(I don’t much like Mexican Blue jays because their tendency to be bullies to other birds but they are good for something… They signal when a snake is near by acting erratically. They fly up and down and squawk as if to say, “It’s a snake. Get it! Get it!”)
“Could it be a snake?” I thought. I took a closer look out the window and there, trying to climb our honeysuckle trellis to get to a bird nest, was a big-o-snake.
As soon as this snake saw me coming with my shovel it quickly tried to slither out sight underneath our propane tank. I swept my shovel under the tank several times. My bride, on the other side of the tank said, “There it is! It’s all the way out!”
I pitched my shove down on its’ thick coiled up skin. It’s head tried to bite the shovel and it shook it’s tail in the dry leaves in the rock planter. “What kind of snake am I dealing with?” I thought.
It reminded of verse in the bible that God spoke to the serpent. “From now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies.” Genesis 3:15
I needed my shovel closer to its head. I quickly lifted the shovel. Unfortunately it wasn’t injured enough to slow it down.
To get away, it began to climb the trellis again with it long strong body... smart snake.
I glanced its body with my shovel and with several rapid stirs and swipes with the shovel it was back on the ground of the planter. I jammed my shovel down on its neck where it disappeared into the deep of the composted soil. Soft soil would only hinder my desire to end the large snakes life abruptly.
I jammed my boot down on the shovel repeated. The exposed body contorted twisting this way and that way.
Finally it’s contortions slowed down where I could draw it’s head up out of the soil and position it on a hard surface where I could separate it’s head from it’s body.
I then took the snake to the still hot burning stump in the front yard and through it in the embers. To my amazement its body reacted to the hot coals. It started to move rapidly around before it solidified into a cooked mass. I took a picture and then returned it to the red embers that soon caught its flesh into flames. (As the smoke reach my un-expecting nostrils it certainly did not smell like chicken.) It wasn’t long before it was reduced to ashes.
I then thought of Revelation 20… “Then the devil, who
betrayed them was thrown into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur, joining
the beast and the false prophet.
There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
Just as the body of Christ will join Christ in heaven, the
body of Satan will join Satan in the tormenting lake of fire… the head will be separated from the
body and the body will be separated from itself. Scattered like the ashes in the tormenting lake of
fire.
“But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars – their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This the second death.” Revelation 21:8
There are souls at stake my friends. Think how heaven celebrates a saved soul in our LORD Jesus Christ. Prize this in your hearts. Do what you can in love to reach those who are lost among you, that they may have the opportunity to be saved from such destruction and have LIFE in Christ.
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