Figure of Speech In God's Word
Who was the Serpent in the Garden? Let's look in God's Word.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that
old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he
was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Figures of speech are used only for the same purpose of
emphasizing the truth and the reality of what is said.
Genesis 3:14 And 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:
15
And I
will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and
between thy
seed and
her seed; it shall bruise
thy head,
and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
Between the woman seed with Adam and between Satan seed = Satan lied and
wholly seduce Eve.
Serpent = Satan
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that
old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But
I fear, lest by any means, as
the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so
your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if
he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if
ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another
gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
It shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.
"He
shall crush thy head, Satan's head", it means something
more than a skull of bone, and brain, and hair.
It means that all Satan's plans
and plots, policy and purposes, will one
day be finally crushed and ended, when God's very elect are deliver up.
Christ will crush Satan's head
when God's very elect are deliver up and God will
speak through His Very Elect and bring the 144,000 out of confusion and most
of the world.
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then shall the end come.
Mark 13:11
But when
they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye
shall speak,
neither do ye premeditate:
but whatsoever shall be given you
in that hour,
that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the
Holy Spirit.
Study
Acts 2
John 5:25 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The
hour is
coming,
and now is, when the dead (spiritually dead to God's word) shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they
that hear shall live.
Serpent = Satan
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him.
The bruising of Christ's heel, Satan's
seed
would eventually bruise the
heel of Christ on the cross.
When
Satan's seed
killed Jesus on the cross.
Matthew 27:1 When the morning was come, all the chief
priests and elders of
the people
took counsel against Jesus to put
him to death
Them which say
they are Jews, and are not, but are the
synagogue of Satan.
Satan knew that it was through Eve, the woman's bloodline that Christ
would eventually be born.
This was Satan's first attempt in the flesh age, to destroy God's plan.
Satan was trying to keep Eve's seed line from being brought forth, and
so he deceived Eve where his own seed would be born.
The church of Pergamos, God was not pleased with the
church of Pergamos,
Why?
They say
they are Jews, and are not, but are the
synagogue of Satan.
They killed Jesus
This is only for the same purpose of emphasizing the truth and the
reality of what is said.
When it is said, "thou shalt bruise His heel", it cannot mean His
literal heal of flesh and blood, but suffering, more temporary in
character.
Matthew 10:19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what
ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same
hour what ye shall speak.
20 For
it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in
you.
What literal words could portray these literal facts so wonderfully as these
expressive Figures of speech?
The Serpent of Genesis 3
In Genesis 3 we have neither allegory, myth, legend, nor fable, but literal
historical facts set forth, and
emphasized by the use of certain Figures
of speech.
All the confusion of thought and conflicting exegesis have arisen from taking
literally what is
expressed by Figures, or from taking figuratively what
is literal.
A Figure of speech is never used except for the purpose of calling
attention to, emphasizing, and intensifying, the reality of the literal
sense, and the truth of the historical facts; so that, while the words employed
may not be so strictly true to the letter, they are all the more true to the
truth conveyed by them, and to the historical events connected with them.
But for the figurative language of verses 14 and 15 no one would have thought of
referring the third chapter of Genesis
to a snake: no more than
he does when reading the third chapter from the end of (Revelation 20:2).
Indeed, the explanation added there, that the
"old serpent" is the
Devil and Satan, would immediately
lead one to connect the word
"old" with the earlier and former mention of the serpent in Gensis 3:
and the fact that it was
Satan himself who tempted "the second man",
"the last Adam", would force conclusion that no other than the personal
Satan could have
been the tempter of "the first man, Adam".
The Hebrew word rendered "serpent" in Gensis 3:1 is Nachash (from the root
Nachash, to shine), and means a shining one.
Hence, in Chaldee it means brass or copper, because of its shining.
Hence also, the word Nehushtan, a piece of brass, in 2 Kings 18:4.
In the same way Saraph, in Isaiah 6:2,6, means a burning one, and, because the
serpents mentioned in Num 21 were burning, in the poison of their bite, they
were called Saraphim, or Saraphs.
But with the LORD said unto Moses
, "Make thee a fiery serpent"
(Numbers 21:8), He said, "Make thee a Saraph", and, in obeying this command, we
read in v. 9, "Moses made a Nachash of brass".
Nachash is thus used as being interchangeable with Saraph.
Now, if Saraph is used of a
serpent because its bite was burning,
and is also used of a celestial or spirit-being (a burning one), why should not
Nachash be used of a serpent because its appearance was shining, and be also
used of a celestial or spirit-being (a shining one)?
