There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

that described as many as sixthousand Roman foot soldiers. When the man encountered Christ, He expelled two thousand individual demons from the man’s body, and the evil spirits entered into a herd of two thousand swine (v. 13). It is believed these swine were actually being raised by the locals to feed the countless Roman soldiers in that area (as devout Jews did not and do not eat pork). During a Holy Land tour one of my Jewish guides noted that among the Greeks, the god Zeus was worshipped, and there were temples in Christ’s time built in honor of Zeus. The priest of Zeus offered swine on the altar. Perhaps these unclean animals were also used as offerings to Zeus in the area of the Decapolis. If so, then through the deliverance of one demon-possessed man Christ eliminated the sacrifices to be offered to the false god of the Greeks! When the chief demon spoke through the man, he presented a strange offer to Christ: For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country. —MARK 5:8–10 Christ revealed to His disciples what occurs after the unclean spirit is expelled from a person. The unclean spirit goes into dry places seeking rest and cannot find it, and then he seeks to return to the place and person from which he was forced to depart (Luke 11:24). Thus, evil and unclean spirits