THE DAILY WORD written
by Pastor Stephen Benton 11-20-2000
"Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,..."
Luke 10:18 &19
“And he said unto them, I beheld
Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
shall by any means hurt you. ”
We came
across that passage in the message taken from 1Peter chapter 1:4 where our
heavenly inheritance is discussed. In
the course of the message we learned that our inheritance is undefiled. That’s when the Holy Ghost gave us insight
into the significance of this passage and the reason for the swift disposal of
Satan from heaven. Because of his
infinite and seemingly, out of control love for the Church, God the Father
wasted no time dispatching the Adversary from the heavens in order to keep our inheritance undefiled! Today, as I write, that passage now takes
on a deeper meaning, because it goes before what is written in verse 19, the
text for yesterday’s message, it serves as a stepping stone to understanding
verse 19.
What Jesus
is telling his disciples is that the leader of the serpents and scorpions,
Satan, is already fallen. Because of
that fact, we have a power over his cohorts and “over all the power of the enemy.”
I made
reference to the movie the Matrix Sunday as an example of how
God’s word is continually unplugging us from this worldly matrix. In the movie, the new member was perceived as
being “the One.” If you recall, he was
taken to see the oracle and the oracle was not convinced that he was who or
what Morpheus thought he was. At the
completion of his training, he soon came to understand that he indeed was the
One and that his powers against the enemy were unlimited.
As Special
Agents of Christ, we cannot be effective against the enemy until we fully
understand who we are and what are our God given abilities. Who are we?
We are born again creatures of God: Sons of God! What has God given us according to the
text? The power (exousia) to tread on serpents and scorpions.
Jesus is
not referring to the literal snakes and scorpions here. And neither is he referring to merely a
spiritual force. Now, that is a
jawbreaker of a statement unless one understands that just as God has a
Kingdom, so does Satan. And if God has
real, literal troops in his army, so does Satan. Jesus referred to Satan’s kingdom with the remarks
that if Satan’s kingdom be divided, it cannot stand. We have learned over the past few years that
Satan does indeed have a kingdom and that Jesus’ words about It being divided
are true. Consequently we must
understand that Satan’s kingdom will fall.
(Here
I must confess that I get a unique thrill just writing those words through a
medium like the Net, Satan’s most powerful tool for enslaving the souls of
men. Do you remember the class we had
some time back showing us that in all internet addresses, the www is equivalent
to 666? Imagine how Satan and his
minions must feel when they see this stuff being transmitted. They never envisioned their “spider web”
would be used as a tool to bring about their own downfall.)
Back to
Satan’s kingdom: He does have one. He has forces that are ready to do battle
against the Kingdom of God and at t his time in his long career, Satan actually
believes he has both the resources and the power to take God’s kingdom out.
God has
been showing us, since July, 1996, in the text taken from II Thessalonians
chapter two that what we know as “aliens” are none other than Satan’s
creation. Someone might object by saying
that Satan cannot create. No, he can’t
but he can meddle with creation. That’s exactly what he promulgated in Genesis
chapter six with the intermingling of the sons of God with the daughters of men.
The result of that union was a hybrid race called “giants.” The flood was sent to eliminate that seed
from the face of the earth. That was in
the days of Noah. Jesus prophesied
letting us know that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the time
of the coming of the son of man. While
that passage focuses on “eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage,” Mt. 24:38, it includes with it the reality that we are living
today among the seed of Satan. Does
Satan have a seed? Yes! According to Genesis 3:15 Satan definitely
has his own seed upon the earth and his seed and the seed of the woman, which
Christ (and his seed, us) are engaged in a deadly conflict.
God first
published the story of the conflict between the two seeds, not in the bible,
but wrote it using the stars themselves.
The constellation of Scorpio shows a picture of a scorpion. Above the scorpion, the symbol for Satan, is
a picture of a man, Ophiucus, holding a large snake, Serpens. The tail, stinger of the Scorpion is lifted
up toward the heel of the strong man. ‘…and he shall bruise thy heel.”
Those
familiar with the different species of aliens will tell you that the most
insidious branch of aliens are the Reptilians.
They are depicted in just about every sci-fi movie (about aliens) ever
made. The second branch is a group
simply known as Insectoids. No wonder so many space-alien movies show creatures
resembling insects, usually of the scorpion variety.
If you think
we’ve taken a trip to a place where no man has boldly gone before, all you have
to do is read the book of Revelation chapter nine and there you will find a
description of some locusts unlike any plant eating locust you will find on
earth. In that passage reference is made
to scorpions. The scorpions are said to
have power. They are positioned as being
“on the earth.” If the reference is to a natural scorpion, then the expression “on
the earth” is redundant at best.
There is a
conflict coming and in the last time God will reveal who His true saints are and
before we leave here we will fulfill the words of Jesus in Luke 10:19, a
passage that cannot be verified as having happened during any period of Church
history.
Until
tomorrow……
Pastor
Stephen Benton
To
read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published
September of 2017 on Amazon.com
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