Indeed, a reference to the structure of (Genesis 3) will show that the Cherubim
(which are similar celestial or spirit-beings) of the last verse (Genesis 3:24)
require a similar spirit-being to correspond with them in the first verse (for
the structure of the whole chapter is a great Introversion).
The Nachash, or serpent, who beguiled Eve (2 Cor 11:3) is not spoken of as "an
angel of light" in v. 14.
Have we not, in this, a clear intimation that it was not a snake, but a glorious
shining being, apparently as angel, to whom Eve paid such great deference,
acknowledging him as one who seemed to possess superior knowledge, and who was
evidently a being of a superior (not of an inferior) order?
Moreover, in the description of Satan as "the king of Tyre" it is distinctly
implied that the latter being was of a supernatural order when he is called "a
cherub" (Ezek 28:14,16).
His presence "in Eden, the garden of 'Elohim" (v. 13), is also clearly stated,
as well as his being "perfect in beauty" (v. 12), his being "perfect in his ways
from the day he was created till iniquity was found in him" (v. 15), and as
being "lifted up because of his beauty" (v. 17).
These all compel the belief that Satan was the shining one (Nachash) in Gensis
3, and especially because the following 1000 words could be addressed to him.
Tyre = means rock = (Ezekiel 28)
"Thing heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay
thee before kings, that they may behold thee" (v. 17).
Even supposing that these things were spoken to, and of, an exalted human being
in later days (in Ezek 28), still "the king of Tyre" is not compared to a being
who was nonexistent; and facts and circumstances which never happened are not
introduced into the comparison.
There is more about "the king of Tyre" in Ezek 28:11-19 than was literally true
of "the prince of Tyre"
The words can be understood only of the mightiest and most exalted supernatural
being that God ever created; and this for the purpose of showing how great would
be his fall.
The history must be true to make the prophecy of any weight.
Again, the word rendered "subtle" in Gensis 3:1 means wise, in a good sense as
well as in a bad sense.
In Ezek 28:12 we have the good sense, "Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom"; and the bad sense in v. 17, "thou hast corrupted thy wisdom"
(referring, of course, to his fall).
So the word rendered "subtle" is rendered "prudent" in Prov 1:4; 8:12; 12:23;
14:8; and in a bad sense in Job 15:5. 1 Sam 23:22. Ps 83:3.
The word beasts is
figuratively used to represents various
kings, leaders or nations.
It also
describes the character of
violent and brutal men. (Revelation 17)
(Revelation 13) (Daniel 7 and
11)
Daniel 7:17 Tells us these great beasts, which are four,
are four kings, which shall arise
out of the earth.
The mark of the beast is the oppose of The Seal of God In Your
Forehead.
The last five months is going to be one of the biggest false
revival here on earth, with Satan standing in
Jerusalem saying he's God. (The Book of Joel) what's happen in
the end times
Beast =
living creature.
Satan is thus spoken of as being "more wise than any other living creature which
God had made".
Even if the word "beast" be retained, it does not say that either a serpent or
Satan was a "beast", but only that he was "more wise" than any other living
being.
We cannot conceive Eve as holding converse with a snake, but we can understand
her being fascinated by one, apparently "an angel of light" (a glorious angel),
possessing superior and supernatural knowledge.
When Satan is spoken of as a "serpent", it is the figure Hypocatastasis or
Implication; it no more means snake than it does when Dan is so called in Gen
49:17; or an animal when Nero is called a "lion" (2 Tim 4:17), or when Herod is
called a "fox" (Luke 13:32); or when Judah is called "a lion's whelp".
It is the
same figure when "doctrine" is called "leaven"
(Matthew16:6).
It shows that something much more real and truer to truth is impressively; and
is intended to be a figure of something much more real than the letter of the
word.
Matthew 22 (The Wedding) talking about the return of Christ
Matthew 22:1 And Jesus answered and spake unto them again
by parables, and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made
a marriage for his son,
- Jesus spoke in parables that were so simple a child could
understand but those who won't try or believe they are not meant
to know cannot understand them.
- The king in this parable is the
Holy Father and the son is His son, Christ.
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to
the wedding: and they would not come.
- Who was sent forth?
- His apostles, Peter, James, Paul, etc.
- Picture John the
Baptist the last of a long list of prophets crying of the
Husband's return.
- A marriage and a wedding; this is what the
kingdom of God is about.
- John the Baptist prepared His way then
as there is a people crying now in this last generation
preparing the way for the return of their Husband.
- In the
following verses Christ tells of those, especially the Kenites
who slew the King's servant and how the wedding was open to the
entire world.
- Finally when the King comes and inspects the bunch
he is vey disappointed.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which
are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my
fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the
marriage.
-
He talking about when Jesus was here on earth,
the end would of come
10 Virgin = Talking about God's Word
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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