The House of Spirits – Chapter 06

Is it possible that behind what is taking place in America and the world lies a mystery that goes back to the gods of the ancient world…and that they now have returned?
The Return of the Gods is the most explosive book Jonathan Cahn has ever written. It is so explosive and so revealing that no description here could do it justice. Jonathan Cahn is known for revealing the stunning mysteries, many from ancient times, that lie behind and are playing out in the events of our times. But with The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes this to an entirely new level and dimension.
The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes the reader on a journey from an ancient parable, the ancient inscriptions in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia that become the puzzle pieces behind what is taking place in our world to this day, specifically in America. Is it possible that what we in the modern world take as nothing more than ancient mythology could actually possess a reality beyond our fathoming?

Chapter six, the house of spirits could the last clue be found in an ancient parable.
The parable, the final puzzle piece lies in an ancient passage recorded in the New Testament.
The words of Yeshua Jesus given to his disciples, a parable within which is a revelation of profound massive and prophetic ramifications for the modern world.
And our own day. He said this when an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest and finds none.
Then he says, I will return to my house from which I came. What does it mean?
And how does it relate to the matter of the gods? And what significance could it contain?
Concerning modern times? The house of spirits?
The passage speaks of a man possessed by an unclean spirit. The man is delivered of that spirit.
The spirit then wanders through dry places, presumably the desert but finds no place to rest.
It then decides to return to its house, the formerly possessed man.
But when it returns, it finds that its former dwelling place, the man is empty, swept, clean and set in order the cleansed state of the vessel leads the spirit to go and bring back seven other spirits more evil than itself.
So the man is now possessed by seven other spirits.
In addition to the original one, he is thus now in a worse condition at the end than he was.
At the beginning. At first glance, it would seem that the parable is talking about a possessed and delivered man who then becomes repossessed.
It certainly could be applied to a possessed individual.
But the parable is actually not about the man at all.
It is only an illustration, an example, an analogy used to reveal a spiritual principle and give a prophetic warning spirits of Rome.
The key comes in the last words of the parable after stating that the last state of that man is worse than the first Jesus adds.
So shall it also be with this wicked generation?
Thus, the parable is not about individual possession but collective or mass possession, the possession of a generation, a culture, a civilization.
The Parable’s immediate application appears to be the generation that lived in first century Judea.
But the principles revealed in the parable extent far beyond the age and borders of that nation, they apply to Western civilization as a whole and span the entire age into the modern world.
How so 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire and Western civilization comprised a house of spirits, a civilization possessed of gods and spirits.
But into that house came the word of God, the spirit of God, the gospel.
Western civilization was thus set free from the spirits and became as in the parable, a house set in order a civilization cleansed.
So then what happened to the Principalities?
The parable answers that the spirits still exist, but now dwell outside the house.
So in the case of Western civilization, the spirits that once possessed it still existed, but now dwelled outside the borders of that civilization.
They roamed the dry places, the desolate lands, they dwelled in the shadows, they dwelled in exile, return of the spirits, the spirit in the parable finds no rest.
So it seeks to return to its house to repossess it.
When Jesus was about to cast the spirits out of the possessed man known as the demoniac, it is recorded that the spirits pleaded with him to be cast into a nearby herd of pigs.
The spirits are parasitic. They need a host to possess. Thus, the spirits cast out of Western civilization.
If they find no rest, if they find no comparable civilization to possess, will seek to return to what they believe is their house.
And thus, we would expect that the same spirits that once possessed Western civilization would seek to do so again.
But the question must be asked, how could the spirit return to the house from which it has been dispossessed, the empty house and the seven others.
It could only do so if the house has become unoccupied, empty and the door has been left open.
The parable continues and when he comes, he finds it empty, swept and put in order, the house is clean and set in order because of its initial deliverance or exorcism.
And yet the implication is that no one is now living there, the house was left empty.
Thus, it is open to being reoccupied.
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself.
And they enter and dwell there.
And the last state of that man is worse than the first since the house is clean swept.
And in order, the spirit brings in seven other spirits to join in the repossession.
The implication is that if the house had not been cleansed and set in order, the spirits would not have brought back the others spirits to occupy it, the darker state.
And there in lies, the warning, the house that is cleansed and put in order but remains empty will be repossessed.
And if it should be repossessed, it will end up in a worse state than if it had never been cleansed.
What happens if we apply this to an entire civilization? It would translate to this.
Should a culture, a society, a nation or a civilization be cleansed, exercised of the gods and spirits, but then remain or become empty.
It will be repossessed by the gods and spirits that once possessed it and more and it will end up in a far worse state than if it had never been cleansed or exercised at all.
It will according to the parable, end up many times more possessed and evil than before the door to repossession.
But in the case of Western civilization, how would it happen?
How would the spirits reenter the house from which they were cast out? How would the gods return?
In the scriptural accounts of exorcism?
The spirits are cast out by the word and power of God and in the name and authority of Jesus, when the Roman Empire and Western civilization were delivered from the spirits and gods, it happened the same way by the word and power of God and by the name and authority of Jesus.
Therefore, how could the spirits and gods return to Western civilization?
Only one way if that civilization should ever turn away from God from his word, from the gospel, from Christianity, from Jesus.
If it should do so, then that which drove out the spirits will no longer be present to protect it against their return.
And the civilization that had been delivered to the spirits will become repossessed by them.
The gods will return pre Cristian versus post Christian.
And what would happen then according to the parable, the repossessed house will end up far worse than at the beginning, taken into the realm of world history.
It means this a post Christian civilization will end up in a far darker state than a pre Christian civilization.
If Western civilization turns away from God, what will come of?
It will be much darker and far more dangerous than what it was in its days of paganism.
It is no accident that the modern world and not the ancient has been responsible for unleashing the greatest evils upon the world.
And it is no accident that when nations and civilizations that had once known God turned away, when they turned against the Christian faith, they had once received, what then came upon them would often be described in terms of the demonic, a pre Christian civilization may produce a Caligula or a neuro, but a post Christian civilization will produce a Stalin or a Hitler.
A pre Christian society may give birth to barbarity, but a post Christian society will give birth to even darker offspring, fascism, communism and Nazism.
A pre Christian nation may erect an altar of human sacrifice.
But a post Christian nation will build Auschwitz for a nation or civilization that had once known God that was once delivered of the gods and spirits to then turn away from God is the most dangerous thing.
The gods will return to it.
It is not for us now to open up the mysteries behind the return of the spirits and gods to such nations and powers as the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
But it is for this book to open up the mystery behind the return of the gods and spirits in our own day and to our own culture and civilization, the return of the gods to America and Western civilization.
And by these, to the world, it is a mystery that touches all of us just as the working of the gods and spirits is now touching, altering and transforming the world around us.
If the gods were to return to the modern world and to America, how would they do so?
Is there an ancient template that reveals the answer? And what is the dark trinity?