COVERT DEMONIC INFLUENCE - Enemy working behind the scenes using false teaching and fake followers to negatively influence someone's view of God, Bible, Jesus and the Church
OVERT DEMONIC INFLUENCE - Enemy working out in the open using pagan spiritual worship and other religions to keep people from hearing about & experiencing God or to paint a negative, toxic, controlling, hypocritical view of God, Bible, Jesus and the Church.
Mark 7:24-30 - He got up and departed from there to the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, but He could not escape notice. 25 Instead, immediately after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at His feet. 26 Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 He said to her, “Allow the children to be satisfied first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she replied to Him, “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 Then He told her, “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.” 30 When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.
Mark 3:7-8 - "Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed… and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him."
UNDERSTANDING JESUS RIDDLEMark 7:27 -“Allow the children to be satisfied first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
THE CHILDREN - THE ISRAELITES, JESUS MINISTRY PRIORITY.
THE BREAD - GOD'S TRUTH & WITH IT SALVATION. JESUS IS THE “BREAD OF LIFE”
Mark 7:6-8 - 6 He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: These people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. 7 They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men. 8 Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men.” 9 He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition!
THE DOGS - GENTILES, KYNARION - “FAMILY DOG SITTING IN THE MASTERS LAP”
FAITH THE SIZE OF A BREAD CRUMB HAS AUTHORITY OF DEMONIC INFLUENCE.