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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
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“You don’t allow spirits to lay-dormant, even if deliverance is not taking place in my church, I don’t allow spirits to lay dormant. We spiritual clean my church after every service because you don’t want to give the enemy room to do what he does,” he said.
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It's always puzzled me. Where do devils go once they're cast out? There is a time when they'll all be cast into the lake of fire - but what about now? Multiple devils were occupying just one man and when they saw that Jesus would remove them, this is what they said:
Luke 8:31-32b And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them.
There are stories written about "the deep" which are pure f
iction, time passing at different rates and different amounts of resources required to perform tasks as the story may require for the plot to work. Jesus is not mentioned in any of them but here He understands what the devils mean at once and acquiesces.
Luke 8:32c-32b And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
It must be a different sort of deep. Jesus wouldn't lie by agreeing NOT to cast them into the deep and then cast them into a deep lake, albeit in some swine. This is what puzzles me. Where did the devils go? And wherever they went, it cannot possibly be located inside a Church. I'm reading Paul's epistles at the moment so am familiar with what he said about devils and in his first epistle to the Corinthians he addresses almost exactly this point.
I Corinthians 10:20b-22 I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
For demons to be
dormant in Kingdom City Life Empowerment Church after being exorcised and available for the enemy to do what he does (project devils into people, possessing them) AND for The Lord's Table to be simultaneously available it would seem that that they had NOT been cast into the deep. If as an alternative they'd been cast into the back room of the Church, that would place it in the same category as demon-possessed swine: a VERY unlikely venue for The Lord's Table.
And that's why I find it puzzling. Is there something wrong with my understanding?