Christian Cognition in Organized Structure; Think on the Blood of Christ; Flood the Infrastructure; Persecuted as Normal

Cognition is the mental process of learning and understanding. Somehow our thoughts are now considered to be part of the authoritarian elites organized structure. Once we get done laughing, we realize that these people are serious. This is why the heavy hand in modern media censorship and the erasure of true history. But if our thoughts are “owned” by a group of rulers then we realize that we ourselves are owned by the same group of rulers. Ouch. While it sounds like we Christians are imprisoned by an elite ruling class, it has actually always been true of Christians living in a fallen world ruled by Satanas. Therefore if someone wants to “own” our thoughts we should give them the very best thoughts regarding the blood of Jesus. Jesus’ blood overcame the grave. Jesus’ blood washes away our sins. Jesus’ blood makes us children of the Most High, Living, God. Jesus’ blood also makes us kings and priests. The things  that we think on are not necessarily going to overthrow kings and rulers under Satanas, but our thoughts shield us from spiritual attacks. If the government rulers make us fearful, we compromise ourselves, leaving an opening for attack. Why live in fear? Instead live in the boldness of the blood of Christ Jesus who makes us free from death.  

We know our heart has thoughts and this is something that the evil rulers cannot control. When we combine Godly thoughts with Godly intent we change the dynamic of the infrastructure that the rulers believe they own because we act upon our Godly thoughts and intents. If we flood them with the thoughts of the Almighty Creator and His ways, they cannot overcome us. They will have to wait until we are harpazo’d to continue with their evil plans for control of the world. Yet their plan is to paralyze us into not thinking on the things of Christ so that we do not act with love in our communities. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/12/change-of-heart-countenance-opprobrious.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/01/thoughts-and-ideas-at-ready-demolish.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/01/primeval-past-higher-evolution.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/04/spiritual-thoughts-wickedness-in.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/11/our-emotional-center-examining-our.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/01/dimensions-eternity-image-of-man.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/08/seeing-invisible-enochs-divided-time.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/02/cleaning-soul-different-genos-evil.html

Every time someone was held back from speaking about Yahweh Elohim, and the words that Yahweh Elohim gave them, they still prevailed in the end. Albeit they suffered some sort of trial. Every prophet wrestled with this. Think about Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah when they were told that they had to worship a golden image and not Yahweh Elohim. They told the corrupt rulers no. They willingly took the threatened punishment that was meant to instill fear, rather than bow to the golden image. Remember our studies on gold? Who is a hoarder of gold? Who will make an image in the future? 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/11/he-fills-earth-with-war-not-cherub.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/05/gold-diffused-or-specular-incorporeal.html

Daniel defied the rulers and the priests and was thrown into the lions den twice. Yes twice. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-he-find-faith-out-of-persuasion.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/08/daniels-faith-our-part-gods-part-cyrus.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/06/cunningly-devised-fables-idols-and.html

 

The idea of being thrown to the lions was meant to inspire fear, intimidation, and compliance, but with Daniel it didn’t work. The same is true for Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah being thrown into a burning fiery furnace. It did not intimidate them and they could not be manipulated by their evil rulers. But what did happen? The evil rulers were thrown into the lions den. This backfired on them. Nebuchadnezzar made a decree that anyone who spoke against the God of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah would be cut in pieces. This too backfired on the evil rulers. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/05/tenacity-to-stand-strength-to-be-still.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/11/curing-lukewarmness-for-this-occasion.html

Paul fought wild beasts in Ephesus. Yet every time the government or the religious leaders tried to stop Paul from speaking he kept right on going. All the imprisonments, all the beatings, and all the wild beasts, did not deter Paul’s thinking that Jesus is the only way. The message was so important to Paul and to the other disciples that they gave their life to not let their speech be regulated and they continued teaching and preaching in faith and love. 

How should we react to learning that the governing rulers believe our thoughts are owned by them? We should give them all the “thoughts” they could ever want of Jesus Christ, our risen Messiah, and put those thoughts out into the the world. We should do what Paul and Silas did, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. We should rejoice in Jesus. 

Philippians 4:4 (AMP) Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice! [Ps. 37:4.]

5 Let all men know and perceive and recognize your unselfishness (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit). The Lord is near [He is coming soon]. 

No one should question who we are in Christ. They should spiritually see us coming. 

Philippians 4:6 Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. 

Don’t fret. It would seem that fear is used by both sides, saints and sinners. Saints inspire fear of hell so that people receive Christ. Sinners inspire fear to control and extract Jesus Christ out of people. But if we are saved then we do not fear death. Therefore if the howling of the evil rulers and demons puts us in fear we simply need to pray, petition, thank, and make requests to God. This is our path to peace while we live in a world controlled by Satanas. 

Philippians 4:7 And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 

I love the particular wordiness of the Amplified here. God’s peace, the tranquil state of our soul that has no fear, which transcends our understanding, garrisons and mounts guards over our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.  A garrison is a fortress of troops, and mounted guards are soldiers on horseback. This is how God’s peace protects us. It goes beyond what we physically see and understand, like defying the rulers and false priests of Babylon. In the natural it looks bad, but in the spiritual it is what is required of the saints. We need the Elohims peace to guard our hearts and minds. What do we fear? 

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]. 

9 Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and model your way of living on it, and the God of peace (of untroubled, undisturbed well-being) will be with you. 

 The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), Php 4:4–9.

“The henceforth brothers how much is unconcealed how much honorable how much equitable how much chaste, how much beloved how much well spoken of whether any one moral excellence and whether anyone commendation these things take an inventory.” 

