“Now the unclean spirit that was cast out of the ‘man’ was that RELIGIOUS SPIRIT: the false spirit of prophecy, or, the spirit of Jezebel. That spirit, however, cannot exist long in a godless (secular) world, for it needs water — the Word of God — in order to find a lodging place! Finding no rest in the world, he says, ‘I will return to my house,’ but when he returns he finds that it has changed appearance. Now it is empty, swept, and garnished. Now that all sounds well and good — but it is not that the house is clean, for if the house were clean and righteous before God, that false spirit would find no lodging place therein. The new condition of the house is what made it receptive to the unclean spirit of the false prophet, which the Greek reveals. The word translated “garnished” is from the word kosmos which speaks of the present world system. Thus he returned and found the religious system (popular church) partaking of the spirit of the world — using her methods, expanding its programs through these methods, worldly in her approach to spiritual things.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:43:02 +0000