Serpents and Doves

Serpents and Doves

In Matthew 10:16, Jesus told us He was sending us out as sheep among wolves, therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

One of the ways the Lord is impressing this upon me is by reminding that in this world, I don’t really own anything. He is trying to help me to hold loosely to “my” possessions — my house, my money, my savings, my 401K, my car, my food, my job. Why? First, God truly owns it all and is only allowing me to use them. Secondly, when I begin to look at all of these things as “mine,” it can lead to a dangerous mindset where I become puffed up and proud, thinking that I acquired them all by myself, instead of viewing them as blessings from Him. Third, this world is my temporary home, filled with temporary things. With what is coming in this chaotic world, He wants all of us to be focusing on Him, learning how to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

I want to address some events that I believe will help us to be wise as serpents among the wolves who believe they are running the world.

As I listen to clips of many of the globalists, I hear phrases that are quite disconcerting, such as “financial equity” or ideas about making food equitable for all. There is much talk about biotech, which is combining our bodies with technology.

Yuval Harari, an author who is also an atheist, spoke at the Davos World Economic Forum in 2018. He spoke of how we will have the ability to access better health care in the future through biotechnology. The only thing is we will have to agree to give up a huge amount of our privacy. Any dissenters will no longer have access to health insurance. This takes the idea of being unable to buy or sell to a whole new level.

At this same forum, Harari went on to speak of living under the rule of a digital dictatorship. With the President just signing an Executive Order to start the process of transitioning America to digital currency, that phrase from 2018 is quite terrifying.

At a later date, Harari spoke of how the Pandemic was the moment everything went digital, with surveillance greatly increasing worldwide, to the point that some started allowing implants under their skin. He even spoke about how humans will be hack-able. As if that wasn’t frightening enough, he went on to say that we haven’t seen anything yet.

I listened to a short clip from the World Government Summit 2022, where Dr. Pippa Malmgrem, a leading US economist, described how we are preparing to abandon the traditional system of money, changing to a digital system. She described it as being the perfect record (surveillance) of every single transaction. I have heard a few pastors speak about how this will lead to the social credit system that is already in place in China. If they see us buying too much meat, they will shut down our access to our money. If we financially support groups who don’t fit the model of what they want, they will shut down our access to money. I have heard several pastors explain the concept of “equitable” that is often heard in their speeches and interviews. It most likely means that when we switch over, if we are too “privileged,” we won’t get a dollar for dollar trade. Instead, we will might get sixty cents for every dollar we want to switch to the digital dollar. The other forty cents will go to the poor, so we are more “equitable.”

What about this green agenda for a cleaner world? There has been a lot of talk about doing away with automobiles as we know them. As for what they want us to drive – most of us couldn’t afford them! How will we drive to work? How will we drive anywhere? Here is another thought. As you look at the four horses in Revelation 6, one is pale, which means chloros. That is a pale green. Could this green horse be tied to a greener world? It is certainly starting to look that way, and is worth watching.

While these are terrifying scenarios to consider, we need to address them. In Matthew 24, Jesus warned us four times not to be deceived. We are not to be ignorant of Satan’s schemes and devices. (2 Corinthians 2:11) However, a steady diet of this kind of information will easily lead us to fear the wrong things. So what are we to do?

We need to be aware of what is happening, but more than that, we need be in the Word to keep us strong in our faith. We are told that all who live godly lives will suffer persecution. (2 Timothy 3:12) Jesus told us we would face tribulation, but we are to take heart and be at peace because He has overcome the world. (John 16:33)

By looking at these scenarios in light of the Word, it will help us not to lose heart and faint in the day of adversity. (Proverbs 24:10)

As for God, His way is perfect. (Psalm 18:30) I like the way the NLT words it: “God’s way is perfect. All His promises are true. He is a shield for all who look to Him for refuge.”

If we lose our job because of what is coming, do we really believe God’s way is perfect? Are His promises really true? Will He really provide for us? We must remember that our job is not to be our refuge. Only God is our refuge.

The Lord is good, and what He does is good.( Psalm 119:68)

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. (Job 1:21)

Due to the push of a greener climate, if we lose our home and/or car because they aren’t “green” enough, can we still say the Lord is good and what He does is good? Will losing your home cause you to lose faith in Lord, like He is the One who took your home? Remember — That home was His to begin with. He only allowed you to live in it.

“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He. (Deuteronomy 32:4, NASB)

When all of our money is suddenly out of our control, can we still declare the Lord is our Rock and that His work is perfect and His ways are just?

”The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;

The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.”

(Psalm 19:7-11, NASB)

Fear not, for I am with You; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10)

Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord. (Psalm 31:24, NASB)

Hebrews 10:37-39:

37 For yet in a very little while,

He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

38 But My righteous one shall live by faith;

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of

those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. (NASB)

As I mentioned earlier, a steady diet of this type of news can be overwhelming and lead to fear. Matthew 6:25-34 is a much better “diet” for us to be feasting on in these troubling times:

25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the [air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! 31 Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be]added to you.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (NASB)

We must learn to hold loosely the things of this world and to hold tightly to our Father’s loving hand.

Feasting on a steady diet of the Word will truly help us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

I know this information is a heavy load, and all that I have said, I am also saying to myself. I have been in much prayer over the disturbing things I am seeing, and I felt compelled to share it with all of you. We are all on this journey together, and we are to encourage each other, and even more so, as we see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)

Here are the links with all of the information I mentioned.