This gives us the foundation for our imitation. Focus on what is unconcealed, honorable, equitable, chaste, beloved, well spoken of, moral excellence, and praiseworthy, think about these things. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/12/out-resurrection-above-summons-victory.html

Paul is speaking to the disciples who actively participate in spreading the gospel here in Philippians 4:4-7. When he says “for the rest” Paul is referring to the rest of the brothers and sisters in Christ. The distinction is usually unrecognized. The people actively ministering are to rejoice and not fret or have anxiety. For the general population of believers, work your mind to think on and imitate Paul in these things. We make the choice as to what we think. We make the choice in what to feed on. We make the choice. Not the rulers or governing authorities. Flood the infrastructure with thoughts of things that are respectable, honorable, pure, lovely, lovable, kind, winsome, gracious, virtuous, excellent, and praiseworthy. We fix our minds’ on these things. But that does not mean the elite rulers will not try and take over our thoughts. It does not mean that the governing authorities won’t claim dominance over our cognitive thoughts, for their own infrastructure. It doesn’t mean that we won’t be persecuted when we upset the cognitive infrastructure with the blood of Christ. They will come after us. We simply resign ourselves to this fact and stand. That is what we are asked to do, stand. 

1 Peter 4:12 (AMP) Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you. 

Why are we surprised that evil will encroach on the believers in Christ? We have let them advance without any push back from us. Where are the celebrity Christians? Probably making deals and compromises with the social elite so that they will be the spokespeople of compromise to the body of Christ. Nonsense. There is nothing strange happening here, it is normal, historical, and expected. The Pharisees compromised originally during the age of the Maccabees, and then continually up to the destruction of the temple and the ousting of Jews from Jerusalem. Our leaders are compromised by their own desires just like the Pharisees were. Paul fought the compromised Pharisees and the Romans. We are fighting the compromised Christian leaders and our own elitist rulers. 

1 Peter 4:13 But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly]. 

Do you think the Christian compromisers will be rejoicing with the non-compromisers? No. They will be ashamed. 

1 Peter 4:14 If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are you—happy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. [Isa. 11:2.]

If we are censured and suffer for Christ we are doing it right. If we are flooding the rulers’ infrastructure with the blood of Jesus, we will be pressured to stop, but don’t stop, just keep on standing. Keep taking the message to the streets. The rulers don’t go out on the streets and socialize, they stay in their own little bubble, protected from the laity.  

1 Peter 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or any sort of criminal, or as a mischief-maker (a meddler) in the affairs of others [infringing on their rights]. 

Don’t be a criminal and expect not to be persecuted. Instead if we are going to be persecuted then we can be like Paul and Silas and be persecuted for the name of Christ. We can be like Peter and John, walking in love, healing people in the name of Jesus Christ. 

1 Peter 4:16 But if [one is ill-treated and suffers] as a Christian [which he is contemptuously called], let him not be ashamed, but give glory to God that he is [deemed worthy to suffer] in this name. 

17 For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news (the Gospel) of God? 

 The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), 1 Pe 4:12–17.

Be happy, give glory to the Elohim, and understand that this is normal behavior for Satanas and his minions. Certainly Satanas will attempt to knock us down but we are to simply stand. 

1 Corinthians 16:13 (AMP) Be alert and on your guard; stand firm in your faith (your conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, keeping the trust and holy fervor born of faith and a part of it). Act like men and be courageous; grow in strength! [Ps. 31:24.]

14 Let everything you do be done in love (true love to God and man as inspired by God’s love for us). 

 The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), 1 Co 16:13–14.

Stand. Have courage. Be strong. Then walk in love. 

Ephesians 1:7 (AMP) In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor, 

8 Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence), 

9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, 

10 [He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth. 

 The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), Eph 1:7–10.

In short, Jesus gives us redemption through his blood, forgives our sins, and lavishes upon us cognitive function, wisdom and understanding regarding the mystery which is to unify all things in heaven and earth in Christ. Flood the cognitive infrastructure with this news. Stand firm on this.

If we recognize that every time evil rulers and authorities attempted to silence people regarding Yahweh Elohim, Jesus Messiah, it never worked and actually had the opposite effect. All our persecution for testifying of Jesus Christ spreads the logos of the Elohim. All the prophets endured, all the evangelists endured, all the true followers of the Elohim endured, and so can we. I read about two Chinese women who were imprisoned in China that spread the gospel message and walked in power in the love of Christ, in prison.  We recognize that this cognitive infrastructure idea already exists on the earth in some countries. Maybe not where we live but it already exists. Even still the attitude is what is crucial. Jesus doesn’t promise that Satanas won’t attack us, but he does promise us eternal life. 

Hebrews 2:14 (AMP) Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings], He [Himself] in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by [going through] death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the power of death—that is, the devil— 

15 And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives. 

 The Amplified Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1987), Heb 2:14–15.

While the rulers and governments will censor information in an attempt to control people’s thoughts, ideas, and understandings, they will not be able to control what we think on. The governing authorities think our thoughts are part of their infrastructure, but they are incorrect. Jesus is Lord over our lives, making their infrastructure susceptible to the knowledge and understanding of the blood of Christ, and his overcoming death for us. Instead of being in fear of their nonsense, we can be bold in the blood Jesus shed for us. We should flood their infrastructure with Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords. If we are persecuted for it then we are not suffering anything unusual as it seems to be normal for anyone who stands for Yahweh Elohim to be persecuted. It is a witness and a testimony of the evil that has ruled the world for thousands of years that Satanas cannot overcome us or the blood of Jesus Christ. 

This Kind Does Come Out; Extracting this Genos; Ability Equal to Faith; Scribes

We understand what it is like to get accurate details in a situation when there is a large crowd of people gathered around describing what they witnessed of an event. We ask several people what happened and we have to piece together the entire story using the varying and often different accounts. This is what happened after the mount of transfiguration, when Jesus, Peter, James, and John, came down the mountain. We have three accounts written for us. One was written by Matthew the very detailed tax collector. Another was written by Luke the physician who interviewed the disciples, primarily Thomas. And then there is Mark who wrote Peter’s account of the event in a rather cut and dried manner. Three different accounts written about the same event. Being that there are three accounts, the disciples must have thought this was an important event for them to write about it. The reason this story is important in our day is because we have to learn the details in how to extract a particular genos of demon. Once we see the keys, we will be able to unlock those who are bound. 

