Vipers, what is a viper? what was Jesus saying when he called the people of his day a viper?
VIPER-according to the American,Heritage Dictionary,
Any of several venomous old world snakes, having a single pair of long hollow fangs,
2; A malicious or treacherous person.
Before I speak on this, first let us see, 2 Peter, 1;20,21
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation,
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man;
but holy men of God spake as they where moved by the Holy Ghost.
I point this out because I hear often, well this is the way I interpreted it,
Or well that is your opinion, no, not so, nor can it be, the Holy Ghost leads us.into all truth,
And many say well, you have to look at the time it was written; the problem with that is the fact that we are their offspring, and people have not changed, it is for all, the generations,
Acts 2;39, And this promise is to you and your children , and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call,
And we are the far off, from that time, and it is still alive and active, and applies to us, every word rightly divided,
Matthew,23; 29-33, Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets,
Wherefore you be witness unto yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets,Fill you up then the measure of your fathers,
You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?
34;35;36. Wherefore behold I send unto you prophets, wise men, and scribes, and some of them you shall kill, and crucify,and scourge in your synagogues, and persecute then from city to city,
That upon you shall come the righteous blood, shed upon the earth, verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation,
WE are this generation, we are still here, and it applies today because like I pointed out we are the children of them before us, and they even now, mock, scoff, lie in wait, bear false witness, devise wicked plains, of meanness, just as then so it is now, and that which is born of flesh persecutes that which is born of spirit,,
I heard the other day, as the spirit moves, well we are to try the spirits. because God is not approving your evil ways. VIPERS. HYPOCRITES. LIARS,
