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The Sign SCORPIO - The Redeemer's Conflict
III. SCORPIO (B).
The Redeemer's conflict.
- SERPENS. Assaulting the man's heel.
- OPHIUCHUS. The man grasping the serpent.
- HERCULES. The mighty man victorious.
Scorpio. Hebrew 'akrab ( Ps 91:13). Coptic name = Isidis = the attack of the
enemy. Arabic = Al aterah, the wounding of the coming One. The brightest star is
Antares (Arab. = wounding). Heb. Lezuth, perverseness.
Psalm 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- SERPENS. The brightest star is called (Heb.) 'anak =
encompassing. Heb. kelalah = the accursed. Arab. Al hay, the
reptile.
- OPHIUCHUS is from Arab. Afeichus = the serpent held. The
brightest star is Ras al hagus = the head of him who holds.
Other names are Megeras = contending. In the Zodiac of Denderah
he is Api-bau = the chief who cometh. Other stars are Triophas =
treading under foot; Saiph = bruised; Carnebas = bruised.
- HERCULES. In the Zodiac of Denderah called Bau = who cometh.
Arab. Al giscale, the strong one. The brightest star, Ras al
Gethi = the head of him who bruises.
We come now right into the heart of the conflict. The
star-picture brings before us a gigantic scorpion endeavouring to sting
in the heel a mighty man who is struggling with a serpent, but
is crushed by the man, who has his foot placed right on the scorpion's heart.
The Hebrew name is Akrab, which is the name of a
scorpion, but also means the conflict, or war. It is
this that is referred to in = Psalms 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and
adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Psalm 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will
set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
David uses the very word in Psalms 144:1, where he blesses God for teaching his
hands to war.
Psalms 144:1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the Lord my
strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
The Coptic name is Isidis, which means the attack of
the enemy, or oppression: referring to "the wicked that oppress
me, my deadly enemies who compass me about" (Psalms 17:9).
The Arabic name is Al Akrab, which means wounding
him that cometh.
There are 44 stars altogether in this sign. One is of the 1st magnitude, one of
the 2nd, eleven of the 3rd, eight of the 4th, etc.
The brightest star, a (in the heart), bears the ancient Arabic name of
Antares, which means the wounding.
It is called by the Latins Cor Scorpii,
because it marks the scorpion's heart.
It shines ominously with a deep red light.
The sting is called in Hebrew Lesath (Chaldee, Lesha), which
means the perverse.
The stars in the tail are also known as Leshaa, or
Leshat. (Antares seems also to have been known as Lesath).
The scorpion is a deadly enemy (as we learn from
Revelation 9), with poison in
its sting, and all the names associated with the sign
combine to set forth the malignant enmity which is "set" between the
serpent and the woman's Seed.
That enmity is shown more fully in the written Word, where we see the
attempt of the enemy (in Exodus 1) to destroy
every male of the seed of Abraham, and how it was defeated.
We see his effort repeated when he used Athaliah to destroy "all
the seed royal" (2 Kings 11), and how "the king's son" was
rescued "from among" the slain.
We see his hand again instigating Haman, "the Jews' enemy," to
compass the destruction of the whole nation, but defeated in his
designs.
When the woman's Seed, the virgin's Son, was born, we are shown the same
great enemy inciting Herod to slay all the babes in Bethlehem
(Matthew2), but again he is defeated.
In the wilderness of Judea, and in the Garden of
Gethsemane the great conflict is renewed. "This is your hour and the
power of darkness," He said to His enemies.
The real wounding in the heel was received at the Cross. It was
there the scorpion struck the woman's seed. He died, but was raised
again from the dead "to destroy the works of the devil."
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
To show us this; to prevent any mistake; to set forth the fact that this
conflict only apparently ended in defeat, and that it did not really so end, we
have the first two constellations belonging to this sign presented in
one picture! Indeed, the picture is threefold, for it includes the sign
itself!
If these pictures had been separated, then the conflict
would have been separated from the victory; the deadly wound of
the serpent's head from the temporary wound in the Victor's
heel.
Hence, three pictures are required, in which the scorpion, the serpent,
and the man, are all involved, in order to present at the same time the
triumphant issue of the conflict.
Hence, we must present, and consider together, the first two sections
of this mysterious chapter.
• 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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