Here are some previous studies on casting out demons. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/09/superhuman-potentates-miracle-power.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-name-knees-bow-many-ask-lord-lord.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/10/potentates-name-unclean-spirits-testify.html

The gospel of Mark was scribed by Mark from Peter’s account of events. We see a detail here that is interesting.

Mar 9:14  (ISV) As they approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

Mar 9:15  The whole crowd was very surprised to see Jesus and ran to welcome him.

Mar 9:16  He asked the scribes, "What are you arguing about with them?"

This is the first time we see Jesus is speaking to the scribes. Why are the scribes arguing with the disciples? 

Mar 9:17 (ISV) A man in the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that won't let him talk.

Mar 9:18  Whenever it brings on a seizure, it throws him to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes stiff. So I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they didn't have the power."

The scribes were gathered around the disciples when the man who may have been a scribe as well explains that he brought his son to Jesus, but as we know Jesus was not there, he was on the mountain. This is why the disciples attempted to cast out the demons. Notice the man says that the spirit won’t let the boy speak. The boy has seizures, he is thrown to the ground, foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth and then becomes stiff. 

We want to look at this next section closely. Luke was not an eyewitness to these events, but he did extensive research, putting the events in order of time. Matthew was a witness of these events and he puts these events in order as well, but Matthew gives us more details. Jesus went up on the mountain and was transfigured in front of Peter, James and John, and then they all came down to a situation where the disciples, who were given dunamis and exousia, could not cast out an unclean spirit. 

Luke 9:37-42 (KJV) 

37  And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him. 

38  And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child. 

39  And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. 

40  And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not. 

41  And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. 

42  And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father. 

By this time, the disciples had the reputation that they could cast out demons, otherwise the man would not have brought his son to them. Something else was going on here. The twelve were successful prior to this, now something isn’t working for them. Both Luke and Matthew provide us with clues and an answer. 

Matthew 17:14-21 (KJV) 

14  And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 

15  Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. 

16  And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. 

17  Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. 

18  And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. 

19  Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? 

20  And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. 

21  Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. 

Mar 9:19 (ISV) Jesus told them, "You unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

Mar 9:20  So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell on the ground and kept rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

Mar 9:21  Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

This seems to be an unimportant question. Who cares how long? But the length of time is related to something. It is related to a specific incident or a traumatic event. It also tells us something. It tells us that this Father was not adhering to the prescribed laws of Moses along with the feasts and holy days for a fairly long period of time. Most likely the Father was not adhering to the laws and feasts from before the boy was overcome by this demon. 

Why were the scribes there? Was the Father a scribe? Was he friends with the scribes? The words of the scribes were honored above the law of Moses and it was a crime to offend the scribes. The scribes have a checkered past, annulling the commands for their own traditions. The scribes were “lawyers” promoting the laws but they promoted their traditions, as well, such as allowing Jonathan Apphus to become high priest, when he was not of Aaronic lineage. The scribes “sided” with the Pharisees (as they wanted to continue their work) and sect, thereby compromising with sin. Then being bound by one sin, the scribes gave themselves to defending the traditions of the Pharisees, rendering their version of the law of none effect in the eyes of the Elohim. Their morality changed by their observance of false traditions and their teachings became skewed. Jesus challenged them to search the scriptures because they all thought they had eternal life but they were rejecting the Messiah himself. Matthew 23 tells us everything we need to know about the scribes. With this in mind we can understand what the Father was dealing with regarding the scribes and his son. But Jesus showed himself Lord and Messiah that day. How many scribes believed on Jesus after this? Very few. 

Our first clue comes from verse 17. 

Matthew 17:17 G611 And responding G1161   G3588   G* Jesus G2036 said, G5599 O G1074 [⁴generation G571 ¹unbelieving G2532 ²and G1294 ³perverted], G2193 until G4219 when G1510.8.1 shall I be G3326 with G1473 you? G2193 Until G4219 when G430 shall I endure G1473 you? 

1074 LSJ Gloss:γενεά race, stock, family

Dodson:γενεά a generation a generation; if repeated twice or with another time word, practically indicates infinity of time.

Thayer:

1) fathered, birth, nativity 

2) that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family 

2a) the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy 

2b) metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character 

2b1) esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation 

3) the whole multitude of men living at the same time 

4) an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years

γενεά 

genea ghen-eh-ah' From (a presumed derivative of) G1085; a generation; by implication an age (the period or the persons) KJV Usage: age, generation, nation, time.

571 LSJ Gloss:ἄπιστος not to be trusted

Dodson:ἄπιστος unbelieving, incredulous, unchristian, unbeliever

unbelieving, incredulous, unchristian; sometimes subst: unbeliever.

Thayer:

1) unfaithful, faithless, (not to be trusted, perfidious) 

2) incredible 

2a) of things 

3) unbelieving, incredulous 

3a) without trust (in God)

ἄπιστος 

apistos ap'-is-tos From G1 (as a negative particle) and G4103; (actively) disbelieving, that is, without Christian faith (specifically a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing) KJV Usage: that believeth not, faithless, incredible thing, infidel, unbeliever (-ing).

1294 LSJ Gloss:διαστρέφω to turn different ways, to twist about, distort

Dodson:διαστρέφω I pervert, corrupt, oppose I pervert, corrupt, oppose, distort.

Thayer:

1) to distort, turn aside 

1a) to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God 

2) to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt

διαστρέφω 

diastrephō dee-as-tref'-o From G1223 and G4762; to distort, that is, (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt KJV Usage: perverse (-rt), turn away.

Jesus rebukes the entire generation. He says that they (the generation) are faithless and perverted. Faithless doesn’t mean that they (the generation) don’t believe on Jesus; obviously the father believed that the disciples of Jesus could heal his son, but after the disciples’ difficulty he then turned to Jesus to heal his son. So it is not a matter being faithless toward Jesus. The entire generation is perverted, or distorted. Our next clue comes in verse 21 when Jesus explains this to the disciples. 

The scribes should not have been a faithless and distorted group of people, but here we are. 

Mar 9:21  Then Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" He said, "Since he was a child.

