Now you know why He let the legion go into the swine. He didn't specify HOW they went in, did He? And if you know that, then you know why Lot was spared even after what APPEARED to be an UN-righteous act of giving his daughters (outer court, who are not SONS) over to the men (with demons/evil spirits in them) of Sodom.
And why He will spew those that are lukewarm (not pressing into become mature sons) out of His mouth, and into the outer court (realm of the flesh/daughters/children), where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, as their bands (things of darkness used to chastise and instruct) are increased, and they see what they could have had.
Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.....John 8:34 To sin is to miss the mark, the mark is the mind of Christ, the mind of Christ is revealed wisdom from above.
The word servant means.....
to bind tie, fasten
to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
metaph.
Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
In this day, we have "kings" of the earth with fleshly wisdom, who are not telling the people to awaken and put on Christ nor the times and the seasons according to the Lord, but instead are lulling them to sleep deeper with vain imaginations (as those that sleep in the night/darkness), instead of pressing in to AWAKE and follow the Lord and walk in the light as He is in the light.
Daniel 12:2 KJV
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Romans 13:11 KJV
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed .
Ephesians 5:14 KJV
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light .
All that has been, will be, there is nothing new under the sun.
2Kings 10:27 26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house (OUTHOUSE) unto this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. When you do a study on it, Jeroboam (name comes from a root meaning, to dim, or grow dark) was a wicked king who told the people to ignore the Feast of Tabernacles God had commanded all the SONS to attend, by:
1) not going to Jerusalem as He had commanded, because "it was too much for them"
2) not worshipping God in the prescribed manner of sacrifice, but 2 golden calves instead
3) delaying the feast by one month, effectively causing the retention of the people's sins, since the Day of Atonement (which is during the Feast of Tabernacles) was the one day of the year when sins were not just covered by the blood, but REMOVED.
Wrong place, wrong pattern, wrong time = bands (things brought about for the purpose of correction and instruction) strengthened from disobedience.
Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers , lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. Jehu was rewarded by God by Him declaring that his fourth generation would sit on the throne of Israel. This is a reversal of the earlier declaration of God that disobedience would carry generational curses unto the third and FOURTH generation. Unfortunately, Jehu didn't follow thru with his obedience to the end. Blessings....
