OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM IS AMONG US WHEN WE SEE THE KINGDOM OF SATAN BEING PLUNDERED 

Matthew chapter 12 verses 22 - 30 says this;

22 Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. 23 And all the multitudes were amazed and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”

24 Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”

25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. 30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

As the Lord Jesus ministered in healing and deliverance, His reputation grew among the people and they brought people with various afflictions for Him to restore.

On one occasion, a demonized man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus and when Jesus healed him, the man could see and speak again and these kinds of astonishing miracles caused the multitudes of people to increase in their esteem of the Lord Jesus.

The existing religious establishment felt threatened by the ascendancy of Jesus in the minds of the people and one of the prongs that was used to try to discredit the Lord Jesus Christ was to ascribe His power to His collaboration with the king of the demons named Beelzebub.

Jesus detected the thinking of the pharisees and countered their conclusions by showing them that it was illogical.

He asked them how the kingdom of Satan could possibly stand if Jesus was undermining the kingdom Satan by the power of Satan.

How could Satan sponsor the destruction of his own kingdom and expect to sustain his kingdom?

Jesus then asked the pharisees by what power their own sons were casting out demons. If they were claiming that Jesus was doing so by the power of Satan, were not their own sons doing the same? Jesus warned the pharisees that their own sons would judge them for falsely claming that Jesus was casting out demons by the power of Satan.

Jesus pointed out to the pharisees that the more likely explanation of what was happening was that the demons were being evicted by the  Spirit of God which then clearly indicated that the kingdom of God was now in operation among them.

Jesus explained to the pharisees that in order to undermine the holdings of Satan, the owner of the holdings must be bound first and then one can enter and take what the strongman has secured for himself.

The Lord Jesus then revealed the polarized nature of existence where there is no neutral ground. Human beings are encamped in one kingdom or the other. If a person is not subscribed to the kingdom of God, one is automatically subscribed to the kingdom of darkness and subject to its mandates.

That is why Jesus said that if we are not aligned with Him, we are against Him because we are aligned with the kingdom of darkness by default..

If we are not actively working in His kingdom gathering in the harvest, we are, conciously or not, scattering that which is slated to be brought in with the harvest and we are undermining the kingdom of God. As verse 30 says;

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

Amen.

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