“I will turn back to my house from where I came out.” And when he is come, he finds it swept and put in order.'
So it decides it will go back ‘home'. It looks on the body of the once possessed man as its own, although there is a note of uncertainty in the text. It is not sure what it will find. But as the Nuisance who cast it out will have gone, perhaps it will be able to find access. Perhaps the man still follows his own ways and will still be open to possession. And when it returns it finds him absolutely suitable for immediate occupation and the man still involved in idolatry or the occult. He is all ready for it once again to take possession. The man has been cleaned up but there is no other living there. The man has not been ‘given the Holy Spirit' (Luke 11:13). He is empty. (He has not heard the word of God and done it - Luke 11:28).