One of the patterns of Satan’s divided kingdom that one finds over and over again in his follower institutions on earth is the “mixed strategy” of anarchy towards higher authorities and tyranny towards people seen as “lower” or under one’s authority. This mixed strategy is fundamentally divisive (and inefficient) because it is practiced all the way up and down the line in Satan’s kingdom, a pattern that requires active and constant force to obtain intermittent and minimal compliance. This means that all of Satan’s kingdoms in heaven and earth are temporary or oscillate between anarchy and tyranny, never finding any genuine constitutional middle ground that we would recognize as legitimate authority.

Let us first examine this pattern in a bit of detail. It was noted in an early post that the counterfeit model to godly republicanism under the rule of law (lex rex) is the political theory of “divine right,” popularized by the saying “l’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”). The personification of the state (or family, or church, or business) with a single individual, as occurs in one man government (the ideal Satanic model) leads to a host of evils that can be easily recognized as they occur regularly. One of them is the ascribing of divinity to the individual in charge. This is the “cult of personality,” which varies in form and ceremony but considers the ruler either the “Son of Heaven” (in a Chinese or Japanese model), as being God’s Viceroy (in the Western European model), of being a demigod (in the Greek or Egyptian models), of someone who will “become” a god (in the Hittite model), or someone who is a god to be worshiped already (in the Roman model). These are but variations on a theme, with the result that citizens of the state are induced into committing idolatry unless they want to run afoul of the corrupt Satanic government (Acts 5:29).

This personification of the ruler of the state as divine or being given special divine favor removes them from their true identity as equals, under the same laws and rules that apply to everyone else, and self-sacrificing servants of the people (the Deuteronomy 17:14-20 model of biblical kingship, the model that Jesus Christ established for the Church as well in Matthew 20). The Satanic counterfeit, therefore, errs first in making the ruler appear to be a god, thus removing them from accountability to those below and also making them a rival authority to those above. All laws require divine sanction. Whatever gives force to the law is the god of a society. If the ruler or the state is divine, then it is the ruler’s will or the machinery of the state or governing bureaucracy that defines right and wrong. If God is the source of law in a society, His laws will be enforced. If not, some other rival god is truly being worshiped by that society.

What happens on a larger scale also happens on a smaller scale. There are many who consider themselves to be “conservatives” or “libertarians” opposed to the oppression by government, and they are wise to see governments and oppressive in many circumstances, as they have been for the vast majority of “civilized” regimes in the gloomy history of the world. That said, despite their own face of anarchy towards the governments above with their oppressive taxes and rules, they often do not realize that they themselves often show an oppressive face towards those they see as below. For example, a “conservative” business owner who considers the thoughts of his employees to be his own property, or who exploits workers, or who engages in dictatorial work control and design strategies, whatever his attitude towards the tyranny of government, is himself a tyrant. The same is true of the right-wing minister who has an authoritarian rule over his church or congregation, but who preaches political freedom or small government in states and nations. The same is true for the father who claims that the state has no authority over him, but beats and abuses his wife and children, treating them as if they are his property. All show the same satanic model of authority–anarchy to authorities above, tyranny to those below.

The existence of this mixed model is one of the ways that Satan’s kingdom is divided. As every single man desires to be king of their own castle, and dislikes being treated with disrespect, everyone resents tyrannies from above, as they are found in oppressive taxation, the imposition of a police state, restriction on personal freedoms. However, as all wish in such a satanic model to be authorities over others, all practice the same sort of domination and exploitation on others. Therefore ambivalence and hypocrisy become the regular way of business for all institutions in the satanic model. All seek to establish firm authority on those below while providing those above with the illusion of compliance to preserve freedom. The desires of those above for power collide with the desires of those below for freedom from rules and regulations. The desires of those above for recognition and not to work too hard for their power and the desires of those below to provide the minimal amount of compliance and the willingness to put on a show to avoid more active and oppressive rule mean that ceremony replaces genuineness as all preserve their face in an unstable equilibrium where all sides are pretending and posing to everyone else.

This is one of the reasons (though not the only one) why Satan is the father of lies. Indeed, as we have seen previously in examining the two strains of gnosticism, the tension between tyranny and anarchy is the result of this mixed strategy being in operation. This strategy is the minimax solution given deceptive beings lacking legitimacy or love, or good intent. We should therefore expect the mixed strategy of anarchy and tyranny to be in operation in any satanic society, which in practice means that our examples of such a mixed strategy are limitless, which is precisely what we find.