called Jerusalem.
The King that everyone was looking for, to save Jerusalem from the Romans, had actually come when God anointed Jesus as the Messiah and a King of the Jews by the Spirit of the Lord. And when Jesus went back to Nazareth after He Himself had been born again of the Spirit, as was His custom in the synagogue, He stood up for to read, and read from the book of Isaiah:
“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4:16-19, KJV).
When Jesus said: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Mark reported that the congregation reacted in this manner:
“Many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. …” (Mark 6:2-3, KJV).
Jesus was doing okay until He mentioned Syria:
“But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way,” (Luke 4:25-30, KJV).
God blinded them so Jesus could walk away, because the script was not written for Jesus to die this way, but on the cross. And the wars of the Maccabees against Syria was still fresh on their minds.
According to Encyclopedia/Britannica: “Antiochus IV Epiphanes, (Greek: “God Manifest”) also called Antiochus Epimanes (the Mad), (born c. 215 BC—died 164, Tabae, Iran), Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom who reigned from 175 to 164 BC. As a ruler he was best known for his encouragement of Greek culture and institutions. His attempts to suppress Judaism brought on the Wars of the Maccabees.”
The reason Antiochus encouraged Greek culture is because that third kingdom that God had sent out to punish His elect in the southern kingdom of Israel, then the kingdom of Judaea, also reigned over Egypt and Syria after the death of Alexander the Great, along with Greece, and had anointed Antiochus as a king in the spiritual kingdom of Grecia, making the Jews his enemy.
While God had anointed Augustus as a king by the prince of Rome, I suspect that when God allowed the Spirit to lead Jesus up into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and allowed Satan to show Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, I believe God was simply trying to show Jesus that He had allowed Satan to have authority over those fallen spiritual kingdoms He had created to reign in succession.
Jesus revealed to John while he was on the Island of Patmos concerning the prince of Rome:
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” (Revelation 13:1-2, KJV).
The prince of Rome is the beast rising up out of the Sea, from where she was sent right before Jesus was crucified. Satan is the dragon that will give the beast his power, and his seat, and great authority, when he returns to the earth. But Jesus will cast alive the beast and false prophet into the lake of fire, and will send Satan to the bottomless pit during His reign, to ensure that His reign will be a reign of peace.
When it comes to the seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns upon his horns, since this has to do with the false prophet and Jesus’ return for His reign of peace, the ten crowns on the ten horns is probably symbolic of the beast anointing ten leaders as spiritual kings, leaders that will be very high up on some type of council for world peace. For I believe that by the time it is time for Jesus’ return, in about a thousand years from now, the world will have succeeded in creating a One World Order.
The seven heads in the vision is symbolic of the beast attacking the seven countries that God allowed Satan to reign over before each one fell to the next country, beginning in this order: Babylon, Persia, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Rome and Arabia. God would allow Satan to anoint whomsoever was king when it fell to the next country as a king in the kingdom of Babylon.
When it is time for the marriage supper of the Lamb, which will be symbolic of the final great struggle between good and evil, Jesus, from heaven, will release those seven angels to pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. Example:
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” (Revelation 16:12-14, KJV).
When the beast is released back into the earth, he will anoint this false prophet, and will make the prophet believe that the message that he is “Jesus Christ reborn,” which will be given to him by the beast in the form of a voice in his head, is divine. The beast will also attack the two witnesses:
“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.” (Revelation 11:7, KJV).
These are the two witnesses that God the Father will call, and the Lord God Almighty will choose, to sit on Jesus’ left hand and His right hand, when He comes into His Kingdom for the millennial reign of peace.
When this day that I have been called as God’s servant Elijah to prepare the way for, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, the great tribulation, comes to an end, Jesus will appear for the marriage of the Lamb.
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Matthew 24:29-31, KJV).
Jesus’ elect will be in heaven, for they will be in that number with the saints when they go marching into heaven. The saints will be all the souls that dared to wash their robes, good angels from the Kingdom of God that had been companions to their souls while they lived in the land of the living, in the blood of the Lamb. Those that were steadfast in their faith, gave their hearts and souls to Jesus, and were born again of the Spirit.
The saints will be resurrected from the dead and caught up to heaven when God returns for the great and dreadful day of the Lord, but the prince of Rome’s reign in the earth came to an end right before Jesus was crucified, and Satan was cast out of heaven down to the earth, to prepare a place in his kingdom of darkness called Babylon for this angel’s return, for the final great struggle between the spiritual forces of good and evil.
Those four fallen spirits that God released into the earth to reign as spiritual kingdoms to punish His elect in the southern kingdom of Israel have reigned in succession, and two of those kingdoms, the kingdom of Persia and the kingdom of Grecia, are still in the earth. And they anoint many souls to be kings and priests in their kingdoms.
Paul made Timothy to understand that the doctrine of Christ that God used the Spirit to give to Jesus, would wane because of attacks from the enemy:
“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2 Timothy 4:1-4, KJV).
When it came to spiritual warfare with those four fallen kingdoms and their leader in Satan’s evil kingdom of darkness called Babylon, God’s holy Kingdom from above called Jerusalem was the answer to them all. And is still the answer. Which is why we are called to seek ye first the Kingdom of God. For this Kingdom is the answer to Satan’s evil kingdom of darkness, and was the answer to… “The Four Fallen Spiritual Kingdoms.”
Elijah Has Come 