Mark 7:24-30 comments, part 2; the devil is gone out of thy daughter

 

27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

Matthew gives more details. See Matthew 15.

22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

In this context Christ is referring to Gentiles as dogs in comparison to the Jews who are God’s children, but it is by their faith that these Gentile dogs are justified. The Gentile nations would probably hate to be thought of as dogs but in comparison to God’s chosen people, the Jews, that is what they are called. Jesus had come to the Jews. He did not travel to India or America as false religions say. God created these people out of the wicked Gentile nations and made them for Himself. They fell away and He wanted them to return. But He warned them that He would extend His grace to the Gentiles and that many of the kingdom would be cast out. They did not receive it. The only reason we’re getting the crumbs is because the Jews rejected Christ. So, the Gentile nations like America and Britain need to stop being so proud and arrogant.

The Gentiles;

Isaiah 40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

But Israel isn’t one of them;

Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

The Gentiles are blessed because of the Jews’ fall, which is temporary, until the end of history.

Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

When did or when will the “fullness of the Gentiles be come in”?

At the end of the 19th century many Europeans and Americans envisioned a golden age of mankind being brought in by science and a new understanding between nations. The Europeans believed they had brought civilization to the world enlightening the darker races of the earth with Christianity and progress, then with science and technology. And yet when all was said in done the world was in the grip of expansionist empire-building with the American Empire, called by some of the Founders a “Republican Empire”, on the rise with others like the Spanish and Turkish on the wane, and others like the British, Belgian, Italian, and the French, then German and  Japanese, to begin the process of dying. Finally, after World War Two only the Russian and American Empires would be on top with the America Empire winning after a long, “cold” war.

At the end of the century, Great Britain ruled supreme over the earth. In the latter half of the 19th century a movement rose to the forefront which called for the return of Israel to its national homeland; called Zionism. Among the many apologists for this effort was a lawyer, journalist, and playwright, Theodore Herzl. Anti-Semitism and particularly the Dreyfus Affair where a French-Jewish military officer was mistreated badly helped him to articulate the frustration that Jews felt in the world, particularly in Europe. The World Zionist Congress met in Basle, Switzerland in 1897. Eventually, this movement led to the state of Israel being formed in the fallout of Europe’s colonial empires disintegrating as well as Ottoman Turkey’s collapse. The state of Israel is an example of what Marxists call “decoloniziation” where a people regain their ancestral homeland in the face of the empires who controlled the land, in this case the Arab Empire, then the Turkish Empire, and lastly the British Empire. The remaining Arab populations are the remnants of a once great empire that dominated the area before the Turks took control. American Marxists who call Israel an “occupier” are morons who have no concept of history or the facts of even their own political philosophy; Marxism.

At the end of that century mankind realized that he had moved forward in technology and science very rapidly. Christianity had a new version of the Bible based on unreliable and faulty manuscripts apostate scholars loved but that Christians had ignored for 1500 years. German universities trumpeted a “science” called Higher Criticism where virtually everything about the Bible was questioned from Moses authorship of the Pentateuch to whether or not Jesus Christ had ever even lived.

Marx’s economic theories which would undergird revolutions around the world starting with the Russian Revolution of 1917 causing millions of state-sanctioned murders and nightmare oppression, Unitarian influenced (which does not acknowledge the deity of Christ) Darwin’s preposterous postulate of atheistic evolution which would undermine religious faith and provide the foundation for Hitler’s National Socialism, and Freud’s view of the inner workings of the mind which eventually would be the foundation for his nephew, Ed Bernays, creating the modern industry of public relations, propaganda, and the advertising industry in America bringing on what a BBC commentary referred to as “A Century of Self” laid the groundwork for the most bloody century in the history of mankind after the Great Flood of Noah’s day.

There, we are at the end of the 19th century with the dream of the liberal intellectual of uniting all religions and languages into one, ushering in a “golden age” of peace and understanding. Britain rules supreme and its most powerful men dream of a better world united under the Union Jack, the flag of Great Britain. America is about to expand its colonial power by seizing the dying remnants of Spain’s colonial empire in what the Spanish call ‘The Disaster’. The Bible in use for 250 years based on texts used by Christians for nearly 2,000 years has been altered to downplay the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ due to Unitarian influences and downplay the importance of the words of God as a Protestant or a Baptist’s final authority due to Roman Catholic influences.