The times of our ignorance about Satan ruling over the kingdoms of men, the Lord overlooked Acts 17:30. Now He commands all men everywhere to repent or come out and fight the good fight of faith in the second age of one faith from God Christianity, in the second age of the last days or end times of the kingdoms of men Acts 17:30; Dan. 12:4; Joel 2; Acts 2:17-21; Rev. 18:4; Matt. 7:21ff.
The two great falls of man away from the ways of God into the spiritual dark ages of the preaching, bibles, religions, and kingdoms of men were always destined for failure 2 Thess. 2:3; Jer. 10:23; Gen. 2:17; James 5:7-11; Prov. 12:14; Isa. 55:8ff. We were under a strong delusion 2 Thess. 2:11, and the Lord hid His face, power, glory, majesty, and Bible so we could, in ignorance Acts 17:30, stand against Him and learn the cost of not following Him without having to pay the ultimate price for choosing the ways of men over the ways of God Rom. 5:13; Acts 17:30; Rom. 5:13; Acts 17:30.
We are in the last days, or end times of the apostasy 2 Thess. 2:3, of the kingdoms of men, because of the second coming of the Sword of the Spirit, the wisdom from above, in part, is back 1 Cor. 13:9-12. The God-breathed Word, great spiritual enlightenment, the supernatural objective truth from God, is on its way back 1 Cor. 13:9-12; Dan. 2:44; Dan. 12:4; Joel 2; Acts 2:17-21; 2 Pet. 3; Heb. 1:2; 1 Cor. 2:6-16, etc. The second coming of the Sword of the Spirit, the wisdom from above, in part, exposes the fact that Satan rules over the kingdoms of men by pretending to be God and convincing us that the preaching, bibles, religions, and kingdoms of men are just as good as the ways of God Isa. 55:8ff; Eph. 2:20ff.
The Second Coming of the Sword of the Spirit reveals that Satan, the man of sin Rom. 5:12-21, the second horseman of the apocalypse while pretending to be God, steals our peace and sanity by lying to us about Christ not having all authority Rev. 6:4.
The seven lies/wiles/seals of Satan Rev. 5:1ff., being gradually revealed, means that we begin the second age of the 43-year great fight of faith Judas 3, transitioning from the kingdoms of men to the Kingdom of God just as men did at the first coming of the ways of God James 5:7-11. The New Testament foreshadows today!
Since spiritual warfare is between the wisdom from God and the wisdom from men 1 Cor. 2:6-16, the first lie of Satan is to claim that he was anything other than a man. As a demon now, the spirit of a dead evil man given power by God, he claims to be God, the Holy Spirit, a messenger of light, a fallen angelic being, an alien on the far side of the moon, or whatever so that he can deny Christ's authority. Satan, while pretending to be God, convinced Saul that "Elohim" is singular in number and that Christ could not be God in the flesh. Saul believed Satan was God 2 Thess. 2:3-4, and that is why Saul was kicking against the pricks and persecuting Christians, in all good conscience, before his conversion to Paul.
