How the Internet became Snake-Infested and Why Young People need Anti-Sin-venom to remain Safe Online

Is it possible to be bitten by a Snake and still survive the Venom? The answer is Yes — Paul demonstrated it and Moses showed us How.

Satan has not gone on break. There are snakes everywhere and exposure to Sin-venom is everywhere in our culture. We all are still susceptible to snakebites in real life and “snake-bytes” online (pun intended).

We are exposed when we innocently browse web pages or scroll through social media feeds; watch news or movies; sit through a lecture or presentation in college; read a book or magazine; engage in a casual face-to-face or online conversation with an old acquaintance or co-worker etc.

Paul Demonstrated it:

• Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, to laid them on the fire and a viper came out an bit Paul’s hand. The locals saw the venomous snake hanging on his hand and accused Paul of being a murderer. They concluded that although he escaped the shipwreck, he must still suffer vengeance.
• Paul shook off the snake into the fire and he felt no harm. The people expected him to be swollen, fall and die. But after a long while, seeing nothing happened to Paul they concluded that Paul was a god — Paul was immunized and vaccinated against venoms.
• Shaking the snake into the fire doesn’t stop the effect of the bite — shutting down the browser, deleting the movie or suddenly shutting your eyes as you are confronted with evil doesn’t stop the effect of the exposure.
• The exposure may be inevitable, and the bite did happen, but we now have an in-built mechanism that immediately neutralises the effect of the bite — rendering completely inoperative the Venom.

The Israelites had Snake Problems in the wilderness:

• The people “tempted” God — their punishment was a serpent-infested camp. They were dying of snakebites. They asked Moses to intercede on their behalf for God to remove the snakes.
• Moses prayed. But God did not remove the snakes, rather He instructed Moses to make a serpent out of bronze and put it on a flagpole. Anybody that is bitten by a snake and looks at the pole will live. Those who refuse to look at the pole died. The serpent on the pole is the global symbol of medicine today.

No Prayer can remove the Devil nor eradicate Sin from the world. Jesus had prayed for us in John 17:15 asking the Father not to take us out of the World, but that the Father keeps from the evil one.

In John 3:14-15, Jesus described himself as that Serpent on the pole. When bitten by snakes, which will happen sooner or later — we MUST look up to Him if we will survive the bite. Verse 15 ended by saying, “whosoever believes may have eternal life” — “believes” is in the present continuous tense.

The next verse is the popular John 3:16 — For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life — Life that is immune to Sin and the consequences of Sin including Sickness and death.

We must keep looking unto Jesus — the Author and Finisher of our Faith — because we have not resisted Sin to the point of Shedding our own Blood, and there is no need to, just to look at the One who already did (Heb 12:1-4).

Paul admonished Timothy to Fight the good fight of Faith to lay hold of Eternal life — so our fight is about Faith — because whatsoever is not of FAITH is SIN (Rom 14:23)

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