Peter recalls these events a little differently. Jesus asks the man how long this has been happening and the man tells him, since he was a child. The man didn’t say since he was born but since he was a child. This gives us an idea of when the entry point of this demon took place. Jesus did not ask what events happened to cause this but he instead puts the burden back on the father. 

Parents have a responsibility in the spiritual well being of their children. An abusive parent can break a child so that the child becomes infiltrated by demons. Have you ever heard of satanists putting children in boxes underground to break them? Why? Those children are tortured for a later purpose by the cult. Likewise a parent who leaves a child spiritually unguarded in the world is allowing demonic abuse. Parents are responsible for what a child sees and is taught, not other adults. Fathers also have a Biblical responsibility to lead by example regarding the word of the Elohim. 

Mar 9:22 (ISV) The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

Mar 9:23  Jesus told him, "'If you are able?' Everything is possible for the person who believes!"

Mar 9:24  With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"

What was going on that the father didn’t believe? He was not following the laws of Moses, he was not adhering to the feasts for cleansing, he was not regularly repenting and teaching his family the same. This is the father’s responsibility. This is why Jesus rebukes the entire generation as faithless and perverse. Now remember, Peter is telling us that Jesus is speaking to the scribes. That’s a problem. The people copying the books of the laws, the prophets, and the histories, don’t believe in nor understand the value in the feasts? The times for atonement, the times for getting sin out of the house? These spring and fall feasts were more than a ritual, but were to keep a person spiritually clean. No wonder the entire generation is twisted.

We have a similar problem today where entire denominations believe that the word of God, written to us by the Holy Spirit, is irrelevant for our time. Many pastors and preachers do not believe in the logos, the written word that is sharper than any two edged sword. They deviate from the logos and the rhema to preach mans wisdom and logic. Some people believe the Bible is too old to be of value for us. I believe the written word of the Elohim given to us by the Holy Spirit is more relevant than churches, denominations, and preachers, who reject it. I believe there is a relevance found in the original words of the text. This logos is more important than we realize. 

Another problem we face in the church besides the woke preachers who preach a different Jesus, is the lack of demonology. We are not teaching the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the casting out of demons to the Body of Christ. We seem to only allow a few people to “minister” when in reality everyone should have this knowledge. Why pretend demons do not exist or influence people when the evidence is everywhere? 

Mar 9:25 (ISV) When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear—I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

Jesus spoke directly to the demon. He did not speak about the demon. He did not negotiate with the demon. He commanded the demon to come out, but went further to demand the demon never enter him again. Why don’t we do the same? Are we fearful we might fail like the disciples? There is no failure here unless we do not try. Many things factor into the situation. The Father, who is the guardian of the boy, had to want the demon removed. The boy had to want the demon removed, even if he was in an incapacitated state. The Father was going to be responsible to keep the family spiritually clean and needed to become “untwisted”. 

Mar 9:26 (ISV) The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

Mar 9:27  But Jesus took his hand and helped him up, and he stood up.

Why did the spirit scream? The demon didn’t want to leave but Jesus commanded him to and the Father believed it was available for his son to be healed. This wasn’t up to Jesus as much as it was up to the Father, the scribe. Imagine what that must have been like to be be in the crowd. All those scribes got a lesson that the Elohim is not dead. They also got a lesson in who the Messiah was. 

Mar 9:28 (ISV) When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

Mar 9:29  He told them, "This kind can come out only by prayer and fasting."

Matthew 17:21 G3778 But this G1161   G3588   G1085 kind G3756 does not G1607 go forth G1508 except G1722 by G4335 prayer G2532 and G3521 fasting. 

1085 LSJ Gloss:γένος race, stock, family

Dodson:γένος offspring, family, race, kind offspring, family, race, nation, kind.

Thayer:

1) kindred 

1a) offspring 

1b) family 

1c) stock, tribe, nation 

1c1) i.e. nationality or descent from a particular people 

1d) the aggregate of many individuals of the same nature, kind, sort

γένος 

genos ghen'-os From G1096; “kin” (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively, individually or collectively) KJV Usage: born, country (-man), diversity, generation, kind (-red), nation, offspring, stock.

4335 LSJ Gloss:προσευχή prayer

Dodson:προσευχή prayer, a place for prayer (a) prayer (to God), (b) a place for prayer (used by Jews, perhaps where there was no synagogue).

Thayer:

1) prayer addressed to God 

2) a place set apart or suited for the offering of prayer 

2a) a synagogue 

2b) a place in the open air where the Jews were wont to pray, outside the cities, where they had no synagogue 

2b1) such places were situated upon the bank of a stream or the shore of a sea, where there was a supply of water for washing the hands before prayer

For Synonyms see entry G5828

προσευχή 

proseuchē pros-yoo-khay' From G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel) KJV Usage: X pray earnestly, prayer.

3521 LSJ Gloss:νηστεία a fast

Dodson:νηστεία fasting, the day of atonement.

Thayer:

1) a fasting, fast 

1a) a voluntary, as a religious exercise 

1a1) of private fasting 

1a2) the public fast as prescribed by the Mosaic Law and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month of Tisri (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October); the fast accordingly, occurred in the autumn when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms 

1b) a fasting caused by want or poverty

νηστεία 

nēsteia nace-ti'-ah From G3522; abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specifically the fast of the Day of Atonement KJV Usage: fast (-ing.)

This genos, type of demon, only comes out by prayer as prescribed by the mosaic law, with an offering in the temple. This kind also only comes out with fasting as prescribed by the mosaic law. Remember at this time there was a temple and temple service. This is inclusive of fasting on the day of atonement. This is why these feasts were ordered during spring and fall equinox, as per the Enoch and Zadok priesthood calendars. Twice per year these holy days of ritual service were to take place. The holy days were ordered to keep one spiritually clean so that people would not have accusations against them from the satan. Today the need for ritual service is annulled as Jesus is the sacrifice and the atonement, but at that time people were to partake in these holy days for this very reason. However the entire generation had become faithless and corrupt. They were not partaking of these prescribed holy days. Therefore that type of demon would not be extracted; not due to the disciples, but due to the faithlessness and corruption of the father of the boy. The father believed in Jesus, but not in the need to adhere to the prescribed laws of prayer and fasting. In their day and time, that is what they should have been doing if they had faith in Yahweh. 

