SNAKE IN THE BREAD
The Seed of The Woman Shall Crush The Head of the Serpent
(14) “Then the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, grovelling in the dust as long as you live. (15) And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15, NLT)
In this end season God is dealing with systemic injustices. The church community will not escape the sword prepared for this end season to obliterate and cut into the issues of church life. Denominations and church organisations are not untouchables, therefore a clean sweep by the Spirit of Truth will unearth the hidden matters lain in the foundations of religion. The offensive religious spirit was detested by Jesus. It is a serpent spirit covertly camouflaged and coiled around the machinations of organisational structures. It will be destroyed in this New Order as the 7-fold eyes of truth reveals its deep hidden works.
I will briefly bear out some important points of a dream I had on the 19th May 2020.
Firstly, just let me put my dreams into context by explaining that I am often seen in a dream as though flowing through the scene with a smile on my face. I am usually unconnected to what is taking place. I am there as a passing observer to witness what the Spirit is revealing. Sometimes I am standing on the edge of my dreams just looking in with an angel or heavenly being showing me something or listening to a conversation. The Spirit shows me a scene, often in relative silence or perhaps a very, very brief remark is offered. If I ask a question I may get a one or two word response. The point being made is that I take note of what I am beholding, hearing and sensing. When I awake from sleep I then try to make sense of it. The Spirit has helped me develop a unique and consistent approach to dream interpretation based on my experiences. I believe it works for me as prophetic signposting has led me to the cusp of change for a global strategic end-time No.7 prophetic healing and restoration ministry. I trust God to give understanding and clarity so that I remain spiritually informed.
Snake In The Bread Dream
In this dream on the 19th May 2020, I was flowing through the dining room of a church and not part of the actual scene. There was a kitchen off the dining area and a beautifully laid out table was being prepared for a banquet with leaders. As I walked past the table I saw a minister placing a large wicker basket of bread rolls in the centre of the dinner table. As he turned back into the kitchen, it was at that moment I was flowing past the table smiling as I glanced across at the bread basket with my eyes fixed on a large headed, smooth scaled, glossy skinned snake slowly emerging out of the bread. Its under body colour was pale off-white with its upper sides soft cream and its top-side very light golden brown with patches of darker flecks. It was perfectly camouflaged against the bread colours, almost undetectable but for its slithering movement. It was slowly moving through the middle of the inner soft white bread out of the basket. I immediately put out a warning, ‘a snake is coming out of the bread.’ The minister immediately ran back to the table and tried to grapple with the snake. Immediately a senior Bishop ran from out of an adjoining room on hearing my alarm. He proceeded to take over from the minister. He struggled with the beast, firmly trying to take hold of its head. I then noticed that where he was holding the snake, just under its broad head, the forked fangs protruding from its open mouth were long enough to nip his hand. So I said, ‘Your not holding the snake right. You must get hold of its broad head and clasp it jaws together’. He immediately moved his hands slowly up the head of the snake to grip its jaws together. The other minister struggled with the long body of the ferocious writhing snake as they pulled it out of the bread and went off with it.
This was a dream that I have pondered over time and time again. I now feel I should share it more widely. It concerns me because of these times with the rise of the deceptive influences of evil against the end time Body of Christ. The Spirit fed my spirit with the scripture of the seed of the woman crushing the serpent’s head. Genesis 3:15. The seed of the women is the righteous seed of our Lord Jesus, the only defence we have against the encroaching evil that has infiltrated the Church. This spirit is against doctrinal purity. These are my brief notes I have scripture-framed for a Godly understanding of the dream.
