Satan knows his time here is allmost up.
Today, Satan is full of wrath because he knows he has but a
short time to rule (Revelation 12:12).
he is on a lionroaring rampage, just look at the world around us.
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Most people are unaware that there even is a devil.
Satan is the god of this age and deceives the whole world
(2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 12:9).
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Daniel taught Nebuchadnezzar that “there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets”
(Daniel 2:28).
This prophet chastened himself before God gave him those secrets
(Daniel 10:3-5, 12).
Those secrets opened Daniel to Satan’s most vicious attack!
“But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one
and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes,
came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of
Persia” (Daniel 10:13).
Satan fought against the two great archangels, Michael and Gabriel, for
21 days. It took that long for God’s two most powerful archangels to prevail!
Satan was trying to prevent God’s secrets from being revealed.
“Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people
in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days” (verse 14).
This vision was for the latter days—the time we are living in now.
In fact, the whole book is for this end time (Daniel 12:4, 9).
Satan tried extremely hard to keep God’s vision from being revealed to Daniel.
Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee?
and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth,
lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will show thee that which is noted in the
scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things,
but Michael your prince” (Daniel 10:18-21).
The prince of Persia is Satan. Here Satan is struggling to change the mind of
a Persian king and shift world power to work out his Earth-ruling strategy.
But before Satan did that, he tried to destroy God’s secrets given to Daniel!
His first priority is always to attack God’s people—God’s secrets.
Both archangels, Michael and Gabriel, are fighting against a very powerful devil.
The demons, “rulers of the darkness,” fight and wrestle for men’s minds—
especially the minds of God’s own people! (Ephesians 6:12).