Then the kingdom of God has come upon you

Jer 7,23-28; Ps 94; Lk 11,14-23
28 MARCH

Jesus, the true lineage of the Woman, is the one who came to crush the serpent’s head. In Him the first promise made by God precisely to Satan, who had brought by deception humanity from the realm of life into that of death, is fulfilled.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.'” But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. 

When they heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. The Lord God then called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? You have eaten, then, from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!” The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me – she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.” The Lord God then asked the woman, “Why did you do such a thing?” The woman answered, “The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures; On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at his heel” (Gen 3,1-15).

Jesus comes and begins to crush the head to the enemy of man. What do some say? That He drives out Satan helped by Satan. They say this because they do not know either God or Satan. They say it with one purpose: making Christ Jesus  not believable. They say it in hatred of Him. They declare it to take all credibility away from him in the people. This causes their sin to become sin against the Holy Spirit, that is, in a sin of fighting and hostility against the known truth and sin against salvation.

He was driving out a demon (that was) mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute person spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.” Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that (I) drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe. But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armour on which he relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

We can compare humanity to a fortified city besieged on all sides. It can withstand the enemy because there is a channel that carries always fresh water into it. The enemy discovers the source of water and not only does he poison it, but obstructs the source so that no water can reach the city any more. With this action the city is condemned to surrender to the enemy or to death. Jesus is the only source of very pure water that must quench humanity of truth, grace and eternal life. First. this source is declared to be poisoned, so that in this way nobody comes close to it. Then, it is crucified, to prevent it from continuing to pour its precious water. Who deprives the man of Christ deprives him of life. Who destroys Christ, destroys life. This is the sin against the Holy Spirit: the satanic will of removing  the source of life from humanity.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, do not allow Christians to fall into this sin.