The disciples were doing everything they could, the stronghold of the unclean spirit resided with the father who did not atone for sin. Yet it is the circumstance as well that hindered the disciples. They saw the child in this uncontrolled state as the demon made quite a show. Demons do this to try to fake people out. If you are a superhuman potentate, you have authority over this demon. Jesus said you only need a small amount of faith for this. But seeing the boy writhing, foaming, and yelling, was a scare tactic from the demon to trick the disciples. In these cases stand tall with your exousia and dunamis and continue to unseat the demon. However if it wasn’t for the generation of distorted people who did not atone for their sins, it would be much easier to dislodge this type of demon. Deliverance ministry is messy from time to time, but not out of our realm of superhuman power. Jesus mentions something interesting as Luke records. 

Luke 9:44 (KJV) 

44  Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. 

They did not understand this but let’s review the situation. Jesus comes down from the mountain and a crowd of people are waiting because this father wants healing for his son. As soon as they see Jesus, the demon starts acting out. Jesus rebukes the unclean spirit and then tells his disciples that he would be delivered into the hands of men. What? Men are powerless, blind, and dumb. Jesus would be delivered into the hands of spiritually blind, unbelieving, and perverse people. Jesus’ disciples have power. Jesus’ disciples have authority. But Jesus was going to be handed over to regular men. Jesus, who had just rebuked a demon that scared his disciples. Jesus, who healed blind eyes and deaf ears. Jesus, who gave miraculous power and authority to others was going to be handed over to deaf, dumb, and blind men. Wow!  

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/09/superhuman-potentates-miracle-power.html

Prayer and fasting is not widely promoted in the church but there are benefits. For the person casting out the demons, prayer is very important, especially listening to the Elohim. Fasting is putting our physical body into subjection to our spirit. If we fast we are denying our body food, a life source for our body, to connect to the Living God, who is the life source of the world. Demons do not like people who pray, nor do they like people who put themselves under the Elohim. They also do not like people who take authority over their own body putting it in subjection to the spirit. Prayer and fasting has benefits for both the one casting out demons and the one with demons. 

Someone who wants to utilize the gifts of the spirit has to have self restraint in all things pertaining to themselves. If someone has a lust problem for food or sex, that person is not going to wield the power of a self-restrained spirit. Learn prayer and fasting to get control of personal appetites to grow spiritually to cut out demons. Don’t assume the seven sons of Sceva were dopey lowlifes. They were the sons of a high priest. They just didn’t have the internal spiritual power or ability by their belief in Jesus Christ. Yet generally speaking a man can cast out demons without believing in Jesus Christ because the spirt of man is above demons in the spiritual hierarchy.  Dunamis is given by Jesus Christ when the Holy Spirit lives in us. This clue is gained from Mark 9:22 when the Father says to Jesus “if you are able” dunamai. Jesus turned the “able” back on the Father, and said if he was “able” to believe. 

This genos can come out. This genos is the kind that causes seizures and foaming at the mouth. This kind is a specific kind, bigger and stronger in a person than other genos’. It can be extracted. If the lack of following the commands can exacerbate demonic possession, then the practicing of commands as per Jesus Christ would loosen the grip of demonic possession. For the regular Christians there is a simple everyday plan to keep in mind. Feed yourself on Jesus Christ, worship, praise, prayer, fasting, and communion with the Holy Spirit. Make demons uncomfortable every day all day long. Then use your own authority in Christ and in the name of Jesus, to command demons to leave. Remember it is Christ in you, make demons so uncomfortable they want to leave. We are schooled by the world to think that the Bible is either irrelevant or a bunch of rules that make us miserable, but the reality is that if we follow Jesus Christ and do what he suggests then we will live better; freer, happier, and healthier. 

Demons Screaming; Age of Rage; Demons Announce Messiah; Controlled by Drugs and Demons

David asks a question that we are all asking in this day and age. Why are people so crazy? It used to be that we expected emotional regulation in society and in public. We expected respectable behavior toward others. Today it seems like there is emotional disregulation everywhere. People scream and yell as if  there is a justification for doing so. Most of these behaviors are allowed and encouraged because certain rulers are using the mental and emotional demonic possession of others to their advantage with an end to destroy society. These rulers are the very same people who mock Christ. Who would want to trust someone who mocks Yahweh Jesus Messiah? Since there is nothing new under the sun we can recognize that there were many periods recorded in the Bible that described societal chaos and upheaval, such as during the start of the nation of Israel, and during the era of the northern and southern kingdoms. So whatever was done in the past is simply inspired again in humans. David tells us that the pharmaceutical drugs, the medicating of people, causes more lawlessness and unrighteousness. These drugs cause people to resemble their leaders, Satanas and his demons. If people are drugged they can be controlled. 

Just a few previous studies on demonology:

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/02/when-demons-are-in-charge-manipulators.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/02/cleaning-soul-different-genos-evil.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-sold-soul-demon-knowledge-proverbs-6.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/01/dwelling-of-demons-beelzebul-judges.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/11/no-retreat-no-surrender-oppose-opponent.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2020/08/two-seeds-nephil-watchers-angelology.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-millennial-reign-demons-satyrs.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/02/where-is-jesus-imprisoned-spirits.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-do-demons-know-what-did-ancients.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2012/04/keeping-our-homes-spiritually-clean.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2012/04/repairing-leaky-mind-and-using-filter.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2012/04/changing-your-citizenship-to-kingdom-of.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2012/04/where-do-demons-come-from-casting-out.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/10/potentates-name-unclean-spirits-testify.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/09/superhuman-potentates-miracle-power.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/11/psalms-109-intercession-for-warriors.html

Let’s start with David talking about the raging nations.

