Satan can disturb us, but he cannot defeat us. The head of the serpent is crushed. This is Max

Lakato. I saw a literal picture of this in a prairie ditch. A petroleum company was hiring strong

backs and weak mines to lay a pipeline. Since I qualified, much of a high school summer

was spent shoveling in a shoulder-high West Texas trough. One afternoon, the digging machine

dislodged more than dirt. Snake! shouted the foreman, and we popped out of that hole faster than a jack in the box.

One worker launched his shovel and beheaded the Rattler.

That scene is a parable of where we are in life.

In Revelation 20 in verse 2, John calls Satan that old snake, who is the devil.

Has he not been decapitated?

Not with a shovel, but with a cross.