Latter-day Snakes?
What would Jesus say? Jesus seemed to have little problem addressing the false teachers of his day. He called some a brood of vipers (Matt. 23:33). Of others he said their father was the Devil (Jn. 8:44). So why is it not Christ like if we do the same? When we are out number by cultists we tend to keep a low profile. Jesus however did nothing in secret. He spoke openly in the temple and in the synagogues. Martin Luther, a Catholic, tacked a written rebuke on the door of a Catholic church in his day (1517), and of course the top dogs in Rome wanted him dead for it. The final message Jesus had for Capernaum was a rebuke in memory of Sodom which God had destroyed with fire hundreds of years earlier. There was no question what he was saying because all the Jews knew the history of Lot leaving the wicked town of Sodom shortly before its destruction (Matt. 11:23).