« on: June 30, 2010, 07:40:53 am »
To expand upon this study I would like to look at the name of the country that is mentioned in these verses, Gergesenes , which is Strong's G1086 - Gerasēnos and means, "a stranger drawing near".
As mentioned Jesus was met by only two men that were driven mad by the force of many evil spirits. A legion of unseen spirits can use two, so few, to hinder and bar the way of so many.
Mat 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Our Lord was literally approaching and entering a place called 'a stranger drawing near', sounds like a watchman crying out, "a stranger drawing near!" And he was met not with a welcome of hostility, but with two saying "What have we to do with thee"?
This has reminded me of so many of the arguments and striving that we have all encountered of few standing in the way of our (the many) entering and gathering together to edify and encourage each other, we have been met with "what have we to do with you?"
Our Lord calmly, un-argumentatively and with only one word sent this unseen legion scrambling..."go"
He didn't even had to ponder what was to be done with them! They themselves with all their ado and crying chose for themselves the solution and their own demise. 
What truly has me wondering is why the people of the city came out and besought our Lord to leave them? Verse 28 says no man could pass that way because of the two? Were they not relieved to have the way opened and free go to and from? or were they afraid because the way was opened to "a stranger drawing near"?
Psa 27:1 [[[A Psalm] of David.]] The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Many blessings'
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