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SUMMARY:International unrest
DESCRIPTION:Habakkuk 1:6 – For\, lo\, I raise up the Chaldeans\, that bitter and hasty nation\, which shall march through the breadth of the land\, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. \nWhen I got this message as usual I thought it would be a spiritual message but then I felt in my spirit it is to do with our current political situation. \nWe know there exist a very volatile political situation right now in east Europe with regards to Ukraine. Russia is been accused of trying to take over the country and the western countries are trying to prevent it. \nI fell in today’s message the Lord is telling us that Russia will indeed take over either part or the whole of this country. The main issue behind this whole thing is power games\, both the Russians and the western countries are trying to flex their international powers and thus have caused this country to pay a great price of loss of freedom. \nWe can see this message in a spiritual way. When we are not in the Lord\, then the Lord can cause worldly power to have dominance over us and over our freedom. We land up becoming victims\, bait and prey to their power games. \n[ Prayer Starter ]\nLord You warn of situations that will affect us and our livelihood like You did in the times of Jeremiah\, but like then and now people fail to give ear to your warnings. We pray Lord\, You do not further harden the hearts of your people like You did then. That the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be abundant on your people and they do not be victims of vanity… \nThis prayer we make in Jesus’ Name\, Amen.
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SUMMARY:Is Satan a snake?
DESCRIPTION:Nehemiah 12:9 – Also Bakbukiah and Unni\, their brethren\, stood opposite them in the watches. \nIn today’s message we read about 2 Levites Bakbukiah and Unni along with their brethren who were part of the service of the temple in Jerusalem. One may think what is there about these 2 people that the Lord is telling us that may affect our lives today. \nIt may surprise you when you come to know the meaning of their name. Bakbukiah means ‘curse of Jehovah’ and ‘Unni’ means afflicted. Imagine the cursed and afflicted of Jehovah serving Him! \nWhenever Satan is projected\, people show him as a snake. In the movie Son of God when Jesus is being tempted in the desert the director showed Satan transforming into a snake. We also have some Christian Churches especially in the USA who hold services playing with snakes\, projecting that they have power over Satan. \nThere are many scriptures where Satan is symbolized as a snake\, but then not all of them actually refer to a snake. Like in Genesis when Adam and Eve were in Eden it is written Satan came as a snake. The Hebrew word ‘nachash’ used here comes from the word that means ‘enchanted’. In the Bible there are many other Hebrew words translated as serpent\, like ‘tanniym’ which means monster like the mythical dragon or a prehistoric animal. Also the word ‘saraph’ which means fiery serpent (creature) is at times translated as serpent (this word is also used for the Cherubs who are called the Morning Stars). \nNote in the wilderness when the wrath of the Lord was on the people\, serpents came and bit them\, such that many died. We see at that time when people pleaded the Lord\, He asked them to make a ‘saraph’ (fiery creature) and set on a pole so that any person bit by a serpent (nachash) will not die but live. What did Moses do? Moses makes a snake (nachash) out of brass and sets it on a pole. We see the Lord does not correct him and when people bitten by a serpent looked up on the brass serpent set on the pole they lived as the Lord said. So indirectly the Lord approved what Moses did. As we know this brass serpent represents Jesus on the cross\, to whom we look up to and are saved. So we see not only Satan even Christ (on the cross) is symbolized as a serpent in the Bible. \nSerpents are not evil creatures\, when God made them along with all other creatures God as recorded in Genesis chp1\, God said they are good. So serpents are not bad but what they symbolize is bad. In Genesis we see some of the creatures were made after their kind and some after the Lord’s (His) kind. Their kind refers to the fallen angels (evil spirits) who separated themselves from God. That is why the Lord classified some animals as unclean not because there was something bad about the animal but bad about what they spiritually symbolized. We can eat the animal but not what they spiritually symbolize. \nAt times snake symbolizes deceit (that is why it moves in a zig zag direction. Snake also symbolizes cursed. When God cursed Satan in the Garden of Eden\, He said it is cursed above all the cattle (means mute beings / those not having authority) and above every being if the land – levels below the higher Heavens. He also said it will move on its belly (means its doings – means eat the fruit of its doings) and eat the dust (symbolizing death) the time of its living. \nOn the cross Jesus took our curse and our penalty of death on Himself and became cursed and afflicted by God. By His natural death He went to Hell for our sins were on Him but since He never sinned Himself and there was no sin in Him\, therefore He could not be kept in Hell and thus He resurrected (came up from Hell). By His resurrection now anyone who believes in Him by faith is raised through the gates of Hell therefore being free of the prison of Hell\, he or she does not go to Hell. \nIn today’s message the Lord is telling us not to look at things in the flesh but see them through our spiritual eyes. We are not called to hate snakes or any animal but discern them spiritually and hate the things of darkness\, battle them and overcome them with the Light of Truth. \n[ Prayer Starter ]\nLord\, your people need more and more of your Spirit. They need to learn to discern things spiritually. They need to know good and be aware of evil yet be innocent of it… \nThis prayer we make in Jesus’ Name\, Amen. \n[ Reference ]\nNumbers 21:8-9\n8 And the LORD said unto Moses\, Make thee a fiery serpent\, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass\, that every one that is bitten\, when he looketh upon it\, shall live.\n9 And Moses made a serpent of brass\, and put it upon a pole\, and it came to pass\, that if a serpent had bitten any man\, when he beheld the serpent of brass\, he lived. \nGenesis 3:14 – And the LORD God said unto the serpent\, Because thou hast done this\, thou art cursed above all cattle\, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go\, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: \nGenesis 1:20-26\n20 And God said\, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life\, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.\n21 And God created great sea creatures\, and every living creature that moveth\, which the waters brought forth abundantly\, after their kind\, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.\n22 And God blessed them\, saying\, Be fruitful\, and multiply\, and fill the waters in the seas\, and let fowl multiply in the earth.\n23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.\n24 And God said\, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind\, cattle\, and creeping thing\, and the beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.\n25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind\, and cattle after their kind\, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.\n26 And God said\, Let us make man in our image\, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea\, and over the fowl of the air\, and over the cattle\, and over all the earth\, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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