My Story #74 - Satan As A Serpent

 

My Story #74

SATAN AS A SERPENT

Once I read a book entitled, "Satan Is Alive And Well On Planet Earth." Actually, I do not agree with that. I believe the Satan is very alive on the earth but is not very well. Let me tell you about an event that took place when I was pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Chesapeake, Ohio.

We had a few snakes to come around our house from the woods behind the house. My wife was extremely afraid of snakes. One day, when I went out the back door of the house, I saw the largest black snake I think I had ever seen in my life. He was just lying there on the back yard very quiet. I thought he may have just eaten a small animal.

I approached him slowly; then I took my crutch and pushed on him to see if he would leave, but he didn't. After doing this a few times, I thought about my wife and considered what would happen if she saw this huge snake in the yard when she comes out from the back door. Then I made a serious decision--to kill the snake.

After a few seconds of planning in my mind, I took my crutch and pushed the tip of my crutch down on his head, and I just left the crutch there as I pushed down as hard as I could.

While I was crushing the serpent's head with my crutch, the snake began to curl up. He wrapped himself around my crutch all the way up to my hand, and his tail wrapped around my hand. The snake then uncurled and curled again and again. I must have kept my crutch on his head for a good 10-20 minutes as he kept curling.

As his curling slowed, I took my crutch off from his head and watched as he kept curling very slowly, as he was dying.

Then I realized that, just as this snake died very slowly, he was not in very good health; he was not well. I believe we can understand Satan in our day just as the snake, as Satan is working frantically to try to win his war against God.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Satan is very busy, as he is dying, since Jesus crushed his head on Calvary when he died for our sins on the cross. Satan will be curling and uncurling until he finally dies in the Lake of Fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41). Satan is NOT well; he is dying, thanks to our Savior, who crushed his head on the cross.