There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

and around Galilee are made predominantly from limestone or, in certain areas, of black volcanic rock as the region was once volcanically active. It would be difficult to do yourself permanent harm with a deep, dangerous gash by attempting to cut yourself on these stones. However, his arms and body no doubt were covered with scars and scabs, perhaps from falling over the stones in the areas or rubbing his arms violently against them like wood against sandpaper. The point is that these spirits had seized complete mental control over this man and were motivating him to take his own life. If he had had access to a sword or knife, he would have used the weapon on himself or perhaps others. To prove this can be called a suicide spirit (a spirit sending thoughts of self-destruction and hopelessness into the mind of this man), when the demons were expelled from the man, they entered into a large herd of swine, causing the wild pigs to run “violently” down a steep place, tumbling like broken rocks from an avalanche into the sea, where the entire herd choked and drowned in the water (v. 13). There are different types of evil and unclean spirits, each with a different assignment, targeting humanity with temptations and bondages. In one biblical narrative a young boy was possessed with a spirit that caused seizures. The father confessed that the spirit would overtake his son; he had often “thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him” (Mark 9:22). Here the Greek word for “destroy” does not mean just to do harm; it is the Greek word appollumi , which means to fully destroy . In the King James Version it is translated as to “die” or to “perish.” In the cases of the