Tuesday, December 5, 2023

THE PERVERSE ONES

A man, after the transfiguration brought his son, who had a devil within, to Jesus to cast a devil out of him.

Stop reading right there… many of you do not believe in the ‘Devil,’ Satan, nor that personal devils that can enter unto you. The Devil is no more than Lucifer using cunningness to deceive you. Foremost is that if you follow Jesus, it is you who should have the power to do the things of God. That makes you the ‘god’ in your own eyes.

Sinners never have devils in them because they have the Devil in their genome, or flesh. Devils usually attack the faithful to penetrate their armor of safety, as in the case of Job and his encounters with the other kind.

‘Devil’ in the Greek is ‘daimonion,’ meaning ‘daemonic beings’ (demons) (Strong 2006).

Contrast that to the ‘Devil’ himself — ‘Diabolos’ (John 8:44). Therefore ‘devils’ are ‘diabolical’ beings like the Devil itself. Like the Devil — the so-called ‘Serpent’ — devils are diabolical and have the same characteristics as the Devil. They are cunning and deceptive; so cunning that no man, save Jesus, has ever overcame the devils in the world.

The first act of Jesus was overcoming the Devil itself. Because Jesus had the fortitude to do so, that it seems that the apostles who followed Him would have the faith to do as Jesus did. Not so, their faith was not that strong.

The father asked Jesus, “Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed” (Mat 17:15). The son had abnormalities. He is ‘moon struck’ and under much stress; so much that he endeavors to drown himself or set himself on fire (Mat 17:15).

The son was suicidal and the reason he was is that he had a devil within him in the manner that Judas had Satan enter him before he committed suicide. No, the son did not have epilepsy but an invisible power was going on within, wherein devils were battling for his soul. Then Jesus became impatient with them and chastised them all: 

“O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to Me. And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. (Mat 17:17-18)

 Jesus not only questioned their faith but called them a bad name. (That hurt their self-esteem, I am sure.)

What Jesus said was the truth and as the truth it was meant to denigrate them.

Imagine, if you will, a band of faith healers whose faith was so shallow that they could not heal anyone even spiritually sick, let alone physically. Jesus called them out for what they were. They were not any better than those with devils at this time in His ministry.

Jesus called them a “perverse generation,” or in the Greek, “diastrepho genea.” They were born severely twisted (ibid). They were perverted from birth because it was in the genes. In other words, their faith was controlled by their own ‘father,’ the Diablo (John 8:44).

Their faith was limited because each one of them, at that time, were in the flesh, meaning that their genetics controlled their faith. They were not able to cast the devil from the father’s son because at that time, before Jesus redeemed them, their faith was limited. They were too much in the flesh and dependent on themselves.

They were still somewhat under control of their own genome which, over the years, was inherited from Eve who was the mother of all the living (Gen 3:20). Their own power was limited because the Holy Ghost of Jesus was not in them because Jesus had yet to be glorified (John 7:39).

Before they could have the Power of Jesus, Jesus had to die to give up His Holy Ghost (Mark 15:37). Only the Spirit of Jesus could displace the demons in people, but first the disciples must be rid of their won demons. (Of course, God was standing before them, but was He to them?)

Note that the son had the spirit of demons in him, not the spirit of John nor the Holy Spirit of Jesus. What did Jesus have that the others did not? Virtue given to Him at His own baptism when the Holy Ghost entered and remained on Him. That did not happen with the others. They were washed with water outwardly and the Spirit washed their soul but it never remained on them as scripture implies (John 1:33).

Soon after He arose, the Holy Ghost of Jesus replaced His physical Presence (Acts 2). The Holy Ghost is the Substance of God as well. It is as much God as Jesus who is the visible Presence of God that anyone could see. The Holy Ghost is the same Presence that only true Christians can sense. Whereas Jesus could be detected by all the five senses, it would require a greater sense to know the Holy Ghost.

