Jan. 8 2008 Police officers and over 40 citizens reported several city sized UFO’s some described as 1/2 mile wide and one mile long. The honorific titles and the field of expertise of the author in the context of this appalling article is reminiscent of the experts in the Pentateuch challenging Jesus about the resurrection (Mt 22:23ff) to whom Jesus replied: “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God”, (Mt 22:29) and quoting from the Pentateuch he refuted their argument. It is so simple that people scrape right over it as though it doesn’t jump out at them and say here I am. Or, should we say, in the NT. Now-a-days an artist can simply rehash old music with a digitally remastered box set. So Satan might have the power to possess animals by making them talk. I don’t care what name you may give to the Evil One, The problem is how do we interpret the Scriptures. The fact that satan/devil is referred to as ‘that old serpent’ or ‘who sinned from the beginning’ strongly links them together – I suppose it depends on how one defines ‘clear’. The Hebrews, objected to why a flood, why man’s destruction in a flood, they also objected to why man was made, to be a gardening slave in EDIN’s city-gardens. The proto-Rabbinic Jewish Sages attempted to demythologize the “Satan” of Jewish folklore, whom they viewed as being the Prosecuting Attorney in the Heavenly Court, the Messenger (Angel) of Death, and the Evil Imagination (Yetzer Ha-Ra) that exists within each of us. Just like all the other creatures of the field only for by Thier hand he was made in Their likeness and image before and after they were physically seperated. So much for talking snakes. 22:22, but as a verb (same form in Hebrew) in 22:32. If any of the above is actually true, and the Christian world believes thing should not have turned out as recorded in the Bible, as also strongly suggested by most all Christian leaders today, there would really be no good and/or any apparent logical reasons, nor any common personal need for any of today’s Christian churches to be here. Since those very long struggling years attempting to better myself educationally I mean. As admitted by Dolansky, Satan as the serpent was the understanding among the early church fathers, which includes that of Justin Martyr who penned such ideas about 50 years or so after Revelation was written. It is sad to see atheists writing for anything biblical. So even if they did not know the name they know the concept. are there some people who think Satan or Lucifer is just as powerful as his own creator, an evil creator with the exact same godly type powers and abilities to create any and all things out of nothing…like God does…? Truly this author has condemned themselves (Romans 1:18-25/Galatians 1:6-10 etc). Now then, at this particular time it’s hoped anyone reading this can clearly see how our God had already setup the total destruction of the archangel Lucifer, but it was to only unfold at a certain or a very particular God chosen time frame set in order by God Himself. 1 Chronicles 21 parallels the story of David’s census in 2 Samuel 24, in which God orders David to “go number Israel and Judah” and then punishes king and kingdom for doing so. In the context of the times, the Serpent, stood for Knowledge. Combine a one-year tablet and print subscription to BAR with membership in the BAS Library to start your journey into the ancient past today! Can it be any more clear or straightforward than that? If you examine the word fat in the Hebrew, you will find the root of the word is heart. It may be true that the association of the serpent with Satan was slow in coming and not found in the OT. However, there are a several more instances in Scripture where satan is used without the word “the” in front of it. Definition The ESV is inconsistent i.e. As stated earlier, this is the very point of this Godly inspired book which actually presents the most drastic dangers we all face today, and this is fueled with (of course) extreme impacting damages, but mostly damages placed upon Satan’s evil existence on our planet Earth. Doing a quick Lemma study in Logos Software, I see 27 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible. I know there is no one who will listen to simple so they grapple with complex and confusion and God is not the author of confusion. The third chapter of Genesis opens with this statement: “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which The Alpha & Omega had made.” Here a beast of the field is introduced who is described as “more subtil” than any other of his “kind.” The Hebrew word translated “serpent” is nachash who, among his “kind”, was the most gifted. 