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A deliverance icon. Imagine being Jesus in Luke 8, who, being confronted by a demoniac (who knew exactly who He was), finds Himself being bargained with by the demonic powers. They know what He is capable of, and began pleading for more lenient terms of their dismissal. It's apparent they desperately want to be embodied and be go inhabit the herd of pigs on the hillside. He give them the left hand of (dis)fellowship, and allows them to do so, but the pigs aren't having it. In our animal-exalting society, isn't a breath of fresh air to see Jesus reckoning the worth of a man as being of much more value than a herd of pigs. In this icon, you'll see the chaos pigs represented as three groups of six as they disappear from the rocky cliff where the poor oppressed man found shards with which to cut himself. Away they fall, into the waters of Galilee, funneling down over the edge as through the neck of an hourglass, because they know their time is short.
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