As Paul, Luke and the others are headed to Rome at Paul's request to stand and be tried before Caesar, also God's divine plan for him to go to Rome and preach Acts 23:11. The ship they were on became a shipwreck they had to swim to the nearby island named Malta while there a viper comes out of the sticks that Paul was using as fire wood and fasten ltself to Paul’s hand, Paul shook the viper back into the fire. We too must shake off the things that try to take us down.