When you read about the Genesis account of the serpent deceiving Adam and Chauah many take the word ‘serpent’ to mean that Adam and Chauah were deceived by a literal serpent but we must look at the scriptures closely in a spiritual comparison to see whether the word serpent is an imagery or is it literal?
The Abary word for ‘serpent’ is H5175 nachash נָחָשׁ and this word also means ‘enchantment, divination, one who puts a spell (H5172), one who learns, experience, observes’
Deu 18:10 “Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices divination/H5172 nachash, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,
Gen 30:27 And Laḇan said to him, “If I have found favour in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently learned/ H5172 nachash that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.”
There are 11 instances of H5172 usage of ‘nachash’ in Old Testament. Yoseph was a man of Alahym and never practiced divination but he wanted to hide his identity from his brothers and to make them believe he was an Egyptian who practiced divination using his cup as all magicians of Egypt did.
Gen 44:2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his money for the grain. And he did according the word that Yoseph had told him.
Gen 44:5 Is not this the one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination/H5172 nachash? What wicked thing you have done.
H5173 this same word ‘nachash’ is used in the context of Balaam trying to use enchantment to curse Yasharal
Num 23:22 “Ěl who brought them out of Mitsrayim, is for them like the horns of a wild ox.
Num 23:23 “For there is no enchantment/H5173 nachash against Yaʽaqoḇ, nor is there any divination/H7081 qasam against Yisra’ĕl. Now it is said to Yaʽaqoḇ and to Yisra’ĕl, ‘What has Ěl done!’
Num 24:1 And when Bilʽam saw that it pleased יהוה to bless Yisra’ĕl, he did not go as at other times, to seek to use enchantment/H5173 nachash, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
And finally this same word ‘nachash’ H5174 & H5178 ‘nachashath’ is used for ‘brass/bronze’
The ‘nachashath’ H5178 was used in the OT temple -it was all over altar, utensils, pans, hooks, curtain loops, pillars etc
Exo 27:19 “All the utensils of the Dwelling Place for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, are bronze/H5178 ‘nachashath’.
So it’s very important to understand the ‘nachash’ was closely related to the divine and the divination and hence one must have the eyes to see the spirit behind this whether it is of the nachash/serpent who bites or the true nachash/serpent who heals. This study is an attempt to help one discern.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent/H5175 nachash was more crafty/H6175 arum than any living/H2416 of the field/shadah H7704 which Yahuah Elohim had made. And he said to the woman, Indeed, has Elohim said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?
It’s interesting to see that the word crafty עָרוֹם H6175 is the same word used for naked H6174
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked/arum H6174 עָרוֹם, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.
The ‘nachash/serpent’ was more ‘naked’ than any of the field….field?
It’s interesting to see the word translated as field is ‘shadah’ H7704 and this word is the same word as ‘shaday’ H7706 used for ‘Alahym’ as ‘AL Shaday’ שַׁדָּי
There is the root word ‘shad’ שַׁד where H7699 means ‘breasts’ and H7700 means ‘demon’
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent/H5175 nachash was more naked /arum than any living of the demons/shad who were mighty/shaday which Yahuah Elohim had made.
One needs to look at the Abary language deeply to see into the letter how Shatan operates as though he is alahym but is more naked than the demons and operates through the fleshly life of man who was also naked/bare and the purpose why Alahym created them is revealed through sending his own Son to deliver man from the nakedness.
Gen 3:14 And יהוה Elohim said to the serpent/nachash H5175, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all beasts/bahamah H929 and more than every living/chay H2416 of the field/shadah H7704. On your belly/gachun H1512 you are to go, and eat dust/aphar H6083 all the days of your life.
Alahym cursed the ‘nachash’ more than all bahamah/beasts or living of the shad/demons and on his belly he would have to go eating dust. The word used for belly is ‘gachun’ which was one of the rivers from from Eden.
Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gachun/H1521 גִּיחוֹן, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush.
Like the river flowing crookedly he would flow with his crookedness. Kush was a descendant of Ham who was accursed for seeing the nakedness of his father Noach. Nimrod was the son of Kush and was the founder of pagan Babylon. He would now eat dust/aphar and man was taken out of dust/aphar and into dust/aphar he would return.
Gen 3:19 “By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust/aphar H6083 you are, and to dust/aphar H6083 you return.”
The exaltation of the ‘nachash’ was brought low down to his belly to eat aphar/dust. This shows that the ‘nachash’ joined the fleshly nature of mankind in using the weakness of his flesh to fulfill his crooked desires.