At that time, the disciples somewhat trusted Jesus but they would need to learn to trust the Holy Ghost. They did not understand that they would be in Christ after Jesus was gone. Not that they would literally be in Christ, but no longer a perverse generation, albeit ‘born again’ (John 3:7) a newly engendered generation from God above (ibid). With Jesus no longer with them physically, He would remain on them… finally even though they had been baptized with water, they would later be baptized by the Holy Ghost and be as protected as Jesus from demons.

With that said, Christians ‘wear’ the Spirit of God in the sense that it is the same garment that God put onto Adam for him to remain safe in the world (Gen 3:21).

The ‘coats’ of Adam and Eve were of the flesh of God for He provided it. Now, the garments of the apostles would be the Holy Ghost of Jesus that they would wear for power, vigilance, and preservation; it was the Whole Armor of God that they would wear, as it is written, “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephes 6:11).

They had failed to cast out the devil from the man’s young son because they had no armor to provide power and safety to themselves. They were standing before the devil with no armor!

The armor of God is not any more of steel or leather than old King Saul’s. David rejected Saul’s armor and defeated the man Goliath in battle because David had put on the whole armor of God, noting that David did not need the shoes of God because He was brave enough not to run from the devil in Goliath.

Once the apostles and disciples had the whole armor of God to prevail the wiles of the Devil, the glorification of Jesus would make them a righteous generation that would not even fear the Devil in Nero, who was one of the many ‘Antichrists’ to come.

To be honest, there are not enough devils to go around for every sinner, so they go after believers. Demonic angels are of a limited number but humans generate at will and profusely.

Without enough demons to go around for all the perverse people generated, what was the Devil to do? He imbued Eve with daemonic genetics, and she would pass them down to all her kind. As such, “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).

Jesus was already somewhat glorious because He was without sin. The transfiguration gave Him the Power of God, and His death, the Glory of God. He would be made in the entire Image of Yahweh and even His flesh would be like the first Adam’s — the man that was the very Image of God, His flesh was imbued with the phantom of God and that ‘phantom’ is now called the ‘Holy Ghost’ in that it is the Spirit of the dead man, Jesus.

The Holy Ghost is the Power of God in the world. It is Jesus here with Christ in us in another form. With that Power, and that Power alone, can devils be cast out.

Jesus explained to them why they were so powerless:

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, “Why could not we cast him out?” And Jesus said unto them, “Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, ‘If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, ‘Remove hence to yonder place;’ and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’” (Mat 17:19-20)

They simply believed after failing so many times one after the other, that they would fail again. They were the ‘lunatics,’ not the demon possessed boy.

Albert Einstein revealed some truth, “The definition of ‘insanity’ is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” They were the ‘insane’ ones as Jesus bravely pointed out to them.

They had all tried casting the devil out, but did so without prayer and fasting (Mat 17:21). They would need to be made weak in the flesh, so that they would be strong in the Spirit. Why is that? “The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” as Jesus said it (Mat 26:41).

By eating food, the flesh is kept strong. Ironically, the flesh is weak to sin, one of which is overindulgence in food. As it is strong by the consumption of food, it becomes weak to sin.

Prayer is asking for divine blessings and the glorification of God. Prayer is the willingness of the Soul of man to please God. Prayer builds up because it is communicating with God. It is an invisible strength that few use. Prayer makes Christians supra-men.

The power in the armor of God is prayer, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” (Ephes 6:18). “Supplication is “a seeking, asking, entreating,” of God (ibid), so that it is not you with the Power, but you using the Power of God.

Going unnoticed was that the Power of God was right in their faces. Their unbelief was still that Jesus may not truly be God in the flesh. They had depended on their own works to cast out the devil rather than just asking Jesus (supplicating) to do what only He was able to do. With the Power of God right there, they turned to their own devices even though all they had to do was ask and it would be done!

Jesus believed both in His own Power and devils. Many who consider themselves ‘Christians’ believe in their own power, fail to believe in demons, and as such undermine Jesus! Even demons believe in Jesus, yet so many Christians do not believe in demons! Just who are the perverse ones?



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