"Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation."
Jesus qualifies this generation as wicked. This assessment from him came after the Pharisees took counsel to destroy Jesus for doing good on a sabbath day. Jesus as the lord of Sabbath was there and yet they imputed his powers as derived from the prince of devils. " But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." They were all for the sanctity of the temple but they would not accept the Lord of Sabbath. By healing he drove out unclean spirits from man and it is to which Jesus spoke in a parable the manner Beelzebub operates. The prince of the devils is the prince of the power of the air so when the Lord had willed the destruction of the house of Ahab it was a lying spirit who took over. "And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so./Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, "( 1 Kgs 21.22-23) God uses king of Assyria or king of Babylon as His rod to chastise the nation of Israel. He made the cousel of Ahithophel to none effect. "With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward."(Ps,18.26; 2 Sam.17.23). He was too clever for his own good. In.vv43-45 Jesus refers to dry places (Valley of dry bones)and it is an open valley through which the prince of the power of the air moves. "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." These unclean spirits though cast out shall take seven more, 'more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there."(12.44)
In order to understand this we need look at 12.29. How does unclean spirit spoil the house, whether it be man or the church?
"Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation."
Jesus qualifies this generation as wicked. This assessment from him came after the Pharisees took counsel to destroy Jesus for doing good on a sabbath day. Jesus as the lord of Sabbath was there and yet they imputed his powers as derived from the prince of devils. " But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you." They were all for the sanctity of the temple but they would not accept the Lord of Sabbath. By healing he drove out unclean spirits from man and it is to which Jesus spoke in a parable the manner Beelzebub operates. The prince of the devils is the prince of the power of the air so when the Lord had willed the destruction of the house of Ahab it was a lying spirit who took over. "And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so./Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, "( 1 Kgs 21.22-23) God uses king of Assyria or king of Babylon as His rod to chastise the nation of Israel. He made the cousel of Ahithophel to none effect. "With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward."(Ps,18.26; 2 Sam.17.23). He was too clever for his own good. In.vv43-45 Jesus refers to dry places (Valley of dry bones)and it is an open valley through which the prince of the power of the air moves. "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." These unclean spirits though cast out shall take seven more, 'more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there."(12.44)
In order to understand this we need look at 12.29. How does unclean spirit spoil the house, whether it be man or the church?
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