Question
Where do you get the idea of twelve locations around the earth for the principalities and other issues that were in your Biblical Earth Science and Astronomy series?
Response
I’m glad you used the word “idea” to refer to what I set forth, because that truly is what I set forth and it is only my “idea” of what the governmental structure of the heavenly places around the earth may be like. At the present time I am not able to remember all that has gone into my thinking in connection with this “idea.” I haven’t dealt with it for some time, and I would need to refresh my memory with much of what I have studied and thought about in the past regarding it in order to respond to it in any detail. However, it is primarily based upon my understanding that the governmental structure of the principalities, powers, etc., of the heavenly places parallels that of those on the earth. My thinking is that the parallel may go beyond just the fact that a governmental structure exists in the heavenly places as it does on the earth, but that the very map, so to speak, of the structure to the heavenly one may also parallel what God originally set up when He did what Moses said He in did in Deuteronomy 32:8. As Moses states, “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” My understanding is that when God did this He did it with Israel being in the midst of the nations, with the “number” issue referring to the number of Israel’s 12 tribes. Hence, as I see it, the “bounds of the people” around Israel in their nations were composed of 12 zones, so to speak, providing for Israel in their midst to influence them accordingly, just as Moses stated earlier in Deuteronomy 4. In connection with this basic “map” for the original governmental structure of the earth, my thinking is that the same structure may very be what exists in the heavenly places around the earth. There are other issues and matters that I think fit into this and that give further credence to it in my thinking. However, as I said, right now I just don’t have this issue fresh in my mind so that I can adequately recall and/or set forth the significance I have attached to some of these other issues and matters. But the primary foundation upon which my “idea” rests is what I have just set forth.
Keith R Blades