#2: THE WILD MAN OF GAD (THAT’S MOST OF US), AND THE SWINE (THAT’S THEM)

07-02-17 This message may be viewed live streaming video at www.tabernacleofmoses.org commencing today Sunday at 11:00am, and repeated 24/7 for one week; thereafter, the video, audio, and study notes are archived.

The brightness of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines (our building blocks)

 

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(Luke 8:26,27)  And they [Jesus and His disciples] arrived at the country [Gk: territory] of the Gadarenes [members of the tribe of Gad who preferred to settle in the wilderness rather than in The Promised Land], which is over against [Gk: on the opposite side of] Galilee. And when he [Jesus] went forth to land, there met him out of the city [consisting of a large group of people] a certain man [unknowingly but symbolically representing the city], which had devils [Gk: demons] [unclean defiled and defiling spirits, fallen angels] long time, and ware no clothes [i.e., he was wild], neither abode in any house [he was not domesticated, not tamed; he was homeless], but [he dwelt] in the tombs [literally, and also figuratively in the cemetery of his mind, visiting that graveyard of memories “always, night and day” Mark 5:5].

 

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(Mark 5:6-10)  But when he saw Jesus afar off, he [the wild man] ran and worshipped him [“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw night to you” James 4:8], And cried [Gk: croaked] with a loud voice [of a defiled and defiling fallen angel], and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee [“I solemnly implore you” Amplif. Bible] by God, that thou torment me not [i.e., torment me not before the appointed time] [1]. For he [Jesus] said unto him [the fallen angel], Come out of the man, thou unclean [Gk: impure: foul] spirit [a defiled and defiling fallen angel]. And he [Jesus] asked him [the defiled and defiling fallen angel], What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion [ref: a Roman legion of 6,000 soldiers]: for we are many. And he [the defiled and defiling fallen angel(s)] besought him much [begged Him] that he would not send them [plural] away out of the country [Gk: territory]. [2]

  1. (Mat 25:41)  Then [at the final sheep-goat Judgment] shall he [Jesus] say also unto them on the left hand [“the goats on the left” (v:33)], Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
    1. Commentary: “the goats on the left” = Sheep and goats both belong to the bovid family having in-common certain physical similarities, and are examples of animals symbolizing men. However, in this prophecy “goats” symbolize unsaved peoples who have heard (been seeded with) Jesus Christ (“the Word” John 1:14) but that seed has not taken root, and they thus fall into the second tier category of “stony ground” unsaved “no root” (Mat 13:6; Mark 4:6,17; Luke 8:13) people. Notably, the four categories of “The sower soweth the word” parable seem to upwardly advance (evolve unto maturity), perhaps as we too do.
    2. goat = Dictionary: 1. any of a number of wild, or domesticated, cud-chewing mammals with hollow horns, related to the sheep. 2. a lecherous [unrestrained] man. [Judg 17:6; 21:25] 
  2. (Luke 8:28-30)  When he saw Jesus, he [the wild man] cried out, and fell down before him [the man himself temporarily exerted “temperance,” dominating self-control, for the inner fallen angel would not, at this time, “bend the knee”], and with a loud voice [the defiled and defiling fallen angel(s)] said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not. (For he had commanded the unclean spirit [the defiled and defiling fallen angel(s)] to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught [Gk: seized] him [(internally, inside his mind)]: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands [with psychosomatic strength], and was driven of the devil [the fallen angel(s)] into the wilderness. [a] And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. [b]
    1. wilderness = Gk: lonesome, by implication (waste): desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness. [the world]
    2. (Mark 4:19)  And the cares [Gk: distractions] of this world, and the deceitfulness [Gk: delusions] of riches, and the lusts [Gk: longing for what is forbidden] of other things entering in, choke [Gk: strangle completely /// take by the throat] the word, and it becometh unfruitful [Gk: barren /// without fruit].