The exalted serpent was brought low down to his belly.
The root word ‘gach’ means belly and opposite of ‘gach’ is ‘chag’ which means ‘feast’ and this word ‘chag’ is used for the feasts of Yahuah. The picture is of the nachash/serpent trying to be seated as Alahym through man’s fleshly nature in his chag/feasts but is brought down to his belly from his exaltation.
Isa 14:4 that you shall take up this proverb against the sovereign of Baḇel, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased, the gold-gatherer ceased!
The proverb was for the sovereign of Babel whose exaltation was brought low down to Sheol where the maggot/worms are spread over him.
Isa 14:8 “Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Leḇanon, saying, ‘Since you were cut down, no woodcutter has come up against us.’
Isa 14:9 “Sheol from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the sovereigns of the gentiles.
Isa 14:10 “All of them respond and say to you, ‘Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?
Isa 14:11 ‘Your arrogance has been brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.’
Then it goes on to speak of Haylal son of the morning who said he wanted to raise his throne above the stars of AL and desired to sit in the mount of meeting on the sides of the north, he wanted to become like the most high.
Isa 14:12 “How you have fallen from the heavens, O Hĕlĕl, son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the gentiles!
Isa 14:13 “For you have said in your heart, ‘Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of Ěl, and let me sit in the mount of meeting on the sides of the north;
Isa 14:14 let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.’
Isa 14:15 “But you are brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.
On the sides of the north is Mount Tsiyon the city of the great Sovereign.
Psa 48:2 Pretty on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.
The exaltation of the Sovereign of Babel through whose flesh Shatan ruled over people of Yahuah who were taken into captivity would be brought down low to Sheol with the worms feeding on them.
1Ki 20:26 And it came to be, at the turn of the year, that Ben-Haḏaḏ mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphĕq to fight against Yisra’ĕl.
1Ki 20:27 And the children of Yisra’ĕl were mustered and were fed, and they went against them. And the children of Yisra’ĕl encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the land.
1Ki 20:28 And there came near a man of Elohim and spoke to the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, and said, “Thus said יהוה, ‘Because the Arameans have said, “יהוה is Elohim of the mountains, but He is not Elohim of the valleys,” therefore I shall give all this great company into your hand, and you shall know that I am יהוה.’ ”
The Arameans said that ‘’Yahuah is the Alahym of the mountains but not of the valleys’’ because they had significant history of Yahuah calling his prophets up the mountain to meet him in revealing his Torah to them. Thus, they had a misnorm among them that Yahuah is the Yahuah of hills and not of the valleys.
What was significant on the top of the mountain?
The burning bush:
Exo 3:1 And Mosheh was shepherding the flock of Yithro his father-in-law, the priest of Miḏyan. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to Ḥorĕḇ/Charab H2722, the mountain of Elohim.
Exo 3:2 And the Messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a flame/labah H3827 of fire/ash H784 from the midst of a thorn bush/sanah H5572. And he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.
Rev 2:18 “And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write; These things say The Son of the Elohim, who has his eyes like a flame/labah of fire/ash, and His feet are like fine brass/nachash;”
Acts 7:35 This Moshe whom they disowned, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? is the one whom the Elohim sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the messenger who appeared to him in the bush.
The Messenger of Yahuah appeared to Masha in a flame of fire, it is said of Yahusha to be having the eyes of flame of fire and his feet like fine nachash/bronze (the same word used for serpent).
The bush/sanah has the root word ‘san’ which means ‘thorn’ which is also a root word in mount Sinai and means ‘thorn bush’
San:
The bush on fire and with thorns and not consumed is a picture of the endurance of our Savior Yahusha who would not be consumed by the wrath and will be purified as brass/nachash is. He was pierced with whips made with thorns and they placed a crown of thorns on his head.
Joh 3:14 “And as Mosheh lifted up the alaph tau -serpent/nachash in the wilderness, even so the Son of Aḏam has to be lifted up,
Num 21:8 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent/saraph H8314, and set it on a pole/nas H5251. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
Num 21:9 So Mosheh made a bronze/nachashath H5178 serpent/nachash H5175, and put it on a pole/nas H5251. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
It’s interesting to see that the word ‘pole’ is the word ‘nas’ which is the opposite of the word ‘san’ which means ‘thorns’ and it means ‘pole/sign/banner’, it reminds us of ‘’And they shall look on me whom they have pierced’’
Exo 17:15 And Mosheh built an altar and called its name, יהוה Nissi/H5251,
Exo 17:16 for he said, “Because a hand is on the risen seat of Yah, יהוה is to fight against Amalĕq, from generation to generation.”
