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The Serpents and the Scorpions
Posted : 17 Sep, 2012 05:50 PM
The Serpents and the Scorpions
In Zechariah 13: 8-9 the seed is the third part of three parts. Two parts are cut off and die (verse 8) and the third part will be brought through a fire to be refined and they are the seed of God.
One seed of God can be used by God to make other people the seeds of God. Thats partly why those in Christ are called seed, because they can multiply.
The two parts cut off are those who claim to be of God, but are in false doctrines, following the spirit of Anti-Christ and/or the false prophet. They are the serpents and scorpions.
Serpents is used as a metaphor in Matthew 23: 33, where Christ calls the Pharisees serpents. Scorpions are metaphoric in Ezekiel 2: 3-6, where the rebellious house of Israel is called scorpions. Serpents and scorpions appear also in Revelation 9, on the trumpet judgments.
The serpents and scorpions make spiritual war upon the seed of God, and eventually some also wage physical war against the seed.
Serpents bite and their venom kills. Scorpions sting and their sting causes pain. Serpents represent Death and Scorpions Hell. Hell is torment. Christ came to bring life and it more abundantly (John 10: 10). The opposite of life is Death. Those who reject Christ as having come in the flesh are of the spirit of anti-Christ (I John 4: 3) and this is Death.
Christ says in Matthew 23: 13, 15, 7-28, 33: "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. ..... 15. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.....Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.......Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
This is a description of those religious authorities called serpents by Jesus Christ. They teach false doctrines, are hypocrites, only pretending to be righteous, when they are not. They prevent those they teach from entering into the kingdom of heaven.
Ezekiel 2: 3-6 says "And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
5. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.
6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house."
Revelation 9: 2-5 says "And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man."
Revelation 9: 2-5 shows a little of the character of those people called scorpions, who apparently pretend to be religious. We can see from what Christ said of the serpents that the scorpions are those who as the religious authorities prevent the scorpions from entering the kingdom of God. In other words, the serpents teach them false doctrines. We can also infer from this that the scorpions are more numerous than the serpents.
Metaphorically, in Revelation 9: 2-5 the scorpions come out of the bottomless pit which has been opened. The scorpions are called both locusts and scorpions. Locusts eat up everything; they consume, eat hungrily or quickly, and they prey on those they identify, or are identified by the serpents, as the "bad guys." We might deduce that the scorpions are greedy for gain, for the material things of the flesh of this world. The serpents, on the other hand, are more religious, though they serve Satan, which apparently they do not realize.
In the words of John 16: 2 the scorpions think they are doing a service for God by preying on those they think are their enemies. They torment (Revelation 9: 5), but do not kill. They may in preying on their enemies turn them in to be put in prison or killed, but the scorpions themselves don't do the killing. In addition, Ezekiel 2: 3 says the scorpions in the Old Covenant timeline have transgressed against God, both their fathers and the they, the children. Apparently the scorpions of old, like those of the end times, do not realize that they have transgressed against the Lord.
But at some point in time, John 16: 2 says that "whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."
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