                                                              i.      Commentary: “becometh unfruitful” = meaning that the word (“The seed” Luke 8:11) was once growing toward fruitfulness, but now has ceased growing, i.e., has ceased becoming fruitful. Luke 8:14 has a clarifying rendition: “and bring no fruit to perfection [Gk: to be a bearer to completion (maturity), ripen].”

UNCLEAN FOUL (DEFILED AND DEFILING) ANIMALS (A METAPHOR OF CERTAIN MEN)

(Mark 5:11)  Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding [Gk: hogs] [a type and shadow of natural men feeding in the wilderness of the world] [1,2].

  1. (Lev 11:7)  And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud [he does not regurgitate his food, i.e., symbolically, they do not consider, contemplate, think things over]; he is unclean [Heb: foul: defiled, polluted] to you.
  2. Commentary: “swine” = are hogs also called pigs, who are unclean (defiled and defiling) animals that have split (cloven) hooves; figuratively, swine are men attempting to walk in two worlds, heaven and earth [“No man can serve two masters… God and mammon (Gk: wealth)” Mat 6:24], but they do not chew the cud, i.e., they do not meditate (they do not consider, contemplate, think things over). Swine/men are known to indiscriminately eat, (symbolically, not discerning the difference between good and evil – the flaw (error) of Adam and Eve) to take into themselves anything and everything, i.e., for a characteristic example: “the [empty] husks that the swine did eat” Luke 15:16. (Be sure that you are not eating, taking into yourself, the myriad “empty husks” that the world abundantly purposely provides). This description relates to the reprobate [Gk: rejected; worthless: castaway] persons living “on stony ground” (e.g., Penuel) who are not saved, and are therefore rejected from heaven. The “swine” are a metaphor (most directly) for men and women “on the rock” Luke 8:13 who receive (feed upon) the word (“seed” Luke 8:11) of God “with gladness… and endure but for a time” Mark 4:16,17, “and in time of temptation [Gk: testing] fall away [Gk: remove themselves, instigate to revolt, desert: depart, withdraw self]” Luke 8:13. Why do the swine withdraw themselves from God’s word? Strangely for a pig, they can find no satisfyingly palatable (acceptable) food because their hearts are too hardened to digest the rhema food of God (sacrificial love); they are hard-hearted persons. [a,b]
    1. (Eccl 3:18)  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest [make apparent to] them, and that they might see [understand] that they themselves are beasts [Heb: animals].
    2. (2 Pet 2:22)  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow [Gk: hog (swine)] that was washed [by the rhema word of God] [Rom 10:17; Eph 5:26] to her wallowing [Gk: rolling in filth] in the mire [Gk: mud].

 

(Mark 5:12)  And all the devils [defiled and defiling fallen angels] besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them [the forthcoming action (“Jesus gave them leave” v.13) is clearly exemplified by the current “strong delusion” (2 Thes 2:11), composed of “a lying spirit(s)” (1 Kings 22,23; 2 Chron 18:21,22), that God is now sending unto unsaved men and women] [1,2]; this action also parallels the gross over-abundance of quails God sent upon “the people that lusted” Num 11:31-34).

  1. (1 Kings 22:19-23)  And he [the prophet Micaiah] said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab [the evil king], that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit [an angel], and stood before the LORD, and said, I [(singular)] will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him [(singular)], Wherewith? And he [the angel] said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his [Ahab’s] prophets [(plural)]. And he [the LORD] said, Thou [the lying spirit] shalt persuade him [Ahab], and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit [(singular)] in the mouth of all these thy prophets [(plural)], and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee [Ahab]. [repeated in 2 Chron 18:21,22]
  1. (2 Thes 2:10,11)  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish [Gk: are destroyed fully: die /// death, punishment]; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them [the swine “stony ground” men and all first tier unsaved men “by the way side,” i.e., the balance of all unsaved humanity] strong [powerful, mighty] delusion [a], that they should believe a lie [i.e., a lying spirit(s)]:
    1. delusion = Gk: fraudulence; subjectively a straying from orthodoxy or piety: deceit, to deceive, delusion, error /// roving (as a tramp).

 

           

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