What Does This Mean for Us?

[Roseheart]

From Luke 11:

24 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’25 So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order.26 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.”

I was just wondering - does this mean anything for us, or was it specifically a warning for those people that Jesus was talking to, who weren't repenting of their sin?

Thank you for helping me understand, and God bless.

 

[Fireinfolding]

I was looking at this on post #24 on this thread myself

http://www.christianforums.com/t7654540-3/

Now Im not sure if its helpful, because I had kinda the same question and am still looking at it to be honest. I try to stay away from saying anything affirmitively either way but there seems to be a patern shown in scripture which seems in accord somewhat (in various ways) as it seems worded (here and there). Just a manner of time before the right pieces (for me personally) to get a better look (or understanding).

God bless you

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

On a personal level it means this...

2 Peter 2:21
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

 

[Fireinfolding]

On a personal level it means this...

2 Peter 2:21
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Seems to show the same here you think?

2Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.


Because theres "the latter end being worse then the beginning", just as Jesus said "the last state of a man is worse then the first"

 

[InSpiritInTruth]

Seems to show the same here you think?

2Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.


Because theres "the latter end being worse then the beginning", just as Jesus said "the last state of a man is worse then the first"

Yes, very good Sis.

And then on a large scale we see a whole wicked generation.

Matthew 12:45
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

 

[Roseheart]

So, Fire, you were connecting this passage with the end times, right? I didn't think of it in that context - but it's interesting.

InSpiritInTruth, that makes sense to me, too.

Thank you both for helping me to understand, God bless.

 

[Fireinfolding]

Roseheart

The wording sure seems to be reflective, and since it speaks of the last state of a wicked (even as wicked men wax worse and worse also) I couldnt help but see some kind of connection.

But I cant say affirmatively or not because I see in part, but I notice I'll be interested in something, study it (compare here and there) add to it, set it aside (return to it) and again add to it (once again) and a thing might come into better focus for me, but I dont have perfect vision on anything. Like you I am curious of many things, and I inquire into them and wait on them like everyone else.


Thank you too InSpirit

God bless you both

 

[Roseheart]

I suppose we'll all find out when it happens. God bless.

 

[Percivale]

On a straightforward level I think the passage means, if you were demon-possessed and get delivered, you want to give your life to God so you aren't empty and vulnerable to being possessed again.

 

[ptomwebster]

Read Rev 17.

 

[Roseheart]

On a straightforward level I think the passage means, if you were demon-possessed and get delivered, you want to give your life to God so you aren't empty and vulnerable to being possessed again.

That could also be an interpretation, and a very true one. Thank you!

Read Rev 17.

I'm afraid I don't see the connection...

God bless both of you!

 

[x141]

One is cast out as profane out of the mountain of God, he brings seven more, a perception of a woman whose son is unclean, and the one is of the seven and the one becomes the eighth ... a generation that does not enter into the truth due to a woman/harlot/city who reigns over the kings of the earth.

More often than not when we look at scripture we do not see that it is something that is happening in us, Christ being revealed in us, and we end up taking the wide path to interpertation or wait on Moses to come down from the mount (so to speak) rather than waiting on the Lord to the renewing of our strength.

Jesus' words/parable span the entire book and have no depth other than what we put on it.

 

[Roseheart]

One is cast out as profane out of the mountain of God, he brings seven more, a perception of a woman whose son is unclean, and the one is of the seven and the one becomes the eighth ... a generation that does not enter into the truth due to a woman/harlot/city who reigns over the kings of the earth.

So it's related to the seven kings in Rev 17?
Sorry, but of all the books I've read in the Bible so far, I find Revelations the hardest to understand, so please forgive my many questions.

More often than not when we look at scripture we do not see that it is something that is happening in us, Christ being revealed in us, and we end up taking the wide path to interpertation or wait on Moses to come down from the mount (so to speak) rather than waiting on the Lord to the renewing of our strength.

Jesus' words/parable span the entire book and have no depth other than what we put on it.

That's interesting... I'll try and keep that in mind next time I read something similar in my Bible.

 

[x141]

Yes ... It is also related to the seven days of creation, seals, bowls, trumpets, feasts etc.

Things are not the separate things we make them to be, it is our perception of truth due to the woman/soul God gave us, so to speak. In the law of Moses the woman is unclean all the days of her separation, seven, the eighth day her son (christ in us) becomes clean to her when his flesh is removed, or the perception of this is removed.


The one cast out goes into the desert and wanders finding no rest (seven is the number of rest, the seventh from Adam, Enoch). Abraham's three days to sacrifice his son was Isaac's wandering as Jesus' three days is ours. The reason (I see right now) the book of revelation is set up in sevn feasts through three perceptions, seals, bowls, trumpets.

Revelation is how the Father revealed himself in the son, they have become as one of us or as he is so are we.

 

[Roseheart]

Yes ... It is also related to the seven days of creation, seals, bowls, trumpets, feasts etc.

Things are not the separate things we make them to be, it is our perception of truth due to the woman/soul God gave us, so to speak. In the law of Moses the woman is unclean all the days of her separation, seven, the eighth day her son (christ in us) becomes clean to her when his flesh is removed, or the perception of this is removed.


The one cast out goes into the desert and wanders finding no rest (seven is the number of rest, the seventh from Adam, Enoch). Abraham's three days to sacrifice his son was Isaac's wandering as Jesus' three days is ours. The reason (I see right now) the book of revelation is set up in sevn feasts through three perceptions, seals, bowls, trumpets.

Revelation is how the Father revealed himself in the son, they have become as one of us or as he is so are we.

Thank you, I understand now - and it makes a lot of sense.