20:3), and then gets released for that purpose one last time, only to get punished eternally in the lake of fire (Rev. And furthermore, I believe if more people of today knew just a little more about exactly why Satan so very suddenly sprung out of the dynamic heavenly emotions of the archangel Lucifer, and then suddenly went forward, straight from the very midsection or the midst of the awesome creative perfection of the Holy realm of God, I absolutely believe (with all my spiritual heart) the entire Christian world will soon begin to take up where Jesus left off some two thousand years ago. The fact is Adam and Eve died the same day they eat the fruit in the eyes of God because in (2 Peter 3 Vs 8) says A thousand years is like one day in the eyes of the lord, so they actually died the same day and no one has ever lived more than a day ever since then.. the oldest man Methuselah lived 969 years and died which is still not up to a day in the eyes of the lord, Please see the book “Genesis Characters and Events in Ancient Greek Art.” Required fields are marked *. We see each first family in private moments, almost exclusively in the west end of the second floor. My second book (published 2010) is The Garden of Eden Myth: Its Pre-biblical Origin in Mesopotamian Myths. Anyone who mentions these men as supposed ‘truly early church believers’, exposes themselves as not being true Acts 17 Berean born again believers but either lukewarm nominal ‘believers’ or deliberate infiltrating wolves working for SATAN to attempt to destroy the truth of Jesus and the truth of what His Holy written words are actually stating. First and foremost, i would like to thank the first commenter (“Israel”) who’s comment reveals the depth of why the article writer has already condemned themselves indeed. Isaiah 14: The Greek word here for “bruise” is not the same Greek word in the LXX of Gen 3:15, but the Hebrew word there (used only 3 times in the OT) is translated elsewhere in Job 9:17 as ἐκτρίβω. To be perfectly honest at this time, there’s absolutely no supportive Biblical evidence found anywhere recorded within the Holy Bible, and there’s also absolutely no known theologically based evidence or any proof on public records today permitting and/or allowing any of us mortal being’s to believe and/or to absolutely claim any other Biblical truths or scriptural facts other than what’s already been inspiring enough to proclaim here above and also in the Bible. He had been taught certain characteristics about the devil (amongst other things) and accurately named the serpent based upon those characteristics. And you believe in god? COPYRIGHT © 2021 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY 5614 Connecticut Ave NW #343, Washington DC 20015-2604. Cannot be trusted, will ALWAYS bite you The reference in revelation could not be clearer to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. But when Paul re-tells the story of Adam and Eve, he places the blame on the humans (Romans 5:18; cf. 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: Where did he come from and whom do any of us think created old Satan anyway…? Aharon wanted to centralize worship under their control, in the South. So they came up with THE YAHWIST and THE ELOHIST theory. Even Phd/Dr Eli Lizorkin Eyzenberg in modern state of Israel and other Paleo-Hebrew teachers know that the 2 words “Yah-Weh” / “Yah-shua” etc are NOT proper P-Hebrew nor is such a name found in the Holy Bible original Hebrew, and NOR is it a “REAL” name. You obviously have never even looked at Strongs Concordance for the word, “serpent” of Genesis. But it always just the left allowed to change things , no one else. We are talking about many thousands of earth years of human trials and errors…and testing by the devil. Should We Take Creation Stories in Genesis Literally? Before it, you did your thing — And you lived. 11:3-14, and John 8:44. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-Israel/elite-canaanite-burial-discovered-in-the-jezreel-valley/. Jens Spahn: Young contender backs Laschet The 40-year-old surprised political onlookers on February 25, when he stood beside Laschet to support the state premier's candidacy announcement. Jan. 3 1957 Texas war veteran and over 15 others report a large UFO over Levelland Tx A clay anthropoid coffin contained the remains of an Egyptian official’s gold signet ring whose name was Seti, just like the Pharaoh that he served, Seti I. Brass resembles gold when polished. Also we should explore why God fully intended for the formation and the creation of the archangel Lucifer as becoming a part of Gods’ creative purpose to fashion and create mankind at some time within the coming times on earth, from those times in Gods’ Holy Mountain unto the times mankind was to be fashioned and created on planet earth. Word Origin Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. I reply to the article only: The serpent, dragon, etc imagery of and in the book of Revelation is clearly not hearkening back to prehistoric monsters or myths. The article is well-researched and reported as the author has not fallen prey to the common approach of ‘reading into the text’ non-scriptural understandings of ‘satan’ (adversary) and ‘devil’ (false accuser). God also clearly showed me in the vision exactly how the mighty archangel called Lucifer was intentionally created just to do His work and His bidding in far the days to come, on our planet earth. I mean it is so simple a child can know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Besides gear level, any Power obtained from your Seasonal Artifact also counts for this challenge. I suppose we get used to that these days. But this connection is not forged anywhere in the Bible. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Also, in Matthew 4:1 and 3 it reveals that the devil is the “tempter,” and Eve was tempted to sin in the Garden. