From snake to a 7 headed dragon....

From snake to a 7 headed dragon...

When I was still young enough for naps, I remember my mother awakening me, bringing me out of the house to see a particular sight...a large rattlesnake who had invaded her flower beds...my mom wielding a shovel had deheaded it after it rattled and tried to defend itself...

Mom didn’t awaken me to show her killing the snake, she awakened me to show me the threat, the enemy, the danger of this particular snake and ones like him...”stay away from these”...was her wise warning...beware lest he strike....and bite...to this day I don’t like snakes in any form...our family is very aware of them on their properties...from Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee...although some are “good” ones, eating rodents and pests...there are some dangerous ones, waiting to defend, attack and bite .....

This was brought to mind as lately when my women’s Bible study was studying through the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelations...chapter 12:1-17..where the author John talks about the dragon...Satan’s power, partners and purposes....

Thinking back, we first see Satan in the first book of the Bible, Genesis...trying to entice Adam and Eve in the garden...misquoting 

God, turning, twisting, controlling, enticing them away from their loving Creator...succeeding in his plan for a time...the victor, the ruler is this world, deceiving, lying...he was there and continues to do the same subtleties down through the ages, relentless in strategy...pull as many away from God as he can...defeated, ever prowling but not the final destruction until God ordains it...which we see in the book of Revelations.

That picture from a snake to a dragon...kept popping into my mind...we let little sins, disobedience’s slowly grow until they are “overpowering “ from the snake to the dragon...

One wrong decision followed by another and another, until we have given over entirely to the enemy...one lie leads to another and another...growing from the snake to the dragon...

In Genesis, the Word speaks of Satan’s end and in Revelations it shows his final defeat...what victory...but the victory is there all the time...defeated by the Word...defeated by Christ’s resurrection...we have  God’s promises...the armor...

Satan is relentless from generation to generation, but God more so...God desires that none perish, He pursues us with his kindness, He desires that all  believe in is His Son, Christ...thank YOU....

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7 

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 4:4 

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

1 Peter 5:8-9 

Isaiah 54:17

Ephesians 6:11-17

Romans 8:37

1 Corinthians 15:57

Zechariah 4:6

2 Thessalonians 3:3

19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Luke 10:19

John 10:10

Matthew 18:18-19

Deuteronomy 28:7

John 16:33

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9-11