JONATHAN CAHN - SERPENTS, EGGS AND THE SOURCE OF LIFE

I wonder after how the prophecies in the Old World were so vague in regards to the coming forth of the baby Jesus.  I think about those who gladly would have (tried to) extinguished Him while He was still helpless.  But they knew not exactly when or where - and when they tried, they were warned and fled the country.

Here is a great insight on this hellish thing.  Part of the reason we have to be close to the Spirit and be wise as serpents, harmless as doves in this fallen world:

" In the sand between the rocks at the base of the mountain was a snake. Its mouth was stretched around an egg much larger than its body. A dasypeltis scabra... the egg-eating snake. It reveals a critical principle in the spiritual realm.
The serpent is a symbol of evil and of the enemy. Serpents of this kind are known for swallowing eggs from which life emerges.
Moses was called to free the Hebrew slaves from Pharaoh, but in the days of Moses's birth the Pharaoh decreed that... all male babies born of the Hebrews were to be killed. Only by a miracle did the baby Moses survived.

So too it was in the days of Messiah's infancy that king Herod tried to end His life. What does this reveal?
Not only that the enemy attacks the young, more than that. The enemy would attempt to destroy Messiah's ministry in the wilderness just before it began. The enemy specially attacks at the beginning of God's purposes, and before the beginning.
God had promised to gather the Jewish people from the nations and resurrect the nation of Israel. Just before the words of the prophets were to be fulfilled, a satanic fury broke forth on the earth in the form of Nazism, to wipe out the Jewish people just before the prophecies could be fulfilled, before Israel could be reborn.
The pattern repeats again and again. What is the enemy? He is a PREEMPTOR. He attacks the purposes of God not only after they begin, but before they begin, to preempt them. Just as the serpent seeks to swallow the egg.
So when you are in the will of God and all hell comes against you, don't be discouraged. It's a good sign. The enemy doesn't waste his time. He's doing everything he can do to keep God's purpose from being accomplished.
Keep going all the more strongly. The attack is a sign of how great is the calling, the blessing, the purpose, and the victory God has just ahead of you. Just don't give up, but press on all the more... until you see those purposes break through their shell. The victory lies just beyond it. "

Jonathan Cahn