Amaleq was a descendant of Esau and was the enemy of Yasharal and there was war between Yasharal and Amaleq and Masha said to Yahushua/Joshua that he would be stationing himself on the top of the hill with the rod of Alahym in his hand.
Gen 36:12 And Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Ěsaw’s son, and she bore Amalĕq to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Aḏah, Ěsaw’s wife.
Exo 17:8 And Amalĕq came and fought with Yisra’ĕl in Rephiḏim.
Exo 17:9 And Mosheh said to Yahushua, “Choose for us men and go out, fight with Amalĕq. Tomorrow I am stationing myself on the top of the hill with the rod of Elohim in my hand.”
Exo 17:11 And it came to be, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisra’ĕl prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalĕq prevailed.
Exo 17:12 But Mosheh’s hands were heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aharon and Ḥur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exo 17:13 And Yahushua defeated Amalĕq and his people with the edge of the sword.
As long as Masha’s hands were held up Yasharal won but when his hands were put down Amaleq won until Aharon and Hur supported his hands on either side until the going down of the sun and Yahushua/Joshua defeated Amaleq and his people with the edge of the sword. Post the victory Masha built an altar and called its name ‘Yahuah Nissi/Nas’ which means ‘Yahuah is my pole/sign/banner’ the very same word we see when Masha made the nachash/serpent nachashath/bronze on the nas/pole. Yahusha says as Masha lifted up the serpent/nachash on the nas/pole even so the son of Adam will be lifted up.
YashaYahu 59:19 And they shall fear the Name of יהוה from the west, and His esteem from the rising of the sun, when enemy comes like a flood, the Spirit of יהוה raises a BANNER/nus against him
Nus is the exact same word rooted in Nissi. Yahuah Nissi.
The lifting up of the serpent/nachash on the nas/ pole shows what man is made of and the exaltation of man is the strike of the serpent whom our Savior Yahusha took upon himself by coming in the likeness of sinful flesh and condemning sin in the flesh on the stake where he was impaled being lifted up.
Rom 8:3 For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
The prophets who met Alahym on the top of the mountain saw through the ruach/spirit of prophecy the humility of Yahuah who is become our Yahusha.
Exo 17:15 And Mosheh built an altar and called its name, יהוה Nissi,
Exo 17:16 for he said, “Because a hand/yod is on the risen/ayl H5921 seat/kas of Yah, יהוה is to fight against Amalĕq, from generation to generation.”
A hand is on the seat/kas of Yah and he is Yahuah who will fight against Amaleq from generation to generation. The word ‘kas’ which means ‘seat’ is the opposite of the word ‘sak’ which means ‘booth/cover’. The word ‘sakak’ means hedge and shows the embrace of Yahuah surrounding his people with both his hands.
The word ‘fiery serpent’ used in Numbers 21:8 is ‘saraph’ and YashaYahu in his vision saw one of the saraph took the burning coal from the altar with tongs from the altar and touched his lips and told him his iniquity is taken away and his sin is forgiven.
Isa 6:2 Above it stood seraphim/saraphyam H8314. Each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew
Isa 6:5 Then I said, Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Yahuah of hosts.
Isa 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
Isa 6:7 He touched it on my mouth with it and said, Behold, this has touched it on your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.
Who could forgive sins but Yahusha? So the ‘saraph’ was an imagery just as ‘nachash’ was for Yahusha who had to take the likeness of sinful flesh to condemn the exaltation of man in the flesh.
Exo 24:12 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Torah/Turah H8451 and the command which I have written, to teach them.”
Exo 24:13 And Mosheh arose with his assistant Yahushua, and Mosheh went up to the mountain of Elohim.
The Torah came written on two tablets of stone and given in the hands of Masha through the hands of the Angel of Yah until the SEED should come to whom the promise was made.
Gal 3:19 Why, then, the Torah? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained through messengers in the hand of a mediator.
The Torah was a trainer leading to Mashiyach and when belief is come we are not under the trainer but under the Torah of life
Gal 3:24 Therefore the Torah became our trainer unto Messiah, in order to be declared right by belief.
Gal 3:25 And after belief has come, we are no longer under a trainer.
Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah יהושע.
Yahuah showed him the entire pattern on the mount of Sinai
Exo 25:40 “So see, and do according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
Masha tarried 40 days and 40 nights on the mount while the people became impatient and made a golden calf because of which 3,000 people were killed at the base of the mountain.
