What seems to alienate some from Judeo-Christianity is what seems to be mythology. Right before the time of Christ the mythological gods of Greece were eminent. They were all unseen gods and some, like Pan, the half-man, half-goat, were the epitomes of mythology.
When the seventy Jews, acceptable
to the Greeks, were chosen to translate the Hebrew into the Greek, it stands to
reason that they may have been Hellenized — influenced by Greek culture and Greek
mythology just like some translators of this century may be influenced by our
culture and psychology.
What would demonic influences be
called by the Greeks? They were not the philosophers that they claim to be.
What Karl Jung called the “shadow,” perhaps the Greeks symbolized it by using a
visible image. The shadow archetype in Jungian psychology is the darker side of
human nature — the thoughts, feelings, and impulses of the mind.
The ancient philosopher, Bildad,
got it right when he was counseling Job from a psychological perspective, “Our
days upon earth are a shadow” (Job 8:9), a shade, a protection from the
light. Of course, the “Light” is God Himself. Inside everyone there lurks a personality
that refuses to come out into the light.
Paul’s mission was this, “To open
their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance
among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me” (Acts 26:18).
With that said, there was likely
no “serpent” in the forbidden tree of the Garden of Eden. Nahas, in the
Hebrew is used to describe several things: a fire, a snake, but more generally any
image.
The “Serpent” was not a serpent!
The prophet Isaiah uses the noun serap, to describe the Serpent. The
Serpent was an angel — a seraph, having “six wings; with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly” (Isa 6:2).
Again, a seraph seems to be a
mythological creature, but the wings are described as coverings, which
is validated by the linguists (
So, again, rather than a seraph being
the visible image with six wings, those attributes may have been
coverings to conceal light or flicker just enough so that humans would not see
the darkness revealed. In other words, seraphs may not be alien creatures, but like
mankind who have “personalities” much like ours although they are not people
but invisible personas from another realm.
The “angel,” or soul, of mankind
is elohim. The plural Elohim represents God’s singular Image, and
the created images of God are called elohim (plural) in the Hebrew. Angels
were made in the image of God and are elohim-like humans but of a
different “kind” or substance; man has two substances, one visible and one
invisible (the soul), but angels have one invisible substance while in their
realm, but are what is considered today “shape-shifters” in this realm as demonstrated
in the Book of Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts with Satan.
So far, but perhaps not so well,
the intent is to dismiss what seems to be mythology in the Bible. Scripture
reveals the Elohim in Jesus, as Jesus was baptized, “The heaven was
opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a
dove upon Him (Luke 3:21-22). That “Bodily Shape” would be the invisible Image
of God that was revealed at the baptism of Jesus. No other men nor women had that
Image revealed (John 1:33) because only Jesus had within, the Image of God!
With that said, there is indeed an invisible realm that God reveals as He suits.
Now return to mythology for a moment.
Consider the following passages:
·
Seeking to kill Jesus, “Then entered Satan into
Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve” (Luke 22:3). Somebody,
perhaps Luke again, who had seen the invisible Image of Jesus, he saw the
invisible image of Judas, the Antichrist, as well. Judas was imbued with a seraph,
and like a seraph, he was the bearer of darkness and death.
·
After identifying Jesus as the malefactor that
the chief priests were seeking, “He (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in
the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself” (Mat 27:5).
Judas, like Jesus (Acts 5:30) was hanged on a tree. The Antichrist would mimic
Jesus in every way. He died much like Jesus would die.
Not only that, but after dying, Judas would be “pierced” in the same manner as
Jesus was pierced:
·
“This man (Judas) purchased a field with the
reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and
all his bowels gushed out” (Acts 1:18). With Jesus, it was much the same way, “One
of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out
blood and water” (John 19:34).
·
There were two “crucifixions” that Jewish day. God
performed the bloody deeds Himself. God killed His only Son but that was to
render Satan in Judas powerless. Where is
this leading?
·
The “gospel” of the Word in the Book of
Genesis. God forecast all His plans for Adam, Eve, and the “Serpent.” He
would punish, but protect, the two humans but there was a different plan for
the Beast: “The Lord God said unto the serpent, ‘Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life” (Gen
3:14).
That sounds like the serpent once stood erect but afterward would crawl, does
it not; that God changed the genes of the walking species to the species of a snake?
If He made the Image of Lucifer (Satan) a different kind of beast… from an
angel to a snake. That again sounds like mythology!
