{"id":4310,"date":"2014-02-17T15:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2014-02-17T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:31:01","slug":"ky-snake-handler-is-bitten-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4310\/ky-snake-handler-is-bitten-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"KY Snake-Handler is Bitten & Dies."},"content":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/viewart\/20140216\/NEWS01\/302160041\/Snake-handling-Kentucky-pastor-dies-from-snakebite<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nI saw this man and others on TV last year, and was so hurt for these dear souls that I had tracts sent to this area of Middlesboro, Kentucky. \u00a0I wonder what he said about the message we sent, or if he ever got the tracts at all.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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God have mercy.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
jdc<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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Hi John, <\/span><\/div>\n
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I was wondering if you could help me to better understand those scriptures in Mark16:16\u00a0 – \u00a0especially the part that says, “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” – and how they relate to the little Pentecostal groups over the last several decades who have participated in snake-handling.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Why do\u00a0some\u00a0of God’s\u00a0people feel they are supposed to handle snakes and drink poison?\u00a0 Is this something God has commanded some of His people to do as a demonstration of His power?\u00a0 or are they misunderstanding the scriptures?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thank you.<\/span><\/div>\n
Vince<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hi, Vince!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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My father told me that in the early 20th century, when God was pouring out a revival of life in the Spirit (which Christianity later quenched, of course,) God would send snakes to the meeting of His saints if He wanted one handled. \u00a0My father talked about specific instances of deadly serpents crawling into a gathering. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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The most impressive to me was the story he told the time a minister was preaching and a deadly serpent crawled down to isle to him. \u00a0The preacher took him up, laid him across the Bible, and kept on preaching. \u00a0My father said the preacher had to roll the snake over on its side to finish reading the verses he was reading from the Bible. \u00a0Then, the man of God carried the serpent out and turned him loose.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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We don’t have to go looking for serpents and poison; God will create true situations we need, as we need them. \u00a0I was told that I drank poison when I was two, and when my mother cried out, my father came in and laid hands on my little head, and the poison came back up, and I went back outside to play. \u00a0It was not a ritual we went through; it was a time when we needed the power of God. \u00a0I am thankful that my father had it!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/viewart\/20140216\/NEWS01\/302160041\/Snake-handling-Kentucky-pastor-dies-from-snakebite I saw this man and others on TV last year, and was so hurt for these dear souls that I had tracts sent to this area of Middlesboro, Kentucky. \u00a0I wonder what he said about the message we sent, or if he ever got the tracts at all. \u00a0 God have mercy. jdc \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}