The Bible on Trial

St. Patrick's Day Snakes~

Today is  the Irish Celebration of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. In celebration of this event my wife is going to a modified 'Ladies Night' event at a good friends house where she and seven female friends will eat corned beef and cabbage, drink a little bit of Irish Stout, and eat  homemade Irish Soda bread (provide by me at my wife's request). The reason why we celebrate on March 17 is that the real St. Patrick died on that day in 461 C.E., after a very hard life as a Catholic Priest, taking Christianily to the heathens in Ireland.

Not surprising, there were actually no physical snakes in Ireland. So this story of driving Irish snakes into the sea is really a metaphor describing St. Patrick's bringing his beliefs to the Emerald Isle, and driving evil from it's shores.

It is interesting that for those that are paying attention there is another process going on in the world that is doing the same thing today as did St. Patrick then, that is driving evil from the world. The Bible is replete with prophecies of the end of time that speak to the process by which the world will be cleansed of evil of the 'snakes' that are the progeny of the Ancient Serpent, the Devil,  and will be driven out by the actions of those that are in the Kingdom of God, that defeat the kingdom of this world, that kingdom that is made of lies and deceit.

However, this process of removing the snakes of this world is not easy, because it requires everyone that is on the side of good to be in the Kingdom of God. This is the process that Jesus brought to this earth, and spoke to His own eyewitness disciples. False words have been substituted for the Words of Truth, and lies have become the hallmark of those that believe they are saved, but are not.

So when you celebrate today, celebrate the victory that is soon to come upon the world through the words of Truth!