Demons in Kaw-fawr Nakh-oom

Yeh-shuah often stayed in Kaw-fawr Nakh-oom, on the shores of the Sea of Gawlee-law. Whenever he was in town, great crowds came to him. On Sabbaths, many people were turned away from the synagogue because there was no more room. “Yeh-shuah teaches with authority,” the people said. “The chief teachers here don’t know anything, and when they think they do, they argue among themselves just to prove each other wrong.”

Yeh-shuah never mentioned their disagreements, but instead presented the most beautiful truths directly and simply. He met prejudice with tact, and disarmed the skeptics with illustrations taken from everyday life.

One Sabbath, while speaking about his mission to liberate the captives of the Evil One, a wild scream shattered the peace of the synagogue. “Leave us alone!” the possessed man shrieked as he broke into the room and shook his fists menacingly. “Have you come to destroy us, you, you Yeh-shuah of Nad-zorah? I know you. You are the Evil-Free One from Elo-heem!”

The congregation looked back and forth from the madman to Yeh-shuah with alarm, not knowing what was going to happen next. In a loud voice Yeh-shuah said, “Be quiet and come out of him!” The poor man thrashed wildly about on the floor until the demon came out, leaving him exhausted and breathing heavily.

“Free at last!” he croaked hoarsely. “Thank you Almighty Elo-heem for setting me free!” He turned to face Yeh-shuah and said, “I came to ask you for help, but all I could do was scream and curse.”

Yeh-shuah nodded silently at him while people exclaimed, “What’s going on? Even evil spirits obey his commands!”

Yeh-shuah said a few more words and then left the synagogue for Petros’ house to rest. When he and his disciples arrived, Petros’ mother-in-law lay sick in bed with a high fever. After Yeh-shuah spoke a few words to her, she got up perfectly healthy and prepared the meal for everyone.

As word of his work spread, many people came looking for him. On Sabbaths, though, in fear of the chief teachers, no one dared to come for healing. As soon as the sun disappeared below the horizon on the seventh day, the sick came from everywhere throughout the city, some hardly able to walk. It was late into the night when the last of the sick left and everyone else went home. Yeh-shuah slept a few hours, then, before anyone else was up, he found a solitary place to commune with his Father. Some nights he never slept, but went alone to the mountains to meditate.

He left Kaw-fawr Nakh-oom, though, when his popularity became so great that it endangered his mission. The people wanted him to become king and establish an earthly kingdom, but he wished to channel their minds from earthly things to spiritual things. A worldly kingdom at this time would fail, and only interfere with his mission.

We have subjected ourselves to years and years and centuries of indoctrination and brainwashing by allowing others to think for us and tell us what to believe, very much like other, powerful world religions. We study the the same old SS lessons, year after year after year, etc.

By stuffing our minds into a container, perhaps very much like the box our friends the Pharisees climbed into, we stifle our imaginations and block our creative thinking as we read the scriptures. When our lives on earth are over and we meet our creator at the Judgment Day, we may ask ourselves, "Why did we belive THAT? We were so blind."

Our mission here on Earth is to meet the qualifications for a job in the next life, and recruit others, too. Jesus taught and demonstrated what we need to do. His unfailing kindness, compassion, self-sacrifice, never-ending concern for the well-being of others, and his determination to enlist as many as possible into his future Kingdom should be our goals, too.

Sometimes our polluted, misguided, narrow, self-centered religion gets in the way, and pimps and whores and gays and lesbians end up being kinder, more thoughtful people who are closer to the Kingdom of God than us self-centered, possession-oriented, extremely righteousness, "truth"-possessing, church-goers.

When we want to be hired for a job we're interested in, we may go to school for training in order to have our application taken into serious consideration. So, too, we must carefully study the entire Bible, our only text book, to train ourselves for our work in the next life. It's the poor, the meek, and the humble who have the best chance for the future life, because they have nothing left but to trust in God to take care of them.

Do we, in our pride, rudeness, and egotistical behavior, hurt others and turn them away from God? If so, then we are the unfaithful servants who ultimately killed the Vineyard owner's son. Our nastiness killed the desire to love and obey God in others.