The Snake:
The colours of the snake are earthy tones indicating a disarming approach. Earthy colours do not shock you or arouse any particular interest but are neutral and placate any fears aroused or held. Snakes are reptiles and some species of reptiles are like chameleons that blend into and manipulate their environment to disguise themselves. Manipulation is a witchcraft spirit to dominate and control. The spirit of camouflage is also intended to disguise, mimic and deceive. The source of the spirit of deceit must be identified and dealt with as it will destroy many others, if left unchecked. Snakes will blend into their environment to avoid detection until the moment is right to strike its prey. Snakes can detect a prey by its body heat after it has been stung with debilitating venom. It will follow its prey until it succumbs to the poisonous venom. “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)
The Banquet:
The time of rejoicing and celebration is a time when people are relaxed and off guard. The fact that the spread was laid out for leaders is a classic. The spirit of deception affects people at all levels across a church or organisation. However, Satan’s target is with the leadership. If the ministry/leadership teams can be infected and contaminated by impureness, then those few bad apples will eventually spoil the whole tree. But more importantly, they have the platform to prolifically corrupt the unsuspecting mass with impure teachings. That is what Satan is about, to ultimately cause leaders to err by proliferating defilement of the sacred Word. The banquet setting is where food is eaten. This can be spiritually interpreted as whatever the leaders digest is passed to the people, through the teaching and preaching ministries. Potentially, the contents of the impure heart of leaders is the means by which infection is transferred to the whole church. Therefore the contaminated word from an impure heart is the source from which the bread is prepared and fed to the people. What comes out of a man is what defiles him. So what is digested and churned over in the heart is what will come out of the mouth. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12.
The Bread:
The bread represents the Word of God. This is the serious message being conveyed in this dream, that the leadership in the Body of Christ is entrusted to guard the biblical truths of our faith. You see, the Word is Jesus. If we fail to represent Jesus in our speech, thoughts and service unto others, as the living, written and spoken Word, it is palpable to denying our Lord. At every opportunity the Evil One seeks to penetrate leadership tiers, irrespective of the denomination, so that the Testimony of Jesus is presented to bring confusion and duplicity. If leaders lack discernment to detect, flush out, call out sin and guard what is prepared in the kitchen (the heart), Satan seizes the opportunity to deceive the Body of Christ.
The snake hidden in the bread indicates a strong attack of evil being prepared against the hearts of the dining leaders. Dreams give us warning as they are prophetic insights of what is to come. Hence why I need to make this known. (39) “One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were. (40) And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it. (41) He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot. (2 Kings 4:39-41).
The Kitchen:
The kitchen in a dream denotes the heart. It is the heart of a home, where healthy meals are prepared to nourish and feed the family. The bread was being brought out of the kitchen, and is an indication that the problem leaders are facing is about the heart. Ministries and denominations are governed by many leaders with spiritual cardiac problems. As it was a banquet for many leaders it is a strong indication that the problem is a widespread collective issue. A Spirit-led unified approach in the Body of Christ is needed to remedy the problem. Collective problems across ministries, organisations and denominations are generational longstanding ones.
Jesus warned against these heretic spirits in His messages to John for the 7 churches of Asia Minor. It is an entrenched systemic spiritual problem through the 7-periods of the global Church. It must be identified and tackled else many leaders will fall away, dried and brittle on the vine because of unbelief and resisting the truth. Snakes represents strong levels of demonic deception, manipulation and control as Satan is likened to this creature. In the Garden of Eden, Satan disguised himself as a smooth talking snake, usurping authority over God’s Word, presenting to Adam and Eve a plausible argument why they should eat of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. I believe, however that the dream is really about the pure doctrine being contaminated.
A Warning to the End Time Church
The spirit of deception is rife but there is still yet a strong delusion coming to the unsuspecting end-time church. We are being warned to resist the strongholds of evil, covertly seeking to go undetected under the guise of a busy church life.. The pandemic may have been the means by which a halt to church life has caused many to re-evaluate their spiritual state and reflect on what church life was all about. They will contemplate how they want to go forward from hereon. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches…” (Revelation 2:11, ESV
What I am being fed in my spirit is that the Body of Christ must repent and heed the bidding of the Spirit. Whatever your spirit is urging you to do to make amends, you must do it now. Lay your gifts at the altar, go and say sorry to those wronged, make right and then proceed to carry out your righteous works. It is time to do away with religion that keeps men in spiritual captivity going through repetitive works, yet failing to make right to others wronged. Love is the fulfilment of the law of the Spirit and the principle thing in all we do. The love of God is the Kingdom’s signature mark, not works. Keeping a low profile, disguised behind religious piousness, slithering around, hidden behind works and being in denial about the injustices wrought against others will not excuse you in this next season. In fact, those who will not repent graciously and contritely will come under a greater stronghold. Only this season’s designated mantle that they have rejected can break the bondage they are in. Like Jacob and his family they will be forced to go down to Egypt because of the widespread spiritual famine for the sustaining bread.