Exo 32:15 And Mosheh turned and went down from the mountain, and in his hand were the two tablets of the Witness, tablets written on both their sides, written on the one and on the other.
Exo 32:16 And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim engraved on the tablets.
Exo 32:19 And it came to be, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Mosheh’s displeasure burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
Exo 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it into powder, and scattered it on the face of the water and made the children of Yisra’ĕl drink it.
Exo 32:26 And Mosheh stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, “Who is for יהוה? Come to me.” And all the sons of Lĕwi gathered themselves to him.
Exo 32:27 And he said to them, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl: ‘Each one put his sword on his side, pass over to and fro from gate to gate in the camp, and each one slay his brother, and each one his friend, and each one his relative.’ ”
Exo 32:28 And the sons of Lĕwi did according to the word of Mosheh. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.
The first set of two tablets came written was destroyed at the base of the mountain for the people sinned and Yahuah called Masha again to the top of the mountain and gave him the tablets like the first one but this time Yahuah passed before him proclaiming the name Yahuah and proclaimed, “יהוה, יהוה, an Ěl compassionate and showing favor, patient, and great in kindness and truth, watching over kindness for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exo 34:1 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I shall write on these tablets the Words that were on the first tablets which you broke.
Exo 34:2 “And be ready in the morning. Then you shall come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain.
Exo 34:3 “And let no man come up with you, and let no man be seen in all the mountain, and let not even the flock or the herd feed in front of that mountain.”
Exo 34:4 And he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Mosheh rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as יהוה had commanded him, and he took two tablets of stone in his hand.
Exo 34:5 And יהוה came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name, יהוה.
Exo 34:6 And יהוה passed before him and proclaimed, “יהוה, יהוה, an Ěl compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in kindness and truth,
Exo 34:7 watching over kindness for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
The second set of tablets were significant and prophetic as it speaks of the renewed covenant Yahuah would make with his people Yasharal and it was not like the covenant which he made with the fathers which came engraved on stone but with the proclamation of the name of Yahuah and his everlasting kindness and severity on those who would be crooked.
So each time Yahuah called his prophets on the mount they had a prophetic encounter of the humility of Yahuah which is fulfilled in Yahusha.
Abrahamic covenant:
Gen 22:13 And Aḇraham lifted his eyes and looked and saw behind him a ram caught in a bush by its horns, and Aḇraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 22:14 And Aḇraham called the name of the place, ‘יהוה Yarah,’ as it is said to this day, “On the mountain יהוה will be seen.”
Abraham was called on the top of mount Moriah and was told to offer his only son and in place of his son Alahym gave him a ram caught by its horns in the thorn bushes and Abraham called the name of the place Yahuah Yarah as it is said ‘’On the mountain Yahuah will be seen’’
Yarah: yarah also means the ‘fearfulness/dread’ of Yahuah in his death for us which was prophetic. ‘Raah’ means appearance.
What is man in his exaltation? When you go up the mountain one sees the death of Yahusha because he it is the one who ascended and is said of him that he who ascended is the one who descended into the lower parts of the earth.
Eph 4:9 But what does “He went up” mean, except that He also first went down into the lower parts of the earth?
Eph 4:10 He who went down is also the One who went up far above all the heavens, to fill all.
Yahusha said as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish even so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth
Let’s see Yonah’s prayer:
Jon 2:3 “For You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
Jon 2:4 “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your eyes. Would I ever look again toward Your set-apart Hĕḵal?’
Jon 2:5 “Waters encompassed me, unto life, the deep closed around me, weeds were wrapped around my head.
Jon 2:6 “I went down to the base of the mountains, the earth with its bars were behind me forever. But You brought up my life from the pit, O יהוה, my Elohim.
Jon 2:7 “When my life fainted within me, I remembered יהוה. And my prayer went up to You, into Your set-apart Hĕḵal.
Act 2:26 ‘For this reason my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad, and now my flesh shall also rest in expectation,
Act 2:27 because You shall not leave my being in Sheol, nor shall You give Your Kind One to see corruption.
Yahusha’s body was not left in Sheol to see corruption, no maggot or worm and he is the pattern. The true nachash nachashath who was lifted up but in shame of being on the pole/nas i.e.a sign/banner for our sake to take our venom.
YashaYahu 2:2 And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it. 3 And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה, to the House of the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the Word of יהוה from Yerushalayim.”
