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Matt.12:43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it. 12:44 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 12:45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."

How was the nation of Israel sweep clean and its house set in order?

First was the blood of the passover lamb atoning for their sin, providing away into salvation as Moses crossed the Red Sea on dry land. Than the law the great law given to Moses from God's figured inaugurated by blood. The priesthood, the tent of meeting, and of course the prophets, and kings that kept Israel clean and in order so she could be God's child.

Levitius 10:10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Numbers 9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

But here Jesus speak of a time not so good for Israel in its mist was the very kingdom of God, Christ Jesus, the greatest prophet, the one YHWH would uses for all times to speak to mankind from heaven by Holy Spirit. Yes, Christ the fulfillment of all written and done before him by God's people the completion of the law, the prophets and that which is written in the scriptures YHWH was closing an age a page bring in new heavens and earth for his anointed followers, a spiritual Israel with a heavenly mountain and a kingdom that could not be shaken by world events any longer.

Heb.1:1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
1:2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe.

Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels.

Christ would one more time sweep God's house clean, the greatest and last prophet of God to finish his work with fleshly Israel, but would they humble themselves seeking above the kingdom of God or stay fleshly in the power of waging war with flesh and blood, losing their cleanness by blood sacrifice setting their nation in order free from the judgment of sin by God?

Hebrews 10:4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,{Jeremiah 31:31} and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

No! The were self-welled, proud and arrogant cling to self-righteousness thinking they were clean, thinking it was by personal efforts of keeping the law that made them holy and better than all other nations, what a folly! No! God's efforts, God's mercy, God given innocent animal life made them clean and holy, God's law, God's prophets, they had gotten it 180 degrees backward, in pride and falsehood the lurking place of demons.

Luke 18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

They demand a sign from Christ he refused, they had all the prophets all the law of God and still they could not understand anything they could not see, feel, and touch they had no faith in the invisible God that gave them their temple and its service, they saw only man ruling and being a priest in their nations as powerful. They could not hear Christ words and became violently angry with his righteousness expressed in his teachings from above.

John 8:47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
Luke 24:11 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them.

The entire nation was filled with the spirit of evil from evil spirit until they murder the Son of God. Their house had become not clean by God's mercy it had become the lurking place of evil spirit, and the actions of the evil spirit working through those in power had the innocent sinless life of God's own Son murder, what a shameful course!

Luke 13:35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26}

Luke 12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Some repented, cutting them to the heart for shedding innocent blood, the blood of a righteous man came upon the house of God, and soon so would God's wrath! Christian's must never return to works of law, filling their minds with self-righteousness as did the Jews, they must hold on to faith in the blood of Christ being fully redeemed. The must walk in undeserved kindness knowing that in them dwells nothing good to redeem themselves or walk in Christ with out God's own works for us.

Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Colossians 1:11 strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power

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