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Chapter 16

Central Governments

As seen earlier in this writing, strong nations have elements in place giving them their strength.  These elements are language, borders, and a ruling spirit in authority.  However, “strong” nations do not necessarily mean “good” nations.  Many nations of the world have (as we have seen illustrated in Isaiah and Ezekiel) an association with a lead demonic spirit and rules its principality through the human, whom it exerts influence… sometimes almost total influence.  Old world spirits, especially those in the continent connecting area of the Middle East tend to have these kinds of strong spiritual controls.  Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and even Jordan are examples of nations with these powerful spirits operating in conjunction with dominating human leadership… centralized leadership and government.  It would behoove the U.S. to consider the steps that are being taken toward that very type of leadership and government. 

These strong leaders exert tremendous and seemingly limitless power… they were once called kings.  Now we know them as dictators.  The law of the nations where these dictators rule is the word of the human tyrant leading that nation.  The bible states, that where the word of the king is; there is power.  Of course these men never admit to being in such control and do not use the title “dictator”, more subtle words describe their “office”.  Prime Minister, President, or even “dear leader” are examples of these subtle titles.

Another biblical example of particular interest is found in Ezekiel chapter 28.  Both the Prince of Tyre and the King of Tyre are addressed by God through the prophet and as the description of the two is given it is apparent that the Prince of Tyre is the “wicked one” (known as the antichrist) and the King of Tyre is Satan himself.

The description of the Prince of Tyre tells of one whose heart is lifted up “and has said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas…”  The prophecy continues by declaring the judgment of this prince; “… yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.” The prince of Tyre is a type of the wicked one in II Thessalonians… “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposseth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, Shewing himself that he is God.”  (II Thessalonians 2: 3&4).  It is evident the two are the same.

Ezekiel continues to give a description of what is very apparently the judgment of the antichrist (although this prophecy is also directed to a literal prince of Tyre who was a contemporary of Ezekiel).  “Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:  with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:  by thy great wisdom and by thy traffick has thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.  They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.  Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?  But thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.”  (Ezekiel 28:3-9)  (The strangers who are described as the terrible of the nations are the weapons of God’s indignation… we will look at these “weapons” later).

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