Ps 91 13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;you will trample the great lion and the serpent." Considered saints have been naturally born into the a mighty war between good and evil. But the modern war is not categorically between the righteous and the wicked. We are naturally born in a wicked world inadvertently captured in this prolonged war between God and Satan. The war is more massive than the specific strength of a modern military. It is a spiritual conflict that promptly demands eternal warriors. These are the avenging angels, cherubim, and Christ in conflict with the demons, fallen angels and the devil. This sacred war is waged with spiritual weapons. In this world civilized mankind is surrounded by invisible spiritual beings. This teaching comes out of the wrestling of Jacob and the avenging angel of the Lord. We are earnestly advised that the mysterious forces interact appropriately with the visible creation. This is why we are properly directed that man is unable to be a principle player in this active war. We are carefully instructed by the allegory of the coming of Christ with avenging angels to annihilate Israel enemies as the secure foundation for our possible survival. 18 9" He parted the heavens and came down;clouds were under his feet.10 He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him-the dark rain clouds of the sky.12 Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.13 The LORD thundered from heaven;the voice of the Most High resounded.14 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great bolts of lightning and routed them." The Psalmist is carefully teaching the Lord intervened in the historic battles of Israel when the direct conflict was at its highest level to reliably deliver Israel. This is the apt metaphor for eternal salvation. Eternal salvation on the national level was never obtained by human forces. Spiritual salvation is in God alone. In the Psalms the continuous fighting and winning of Israel wars is accurately described in the same terms as the continual war between God and Satan in our eternal salvation. The appropriate terms of our eternal salvation are adequately described in the same way that Israel properly obtained glorious victory by completely destroying their longtime enemies. The Psalmist carefully compares the spiritual rest that saints enjoy in walking in between the unconscious bodies of the conquered enemy on the battle field after they were completely devastated by God. From before the foundation of the world God divinely ordained this fierce conflict that would end with death. Consequently, for the curse, to end with a death is required. This is why we find David candidly confessing it was not by their sword that they won the land, but it was by the unerring hand and the light from the Lords eyes. The Psalmist is carefully teaching that life and death are in the Lords hands alone. Hence, the Psalmist carefully teaches our physical weapons cannot properly obtain miraculous deliverance. We must fight with effective weapons in which God pronounces eternal life and death. We must fight professionally by word and Spirit. This is exactly how the war with the Serpent naturally began.It began with God pronouncing a eternal curse on the Serpent. God pronounced the death of the serpent through the cross of Christ. The war did not indeed take place at the cross. It was a continual war that invariably started from the fall in the garden. The Psalmist carefully compares this war as a successful series of miraculous deliverances of Gods people as a independent nation prospers in conquering their formidable enemies. The serpent is consistently described in sacred scripture as political and spiritual opposition to the eternal kingdom of God.You carefully consider this apt comparison to the Fiery Serpent that was placed on the pole so that when the Israelite where bitten by the serpents that had come into the camp they would live.This is a picture of what invariably happens when Israel departs from the moral law. The civil authorities become vicious.  Snakes are inevitably a political metaphor for political or religious leaders. When Israel departs from the moral law then the imminent threats from the abusive culture of tyrants are like the communist army of writhing snakes that bite the exposed people. In all of these apt comparisons between the war in eternal salvation and Israel wars is this teaching that deliverance ordinarily requires death.Christ not only died as a adequate substitute for our sin but He had to invariably become that snake on the pole for us to look to and live. Christ had to invariably become that potential threat of us dying in  for us to live. He became an eternal curse for us. Hence, the Psalmist accurately describes this successful war as more than a lifelong struggle with sin. It is a war in which we must kill the official opposition through sacred word and Spirit. The Psalmist provides incredible teaching provided in the Apostles writings.1 Cor. 1 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being delivered it is the power of God." He is properly saying Christ has already executed the spiritual opposition but we are definitely pronouncing what is dead to be delivered in ongoing salvation. You see the world cannot universally accept everything that we staunchly oppose is properly taken care in substitution. The way that we typically respond to a wrong or abuse merely represents arbitrary justice through negative karma. You see the world does imperfectly understand that the sole way to be free of this cruel world and the terrible injustices is through death. There is no forlorn hope in negative karma. Negative karma may merely satisfy the temporary enjoyment of political retribution, but it will never deliver us.The cross is foolishness to the world because we place all of our hope in the death and miraculous resurrection of Christ All of our opposition must be properly taken care of in the death of Christ.