Psalms 2:0 G5568 A psalm G3588 to G* David.

“Song the David”

David teaches through his songs. People tend to remember songs or lyrics put to music better than words alone. 

Psalms 2:1 G2444 Why did G5433 [²neigh G1484 ¹nations], G2532 and G2992 peoples G3191 meditate upon G2756 vain things ?

“For what reason ethnos/nations snort (like a horse) and the laity they studied vanities.”

David writes about the nations, the ethnic groups. The fact that Israel had a national Elohim was a distinction between them and other ethnic groups. While some nations had their own gods, Israel was supposed to be worshipping the Elohim and living under a set of rules that made them moral and civilized. There was a moral law, a civil law, and a spiritual law for the people to follow. While the laws and commands seem like a burden they are only a burden when one lives outside these rules.  

David says that the nations snort like a horse. Horses can snort when they are happy or upset. But when a horse is mad, it stomps, it jumps, it behaves in an uncontrolled manner. This is why people “break” a horse, so that it is rideable. Sometimes horses just don’t like people and they behave badly, running fast and throwing their rider. The nations are not broken for the Elohim. Israel was supposed to be broken for the Elohim, but there were too many mixed nations cohabitating with Israel and they acted like a bucking horse.  

The idea is that the nations make a tumult or rage. The nations are screaming and yelling in an uproar. Their pandemonium is not for the Elohim but for their own vain thoughts. Their vanities are due to their narcissism. People who know the Elohim and who worship Christ are not generally narcissistic because Christianity teaches that we are to submit, or bow to Jesus Christ, taking up our cross and laying our own lives down for the saints. However there are narcissists in the church and we know them by their fruits and behaviors. Can a narcissist be saved as a narcissist when the narcissist does not put Jesus first by making Jesus Lord? Repent. Jesus told us to love one another so that others would know we are His disciples. Does the narcissist really love others?

This is an idea worth exploring because the church is supposed to judge behaviors within the church. There is plenty of cleaning up we need to do within the church and while we are dusting and polishing we are also supposed to be wise to the world. Demons exist and they encourage vanities, they also cause people to act poorly. The non-saved people rage and behave badly because they want to live their own way, without the Christians holding a moral line. Satanas and his demons intend to push morality out, and those who follow them will snort and stomp and study vain things. 

Psalms 2:2 G3936 [⁵stood by G3588 ¹The G935 ²kings G3588 ³of the G1093 ⁴earth], G2532 and G3588 the G758 rulers G4863 gathered G2009.1 together G2596 against G3588 the G2962 lord G2532 and G2596 against G3588   G5547 his anointed one, G1473  

“The kings the earth indeed present and the rulers convene against the his downward Yahweh and downward the his Christos chanting.” 

In comparing the LXX-WH we see a few small changes in the text. The last word of this sentence seems to be missing; διαψαλμα meaning “chanting”. The kings and rulers chant downward against Yahweh and the Messiah. Why would the ethnic kings and rulers convene against Yahweh and the Messiah? Why would they chant about it? They are excited about vain studies and oppose Yahweh and the Messiah because they feel Yahweh brings them bondage. 

Why do rulers convene against Yahweh and the Messiah? Yahweh and the Messiah are a threat to those who want to exploit the laity. Yahweh and the Messiah are the moral standard that we are all to live by. If we put the demon possessed in charge as our rulers then we get anti-Christ behaviors from them. 

Psalms 2:3 G1284 We should tear up G3588   G1199 their bonds, G1473   G2532 and G641 we should throw away G575 from G1473 us G3588   G2218 their yoke. G1473  

“Let’s break in the ties his and reject away from us the his heavy burden.”

This is what the kings and rulers chant. They chant to break the ties and heavy burdens or the coupling with Yahweh. David’s question is why are they in a rage over this? Why are they rejecting Yahweh? Why do they think that they are bound and tied by Yahweh? They are not. They think that they are so they reject Yahweh, claiming that following Him brings a heavy burden. What burden? Sin. The things they wish to partake in are pointed out as sin and when sin is called out or exposed then it becomes a burden. In order to relieve the burden they reject Yahweh and the Messiah. If one rejects Yahweh and the Christ then that one has no burden of their own sins. 

The kings of the earth and the rulers convene and decide to reject Yahweh and His Messiah (the future Messiah, Jesus) because their sins are a heavy burden when they live under the Elohim. The rules and laws of Jesus Messiah are very simple, ready?

Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Mar 12:30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Mar 12:31  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Joh 13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Anyone who wants to be a leader, ruler, governor, president, priest, or clergy, should be an expert following these commands, both in public and in private. There should not be a public and a private self that is different in anyone who wants to be a leader of men. If someone talks like a follower of Christ but does not live in private like a follower of Christ then that person is not following Christ. Some people talk the game in public, but at home they belittle their spouse, kick the dog, yell at the children, complain about the food, demand, demand, demand. This is not leader material, that is demon possession. 

Psalms 2:4 G3588 The G2730 one dwelling G1722 in G3772 heavens G1548.1 derides G1473 them, G2532 and G3588 the G2962 lord G1592 ridicules G1473 them.

“The resident in heaven laughs at them and the Yahweh mocks them.” 

The ethnic nations cannot hide from Yahweh and neither can we. Do you think that Yahweh doesn’t know everyones secrets? 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-anointed-one-its-us-foretold-kings.html

David gives us more understanding in Psalm 58. 

Psalms 58  0 G1519 To G3588 the G5056 director; G3361 do not G1311 utterly destroy; G3588 to G* David; G1519 for G4739.2 an inscription on a monument.

“Into the fulfillment not destroy; the David; into inscription on a monument.

David starts with “Into the end, do not utterly destroy”, referring to the end of the age. 

David is speaking about things that will take place through to the end of the age. That would be until the millennial reign of Christ. 

Psalms 58:1 G1487 Will G230 truly G686 thus G1343 [²righteousness G2980 ¹you speak] G2117 and rightly G2919 judge, G5207 O sons G3588   G444 of men? 

