There is no way that early man could describe extant animals in scientific terms. For instance, in Hebrew, where “serpent” is translated, the word was “nachash.” That word is translated in Genesis 3:1 as “serpent” which modern people think of as a snake.
However, in the beginning, there were prehistoric animals, of
which many were likely killed off in the deluge of Noah’s time. It makes sense
that since the water for the flood came mostly from the ground in that “all the
fountains of the deep were broken up” (Gen 7:11). The writer did not say so,
but this is not only the first mention of rain but also of tsunamis. The point is
that the Bible, although scientific, is pre-science. Science only speculates
on visible or testable things. Hence, “heaven” is not even considered by scientists,
but fermions are. They study matter and invisible matter (antimatter) but fail
to see their hypotheses as earth and heaven — the visible and the invisible.
The point has significance… Was the “Serpent” a serpentine animal?
The root noun there was nachash from the root noun, nachash. (They
are the same!) Gen 3:1 describes him as “more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God made.” The other usage of nachash means “divination or
enchantment” (Strong’s Dict. No. H5172). The “Serpent”, in that same passage is
said to be “subtil” (‘aruwm); that he was “cunning.” It would appear
that in both instances, nachash has a similar meaning; not necessarily “Serpent”
but “Enchanter” (From Strong’s H5172). In scripture, “a deceiver” is an “antichrist,
therefore the “Deceiver” is the “Antichrist” (2 John 1:7).
The conclusion is that perhaps the Serpent was not a serpent
in a biological sense, but only in the spiritual one. He may have been any type
of “Beast.” Where to find a clue? Also, in Genesis 3, Eve said “the serpent (nachash)
beguiled me.” Perhaps the Enchanter enchanted Eve! With that, the Enchanter was
cursed beyond any beast. That implies that the animals Adam named became beasts
along with him when he sinned. The transformation from man to beast is what
Adam and Eve underwent. It was a three-fold transformation: mind, flesh, and
spirit.
Next, we see the curse of the “Serpent,” to wit: ““Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life” (Gen 3:14). In that curse, we see several things:
(1)
“More than the cattle” implying that other animals
were cursed, along with Adam.
(2)
He was cursed “more than every beast of the field”
even more than Adam and Eve.
(3)
“On your belly you shall go.” We think if that as
the underside of a snake; to crawl without legs. The root noun is “giyach” which
means “break forth.” Perhaps because the Enchanter is thought of as a snake,
then “belly” was given. However, it may mean that the Enchanter will come forth
from the Tree that he either was or was not in. No place does it
say that a Serpent was in the Tree of Knowledge. Perhaps, “break forth” is exposing
himself to mankind rather than crawling.
(4)
Then, we have, “You shall eat dust all the days of
your life.” Dust is interpreted to mean the elements of the Earth. However,
Adam came from dust and to dust he shall return. (Gen 3:19). That was the curse
on Adam. Perhaps, rather than “eat dust” that the Enchanter would devour
Adamkind. That makes sense since, “Your (mankind’s or Adamkind’s) adversary the
devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
The Devil is Satan. The curse was against the Serpent but also against Adam. The
Serpent was not a serpent in a physical sense, but only as a spiritual “Beast.”
His curse was to always seek to devour mankind, and for how long?
(5) “All the days of your life.” Satan’s eternal role was going “to and fro” to devour people. We see that when he came to devour Job. The LORD asked Satan from whence he came. Satan responded, ““From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it” (Job 1:6). Satan did not crawl in the dust on his belly; he walked back and forth. He “broke forth” from where he was and sought out Job; true to giyach in item (3) above. He came to devour Job who came from the dust and to the dust he would return. “Dust” being the elements of the Earth. However, Satan was not eating “dust” but was there to devour a man! With that, God allowed the trials to begin. Satan was there, not as a snake, but some other entity to devour Job. Perhaps he came not as a beast of the field, but a Beast from the skies, or perhaps the invisible realm. We find out that God would not preserve Job’s flesh but did his person. Job’s “person” is himself and that is implied; literally, from the Hebrew, shalach which means “to send away” (Strong’s Dict.). Job was an upright man (Job 1:8). Satan was an Enchanter and was beguiling, subtil,and cunning. Surely God meant that Satan could not put Job himself away, but it turned out in Job 2 that God was not concerned with Job’s flesh, leaving his mind and spirit that Satan could not destroy. Hence, Job could devour Job’s flesh (dust) and find that he did with boils (Job 2:7). At the end of days – the apocalypse — Satan the Enchanter would no longer be able to touch the glorious flesh of God’s children. His days of eating dust would be over when he is cast into the bottomless pit.
