Have you come to destroy us?

Heb 2,5-12; Ps 8; Mk 1,21-28
15 JANUARY
Jesus is the only one who can destroy the power of Satan, because he is the only one who can take away the sin from the heart. No one else can. That today man is under the government and the empire of Satan is manifested by all his thoughts, his words and his desires. They are thoughts, words and desires that are turning sin into good, love and law. Those who are under the power of the devil want, oblige, compel and impose in the name of man’s dignity that it, sin, is declared the law of love and dignity for all mankind. We have reached the peak of aberrations. Man is equated with the animal and the animal with the man. Evil is proclaimed and hailed as truth and justice. The righteous one that appeals to the eternal law is despised, declared a heartless person. The murderer is praised. While he who suffers death is declared a non-person and non-man. When Satan is in charge of the world, it is truly the empire of darkness, of falsehood, of confusion and of man’s death to his true humanity. Satan is the great builder of all inhumanity. His intent is to bring hell to earth and make it be declared by men their paradise. In the Letter to the Romans Saint Paul reveals to us that the empire of Satan reaches up to stifling the truth in injustice and to declaring the highest evil utmost good.

The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes. Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them (Rm 1,18-32).

But the more the man enters the realm of Satan, the darker and more intense the darkness becomes. It obscures the light and man is no longer able to see the good. Only Christ Jesus can break this wall of darkness and tear it apart, just as Moses did with the Red Sea, pulling man out and freeing him from his heavy slavery.

Then they came to Capernaum, and on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.

For the liberation from the power of Satan today we need a powerful intervention of Jesus.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure so that Jesus comes with all his omnipotence.