Are you asking me to read your mind? I don't do hints very well. Make your point plainly.
Do you know where in scripture he cast out demons? There are several.
There are only two revealed creatures God created (not including animals, etc.), and they are angels and man. There is no such thing as 'demons' except when describing 'evil spirits' which are the evil attitudes in angel and man. This is a mental condition and Christ died for this as well, not just sin but also the evil attitudes originating from sin directed towards God and man. Christ healed the man in the tombs who suffered a mental condition. He was aware who Jesus was because Jesus' fame spread abroad far and wide. There was nothing supernatural in their knowing who He was:
7 And
cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Mk 5:6–7.
What we know about mental conditions are all found in the effect of sin upon us - even if born again. Patients can be quiet and in their own little world, or they can be deranged and expressive and loud and shouting and crying or making guttural or groaning noises. Take your pick. The men/man was also observed cutting himself with stones. What many expositors overlook is the man ran over to Jesus and worshiped him, and as the word is defined by Strong's, prostrated himself and kissing His feet. In his own little unorthodox way could have expressed Jesus to heal him not knowing what he wanted but He knew Jesus and that He healed people. But the man was not in control of his faculties and Jesus had to command the man to shut up/be quiet, to soothe him which is what medical workers do to someone acting like he was.
When asked his name he said, "Legion, for we are many" which in his deranged condition may have just been his actual name. Being "many" can refer to the delusions and/or identities he could have created in his mind. Matthew records there were two people in these tombs. Now, in my studies the first thing Jesus does with an uncooperative individual like this uncontrolled man is to subdue the mind before He could do anything else and this also led to a normal communication.
Sending the man "out of the country" is a mistranslation. "Country" is not in view here but being in the tombs was. Now, we go from "unclean spirit" in verse one to "devils" in verse twelve. Strong's defines the word "devils" as
from daio (to
distribute fortunes); a dæmon or supernatural spirit (
of a bad nature)
So, what is being "distributed"?
Attitude.
Words and attitudes - especially bad attitudes - are powerful. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. That's a lot of power for something we can't see but surely can 'feel.'
The word "them" as in send "them" away (vs. 10) is the word "autos" and we know this word is also used as a prefix meaning "self" (automatic, autonomous, etc.), So, there are not "many" in view here but one: self.
The word "us" in verse 12 is the word "egō" meaning in the 'first person' or "one" - self (I, me, etc.)
But why the 'swine'? Because swine are unclean animals and the man himself was unclean. He had a mental condition, a derangement.
We can look upon someone's 'countenence' and discern whether they are happy or sad, confused or any other expressive that indicates a person's frame of mind. Note: MIND.
Have you ever walked into a populated room and sensed a 'presence' or oppression? Someone is expressing a "bad attitude." Negative attitude as opposed to a 'sunny' or good attitude. In the end what did Jesus do? He healed the man of his mental condition. There is indication the man had a mental condition because what was the result of this encounter?
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed,
and in his right mind: and they were afraid. Mk 5:15.
One more thing...there is nothing in the Old Testament of the children of Israel ever dealing with "devils" and such the way the theology and interpretation of "evil spirit" and "demon" and "devils" is interpreted in the New Testament. None.
Now, you can consider what I've written here and reject it outright and continue to hold to the way these terms are interpreted in the New Testament but again, there is no precedent in the Old Testament of these things being described the way the theology of the New Testament records them. But along with physical infirmities there were people with mental condition: depression, derangement, bi-polar, schizo, etc., but although not clearly described in the NT of Jesus dealing with people with a mental condition, there are several places in the bible of Jesus healing the mind as well as the physical. It's just not clearly interpreted even though it is clearly recorded. At least I think so. And there is one more thing to consider and that is the gift or discernment of spirits (1 Cor. 12.)
The gift allows the person who has this gift to discern the source of this spiritual phenomenon. And there are three spirits it can discern - actually, four:
1. the spirit of man.
2. the spirit of angels (
good and
evil.)
3. the Spirit of God.
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