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. Genesis is a very advanced scientific and psychological message in this interpretation, shrouded in the secret code of snake, satan, civilization, youth and hope. Thank you for your sending material I am very blessed. Satan, the wicked one was more subtle, crafty, cunning, than any beast of the field. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a Press, 2011) with Richard Friedman. So to say that there was no clear indication of the being modern day Jews and Christians know as Lucifer, ha Satan, or the devil; is not necessarily an indication that the being is not real, or that the modern understanding is not based on revelation. then who or what super creative power source is responsible for the wicked existence of evil…? EZEKIEL, CHAPTER 28: VERSE 14 and we see in 14. “Eden’s serpent is not identified with Satan anywhere in the Hebrew Bible or New Testament.”. Google their teachings regarding this subject, its quite interesting and informative. It would do well for comment writers to go to school and “Fist Learn, the Form Opinions. There is much more but I believe that’s enough for now. The angel of light Lucifer, with other angels made war with the angels of God. Why is that ? A mistake. This is why the word is known to HONEST linguists as a punitive diminutive. God, the serpent, and the cherubim (angels) mentioned at the end of the chapter (but not including Adam and Eve before the temptation), hinting that the animal serpent was simply used by an evil version of the cherubim. Repent and believe the Good news! Describing something as a dragon in one place and a serpent in another is clearly well within the range of such imagery. This is quite angering but quite fitting and expected at the claims this author makes when the God of the Holy Bible makes clear that the very people who deny Him are the very ones who compose and author articles like this to their own destruction, especially women which satan loves going to first since they are so easy to fool with ‘feel good’ lies. Jewish texts…”, “In 1 Enoch, the “angel” who “led Eve astray” and “showed the weapons of death to the children of men” was called Gadreel (not Satan).”_. The entire Holy Bible is very clear physical evidence on planet earth today of these extremely undeniable and absolute indisputable facts I have written here in this posting board, and those facts listed here and also clearly recorded here above this same paragraph; and also, we should be able to see these same facts from the many pages or from page-to-page of our only Traditional Holy Bible’s; we today can now clearly see Gods’ deep and ever growing divine hunger for human love and human attention, this fact has grown more and more intense with the passing of each and every new upcoming generation of mankind’s Christian struggles just to spiritually develop and spiritually connect with a true Godly Being. Much as in the days of Adam and Eve no human excuse will ever be accepted by Gods’ supreme judgments, not as an optional excuse or even used as a payment for sins against anyone’s own obtuse ignorance of Biblical truths; absolutely nothing will be allowed to be used for one’s own guilty faults of living out a constant and repetitive sinful lifestyle, one recurring year after year in total rejection of the Biblical truths. In Zechariah 3, the prophet describes a vision of the high priest Joshua standing in a similar divine council, also functioning as a tribunal. Named so after the Egyptian god Set, this Pharaoh was particularly reviled and singled out from the Pharaohs for his heavy-handed policy of sacrificing the heirs of the Canaanite kings to the god Amon at Thebes (not unlike the Poles under Soviet domination whose military officers were massacred by Stalin). Nevertheless, it is incorrect to assert that the apostles of Christ did not make this association between the serpent and Satan. 24 1983 Hundreds of people including police officers reported city sized UFO’s over Hudson Valley 12 For we [Christians] wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS in high places. There is ample evidence for a much older date. It can also represent the misunderstanding. In Genesis 10:7 the fifth son of Cush is Sab’te-ca, who was Pharaoh Shabitqo of the 25th Dynasty (702-690 B.C.E.) Now we can work our minds towards putting some logical ideas together, ideas strictly concerning what would be a sound and logical Godly purpose for the idea of the existence of Lucifer moving around deep within Gods’ mindset. I believe this because it was revealed to me in profound way as a practicing “christian”. While there are some good points made in the essay, which I found quite helpful, overall I found this essay rather confusing. All of this rich and detailed scholarship is available to you—right now—by buying a special All-Access pass. He accurately named her woman…because she was taken out of man. Unless one has Yeshua in their life as Lord and Savior, their education is meaningless; and I agree with that teacher. