That Scripture has always bothered me. For some reason I could never understand why Jesus would encourage us to take advice from the devil. It flew in the face of everything I had always been taught about the battle between good and evil.
Jesus good…Satan bad. Most of us have been taught that throughout our lives. Why would Jesus tell us to emulate the “wisdom” of the serpent?
We understand the serpent is synonymous with Satan who is the one who instigated the fall of mankind from a relationship with The Almighty. Satan is the embodiment of evil and the sworn enemy of Jesus Christ.
Why would Jesus encourage us to emulate Beelzebub? If we are instructed to be “harmless as a dove,” how is that even possible if we employ the techniques of Satan?
We are immersed in a spiritual war. The battle has never been as clear as it is today. The election of 2020 will be a world-altering event no matter how the election turns out. Is it possible that we are in the mess we are in because we have ignored Christ’s admonition to be “wise as a serpent?”
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