all authority has been given unto me both in heaven and under the heaven,go yee therefore............

Behold, i give you authority over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

and you shall tread upon snakes and scorpions
we see in the above verses that that the Lord Jesus delagated his
authority to us we (his)the people and is waiting for us to make his enemies a foot stool for his feet
that is it patriots ,
Gods enemies into foot stools for jesus.
almost forgot,
this includes every creeping thing that creeps upon the face of the earth including D