Michah 4:1 And in the latter days it shall be that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And peoples shall flow to it. 2 And many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה, to the House of the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths. For out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the word of יהוה from Yerushalayim.”
Ezekiel 43:12 “This is the Torah of the House: Upon the mountaintop, all the boundary of it, all around, is most set-apart. See, this is the Torah of the House.
Yahusha also took Kepha, Yaaqob and Yahuchanan on the top of the mountain where he was transfigured. Garden of Gethsemane was on top of the mount of Olives. It was prophesied his feet would touch the mount of Olives. The highly exalted one is so humble.
Psalms 72:16 Let there be plenty of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains, Let its fruit wave like Leḇanon, And those of the city flourish like grass of the earth. 17 Let His Name be forever, His Name continue before the sun; And let them bless themselves in Him; Let all nations call Him blessed. 18 Blessed be יהוה Elohim, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, He alone is doing wonders! 19 And blessed be His esteemed Name forever! And let all the earth Be filled with His esteem. Aman and Aman.
In the scroll of Ayob Shatan came on the day the sons of Alahym came to appear before Alahym. He came through men.
Job 1:6 And the day came to be that the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before יהוה, and Satan also came among them.
And Yahusha sanctified himself because he came in the likeness of sinful flesh of man
Heb 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Princely Leader of their deliverance perfect through sufferings.
Heb 2:11 For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Heb 2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil,
The nachash/serpent works through the basar/flesh of man to rebel against the Torah of Yahuah and his exaltation was brought low along with man to the dust as Alahym pronounced the judgment on the serpent along with Adam and Chauah. The exaltation of man ends when he sees the nachash/serpent lifted up on the nus/banner in death taking the venom from us.
Shatan is the nachash/serpent created to sting his fangs into the flesh of man to inject his venom of crookedness while Yahusha became the nachash/serpent on the nas/banner to take that poison away.
YashaYahu 27: 1 In that day יהוה with His severe sword, great and strong, punishes Liwiathan the fugitive/piercing/crooked H1281 בָּרִיחַ serpent, Liwiathan that twisted serpent. And He shall kill the alaph tau monster/tanyan H8577 תַּנִּין that is in the sea.
Bariyach: בָּרִיחַ
The root words bar/son and rakh/travel are in the word ‘bariyakh’
Put together ‘The wandering son’
Luiathan :
It’s interesting to see the word ‘Lui/Levi’ rooted in the word ‘Luiathan’. A Levite was a priest of Alahym set apart to do the work of the tabernacle. The other root word in Luiathan is ‘than’ which means ‘hire/gift’. Yahuah gives us a clue from his name that shatan comes into the priesthood to make it crooked.
Jdg 17:4 And he gave the silver back to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a moulded image. And they were in the house of Miḵahu.
Jdg 17:5 Now the man Miḵah had a house of mighty ones, and made a ephod and house idols. And he ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
Jdg 17:6 In those days there was no sovereign in Yisra’ĕl – everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Jdg 17:7 And there was a young man from Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, of the clan of Yehuḏah. And he was a Lĕwite, and he was sojourning there.
Jdg 17:8 And the man went out of the city of Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah to sojourn wherever he could find a place. And he came to the mountains of Ephrayim, to the house of Miḵah, as he journeyed.
Jdg 17:9 And Miḵah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Lĕwite from Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, and I am on my way to find a place to sojourn.”
Jdg 17:10 And Miḵah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I give you ten pieces of silver per year, and a suit of garments, and your food.” And the Lĕwite went in.
Jdg 17:11 So the Lĕwite agreed to dwell with the man. And the young man became like one of his sons to him.
Jdg 17:12 Then Miḵah ordained the Lĕwite, and the young man became his priest, and he was in the house of Miḵah.
Jdg 17:13 And Miḵah said, “Now I know that יהוה does good to me, since I have a Lĕwite as priest!”
An ephod was a shoulder garment which normally was used to inquire of Yahuah. This Leuite was hired to be priest an enchanter to the house of Mikah.
‘Luh’ in Abary means to join/enjoin
He is joined to man’s flesh to be a carnal priest in exaltation of the flesh above Torah. The very sin which Yasharal did by clinging to the carnal priesthood and rejecting the priesthood of Mashiyach.
There is an alaph tau before the word ‘tanyan’ H8577 in YashaYahu 27:1 which shows the purpose of Yahuah in allowing the hire/gift of a carnal priesthood to accomplish his purpose. The word ‘tan’ means ‘hire/gift’ and ‘yan’ means wine. It’s a gift of other wine.
