In Mark 5, darkness is in the northern territory of Israel because it's the seat of where the Baal worship is. After Jesus throws the devil out of the Maniac of Gadara, Mark 5:19 says, [19] Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
"Jesus says, 'Get out of that business up there and go home,' " explains Jordan. "The man had been living up there in the caves and the tombs. Verse 20 says, [20] And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
"You see, he didn't really live up there in that territory; Decapolis is the southern part of the Sea of Galilee and south of that. He had been up there out of the normal social things he would have been in.
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"When you read Mark 5:6-7, you go, 'What?!' It says, [6] But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
[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.
"What's that? If he's caught up in this terrible religious system that hates God and hates God's people, why, when he sees Jesus, does he fall down and worship Him?
"He knows who He is! He says, 'I adjure thee that thou torment me not.' If you're worshipping the guy, why would you think He's going to torment you? When you read that, if you don't pay attention to who he is and what's going on, there will be confusion. The worship he's doing there is the worship Baal worship produces. It's the worship the vain religious system of the Adversary is designed to produce.
II Kings 17:33 says, [33] They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
"They feared Jehovah but then they're worshipping all these false gods. We call that assimilation, amalgamation. Nothing is sacred and holy; you just bring it all together.
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Verses 26-27: [26] Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
[27] Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
"It's heathen who believe in territorial spirits. That's paganism and that's how they think. If you count down in verses 30 and 31, they fill the land with seven false gods and the land of the northern kingdom is filled up with these false gods.
"That's how they got in the condition of Mark 5. They feared the Lord, the God of the land, AND they worshipped all these other gods. One wasn't better than the other; we just worship them all. That's assimilation.
"This guy in Mark knows who the Lord Jesus Christ is and thinks of Him like any other god. He says, 'This is your land; I'll worship you. You're like everybody else.'
"Jesus is just another one on the mantle. He understands what's on the table; he just doesn't believe it.
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"Notice how he identifies the Lord as 'the Son of the most high God.' That's Satan's goal. Genesis 14: [18] And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
[19] And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
[20] And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
"If you put JER in front of that name Salem you've got the city of Jerusalem later on. The most high God is a title that describes God as the one who possesses the heaven and earth. They're His. That's why in Isaiah 14:15 Satan's goal ultimately is to be LIKE the most high God. His policy is to be like Him.
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"Mark 5: 8-9 says, [8] For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
[9] And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
"Jesus says. there's one spirit who is controlling all the other spirits in the man. That term 'Legion,' if you look at the end of verse 13 where the parenthesis is, they're were about two thousand unclean spirits in that guy: [13] And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
"Legion is a military term that describes the organization of the armies of Rome. It also describes the organization of the armies of the Adversary. God uses exactly the same terminology to describe the world you can see and the invisible spirit world that you can't see. That world is as real as this world. This world is organized in a certain way and that world is organized just like it.
"That guy is there for the purpose of a military conflict, and when Jesus Christ shows up, He comes to repossess His possession. That guy's there to keep Him from doing it; he didn't want to give it up.
"In verse 10, he didn't say, 'Don't throw me out of the man.' He said, 'Don't throw me out of the land.' There's one Israeli with 2,000 unclean spirits in him. That tells you two things. No. 1 there weren't enough Israelis to have it be one on one.
"In other words, Satan's brought all of his demonic forces back in to the land of Israel at that time because Christ is there. If you're going to have a fight, you want your soldiers there. He's got his army gathered together to keep his palace. What Christ has come to do is literally throw the Adversary out of the land."
(to be continued tomorrow)
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