In this season it will not be the efforts of the current church that bring about the end time refreshing the Body of Christ so desperately need. It will be the end time strategic 7-fold healing mantle, bestowed upon the prophet chosen and trained by God for this season, that will vivify the global church. It is the season of the prophetic mantle accomplishing the culminating works of the rapture readying Body of Christ. This brings me to what the Spirit would have me divulge to the Body of Christ.
Without fear of recrimination or intimidation, I announce unequivocally to the global Body of Christ that the injustices unleashed upon the emerging servants of God in this time will have far reaching consequences. I believe the injustices and mistreatment of the prophets will precipitate changes in the Body of Christ that will change the spiritual atmosphere. A demarcation line between them that are of God and those that are not is being revealed for this time. Yes, we are in the time of separation of the wheat and the tares. This season is upon us. As we are ushered into Rosh Hashanah (5782) 2022, immense change is coming to the Body of Christ. There will eventually be a mass falling away as the dry brittle stubs on the true vine fall away. The end time spirits of unforgiveness and rebellion have strengthened as strongholds in unrepentant hearts. We must obey God and act immediately when the Spirit reveals our unrighteous hidden works. Let not the spirit of pride bring you to spiritual destruction, alienated from the presence of a loving Father. Let us bear each other up in the love of God.
The dream also indicates that listening to the prophets in this end time is what will bring success. “..Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.” (2 Chronicles 20:21, ESV). Those chosen servants with the mantle to arouse the Body of Christ from complacency and spiritual inertia are key. The higher mantle-anointing is intended in this end season to elevate Jesus, the Spirit of Prophecy. If His chosen servants are rejected and slighted by men, it was first done to Jesus. The 20/20 spiritual sight they have received comes out of the personal training they underwent during the decade of Ayin (2010-2019), by God. This level of insight is intended to flush out the camouflaged and hidden works of evil seeking to evade this 7-fold revelatory vision.
In the dream it is clear we really are dealing with a high level of end time deception here. There are those in the leadership who are fearless to grapple with this spirit. With renewed higher works of love, relational integrity and spiritual understanding, the Church when working collectively with the end time cohort of chosen prophetic servants, can achieve success. The global Church, through this season’s prophetic mantle can receive the Spirit-revealed knowledge, necessary to crush the serpent’s head. The 7-fold prophetic mantle, assigned for this season will discern high levels of evil works orchestrated against the end time Ekklesia, that current mantles of this end season are not mantled to detect.
Poison in the Pot
Elisha the head prophet of the School of Prophets was in the land of Gilgal where there was a severe famine. He instructed that food be prepared for his 100 trainee prophets. With a scarcity of food, one of the young men decided to go and look for herbs for the stew being prepared. He came upon a wild vine with gourds. He proceeded to pick as many as he could gather in his garment and returned to cut them up and put them into the pot. A bit of ‘pot luck’ you might say. The bible recalls that no one knew what sort of gourds they were. “And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it. (1 Kings 4:40, BSB). The stew was inedible and these hungry prophets called out to Elisha for the solution to neutralise the poison in the pot.
Now, flour is the main ingredient of bread, a universal staple diet. When Israel was preparing to leave Egypt behind, God instructed Moses to tell the people that they should eat no ‘leaven’ which denotes sin. “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.” (1 Corinthians 5:8) This was Israel’s First Passover, a time of sacred preparation, passing from captivity and slavery in Egypt to freedom in Canaan. “They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.” (Exodus 12:8). Therefore, it is safe to say that the flour that Elisha called for indicated the word of authority to neutralise the poison in the pot from the gourds of the wild vine.
The scriptures say that Jesus is the True Vine. He will sustain us even in the times of spiritual famine. We have no need to go scratching around for what appears edible and harmless, yet is contaminating and deadly. We can draw a lesson from the actions of the young prophet that we must discern the spirits and situations, be studious in the word against strange doctrines and be governed by the Spirit for wisdom and understanding. What we pick up along our journey must be verified in the Word to ensure it is spiritually edible. Only then can it be shared amongst the flock of God, as the consequences could be deadly. “Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.“ (1 Peter 5:8. BSB). (2 Timothy 4:2 ) instructs us to “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching’. With the pure word we go through testing in the Refiner’s crucible. It will not be pleasant to digest the bitter herbs of Truth, but it will purge the sinful heart and remove every dross.
Gwendolyn Smith. #NewPentecost. 23 June 2020