Ps 91 13 You shall trample the lion and the cobra, you shall trample the great lion and the serpent." The saints considered were born naturally in a great war between good and evil. But modern warfare is emphatically not between the just and the villain". We are. naturally born into an evil world inadvertently caught up in this protracted war between God and Satan. War is more massive than the specific strength of a modern army. It's a spiritual conflict that easily requires eternal warriors.These are the avenging angels, the cherubim and Christ in conflict with the demons, the fallen angels and the devil. This sacred war is fought with spiritual weapons. In this world, civilized mankind is surrounded by invisible spiritual beings. This teaching comes from the struggle of Jacob and the avenging angel of the Lord. We are fully aware that mysterious forces are appropriately interacting with the visible creation. That is why we are sufficiently informed that man is incapable of being a major player in this active war. We are carefully instructed by the allegory of Christ's coming with avenging angels to annihilate the enemies of Israel as a sure foundation for our possible survival. 18 9 He opened the heavens and descended; there were clouds under his feet. 10 he mounted the cherubim and flew away; hovered on the wings of the wind. 11 he made darkness his covering, his canopy encircled him, the dark clouds of rain from heaven. 12 From the light of his presence have arisen clouds, with hailstones and lightning. 13 The Lord thundered from heaven, the voice of the Most High sounded 14 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great thunderbolts and routed them." The Psalmist carefully teaches that the Lord intervened in Israel's historic battles when direct conflict was at its height to reliably deliver Israel. is the apt metaphor for eternal salvation. Eternal salvation in national level has never been obtained by human forces. Spiritual salvation is only in God.In the Psalms, the continuing struggle and victory of Israel's wars is accurately described in the same terms as the continuing war between God and Satan in our eternal salvation. The proper terms of our eternal salvation are aptly described in the same way that Israel properly won the glory of victory by utterly destroying their longtime enemies. The psalmist carefully contrasts the spiritual rest enjoyed by the saints as they walk among the unconscious bodies of the vanquished enemy on the battlefield after being utterly devastated by death. Therefore, for the curse to end in death, it is necessary. Hence we find David frankly confessing that it was not with their sword that they conquered the earth, but with the unerring hand and the light of the eyes of the Lord. The Psalmist carefully teaches that life and death are only in the hands of the Lord. Thus, the Psalmist carefully teaches that our physical weapons cannot adequately obtain miraculous deliverance. We must fight with effective weapons in which God pronounces eternal life and death. We must wrestle professionally with the Word and the Spirit.This is exactly how the war with the serpent naturally began. It started with God pronouncing an eternal curse on the Serpent. God pronounced the death of the serpent by the cross of Christ. The war did not actually take place on the cross. It was a continuous war that invariably began with the fall of the garden. The psalmist carefully compares this war as a series of miraculous goods of the people of God as a prosperous independent nation to conquer their tremendous enemies. Snakes are inevitably a political metaphor for political or religious leaders. When Israel deviates from the moral law, the looming threats of the abusive culture of tyrants are like the communist army of snakes that twist and bite those exposed. In all these righteous comparisons between the war of eternal salvation and the wars of Israel, it is this teaching that liberation usually requires death. Christ not only died as a fitting substitute for our sin, but He invariably had to become that serpent on the stake for us to watch and live. Christ invariably had to become this potential threat of death for us to live.It has become an eternal curse for us. Therefore, the psalmist accurately describes this victorious war as more than a constant struggle against sin. This is a war in which we must kill the official opposition by the sacred word and the Spirit. The psalmist provides incredible teaching provided in the writings of the Apostles. 1 Cor. 1 18 For the preaching of the cross is folly to those who die, but to us who are set free it is the power of God. to be given over to continued salvation. You see, the world cannot universally accept that whatever we strongly oppose should be properly healed instead. The way they usually react to harm or abuse is simply arbitrary justice through negative karma. You see, the world imperfectly understands that the only way to be freed from this cruel world and terrible injustices is through death. There is no vain hope in negative karma. Negative karma may just satisfy the temporary enjoyment of political retribution, but it will never set us free. The cross is folly to the world because we place all of our hope in Christ's miraculous death and resurrection. All of our opposition must be properly met in Christ's death.