“If certainly then righteousness speak straight judge son the manfaced.”

Psalms 58:2 G2532 For even G1063   G1722 in G2588 the heart G458 [²lawlessness G2038 ¹you work] G1722 in G3588 the G1093 earth. G93 [³in injustice G3588   G5495 ¹Your hands G1473   G4844.3 ²closely join]. 

“And for in heart lawlessness work in the earth unrighteousness, their hand intertwined.”

Lawlessness works in the earth and unrighteousness is in their hands. Why? If in those days David is speaking of Jews then this would be because they rejected the laws of Moses. If David is speaking of the nations, it would be because they do not know the Elohim and His laws. They behave lawlessly and unrighteously. If Jews reject the law then they bring curses upon themselves. Curses lead people into demon possession.

Psalms 58:3 G526 [²were separated G3588   G268 ¹Sinners] G575 from G3388 the womb; G4105 they wander G575 from G1064 the belly; G2980 they spoke G5571 lies. 

“Estrange sinful away from the matrix (womb) make to wander away from stomach (matrix) speak lying.”

This is a creative way of saying ‘separate the wicked from procreation’. Every time evil people procreate the spread of wicked hearts advances. The ones who speak lies, the imposters, should not reproduce, that is David’s prayer. That was the prayer/song on the monument that all of Israel was to read and recite. Isn’t it funny how David got others to declare this by putting it on a monument?  

Demons are not passed down like genetics, but demons will infiltrate entire families. One wicked parent or two wicked parents will cause emotional damage in their children. Those children will grow up to do wicked things unless they get saved and Holy Spirit filled. They will have to battle demons for their salvation and so that they can have peace. All people can overcome their past abuse. 

Psalms 58:4 G2372 Rage G1473 to them G2596 is according to G3588 the G3669 likeness G3588 of the G3789 serpent; G5616 as G785 [²asp G2974 ¹a mute] G2532 even G1040.1 plugging G3588   G3775 her ears, G1473   

“Their passion/wrath downward the resemblance serpent, just as if cobra dumb and immersion his ear”

The lawless in heart have a negative passion, they rage and are wrathful. They have a resemblance of a serpent, ophis, from heaven. It is a “downward resemblance”, meaning that the one that they resemble is above them. In other words, humans who have become lawless in their heart start to take on the traits of the fallen sons of God. They may not be heirs of the fallen angels, but they start to behave like them.  

The wild wrath of the lawless heart is also like a cobra that cannot speak and refuses to hear, by plugging or immersing his ears. This last phrase should connect to the next verse.

Why are the lawless in heart behaving like the serpent? How do they become lawless?

Psalms 58:5 G3748 who G3756 does not G1522 listen to G5456 the sound G1864.1 [²charming G5333 ¹of the sorcerer], G5037 and the G5332.1 administering of potions G3844 by G4680 a wise man . 

“Who not hearken tone expelled magician also medicated in the presence of learned.”

The cobra who is dumb or mute, immerses his ears and does not listen to the tones played by a magician. The idea is that the lawless in heart are like cobras who can’t speak and who won’t listen to the music that a sorcerer plays. But there is more here. The second part of the verse says that the cobra is medicated in the presence of the learned. The key to snake charming is medicating the snake with something first to calm it down and heighten its senses to the music. Regular people don’t know that this takes place, but the wise do. This is the lawless heart. The lawless heart is medicated by people who are wise regarding pharmaceuticals. A sorcerer is a pharmakeus who uses pharmakons, it is manipulation via herbs or drugs; basically any engineered potion or medication. But lawless humans can be “medicated” by lusts (child/human trafficking). The skill of the sorcerer is to know the subject that one wishes to influence, and then use the correct pharmakons. This is how people become lawless, they are drawn to something that makes them feel good. 

“Just as if cobra dumb and immersion his ear who not hearken tone expelled magician also medicated in the presence of learned.”

A lawless heart is being manipulated by a sorcerer using drugs and or lusts, but when something goes wrong they become enraged or filled with wrath. They then start to resemble the likeness of the ophis. They want to dominate, or control others. The lawless heart is so overcome by the sorcerer that he or she does not function as children of the Most High do. The key here is that as more and more people are manipulated into lawlessness, the society becomes unbalanced. The lawless hearts, the impostors, and the wicked, become the determining influence over the world while the children of God are shut up. This is societal entropy. The law of chaos that cannot be reversed. 

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/10/snakes-and-scorpions-our-jurisdiction.html

What we do not know is the effect the pharmaceuticals that people are taking are having on them. We know that there was a project to vaccinate people to alter the “god” gene, but what about every day drugs? Is it possible that people are becoming more demon possessed because they are taking pharmakons which cause them emotional disregulation? Why do people scream and yell all the time? Isn’t this characteristic of demonic possession? Why then are we seeing so much craziness in the world? Our pharmaceuticals are not making people emotionally better or closer to the Elohim, they are having the opposite effect. These people have no peace. 

Let’s look at some of the characteristics of demons. We should not forget that there are unclean spirits influencing people but there are some other things we should think about. Demons were not created by the Elohim. Demons were “created” inadvertently by the cohabitation of angels and earth women. Manfaced is a three part being, spirit, soul, and body. The Elohim created manfaced this way. Did the Elohim create angels with spirit, soul, and body? How about cherubim or seraphim? We don’t know. We do know they seem to be spirit and they seem to have a spiritual body, but we do not know if they were created with a physical body and a physical soul. Although we will judge angels in the future, and we know they have freedom of will, they can choose to follow the Elohim or not, we do not know what their soul or breath life is like. 

The Elohim did not create demons. Demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim. When manfaced dies the body decays but the soul and spirit live on. The word of the Elohim divides between soul and spirit. This is the division as to being judged because the heart has thoughts and intents. The soul and spirit will determine heaven or hell. The further division is that if someone is saved then they are judged as to rewards, based on the soul. The spirit of manfaced might be saved and the soul determines rewards received at the coronation of Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. 

