A few random things:
1. Regarding the fiery serpents in Numbers 21:1-9, I seriously doubt you will find them on any taxonomy of known creatures today. Given that the remedy was by faith looking at a bronzed version, and that the Lord set them loose on the people for a specific sin, I suspect they weren’t “natural” creatures at all. The adjective “fiery” here typically means “glowing” in our terms today. While there are no doubt natural serpents that got that nickname, I believe the ones in that passage were supernatural in origin.
In other words, the main miracle was not in the way their bite was cured, but in the way the serpents came into existence as a response to sin. There are several other events like that in the Old Testament that simply don’t match up enough to normal earthly events. The question is not what God can do, but what does the passage in question actually say He did?
2. Young men truly seeking the Lord in these days will hardly find a woman worth marrying in the US. To be more precise, the likelihood of finding a young American woman with matching faith and covenant commitment is vanishing as time goes on. Those women do exist, but they are increasingly rare as we slide down the age scale. Feminism and SJW mythology have really taken a hold. Church, if anything, tends to make it worse.
Then again, men of real faith are also vanishing among the young Americans. Thus, a genuine biblical pairing is exceedingly rare among Millennials and younger. They are rare enough among the materialistic Boomers, but the X, Y and Z generations seem nearly hopeless.
3. Take a moment to remember the 1992 riots in Los Angeles over the unpopular ruling about the Rodney King incident. There are places in this world where the thin veneer of civilization peels right off in just a day, and the feral activity runs destructively for up to a week. It’s very hard to recognize when those moments come, and it is very easy to get trapped like so many LA residents did. Several hundred hapless dwellers were murdered by the rioters, though official counts are far lower.
Looting was the biggest thing, but it was followed by arson. People who lived through it swore they saw signs of organization. These days they are far better organized, so the death and destruction would be far worse, and more likely to pop up in more places. This is not to make you fearful, but wary.
I was in high school when the riots happened. To be honest, I was more scared when I read all those books on Nostradamus than anything to do with real life disaster scenarios. Yes, of course it’s entirely foolish, but my mind works in foolish ways.
Did you bring the riots up because of the upcoming George Floyd trial?
That was part of the reason. The other was that someone else linked to a story about those riots, and it triggered some memories.