So the serpents and scorpions are spirits who are our enemy according to Jesus. And spirits are angels which are men, but of a spirit nature. So right here in these verses we are told that all these names; serpents, scorpions, lambs and wolves, are figures of speech for men. The disciples are the lambs while the wolves are their enemies which are also called serpents and scorpions. It is over these spirits that the disciples have power through the name of Jesus.
And of course the serpent who is the dragon is Satan and the Devil, twice so called in the Book of Revelation.
And it was the serpent who beguiled (seduced )Eve in the garden and caused what has come to be known as the fall of man. Not a snake. Nor a man with a serpentine or reptilian likeness. For some conclude that these evil angels look like serpents or lizards. If you follow this logic, then perhaps they can look like dragons also!
No. Serpent and dragon are figures of speech for Satan who is the Devil. And he no more looks like a snake or a dragon as Jesus looks like a lamb or a lion. These names of animals are given as figures and also describe the personality of those to which they appertain. Thus we have lion and lamb referring to Jesus. The serpent and dragon who is Satan. The beast from the Abyss who is the Antichrist. Lambs among wolves talking of the disciples among demons. And scorpions and locusts referring to spirits. The locusts are the spirit men who will come out of the bottomless pit and they will be given power even as the scorpions (spirits) have presently got power on this earth (Rev 9:3).
So these locusts and scorpions are as serpents and are men: spirit men or angels who are evil and who will be manifest on the earth once again as they were prior to the Flood of Noah. That these locusts and scorpions are spirit beings is provable in another verse further down in this same chapter and I will deal with this in the next installment. But why call these spirits locusts and scorpions? Well think about it. What are the characteristics of locusts? For a start, locusts wipe out everything in their path. As they descend and light on an area, everything is destroyed. Then they move on to the next patch. The sting from a scorpion usually means instant death.
Patrick Heron is bestselling author of Apocalypse Soon (Anomalous Publishing www.survivormall.com) and The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse (Kensington www.neph.ie).
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