Ebed-Yahweh said:
freeinspirit2001, isn't it possible that the princes of Persia and Greece were fallen angels in human bodies wielding magic and demonic powers in order to hinder Gabriel and Michael on their missions?
You can call me Freespirit.
Its possible what you are suggesting may be true.
Men as angels or angels as men.......mankind raising themselves and their thrones to higher levels of inhuman acts of cruelty where all seem like armies of the living dead...it may also have been an unfinshed battle over death itself...
We all have watched alot of sci-fi movies and television drama about Star Treks and Star Gates and perhaps realize maybe, someday, alot of our techology may follow those advances we see on the screen.........
I love these passages we discussed here, this study is the best.....!
Its alot deeper than I thought it would be!!!
[IMO---
This battle of God-fearing men and angels against an army of supreme angelical beings, demonic supremacy and perdition is what sci-fi art and painting and sci-fi screen writing is about. Look at the movie the Rings as an example. This is what dreams of the very inspired script writer, ( perhaps some of the more biblical inspired script writers) hope to envision someday about authentic biblical accounts of what these biblical stories and visions were really about...Some may be able to portray the message they see, very convincingly to others, through art and painting and writing. This, matter of factly, was actually a vision of Daniel's to begin with---God's way of communicating with Daniel. Daniel's message was in a vision ( this required a great amount of creative insight and resolute spiritual integrity on Daniels' part) to actually envison these battles of the angel (s) on an entirely different dimension than what he was familiar with... ...This is what the high point of many sci-fi and adventure film themes are about anyway, especially in our own culture--- seeing men raise themselves up to seemingly immortal levels---( much as batman, and spiderman and superman have for a long time in our culture) This battle in Daniels' Vision with the Kings and Princes of Persia remind me of an Indiana Jones movie, with Harrison Ford, "
Raiders of the Lost Ark", where the nazis, in the movie are revealed as angels of perdition the moment they felt they could seize the power of God in the Ark----until they are finally blown away by the true power of God. I sense them as the living dead, not as all unsaved people are dead in their sins...but as the living dead, conscious of their eternal corruption. I remember watching another movie about Pirates of the Caribbean "
The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Johnny Depp was a wonderful pirate in this movie) with a similar theme of the "undead" reliving their curse in fleshless bodies on nights of the full moon, also vampire movies are movies of the "undead" or those with other kinds of eternal perdition. I have heard of similiar battles in german opera, refering to this battle as "The Twilight of the gods" such as in Wagner's
Das Reingold.
In the end, all peoples of the world ( even those who feel they are above anything human in this life) will have to realize God's Laws are higher than man's delusions about power:
[bible]1 Corinthians 1:26-31[/bible]
[bible]Psalms 19:7[/bible]
[bible]Psalms 19:1-4[/bible]
Documentaries about the holocaust and other war horrors may be more accurate depictions of the reality of what this kind of absolute power is about. It is about humanity loosing all recognition of what being human is about---and the machine and technology that supports that kind of perdition.
Art, at times, may be raised to a visionary medium, even in movies and sometimes with music. Having a talent to study scripture and portray it and express it for others in other dimensions is a great talent.
This has been a wonderful study. I myself, sense patterns in scripture---such as, where the music was not recorded in such long ago ancient times, I sense, the Psalms were all once put to music that was long ago forgotten.........
I remember reading somewhere in Isaiah, where ancient hearths once destroyed and razed to the ground will someday be rebuilt.....Perhaps Bible Scholars may someday understand if more was meant by the "foundations of the earth" than we realize now, for some future generation......Maybe there will someday be a bridge with our modern technological sciences and bible knowledge..
Again, Ebed, I hope you don't mind me going off the beaten path a little bit, and sharing my opinions and insight with the hopeful answer to your question......