We don't have to be nasty, though. Jesus talked repeatedly about masters and servants. None of us will ever be masters in the Kingdom of God. We will be the servants. We're never happy by being nasty or selfish. True happiness comes in serving others, giving them our money for food and clothes, doing something, anything, use your imagination, to make their lives a little better by knowing that someone cares.

There will be no positions in the Kingdom of God for those who abuse or mistreat others. They will be the dust under the feet of those who truly cared enough about others to do something for them besides discussing it in church every Sabbath. We had better find people to help before it's too late. We have to let them know we care by doing something for them.

Jesus' voice fell like music on the ears of those so accustomed to hearing the monotony of the Exalted Keepers of the Law. Even when surrounded by the turbulence of angry enemies, an atmosphere of peace continually surrounded him. Only those not hardened in unbelief were drawn to this power.

Without his sweet, sympathetic spirit, Jesus would have spoken only to empty auditoriums, churches, and hillsides. He watched with great interest the expressions of the Afflicted Ones as their spirits locked into his. Now they were ready to listen to the life-changing truths he offered to all mankind. This is what will happen in the next life as Those Who Are Chosen sit before him as students in the Restored Kingdom of New Earth. So much to learn, so much to forget...

It broke his heart, though, to see the cold, stony looks, evidence that his words were unwelcome to the listener. How could an illegitimate peasant who secretly claimed to be the Messiah be taken seriously? His magic tricks were powered by demons, locked up somewhere in the depths, but still able to exercise remote control over their willing subjects.

How much good we could do in the world to change lives if we, too, possessed the same kind, tender, and sympathetic spirit Jesus had. We can exchange our agitation, anger, and fretfulness for his peace and serenity if we look beyond this life into the next. There, all of our needs will be met and all conflict abolished as we first live as students, then workers, in the Kingdom of the Stars.

As Satan saw his power challenged and broken by Christ, he summoned the forces of the Kingdom of Darkness to attack and defeat the leader of the Kingdom of Light. Although imprisoned in the watery depths of the Abyss, the Evil Ones were still able to exert control over the weak and willing minds of unbelieving humans above.

Only the Son of God has the power to break the connection between mind and Evil Spirit. The Keepers of Religion, the leaders and teachers of Israel, were powerless to resist the work of Satan because their defenses against sin were broken and they lost their protection.



The Keepers of Religion pictured themselves as the Great Teachers of Truth, but they used the Ancient Writings as a weapon to back their own distorted World View and enforce their man-made rules and ceremonies. Their mythical constructions and never-ending arguments over insignificant technicalities created infidelity and unbelief, robbing God's word of its power and attributing to him sentiments he had never given. Where unbelief thrives, broadcasts from evil spirits find a receptive audience...

History is repeating. Many religious scholars today are disecting the Word of God, creating doubt and unbelief, even among those professing to reverence its teachings. By promoting their own opinions over its plainest teachings, they destroy faith and extinguish its regenerating power.

As men seek other sources of Light and Power, Satan then finds an open door, an invitation to enter with his Telepathic Demonic Hordes. Higher criticism of the Scriptures can lead us down the path to the Doorway of the Doomed, a very wide door where many will enter the Gates of Hell and never return.

Once God's Word is rejected, there is no limit to the degradation we may sink. Secret sins and irresistable passions hold us captive, and we are just as helpless as the demon-possessed man of Kaw-fawr Nakh-oom (Capernaum). We may still look like saints to fellow church-goers, but we are lost, groping about in darkness, living a lie...

The only way to overcome the Wicked One is by the Power of the Word. Without our consent, God will not give us his power to overcome the temptations to think or do evil. Through faith in his promise of deliverance he will rescue us from the snares of error and the control of Satanic Forces.

All of us are free to choose our Master. We should never lose hope, even if we find ourselves mucking around in a bottomless pit or behind bars. Even the worst of us can still be rescued by Christ.



If we, like the demon-possessed man who couldn't utter the words, make the decision to follow Christ, he will give us his strength to battle the Spirits of Darkness, and overcome. The Spirits of God, his Messengers, too, have telepathic power to influence us for good, if we ask them.

We don't need to join a church and sit and listen to a preacher for an hour once a week to join the Kingdom of Light. All we need to do is study God's word and the life of Christ, then believe that we can become worthy to stand before him as loyal subjects by doing what he asked us to do.