Moses made an image of a serpent and put it upon a pole and everyone who had been bitten by the fiery serpents in the wilderness could look thereon and be healed. Later on, several Israelites departed from the true God and began to worship the serpent as a god. They worshipped these serpent gods in the houses of their worship in the high places. Snake worship in the high places was part of the Baal worship.
Solomon said: a serpent will bite without enchantment and a babbler is no better. A babbler is a serpent in the house. The effect of a babbler is that his/her words are like poison. They can be deadly. When there is a babbler in the house, there is a snake in the house.
It is a fact that in the winter time most snakes will get cold and stiff, frozen like. If you take one of these snakes that look like they are dead into your house: as soon as they warm up they are trouble. Any time a person becomes trouble in a church, you can be sure there is a snake in the house that thawed out. What is worse, is when other ministers involve themselves with snake members of other churches and thaw them out.
When Jesus came to Jerusalem he found snakes in the temple. He found serpents in the house of God. Even John the Baptist prophesied of these serpents and generation of vipers. They had control of the temple. It had become a den of serpents. And it was from within this snake den that the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 took place. Out of this den of snakes would come the attack to bruise the heels of Jesus on the Cross. When the temple cult of snakes cried "away with him, crucify him" it was the hissing of the serpents at work.
Then we find in Revelation 12 the serpent chasing the woman who birthed the man-child. He chases her out of her home into the wilderness. But he never did get this fangs on her. He never caught her. She escaped from him. While the serpent hunted for her to kill her, she escaped.
Is it any wonder the serpent is bound for 1,000 years as Jesus comes to the earth and sets up his house for the millennial? What better way to keep the serpent, the devil, from Jerusalem at last: but to throw him in a bottomless pit and there seal him for 1,000 years. For 1,000 years the serpent will not be in Israel, will not be in Jerusalem, will not be any where in the world. And with the serpent out of the house there is peace. Perfect peace.
When there is a snake in the house, it is best to isolate the rascal. Get that varmint away from people. And if the serpent does not flee when you open the door, go get a garden hoe and take off its head.
Do not let a snake in your house.
Keep demons out of your house.
Keep demons out of your body.
If you are troubled by the devil, learn how to put the snake out of your house.
There will be no peace until the serpent is gone.
Even as Jesus will have perfect peace for 1,000 years with the devil gone: you can have perfect peace if you will cast the devil out of the house.
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oh by the way,
when you allow anyone to bring a snake into the house, be it a preacher, a friend, or a family member: it is time to reconsider who you allow in your house. They tell me that snakes live where they can feed. The devil feeds on people. Have you been devil's food? How else does the devil devour us? Snakes go where a habitat is made for them. To get rid of snakes do away with the habitat that invited them. Or they tell me that the product of hell, sulphur, if spread around makes snakes flee. Maybe the fact snakes do not like sulphur is an indication the devil does not like the lake of fire. Snakes do not like fire period. So, stay on fire for God and there will be no snakes around. And if one shows up, put the fire of the Holy Ghost on that snake and it will flee. This is one of the keys of pastorialship. When a snake is in the congregation, all he has to do is get the fire of the Holy Ghost moving and the snakes will hit the door. :)
Bishop Reckart
Made by God, for God
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