even the demons know.

There are times where I am reading through Scripture and I see something that just strikes me as unbelievable. All Scripture is amazing of course, but some passages you read really floor you. These passages below are in Luke 4 and I just can't get over them...

33 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,34 Ha! 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.35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and come out of him! And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.41 And demons also came out of many, crying, You are the Son of God! But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

In both of these passages Jesus runs across demonic spirits housing themselves within human beings. The demons in both passages recognize Jesus for who He is and what He has the power to do! That is ridiculous!!!! They know He is the Messiah, "the Christ," and they know He has the power to destroy them...."have you come to destroy us." UNBELIEVABLE! The Jewish Rabbis, Pharisees and Scribes, those trained in and knowledgeable about all of the Scriptures, those who know a Messiah is supposed to be coming, do not recognize Jesus as being the Christ, the One with the power and authority of God, and yet the demons do!!!! They know it, proclaim it out loud and tremble in fear because they know what Jesus can do to them. AMAZING!