(December 24, 2013 at 5:23 pm)Godschild Wrote: @ Tonus, the demons want die they have an appointed date at the judgement, God will deal out their punishment and there's no doubt He want let them escape their date with Him.
Yeah, I never had the impression that they wanted to die, but that they saw an opportunity to do further harm to the local people (wiping out such a large herd of swine must have had a negative impact on them, from the loss of meat to the possible contamination of the water from the corpses). But Jesus would have known what they wanted, so why let them go? Perhaps the man's possession was due to some fault of the town? They were unbelievers or blasphemers or something? That would be the punishment, loss of a huge herd of livestock and possible threat to their drinking/bathing water.
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