JUST A SIDENOTE TO DAILY EVENTS

Jesus healed the lunatic by casting out his devil. None of the others had been able to do that. Now think about that; Jesus did what the doctors could not do and still cannot to this day.

Now for a short story about a girl I will call ‘Anna.’

Anna attended church with me. Outwardly she was a congenial young lady, but inwardly, according to her husband, reverted to something else. She was diagnosed, so said the preacher, with multiple personality disorder. I scoffed at that and told the preacher that she had her demons. He merely smiled at my rash conclusion.

Anna was nocturnal in her lifestyle — calm by day but restless by night. That fits the ‘screech owl’ of which Isaiah spoke (Isa 34:14), or in the Hebrew Lilit (Lilith), a ‘night demon” (Strong 2006). Lilith is neither male nor female but demonic. It seems that Anna’s dominant ‘devil’ was a spirit in the manner of Lilith. However, she had several spiritual identities, and perhaps legions of demons as the man of the Gadarenes (Mark 5: Luke 8).

As it turned out, the preacher came to believe that Anna did not have different personalities but one demonic spirit which he said he prayed out. I scoffed again; she had many devils that scoffed at the preacher for his naivete.

The point to Anna’s story is that none of us had the faith, and some even disbelief, to pray out the devils from Anna. I lost track of Anna, but my prayer is that someone cleaned her spiritual house of demons.

With the ‘lunatic,’ Jesus did what nobody else could do. He not only believed in demons, just as they believe in Him, but He knew that there was only one way to vacate them and that was by His own Holy Name. All the others could only believe in demons, but Jesus knew them!

Because the disciples doubted demons, made them doubt Jesus because the essence of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, is of the same substance as the essence of demons; and neither are of this would.

They saw God standing there but failed to understand that in the Man standing there, there also stood the Spirit of God who could drive out other familiar spirits… familiar to God anyway.

That leads us up to Jesus who the people would endeavor to drive out from the world. They could certainly not drive out the spirit of demons, nor the Holy Spirit of Jesus, but they could drive off the Man, or so they thought! 

While they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, “The Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised again.” And they were exceeding sorry. (Mat 17:22:23)

 Jesus said this out of nowhere, or did He? The subject at hand was driving out one spirit from one young man. That must have led up to the statement of Jesus about Himself.

Jesus referred to Himself as the ‘Son of Man.’ What in the world did that mean? In the Greek it was ‘huios anthropos’ — the “posterity” of the first Adam, an upright anthropoid being of Adam’s kind. Jesus was identifying Himself as the gens of the first Adam, or in modern terms, Jesus had the same male DNA as the first man. Adam was His genetic ‘Adam’ in genealogy.

Many of those who were with Jesus in Galilee were with Him on Calvary. What happened on Mount Calvary? The multitude finally accomplished what they had failed to do with the devils in the young man: 

Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost… And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that He so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said,”Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:37-39)

 The multitude could not drive the devil from the young man, but they did drive the Holy Spirit from the young Holy Man!

The young man in the commentary, before had a devil in him, but Jesus had the Spirit of God in Him. They could drive out the Image of God — a Phantom (Gen 1L27) — but they could not drive out the image of Lucifer — a serpentine-like seraph (Isa 14:29).

Why is that? They were not fully convinced that the young man had devils, because Christians still have difficulty believing in them, nor did they fully believe that Jesus had the Spirit of God in Him. Perhaps they wanted that to be true but were not fully persuaded.

When Jesus drove out the demon from the man, they were more persuaded than before, but they must be fully persuaded. The crucifixion was to fully persuade those who did not believe that God was within the Person of Jesus.

The disciples of Jesus said nothing when Jesus drove out the demon. They knew that they could not cast out devils, but it never occurred to them to ask how Jesus could cast them out!

When Jesus died, the Holy Ghost, which some seemed to have seen plainly, was driven from Jesus. The multitude finally did what they could not do before; they cast out an invisible Substance from a Man. Imagine their amazement in what they had done!

Jesus told the multitude what would happen very soon; the ‘Son of Man’ would have the ‘Son of God’ separated.

If the ‘Son of Man’ is the posterity of Adam, then the ‘Son of God’ is the posterity of the LORD GOD, Yahweh. It is imperative to understand that the Image of God was not of material substance, but a ‘Shadow’ or ‘Phantom’ (Strong 2006). Thusly, the posterity of God in the Man, Jesus, was the Spirit of God that after the death of Jesus, would be the ‘Holy Ghost’ of Jesus (John 7:39 KJV only).

Within the Person of Jesus were three Divine Substances, (1) the Light of God (Truth and Knowledge), (2) the Holy Spirit of God, and (3) the Flesh of God; all three in the Body of God — the ‘Godhead’ or ‘Holy Trinity.’

Ironically, Jesus had revealed that they might drive His Spirit from Him, but no worries; He could put His Substances together again.

They were “sorry” it says. Sorry about what? What they somehow knew would happen to Him. They were revealed truth about the coming crucifixion and were sorry that they would have the power to drive out the ‘Awful Thing’ from Jesus.

Jesus inserted information about His death and resurrection between the stories of casting out devils and taxes. It seemed that there was no connection with the first account; how about the accounting of paying tribute? That comes next.