The powers of darkness, the powers of our age is ordered into principalities, and rulers. These are what you see in scripture as the rulers and kings in the battles in the end of the ages and times. The same powers and principalities we wrestle against even now from time immemorial, the same powers, kings, rulers dethroned in the beginning of the rule of righteousness at an end of every age, an ion where darkness ruled over the earth.
Spiritually, the earth is ruled by kings, even in this deceptive age of false liberty, where, kingdoms are hidden and countries are some sort of corporate entities(they do have owners) and kings are not called out as such(presidents are not necessarily kings). There are kings and princes, countless; principalities over which they reign, and rulers of all sorts of eminence, rulers who are familiars in our day to day lives. At times these are addressed in the name of their founding kingdoms as often happens for kingdoms like Babylon, Egypt, Israel (not an exception, as at a point Israel rebelled and demanded the rule of men. They infact preferred the powers of the age over God ), etc. Israel is now a great people, so multiplied they would not fit on that strip of controversial land up in Palestine. You could get an insight into the principalities that reigned over the tribes of Israel in the prophecy of Jacob to his sons in Genesis... Genesis 49:3 - 27
Those prophesies are unto the end of the age...
These kingdoms are great establishments built up by the spirits of men. And our current civilization is no different, there are powers, kings and rulers at the helm. Oppressors and the oppressed, the used and the users, slaves and lords, some very old and familiar, just as the spirits of sinful men are not new. That old spirit of rebellion is just regenerated in a new body. Like every other ancient civilization that preceded it, our time, our striving is just another affront by men.
The uniqueness of our time is that there is also a Kingdom of peace, planted at about the same time as this current age begun (that was the battle in the heavens in which Christ triumphed against ), growing in strength and power as time proceeds, and about to be manifested....the next civilization. A rule of the Principality of peace, where evil shall be dethroned, and bound.
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