With this in mind, what would it be like to be an unclean spirit, knowing that you were not a chosen, created, being, but a bastardization of the Elohim’s creation? I don’t mention this for sympathy, as demons do not have to be destructive to humans, but to point out the reason that they cause humans to act out so badly. There is a place for demons, they themselves call it the “abyss” or the “bottomless pit”, the place that the earth is above. As we consider this, whose directive are they following and why? They believe that they can overthrow the earth along with their leader Satanas. However they cannot. Now we have some tools to understand emotional disregulation or the reason that people are behaving crazy. They are inspired to behave badly and the societal push from Satanas is for civilization to accept it. It used to be that we put people in mental hospitals but now we allow them to behave badly out in the open.

Mar 5:1  And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

Mar 5:2  And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

169 LSJ Gloss:ἀκάθαρτος uncleansed, unclean, impure

Dodson: ἀκάθαρτος unclean, impure.

TBESG: ἀκάθαρτος

unclean

G:A

ἀκάθαρτος, -ον 

(< ἀ- neg., καθαίρω), [in LXX chiefly for טָמֵא ;] 

unclean, impure; 

__(a) physically (LS, MM, VGT, see word);

__(b) ceremonially:

__(with) morally:

 with πνεῦμα, as always in Gosp.,

Thayer:

1) not cleansed, unclean 

1a) in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law 

1b) in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life

ἀκάθαρτος 

akathartos ak-ath'-ar-tos From G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G2508 (meaning cleansed); impure (ceremonially, morally (lewd) or specifically (demonic)) KJV Usage: foul, unclean.

Matthew says that there are two men at the tombs, while Mark and Luke mention one man. For our purposes we will note this in the singular.

Notice that unclean means “impure physically, ceremonially, and morally”. We see that unclean spirits are not purified. Can they become purified? I believe that if they could then we would have been told to witness to them as well as to people. 

Why did the man with the unclean spirits come out to meet Jesus? What did the demons see when the man looked at Jesus? Can they see what type of spirit men have, as in renewed and saved, or unrenewed and unsaved? Did they feel a disruption in the force as Jesus approached?

Mar 5:3  Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

The man lived in tombs, which were caves that had dead bodies in them, like mausoleums. It is an unclean place to live, but if one is homeless that one finds shelter anywhere he can. No one would probably bother him staying among the tombs and it was probably dry and cool. 

Mar 5:4  Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

The man broke free from chains and shackles. This tells us that the man is very strong and the people in the region had nothing that could hold him. He was also un-tame meaning no one could talk to him, help him calm down, or reason with him. 

Mar 5:5  And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Crying and self mutilation points to despair. People who self-mutilate say that they do it to feel alive. This is interesting because the man was alive, but so miserable that he wanted to die. But when people wanted to help, then the man would go wild. 

Mar 5:6  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

The spiritual presence of Jesus caused the demons to make the man to run to Jesus. When he got there he worshipped him, but it wasn’t just the man worshipping Jesus it was the demons also worshipping Jesus.

Mar 5:7  And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Mar 5:8  For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

One demon speaking for all the demons wants to know why Jesus is casting them out. 

Mar 5:9  And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

There are many demons within this man. It might be safe to say that the more demons one has the more they act uncontrolled, untamed, and unrestrained. 

Mar 5:10  And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

The leader of the demon clan did not want to be sent out of the country. They found a good home where they were, and there was enough available bodies for them there. There is a type of body that these demons look for. One that is willing to house them. Demons can enter through false worship, practicing magic, sorcery, and child sacrifice. But demons can also enter victims of abuse. If the culture that these people were living in was depraved, and it was because it was first a Greek and later a Roman region (not an Israeli region), then they would want to stay in a place where people’s minds and hearts would let them in. 

Think of places where spiritual darkness resides, this is where demons want to live. Think about places like Germany after world war one, where the elites set up houses of prostitution for men, women, and children, as well as institutes exploring sexual perversions and early transgender surgeries. What is the United States turning towards? We have one “sin city” which now doesn’t look particularly sinful in comparison to the present day. It is not just false worship that allows demons entrance it is many behaviors that stray from the knowledge of the Elohim, until they deny the Elohim as Creator. This is in part the reason for the laws of Moses, so that people would keep demons out. Think about the curses the Jews put on themselves, demons enter with self imposed curses. 

These are not just demon possessed people living in tombs, they also live in all cities and towns and they go to synagogues and churches. 

Mar 1:23  And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

Screaming again. Demons make people scream.

Mar 1:24  Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

It is interesting that demons confess Jesus is the Holy One of the Elohim. There are many people who do not believe in Jesus Messiah but the demons do. 

Mar 1:25  And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

Mar 1:26  And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

More screaming and this time convulsing. Demons don’t like leaving their host. People understood what was going on. They understood that they could have demons. What they wanted was to be free so they followed Jesus and brought their friends and family.

Mar 3:10  For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.

Mar 3:11  And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

Demons fall at Jesus’ feet, yelling that he is the Son of the Elohim. Once again, demons testify of Jesus. 

Mar 3:12  And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

We might ask why Jesus didn’t want demons to make him known. Jesus was just beginning his ministry healing people and didn’t need the contentions of being called the Son of God. He needed to show the people the power of the Elohim working in him so that they could decide without the controversy. 

People can control demons, kick demons out of themselves, and behave properly, emotionally controlled in public and private. If we in the church will make known the scriptures we can heal people instead of allow them to be constantly demon controlled, screaming and yelling because the only relief from demons they know of is pharmaceutical drugs. Yet because the kings and rulers of the world are anti-Christ’s and they convene against Yahweh and the Messiah, they do not want people to find salvation through Christ. These corrupt kings and rulers want to give people their idea of salvation, which is drugs. This is why our kings and rulers do not speak about mental health issues. They want people demonically controlled which will mean the kings and rulers will have the support of the people as long as the people get their drugs. It is an old story that plays over and over. There is another way, Jesus Christ is better than any pharmaceutical drug. He is the prince of peace, he will share his peace with us. It is time of us to teach the world.