Let us consider the time period corresponding to the founding of the United States of America (USA), and compare the authority and the activities of the Thrones, Powers, Principalities, Fortresses, Dominions, Rulers, and Authorities during that early American period.

The American Revolution (Revolutionary War, war of [American] Independence) was fought between Great Britain and her colonies in North America (1776-1783). The 13 colonies (Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia) won independence from the British crown, and became the original United States of America.

Primarily unbelievers wrote the plethora of political documents put out during that time and many of these documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, contained great theological statements/truths. Though we would like to think that all of the authors were believers, they were not. For example, Thomas Jefferson was probably not a believer, but he made some great theological statements in his documents.

The Declaration of Independence (authored by Thomas Jefferson — a proclamation by the Second Continental Congress declaring the 13 American colonies politically independent from Great Britain) was formally adopted on July 4, 1776. The United States Constitution (committee members who produced the rough draft included John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston — the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of the USA government) was adopted in 1787 and put into effect in 1789

During the 1700s, America stated thinking about becoming a common nation. Based on from where the United States has come, I think we just have to say that it was:

• God's decreed will that the United States of America be a sovereign nation, and
• Satan [the creature] did not want that to happen.

Remember: God sovereignly rules over His entire creation, including over all of the spiritual and the physical dimensions.

Thrones are over world divisions and they are politically oriented — they are concerned with directing and manipulating political events. Powers, on the other hand, are academically oriented and they are concerned with formulating ideologies – philosophies – theologies and the related documents. In comparison, Thrones are over the politicians and Powers are over the political philosophies.

The Thrones and Powers would have dispatched spirit beings under them to implement military, political, and economic activities, and to encourage ideologies – philosophies – theologies and producing documents along those lines of thought.

Let us see what the high ranking spirit beings might have been doing during the early days of the USA.

Thrones are actively involved with people groups such as politicians and committee members who produce political documents [though they are not involved in the actual formation of the political philosophies and documents like the Powers are].

Principalities are over nations; they would have been directly involved in the events surrounding the American Revolution.

Fortresses are over people groups.

Dominions are over displaced people groups; they would have been in charge of British citizens in the American colonies and American colonists (citizens) in Great Britain.

Powers are concerned with formulating ideologies and political philosophies — the thinking that shapes public policies. Obviously, however, there is a connection between politics and theology, in which the godly angels are more involved.

Rulers and Authorities are under Powers. Rulers work very closely with Powers, because it is Rulers who are focused on political philosophies (political science). Authorities specialize in documents; they produce documents that codify the political philosophies.

At the beginning of America, there was a lot of activity back and forth between demonic Rulers and Authorities; demonic Rulers were shaping political ideas and demonic Authorities were putting those ideas into actual documents.

The godly angels cannot inspire individuals mentally, but they can engineer circumstances to get the right people to the right places. For example, the godly Rulers and Authorities would have manipulated circumstances to get Thomas Jefferson here and Benjamin Franklin there, so a lot of correct theology would be written into the secular documents — at the writing of the Declaration of Independence Creator was written into the document:

However, the demonic Rulers and Authorities simply influenced minds of the unredeemed subjects and made sure that reference to God was nature's God and NOT the God of the Bible — the Father of Jesus Christ.

That explains why there is so much godly material and so much demonic material at that time. Let us consider some of the political decisions and documents that came out during that time and see where both sides had victory:

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