The Deadliest Snake
Posted by Tomi on September 13, 2009
I had an interesting discussion with a friend once about snakes. Ordinarily at the sight of a human, snakes run because they are as scared of us as we are of them. However, if a snake notices any form of attack, instead of running, it attacks. One of the snakes we talked about was the black mamba, the world’s deadliest snake.
Here are some quick facts about the black mamba,
This snake is located in Africa and is colored dark olive or a dark brown color with black spotting along its back. The Black Mamba has the longest fangs of any snake and when strikes it delivers quick multiple bites and flees. This snake’s venom is a cardio toxin and a fully grown Black Mamba can deliver 100mg to 120mg. A lethal dose of a cardio toxin to a human is 10mg to 15mg. A human has up to four hours to live after one is bitten.
(excepted from http://www.uoregon.edu/~ddardano/snake/topfivedeadliestsnake.htm )
As an addendum to that, here’s what I learnt about the mamba growing up in Nigeria: when it attacks, the black mamba delivers quick multiple bites and doesn’t stop biting the victim until it observes that there is no more movement.
According to my friend, the mamba delivers the multiple bites because it is a very scared animal. I guess it is so because if one is bitten by a snake, the response would be for you to attack it in return. The Black mamba probably knows this so he’s trying to preempt his victim. Just think about it, the thought that they could be clubbed to death would scare any human and given the chance, they would by any means try to defend themselves. In the same way, the black mamba in its bid to defend itself, continues to strike until its sure you’re unable to attack it anymore – signified by the lack of movement which shows total weakness – the enemy has been defeated! right?
That day, the Lord ministered to me that Satan is exactly like that mamba. Once he gets hold of you he won’t let go of you until you are either dead or until he’s rendered you too weak to move. It’s like this, if he gets the chance to attack you first, if there is nothing to prevent him from slipping in and attacking first, like that snake, he will continually strike at you because he wants you stuck at that place of attack unable to move towards your weapon, unable to strike back at him. He knows that if you should succeed in getting a weapon, he’s in total trouble, since you would render him useless in your case, totally defeated. So he gives you no breathing space and he doesn’t stop until you are no longer a threat to him
The reason the devil does this is because he’s scared. He seeks more people each and everyday to join him in hell so he fights each day for each soul. He’s scared that once you find God, you’ll get the weapon against him and then he has lost the battle over you. So he strikes with different kinds of challenges, trying to keep you too busy to find God. He tries all his possible best to continually prevent your movement in the right direction, by keeping you focused on all other things but God.
The only way we can defend ourselves is to be watchful in order that we might be able to strike him before he has a chance to strike at us. This means we have to be close to God every single second. Our only victory is in Jesus who is able to give us the victory over all the devil’s strikes (tribulations, frustration, distress, whatever the enemy might challenge us with Romans 8:35-37.
God will provide every weapon needed to handle the biggest and deadliest human enemy who is not after the death of our body but our soul.
