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They will pick up serpents and drink deadly poison and it will not hurt. Anyone who thinks they can pick up serpents and drink poison has already been poisoned.The teachings in earthly understanding are the serpents and moses shows that when he trows his staff on the ground.
The believers will lay hands on the sick and they will be healed. Those who do that have also been bitten. You hands are your hands of council and the sick are the ones who believe they can lay their hands on people and heal them.

Can you people not see that I have been picking up those serpents right here and drinking poison and am not hurt. I am laying my hands on you to heal you.

All the bible is written in parables and likened unto things. You cannot see spirit unless you have insight. You cannot hear the word of God less you have ears to hear.

When the disciples seen Jesus on the shore after his resurrection they jumped out of the ship and put their Robes on and swam to shore. At first they did not recognise him. People do not put their robes on to jump into the water and swim. They left the church,went to the new earthly teachings. It is always the same. You do not recognise him. Open the eyes of your heart.

[Amadeus]

All of us have our serpents, our devils, our beasts. Every time anyone of us opens his mouth and speaks and every word is not of God, in the measure that it is not, we are feeding the poison to anyone who is willing to listen and consume it in any measure. What do we eat on our jobs or in Wal-Mart when we listen to someone airing their complaints or telling their dirty jokes is the poison we, ourselves, consume. In the church it is usually better, but not necessarily as better as many may presume.

Jesus always knew when He touched someone the exact effect it would have. He had the mind of God. How many of us have the mind of Christ so that we lay hands on a person, we know that the person is definitely going to be healed. Jesus did! His touch removed the poison thereby healing the person with no harm to the Healer. If the person had nothing but poison to offer and his heart was closed, Jesus would have passed him perhaps with tears in His eyes, but He was unable to get through the unbelief. To force Himself on such a person would have been to partake of the poison of the person.

This is a healing of hearts done by the Spirit of God. When it is done in accord with God’s will, the poison cannot affect us. If it is our of God's will the poison will kill us spiritually as well, or at least, quench the Spirit of God within us.

Without insight, without ears to hear and eyes to see, we blindly touch those who have made themselves untouchable, and we defile ourselves, and we quench God’s Spirit in us.

When a horse is free running across the plains he can see well in all directions. When a man hitches the same horse up to a wagon and blinders are placed on his eyes, he can only see what the man wants him to see.

If the man who hitches us to his wagon is not Jesus, we will be blind to what the Lord wants us to see. Unlike a wild horse, we do not usually fight the man, but we come to him willingly.

Most people, in most churches have on such blinders that keep them from seeing beyond the doctrines of that little group. This is never the Lord’s Way. If we ask, He will help us to focus our eyes on Him, but we must ask!