The ”Serpent” was an image but
the image was perhaps the “Shadow” of the Persona of Lucifer whose claim
to fame was the “Bringer of Light.” Inside Lucifer was Satan, the Adversary and
Deceiver, who was the “Bringer of Darkness.” With his “wings” (coverings) he (sic)
would cover his inner identity; he looked like an angel bearing the Light of
God, but Satan was the darkness within Lucifer — his “shadow.” Eve saw the
angel Lucifer with her bright eyes but failed to see the darkness lurking
inside of the light-bearing angel (Gen 3:1).
Did Eve see Lucifer’s inner nature?
Did she see that he was the bringer of darkness? No, because of his coverings, Eve failed to see the inward
reality of Lucifer“ — the beastly nature that he concealed with his “wings,” or
deceptive coverings.
Many so-called “Christians” have
that same inner nature and present themselves as fine Christians. God knows who
they are inwardly; He examines the soul and ignores the flesh. Eve failed to do
that when she looked at the bright and shining image of Lucifer.
Perhaps God did not remove the
legs of a serpent and make them crawlers. The scripture may imply that, but it
does not say that… It says, “On his belly he shall go.”
Going is moving from one place
to another. To go to heaven requires a “door,” or portal, from one realm
to another (Luke 13:25).
Satan went “to and fro,”
according to the Book of Job (Job 1:7). He did not crawl but just
appeared from one place to another. Plainly, Satan’s penalty was not
constrained movement!
It is said, “He is a fine
Christian who will surely go to heaven.” In that context, the Christian
is expected to go to Paradise in the realm of heaven.
“He was an evil man who has
surely gone to Hell.” Hell is also a place in another realm… likewise in
heaven (Luke 16).
Perhaps the Word was revealing
how Satan would go to his “heaven…” to Hell. “On his belly he shall go!”
What happened to Satan? He want to
and fro. Herod the Great was surely imbued with Satan because he too tried
to kill Jesus. With Herod gone, he seems to have gone into Herod Archelaus who
was as cruel as his father.
Satan moved around until God was
ready for him to go! Just as with Job, God allowed Satan to haunt Judas.
He was preparing the way for Satan to go.
What happened when Judas died. He
went not to the real Tree of Life (The Cross) but the Forbidden Tree. He
revealed new knowledge as he had done with Eve and that was the whereabouts of
Jesus. Because of his (Judas’s) sedition after his “last supper” (Luke
22:20), he was ready to go, as was Jesus.
Jesus was hanged and his belly
burst asunder. Judas was hanged and his belly burst. God did that to Satan! Satan
had to go, and “On his belly he would go!”
Think on that. Satan had entered
Judas standing erect but when he would finally go, Judas was laying on the
ground with his face in the dust. Now reread Gen 3:14.
Satan, no longer erect, would leave
Judas. Judas was on his belly with his blood pouring into the dust, all the while
the blood of the still erect Jesus was seeping into the earth.
The Holy Ghost left Jesus. Luke
saw that and wrote about it (Luke 23:46). He saw the Holy Ghost enter Jesus at
His Baptism and leave Him at the Crucifixion.
Luke wrote Acts as well. He
somehow saw Judas die. Luke would have seen Judas give up his “ghost” or the “shadow”
within him. Did Luke follow the Holy Ghost to Judas and see the Invisible Image
of God destroy Satan? It seems that He did.
Nobody knows when Judas hanged
himself nor when he fell from its branches. Perhaps Judas hanged himself on the
Judas Tree as Jesus was hung on the Tree of Life. Perhaps he hung there until
Jesus died and Luke saw the Invisible Image of God go down to valley of Gehenna
and fulfill the pledge to the Serpent… “On his belly, he shall go!”
God was prophetic with Adam and
Eve; why would he not be with the Image, called the “Serpent”? God kept Adam
safe from harm until the “Word,” Jesus, would die on His Tree. Why would have
Satan not gone to Hell at the same time? Why is Calvary the “place of the
cranium” if it was not Adam in whose skull original sin was regenned?
God seemed to have planned the
events of His death and the destruction of Satan thousands of years before He
rested; then He propitiated His blood for “sins that are past” (Rom 3;25), for
the genetic sins from the female “Adam.”
Now for the validation. Hold on tightly
to your opinions: “upon thy belly shalt thou go.” Let that be examined; the “belly”
first. The Hebrew word is “gahon,” meaning “belly” but coming from the
root word, giah — “to burst forth” (ibid). It is bursting forth
from the belly. That corresponds with Satan bursting forth from the
belly of Judas.
Next consider “go” in that same passage; it is the Hebrew “yalak,” — “to cause to go, or to die” (ibid). The “Word” nailed it! The Word nailed Satan to the Cross, prophesying the death of him in the persona of Judas.
(picture credit; MesiterDruxke)
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