If I remember correctly, many christians have been tortured and killed through the centuries. Their enemies killed them. None of them that I know of ever had power over rattlesnakes or scorpions to the extent these critters never bit them.........so.......did Jesus lie that they would be immune to deadly critters, and that they wouldn't ever be harmed,.....or did god ALLOW a spurious scripture in his spirit directed holy word that could have caused the death of many if they trusted this scripture?
Luke 10:19 .... "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Gumby
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And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads [were] what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as men?s faces,
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but they had hair as women?s hair. And their teeth were as those of lions;
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and they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle.
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Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months.
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They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name is A·bad´don, but in Greek he has the name A·pol´lyon.
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And the number of the armies of cavalry was two myriads of myriads: I heard the number of them.
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And this is how I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them: they had fire-red and hyacinth-blue and sulphur-yellow breastplates; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths fire and smoke and sulphur issued forth.
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By these three plagues a third of the men were killed, from the fire and the smoke and the sulphur which issued forth from their mouths.
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For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with these they do harm.
Scorpions and serpents sting when they bite, and also cause death, whether slow and painful or immediate. Notice that the above scriptures depict a battle and many weapons are described as beasts or animals. This is so those back in the day might be able to grasp the meaning. Jesus Christ did not lie, but made it so that all people in his day and ours might get the meaning and save our own lives until Christ arrives in the glorious Kingdom.
A locust resembles a man helicopter and many missles are named after names in the bible. When Christ arrives with his apostles in the kingdom they will have power over these, and no harm will come to them.
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The wall of the city also had twelve foundation stones, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.