Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Angelic Interpreters of Prophecy
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Our comfort in reading complex prophecies is this, God often provided angelic interpreters so we know how to apply the propchecy.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome And Series Context
SPEAKER_00Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Daniel 10 And Angelic Warfare
Angels Politics And National Powers
Prayer Delays And The Invisible Fight
SPEAKER_01Good angels in the Old Testament, Israel, explained visions. For example, to Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel. And these are all what we call apocalyptic literature. Apocalyptic literature is literature that's highly symbolic, highly visionary, and it will always have angelic interpreters, which is always my favorite point of the whole thing. Because people say, Well, I don't know what the book of Daniel means. I mean, it's all these just symbols, and there's these beasts, and there's this statue, and this goat, and this ram, and I don't know. What is all this? Well, there's angels there that explain it to you, so you don't really have to guess. Um, yes, highly visionary, highly symbolic, but the angels are given there to give uh interpretation. And good angels, let's turn over to Daniel 10. Good angels serve as messengers of God. Fallen angels are trying to disrupt these messages, these messages from getting through. And there's battlefields that are located above every nation on earth. Daniel chapter 10 is one of the best places to see this. And you'll notice how closely connected. Have you noticed how closely connected angels are to politics and government? I mean, Ahab was the king of Israel, so that was highly involved, high angelic involvement with that political administration. Now we have in Daniel 10, Daniel has basically seen a vision, and again, because he he says he kind of understands it, but it's caused a great conflict for him. And so he's struggling and he's fasting, and he's in prayer about this vision that he has seen. In Daniel 10, 10, you can see he's in a deep sleep before that. He has a deathly pallor about him, he has no strength. And in verse 10, then behold, a hand touched me and set me, trembling on my hands and knees, and he said to me, O Daniel, man of high esteem, understand the words that I'm about to tell you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you. So this is an angelic messenger, right? When he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard. And I have come in response to your word. But, verse 13, the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for 21 days.
SPEAKER_02Now, the prince of the kingdom of Persia is not the literal human prince.
SPEAKER_01This is an angel, a demonic angel, who is the one who is influencing and animating essentially the real prince of the kingdom of Persia, and he's doing so if you think of nations, um, and here we have Persia.
SPEAKER_02What's Persia today? Iran.
SPEAKER_01Same places are still in the news today, right? So above Iran, if you could take like walls and just send them up into the atmosphere over Earth, you'd see that there's an airspace that is controlled by certain demonic powers that inhabit that sphere, and they function in the politics and the government of the Iranian regime. And this angel says, Hey, from the first day you started praying, Daniel, I set off to make my course to you to get a message through, to explain to you this vision that you saw. But I got hung up in the airspace over Persia in a battle for twenty-one days. So let's read it again. The prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for 21 days. Then, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I'd been left there with the kings of Persia. Multiplicity of kings. So he was battling not just one fallen angel, but multiple ones over the airspace of Iran. And finally, Michael comes on the 21st day. And if you read back in the story, it took those two three more days together to defeat these so they could actually get through to just to bring a message. Daniel. And you think about this. Sometimes you have a prayer request. Sometimes you've been praying about something, and you're like, Lord, are you ever going to answer? And maybe he is, maybe he's not. Maybe it takes a long time, maybe it's the next day. But just think of all the conflict and battle that could be taking place as angels are the ones who are to somehow be involved in the answer to our prayer, but they get hung up over the over the airspace of the United States of America. This is the real world that's going on. And we're given here some insight into that. And so then he goes on and he gives him understanding. But the important thing to see is that there are these conflicts that are transpiring in the atmosphere above nations on earth.
SPEAKER_00Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube under Spokane Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.