For a little clarification, let me explain. “Lucifer” is an
angel who was created in the beginning before any other things. The Serpent, or
“Enchanter,” is how he appeared to Adam and Eve to deceive them. He is a
Beast because he is evil. Because he is proud, Lucifer is the “Adversary” of God,
and is called “Satan.” Lucifer is the “Devil” in that he is the personification
of evil. He is the “Antichrist” because He is against Christ as the “Adversary,”
and is called “Satan.” All those nouns are descriptions of Lucifer who seeks to
overthrow God and rule His Dominion in heaven and earth. As such, Lucifer is
both physical and invisible. He can remain aloof or enter unto persons, as he
did Judas Iscariot. His presence is finite. He can only be one place at one
time, so he uses demon angels as his servants.
God asked one thing of Satan, ““Behold, he is in your hand,
but spare his life” (Job 2:6). He was not concerned with Job’s flesh with the
boils but the life of Job. “Life’ is not living flesh, but eternal soul.
Satan is a handicapped Beast. He can devour flesh (aka boils on Job) but
he can never exhume the Holy Spirit of God from any Christian! “Life” is not
defined by physical existence, but the immortal soul. When Eve ate and did not
physically die, Adam was enchanted by the Enchanter. He expected to see dead
flesh, but he saw nothing different excepting a dying soul who Adam himself
tried to save!
So long as people think of Lucifer as a Serpent, he is
illusive. Likewise, Judeo-Christianity seems like mythology. What does
Lucifer look like? “Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted
your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed
you before kings, to feast their eyes on you” (Ezek 28:17; NKJV), and ““How you
are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the
ground, you who laid the nations low!” (Isa 14:12). “Satan himself transforms
himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:12). Lucifer does not look
like a snake, albeit his personality is like a cunning beast!
The Angel of Light is Lucifer, and Satan appears that way to
mankind. In other words, Satan is Lucifer who was made in the image of God, even
more so than man, who it would seem was made a little lower than the angels as
God in the Flesh was (Psalm 8:5).
Satan, or the Devil, does not resemble a Beast, cherubim, seraphim,
or any other heavenly creature. He resembles Jesus and is the Antichrist because
he transforms himself as he wishes. When those deceived in the end see the
Beast, they will not see a serpent, but a man who appears to be Jesus. The Beasts
of Revelation are no more separate personages than is the Holy Trinity.
Lucifer has three images that he can transform at will for
his purposes. Did Lucifer appear to Eve as a Serpent? Perhaps she saw him as a
mild animal that Adam had tamed, but Adam surely saw the real image of Lucifer.
He saw the Enchanter and was enchanted regardless. He knew the Law and ignored it
because he saw the beauty in Lucifer.
In the Books of Adam and Eve, Lucifer appears to Adam and Eve
in the appearance of God, a beautiful angel, and trustworthy men. He never
appeared to Adam as a snake or any other beast. His person of “Beast” is inside
because it is froth with sin. By external appearances, even the elect will be
deceived. That means “faithful Jobs” who was not deceived, by the way! He saw
beautiful Lucifer for what he is — the Adversary and Enemy of God.
Why would Satan want us to see him as a snake? Because then, religion is more mythology than truth. He wants us to think of him anyway but how he is!
People In the Bible encountered a “fiery flying serpent
several times,” to wit: “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, because the rod
that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a
viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent” (Isa 14:29) which is saraph
‘uwph saraph, not naschash as used previously. That is because the “serpent”
is not a serpent. It is a seraph. The root word of seraph is also seraph
and means “to burn, hence “fiery” (Strong’s Dict; H8312).
The “fiery flying serpent” is out of the Serpent’s (naschash’s)
root. Just as Jesus is the “root” of Jesse (Rom 15:12), the seraph is the root
of the naschash (the Enchanter that we call “Satan” and wrongly the “Serpent”).
The seraph is more than a viper. Because the seraph has the same root as its
name, the seraph is a burning creature. The seraph is described as a six-winged
creature that flies around God saying “Holy, Holy, Holy” (Isa 6:18). Tradition
has it that seraphim (plural of seraph) are the highest level of angels. That
would make Lucifer a seraph.
Remembering that things were called after other things, then
perhaps “flying fiery serpents” (seraphs) resembled creatures created by God.
For instance, the flying reptile (not a bird) that we call “pterosaur” resembled
a seraph. Compare the representations of the two:
If Lucifer is a seraph, then he would resemble a flying
serpent and the fiery part may not be heat but inflicted poison. It is
written, “The Lord said unto Moses, ‘Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon
a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he
looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses
made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a
serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived’” (Num
21:8-9).