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: If this is all true, according to all we’ve come to know up to this point, we still know and we still believe with all of our hearts that Adam did the absolute unspeakable kind of harmful sin, Adam drug all of us offspring children in with him, by willfully disobeying our same Creator, God. robertroberg.com. That same forbidden fruit tree still stands right in the very center of all of human activity today. It is always comical when comments are left instructing the author to “research recent scholarly commentary on these text” when the author is a scholar and has written books, while the comment writer has done nothing but critique. The primary logic being applied here or throughout this particular subject matter or issue of Satan is, if much more people (Christian and/or non-Christian alike) suddenly found out, suddenly uncovered, and/or surprisingly discovered the actual very long overlooked and semi hidden mystery and the highly undiscovered facts concerning that special fallen archangel called, Lucifer. God’s kingdom is symbolized as gold, as you know it maintains its sheen. Every week, Bungie adds a new set of ten challenges for Guardians to complete, most of which grant XP and Bright Dust. Babylon the word Babel, his religious confusion. I can challenge any of these unbelieving writers to the validity of the Bible in its original form and not just the Tyndale or the King James versions! The woman replies yes but you cannot touch the tree that is in the midst of the garden and you cannot touch it. Then you have the fulfillment of the enmity predicted in Gen 3:15 not between humans and snakes, but between two types of men, beginning with Cain and Abel. It would have been even more poignant if it had been. Although Academe may require such a jaded view, you are missing a great deal of the dynamic of the Scriptures, whether it be the Tanakh or the NT, and thus you miss all the depth within. Book 5 - The Book of J. Satan does not make an appearance in Genesis 2–3, for the simple reason that when the story was written, the concept of the devil had not yet been invented. Including the anomalous reference in Chronicles in which David is severely reprimanded for taking a census. Quiplash 3 involves two players giving an answer to a presented question, with players then voting on which answer is the funniest. A fully developed primeval Satan myth doesn’t appear in Christian literature until the second century, but its absence from the New Testament does not imply that first century Christians held no such ideas. He was once an the anointed cherub responsible for directing worship to God. It doesn’t help that Genesis calls the character the “serpent” (in English translations) prior to the “serpent” actually becoming a true “serpent.”. Just go look at a pictorial glossary of known Dinosaurs. Todos hablan de la Biblia como si su Biblia fuera la única. Phonetic Spelling: (sat-an-as’) Should We Take Creation Stories in Genesis Literally? What is interesting about the creation of the Beasts of the Field is that I had always assumed that ‘the beasts of the field’ referred to ‘Lions and Tiger’s and Bear’s..(oh my). Sure enough, my discoveries were much as the author describes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in Very Interesting topic. Just to say am blessed and inspired by this teaching. Every nation past and present has reports of UFO’s. Shawna Dolansky is Adjunct Research Professor and Instructor in the program in Religion at the College of Humanities, Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. The first few chapters of Genesis is not about the creation of the world, but establishing the metaphorical counterparts that would be used later in Scripture. The answer: The New Testament was written in Greek, in the first century A.D. By this time Hellenistic Greek ideas about the source of evil in the world, developed by Greek schools of philosophy, had come to be accepted by some Jews (Greeks ruled over Judaea from 332 BC to 65 BC). Thus, God does not allow anything or anyone that has not been first identified and clarified to human beings to exist in the lives of human beings. I mean are you a living thing or a non living thing? “Still, the conflation begged to be made, and it will seem natural for later Christian authors—Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Cyprian, Irenaeus and Augustine, for example—to assume Satan’s association with Eden’s talking snake.”. My book published in 2010, The Garden of Eden Myth: Its Pre-biblical Origin in Mesopotamian Myths, is available at Amazon.com. Why not join us right now and start your own exploration? To understand the evolution of the devil as Satan is inalienable from our understanding of the evolution of evil in the two bibles (Old and New). cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Do Parallels Only Work in One Direction? The 10th century B.C.E. It devours its prey whole. God then endorses it all by personally speaking and clearly informing us people of today of this fact, He did so through the writings of His Godly crated Biblical words of extreme Godly authority (The Holy Bible). Many concepts are mentioned only in passing, or merely hinted. It would serve as a potent political metaphor for Hobbes many centuries later. “In light of this impending end, many turned to a renewed understanding of the beginning, and the Garden of Eden was re-read—and re-written—to reflect the changing ideas of a changed world”_.