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The European hornet is the largest vespine in North America.  Yet, it’s the only true hornet found in this country.  These insects create nests out of surrounding plant materials forming a paper like hive.  The queen can lay two eggs per day under ideal conditions.  When threatened, hornets will attack as I learned as a teenager, stung a half dozen times while cutting my backyard.  There are not many things in life that compare with running away from a stirred up hornets nest.

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation,” Matthew 12:43-45.

During a conversation with his disciples, Jesus reveals a similar power to riled up hornets.  While actions, behavior and choices are clearly visible to the human eye, the source behind natural responses is hidden.  In the passage above, Jesus pulls back the spiritual dimension to unveil the dangers of demons.  The individual in question was set free from an unspecified addiction.  However, anyone who does not purge themselves from conditions, influences or people that may tempt you to return, a relapse is highly probable.

And also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Luke 8:2.

Unless you live in a third world nation, the thought of demonic activity, demons and powers of darkness is left for Hollywood horror films.  Unfortunately, those individuals who need immediate help are often considered crazy, insane or off the deep end.  If demons were actively affecting the lives of common people in the first century, why would this concept disappear over time?  In fact, as morality declines this activity would likely increase.  Thus, the next time you experience an unsettling scene where someone loses it, this stirred up hornet’s nest may be energized by one or multiple demons.

by Jay Mankus