In The Year of The Snake

In 

the year 

of the snake

For this 

is what's been said

How it came to be such a take

Derives from twelve creatures

One emphasised while eleven takes a break

So more specifically it's the year is of the Water Snake

Would that bring more catastrophic calamities

A poisonous concoction set in motion

Devious and destructive to say the least

Fear and aversions that abounds

Humans have for ages since

Been trying to decipher the shades of meaning

Of what each year truly brings

This is yet such an attempt

It's the way that mortals think

Snakes in religion have never been strangers

Found in occults circles as well as in the Bible

Though darkness has nothing to do with light

Yet one enlightens what was once darkened

So to the Holy Scriptures I went

Reminded of the serpent that tempted Eve in the garden

A deception begun with seemingly innocent conversation

That drives deeper into doubts and supposition

Brewing in the mind of the fair lady

Already drunk on Satan's evil remedy

On how to be like God

It's an internal battle fought

Suffice to say it came to the point

Of Adam and Eve's loss

A consequence not of God but of their own volition

But God in grace sets His master plan in motion

To save all of mankind's offspring, redeeming the sin

Eve's offspring shall crush the serpent's head

While the serpent shall strike as that man's heel

A prophetic sign to say the least

A coming battle between the Son of God and the evil beast

Years later another sign was given in the middle of a desert region 

God told Moses to form and raise a bronze serpent

And all who has been bitten by venomous snakes may look and see

Rather than expire in anguish with their last breathes 

Healing supernatural and evidenced in the natural

But the coup de grace was truly when

At the cross died, Jesus the Son of God, the Son of Man

The blessed one became for all as cursed and as vile like a serpent

Raised on the hill of the skull 

So that all who gaze on Him are released from eternal death

And thus I sit back and reflect

Thanking God 

in this year 

of 

the 

snake.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:14-17