Now for some insight about who the "lost" are compared to in scripture. It is not so flattering for those who are not regenerated Christians. In this commentary, the literal meaning of the words, viper and beast will be revealed. Consider first the viper:
VIPER ('epʿe)
אֶפְעֶה aleph-pev-ayin-hey
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The pictograph of the aleph is the ox, indicating power. Not pronounced, it is not the word itself but aids to the pronunciation of pev. Perhaps it represents invisibility. Note that it is represented in the English transliteration as missing with the apostrophe which looks like a yod. Lucifer, the “viper” portends to be a yod (Isa 12:13-14).
Next comes the letter pev whose pictograph is a mouth representing speech and scattering, either one or the other or both. The two together may very well represent chaotic speech or deception. (I think of Kamala Harris’s “speech salad” of many words but little sense.)
The fourth letter is the ayin whose pictograph is the eye that represents among other things, to watch or to experience or both. Demon angels are called “watchers” in the Book of Enoch, and of course guardian angels watch as humans experience things. Either way, ayin could represent the angelic kingdom or God Himself who watches and judges all things. Sublimely, the so-called Serpent watches and distracts for humans to experience sin all the while rationalizing it.
Lastly, comes hey whose pictograph is a man with hands raised. Among other things it means to behold and breath. Just as God breathed vitality into Adam and Abraham, Satan breathed death unto the woman Adam and she became an Eve which was a new kind whose children were not adam but ‘is. The so called “breath” of the Serpent rather than breathed in life breathed life from the woman to degenerate her to another kind.
The concept of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is that the aleph-bet can be understood with both good and with evil intent. The same pictographs can be used for both purposes. Obvious Isaiah, when he wrote, “viper” (Isa 30:6) it was in an evil context so rather than the viper breathing life, it sucked life out of the woman just as a cat was once believed to suck life from newborn babies (crib death).
Isaiah spoke of “beasts” then listed them: the lion, viper, and serpent and the context of them all was anguish. Hence, those beasts in that passage should be taken to be evil beasts.
Men are as vipers walking: Jesus called the religious nbut lost Pharisees and Sadducees, “O generation of vipers” (Mat 3:7). “Generation” therein means genealogy. The “vipers” of which Isaiah wrote were not so much snakes but sinful men as the “beasts.”
Those who lie in sin are “behemoths” and the Devil would be the “father” (John 8:44) of those who were born like behemoth beasts.
Beasts: (beᵊhema) pronounced be-hay-maw'
בְּהֵמָה bet-hey-mem-hey which ending hey is not pronounced with the “H” sound. It is more like an “ah” and is from where the “a” came from in be’hema. It is like breathing out and in Hebrew those sort of things must be taken into account.
Bet means house, tent, and even family. Family is a kind and the “house” is a covering, or flesh. The dot within the bet represents a “B” pronunciation rather than a “V.” So far, therefore, the “behemoth” (English) is a creature of flesh that breaths.
Next comes the letter mem. Its pictograph is a wave of water that represents water, chaos, or even blood. Implied with the word “beast” is that its blood is different than humans. Whereas human beings are homo sapiens (human-kind) — intelligent beings, this kind is not organized in thoughts.
The word beast ends in hey as well. That feminizes the word and allows it to be fruitful and multiply according to Hebrew for Christians. Hence, the b’hema is capable of multiplying just as a female human being can.
In a sense, sinful men are like behemoths since they are foolish in their thoughts and vipers, according to Isaiah are one family of beasts.
The three beasts that Isaiah lists are three families of kinds different than glorious Adam. A lion is attitudinal as in “as a roaring lion”
Paul wrote to Peter, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary (Satan) the “devil,” as a roaring lion, walking about, seeking whom
he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
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