Hence, Moses, directed by God, made a “fiery serpent” and when
weaved back and forth looked as if it was flying. It was not a snake that Moses
made but a “seraph” in that passage. “Fiery” is deduced in that seraph is only
used once in this passage. The pole was a standard or like a flagstaff (Strong’s
Dict.) to perhaps represent “flying.” Are seraphim beautiful as written
in Ezekiel about Lucifer? God might think so because he created them, and they
sang of His Holiness. Lucifer was noted for his music: “Thou hast been in Eden
the garden of God… the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thou wast created” (Ezek 28:13).
That takes care of Lucifer’s beauty in the eyes of God, but
Ezekiel called Lucifer a “cherub” (Ezek 28:14). Which is it? Cherub or seraph? Well,
below is a representation pf a cherub:
Figure 2: cherub from Wikipedia
The cherubim resemble seraphim, it seems, but only the
central body of the human. Unlike seraphs that are high level angels, cherubim are
believed to be some of the lowest. They are best known for guarding the Mercy
Seat on the Ark of the Covenant, the Way to the Tree of Life at the gate to
Paradise, and God’s throne on the sea of glass in heaven. They are associated
with allegiance to God, not as adversaries.
The pole that Moses made was finally destroyed because the
Hebrews began to worship it. On the other hand, the Ark of the Covenant was
held sacred. The former had a seraph and the latter cherubim. God destroyed the
seraph idol but did not the cherubim figures. They were not idols. Lucifer was
a high- level angel and is noted as an archangel. He would not have been a lowly
cherub. Perhaps Ezekiel called him a cherub because the Hebrews knew what
cherubs looked like because of Moses. They would not know how seraphs would
look.
Or perhaps the beasts represented the multiple personalities
of Lucifer. Even if he was a cherub, Moses made a seraph to represent Lucifer
dead in his “tree.” The brass in the sun would have been blood red, and the material
was lifeless. The “seraph seraph” (fiery angel) would not have represented
Jesus. Cherubs do that! Perhaps Ezekiel called Lucifer a cherub because he is the
anti-cherub. (I hate guessing but that is all we can do!) The point is that a seraph
makes more sense than a serpent on the Tree of Knowledge, on the pole of Moses,
or hanging from the Tree near the Potter’s Field where Judas died the same day
Jesus did!
Now for Judas of Iscariot. The root verb of “Kerioth” is “qar”
and means “cooling off” (Abarim Publications). The seraph on the pole most
certainly represents, not Jesus in His Tree (the Cross), but Lucifer in his tree.
The flying fiery seraph, with the death of Judas was cooled off when he died. Note that Satan (Lucifer) entered into Judas (Luke 22:3). Lucifer’s borrowed flesh died that day, but Lucifer lived on. However, since he has never entered anyone else since (his demons have), he will enter some other flesh (Beast) during the apocalypse. The Antichrist is the root of the seraph: “Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent” (Isa 14:29). A cockatrice is unknown but is well-known from mythology. In figure #3 is a image of that beast:
Figure 3:By The original uploader was Leonard G. at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3868078
You can see that a cockatrice is not a seraph nor a cherub,
but an image that Lucifer transforms himself into. A cockatrice is a flying
serpent with the head of a rooster. Apparently, Lucifer appears to different prophets
as different beasts, or perhaps as I believe, those images describe Lucifer’s
spiritual characteristics. This too could be the dead brazen serpent that the
Hebrews saw as dead!
The point is that the fiery serpent on Moses pole does not
represent Jesus. If so, it would have truly been a cherub. However, it was either
a cockatrice or a seraph, not a serpent. And it did not symbolize Jesus alive
on His Tree, but Lucifer dead in his. Just as Jesus was “hanged on a tree” (Acts
5:30), so was Judas… on that same day! (Mat 27:5). The seraph on the pole was
not Jesus, but the fiery angel which God cooled down. Satan did not die that
day, but the death of Judas was Lucifer’s cooling down as Karioth
implies.
The Hebrews who looked on that pole and saw the Purpose of
Jesus lived although they had been bitten by the fiery venom of the seraph, Lucifer.
The blood of Jesus would do that, and they had faith in what was to come. Moses
somehow got across to them that Jesus would die to cool down the fiery seraph,
Lucifer. It was the spirit of Judas they saw dead. It was the so-called “Serpent”
who had died in his tree!
We think that Adam saw a Serpent in the Tree of Knowledge.
He saw the same image that was in Judas Iscariot. Satan hid behind the image of
Judas. Perhaps Lucifer hid behind the Tree of Knowledge and was never in it.
Perhaps the seraph’s voice was taken as the Voice of God (Jesus speaking) but
was the voice of Judas all the time. Heavenly creatures have heavenly
appearances. Never is a snake pictured as a heavenly creature. Lucifer was. It
seems that he was either a cherub, seraph, or cockatrice, but perhaps the three
“beasts” of his substance were three angelic beings. Just as God is Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost; perhaps Lucifer is seraph, cockatrice, and cherub.
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