Who are the Archons in the Bible that control earth from the sky ?

Today the term “archon” is often associated with various 1st centuty sects loosely referred to as “Gnostics.”

Many Gnostic doctrines taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

Of course the “gnostics” and Christians did share a number of beliefs living in the same cultural milieu, and Paul was especially engrossed in the Enochian worldview.

For large sects of Judaism every nation was under the influence of an evil “god”.

Read the early Fathers, they give a picture of the Cosmos as utterly demon-haunted, in need of constant blessing and redemption, and even throughout the Middle Ages the Church was thought to buffer one against ever present evil spirits.

We are at war, all of creation groans in enslavement.

The term simply means first in rank, a ruler, and appears in Greek texts 650 BC.

The first time it’s used to designate *angelic beings in text occurs in the OT LXX Dan 10:13, vaguely around 150 BC….which also contains the first references to the conception of angelic beings who are the Patrons of specific nations on earth.

David Bently Hart says HERE :

“For Paul, the cosmos has been enslaved to death, both by our sin and by the malign governance of those ‘angelic’ or ‘daemonian’ agencies…