Every Tongue Shall Confess

Luke 4:33-34, And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,“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.”

This is the first miracle recorded by Luke. Thus far we have had a heavenly messenger announcing the birth of Immanuel (1:32-33), a priest foretelling the greatness of a coming Newborn (1:78-79), the angels testifying of arrival of the God-man (2:11), the shepherds witnessing to the message they’d heard regarding the most unlikely of Messiah-candidates–a Babe in a trough (2:17), an old man of God filled with the Spirit and excited to see an eight-day old Child (2:29-32), a godly widow proclaiming the arrival of God’s salvation (2:38), a powerful desert preacher announcing that the Kingdom had come and it’s Prince was Jesus (3:16-17), and a Voice from heaven claiming a soaking Man in the river as His Son (3:22).

And now to this chorus of witnesses that spans the spectrums of human and heavenly, priestly and peasantry, aged and agile, respected and reviled, Luke adds yet another voice: demonic (4:34, 41). All the powers of heaven, hell, and the earth in between have in the presence of human witnesses acknowledged Jesus as Messiah and God!