Rev 14:8 And another messenger followed, saying, “Baḇel is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her whoring.”
The alaph tau before the word ‘tanyan’ shows the purpose of the flesh that had to be subdued and the enmity ended in the flesh and this enmity of exaltation above the Torah of Yahuah was ended in the flesh of Yahusha as sin was condemned in his flesh, the true nachash nachashath/the brazen serpent.
Eph 2:15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,
The enmity was abolished in his flesh because the barach /baryach serpent couldn't enjoin his flesh. He tried in using the weakness of Yahusha’s flesh to his favor but he couldn't.
Eph 6:11 Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the high places/marom.
Eph 6:11-12 shows that war with the rulers of darkness in high places, they mistranslated it as heavenlies.
Marom: Marom means ‘proudly/height/elevation’
2 Corin 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds, 5 overthrowing reasonings and every high matter/marom that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Finally, when was the ‘nachash’ created? While the word ‘nachash’ appears for the first time in Gen 3:1 as being naked/crooked than all other shad/demons or shaday/mighty Gen 1:24-25 gives us a clue when these creatures were made.
Gen 1:24 Then Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth the soul of life according to their kind: beasts/bahamah and creeping/remes things and living/chayath of the earth after their kind; and it was so.
Gen1:25 And Elohim made the alaph tau living/chayath of the earth after their kind, and the alaph tau beasts/bahamah after their kind, and alaph tau every creeping/remes thing on the ground after its kind; and Elohim saw that it was good.
Why would Gen 1:24-25 repeat twice what Yahuah created out of the earth after their kind? Verse 24 has the same set of creatures without the alaph tau before them and verse 25 has the same set of creatures but with the alaph tau and in the opposites.
Notice carefully Gen 1:24 says bahamah, remes and chayath &
Gen 1:25 says chayath, bahamah and remes
The first ones in verse 24 he didn’t say they were tub/good but in verse 25 says and Elohim saw that it was good for they fit into his purpose for which they were created. Kepha saw a huge sheet with all the beasts & creeping things and was asked to kill and eat. His eyes were opened up to understand that these were the Gentile nations (lost sheep of the house of Yasharal) whom Yahuah cleansed denoted by the alaph tau before them as stated in Gen 1:25 while those in Gen 1:24 would walk after the flesh in Shatan’s leading.
Act 10:11 and he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth,
Act 10:12 in which were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping creatures, and the birds of the heaven.
Act 10:13 And a voice came to him, “Rise up, Kĕpha, slay and eat.”
The very next verse i.e. verse 26 he says ‘’Let us make man in our image and after our likeness…. ‘’ and it was the sixth day. Yahuah gives us a clue in his dabar that the living was created on the sixth day the very same day he created man and kept him in the garden of Adan/Eden to dress it and keep it.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent/nachash was more naked/arum than any living/chayath of the shadah/mighty which Yahuah Elohim had made. And he said to the woman, Indeed, has Elohim said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?
In our study ‘Covering Karub’ we saw the exaltation of the man sovereign of Tsor who was sealing up the measure/takan in his flesh as Adam was the shadow of the one who was to come i.e. Mashiyach.
Eze 28:12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the sovereign of Tsor, and you shall say to him, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “You were sealing up a pattern, complete in wisdom and perfect in loveliness.
Eze 28:13 “You were in Ěḏen, the garden of Elohim. Every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, shoham, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald and gold. The workmanship of your settings and mountings was prepared for you on the day you were created.
Eze 28:14 “You were the anointed keruḇ that covered. And I placed you, you were on the set-apart mountain of Elohim. You walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.
The Tsur/Rock which exalts itself was brought low for Yahusha alone is our rock and 1 Corin 10 says the Rock/tsur who followed them was Mashiyach.
Ps 61:2 From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
lead me to the rock/tsur that is higher than I.
If I am tsur then please lead me to the tsur that is higher than I.
They mistranslated the word faint, the word is H5848 ataph which means ‘to turn aside’.
The verse should correctly read ''Ps 61:2 From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is turned aside/ataph H5848; lead me to the rock/tsur that is higher than I.
The true covering karub is the one who guards the pattern Yahusha in his flesh by mortifying the deeds of his flesh by bringing down his exaltation to be subject to the Torah of Alahym and Mashiyach set this example and we are of his flesh and of his bones. If we are married to him then Shatan cannot use our flesh to fulfill his crookedness but we will have the true purifier nachash/brazen in us who takes away our venom and makes us clean just as the saraph cleansed the mouth of YashaYahu.
Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.
