Wednesday, July 01, 2020

The Demoniacs And The Pigs

"When JESUS reached Gadara, on the other side, HE was met by two men, possessed by devils, who came out from the tombs.  They were so fierce that no one dared to pass that way.  They cried out, 'Son of GOD, leave us alone!  Have YOU come here to torment us before the time?'

Some distance away there was a large herd of pigs feeding.  So the demons begged HIM, 'If YOU drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs.'  JESUS ordered them, 'Go!'  So the demons left the men and went into the pigs.  The whole herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

The men in charge of the pigs ran off to the town, where they told the whole story; and also what had happened to the men possessed with the demons.  The whole town went out to meet JESUS; and when they saw HIM, they begged HIM to leave their region." - Matthew 8:28-34 
(JESUS overcame the raging sea and disembarking on the pagan shore of the lake HE confronts the demon.  It is to say that the possessed has partnership with death and with impurity to which it is attached [Numbers 19:11]; but no one, absolutely no one is able to master him.  This adversary, however, bows low recognizing the superiority of JESUS, Son of GOD the Most High, who forces HIM to reveal HIS name.  JESUS will free this possessed man: the demon, author of every "impurity" is sent to his own kingdom.  Pigs are in fact, in Jewish tradition, a type of impure animal, and the sea into which they cast themselves is the symbol of the empire of evil.)

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