We are in the shadow of Halloween approaching here in America. People have many feelings and make many comments about this holiday. There are skeletons in people’s yards, blow up ghosts, pumpkins and goblins all lit up so as you drive by their house you can see it. Stores are now putting on clearance many of their Halloween supplies for last minute shoppers. Costumes are flying off the racks as people prepare to enter into this “holiday”.

I have some friends who were in their front yard as I was driving by, so I stopped and said hi. They told me about their neighbors who were erecting a very tall skeleton and how they did not like it. After leaving that conversation, I had thought about how annoyed and bothered by plastic skeletons and blow up goblins people are.

I know it is the spirit of the “holiday” and the symbols are bothersome. So I was thinking what could we, who don’t celebrate this “holiday”, could put in our yard to make a different statement. I thought what if we got a large communion cup and loaf of bread and then we could declare, “They overcame by the blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony and loving their lives not even unto death.” (Revelation 12:11) I thought this would be a great counter decoration.

But then today the Lord gave me a revelation of the bronze serpent on the pole in Number 21, which was God’s antidote for a people who grumbled and complained so got bit by fiery serpents. “The LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.”

My antidote to this “holiday” is not complaining, but looking up to the bronze serpent on the pole, which is Jesus on the cross and as we look at Him we live. We need to change where we look, so maybe next year, erect a bronze serpent on a pole in your front yard as an antidote to the skeletons, goblins and ghosts in the yard across the street. Who knows maybe when they look at it they will get healed and live. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org