ANGELS: PRINCES OF KINGDOMS, STATES, NATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS II

*07/06/2020*

*THANKSGIVING SERVICE*

THEME: *ANGELS: MESSENGERS OF GOD.*

TOPIC: *WHO ARE ANGELS?*

SUB-TOPIC: *ANGELS: PRINCES OF KINGDOMS, STATES, NATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS II*

Text: Daniel 10:10-13
          1 Chronicles 21:1

Colossians 1:16
This early Christian hymn emphasizes the superiority of Christ over all creation. Christ is the One who created all things, whether they be material or immaterial, seen or unseen. This idea is in direct contradiction to the false teaching, later known as Gnosticism, that was developing in the Colossian church.
In general, Gnostics believed that various angelic beings were the creators of the earth, and that Christ was one among many of these angels.
*all things were created through Him and for Him:* Not only did Jesus create all things, everything was created for His purposes (Hebrews1:2), where Christ is said to be the "heir of all things". But the glory of the earth, the heavens, or the sun, moon, and stars cannot be compared with the glory of His new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Romans 8:38
If God, *the uncreated One*, is for us, and no created thing can separate us, then our security in Him is absolute.

1 Corinthians 15:24
*The end* here refers to all remaining prophetic events that will occur after the rapture of the church and during the climax of history, when Christ *puts an end to all rule* (vv.25-28).
*delivers the kingdom to God the Father:* When Christ and the church are joined at His coming, God will establish His Kingdom on this earth, culminating in a new heaven and a new earth.
*puts an end to all rule and all authority:* Until the time of the end, the Father subjugates everything to the Son (Psalms 110:1; Daniel 2:44; 7:14,27). Christ is Lord over the universe (Colossians 1:15-17).

Ephesians 6:12
Our *real battle* is not with human cultists, false religionists, atheists, agnostics and pseudo-Christians, but with the demonic beings working through them, of which even the *flesh and blood* opponents themselves are sometimes unaware.

Colossians 2:15
*Principalities and powers* allude to Satan and the fallen angels. Paul is describing Christ's victory on the Cross over the powers that opposed Him and that were against God's faithful people. To describe this victory, Paul uses the spectacle of the military triumph, when prisoners of war were stripped and paraded before the populace behind the conquering general. Satan and his forces thought the Cross would be their victory and Christ's defeat. In reality, at the Cross the Lord vanquished His foes, took away their weapons, and *made a public spectacle of them.*

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