Who named the beast a serpent?

Answer 1

Satan, the Devil, is called "that old serpent" in Revelation 12:9 and 20:2. Revelation makes mention of the first and second satanic beasts but offers no names that I can find. They are described, but not as serpents, as far as I can tell.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

that is a very good question as it requires more than one explanation it explain it.
According to Asimov's guide to the bible. the serpent was SATAN in disguise. and the number of the beast Satan is 666. Which does not quite fit with the rest of the story.
GOD my have after it tempted Eve to try the fruit and she gave some to Adam . the serpent may have done this out of mere mischief making . But God cursed it to crawl on its belly and eat the dust of the earth for the deed.There fore at the start the serpent may have had legs to walk on and was more like a beast that way. until it was cursed.
other than that you will have to do your own research.As I don't believe the word beast in the form you are using it appears until Revelations.or maybe in Ezekiel

Answer 3

The serpent is the one who tempted Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The beast is the man .or the devil himself. I guess that would be Lucifer. Rev. 13:2 The Beast which I saw was like a leopard, the dragon gave him his power. Dan. 7:2,7 The fourth beast,(winds), deceptive and destruction, (sea-people) Rev. 12:9 That old serpent, called the devil, and satan. This one beast, or kingdom, had a body like a leopard beast of Dan. 7:3-6. It also had feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion. These were all found in that one beast, or Roman Empire, and that old serpent called the Devil; gave him power, and great Authority, 2 Thess. 2:1-11

Every Christian that is at all acquainted with Scripture is able to find immediately the reference to the mark of the Beast in the Bible. It is found in the thirteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. In that chapter we have a rather elaborate apocalyptic description of the Antichrist and his reign and fury. sway. This anti-christian beast, that blasphemes against God, His name and tabernacle, and against them that dwell in heaven, is the embodiment of the dragon, that old serpent, the devil, from whom it receives its power.

In the New Testament of Christianity, a connection between the Serpent with Satan is strongly made. In Matthew 23:33, Jesus observes, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?" ("Hell" is the usual translation of Jesus' word Gehenna

Numerous pictures have been painted of the snake dangling from the limb of a tree, conversing with Mother Eve. In the book of Revelation we have a truth given by revelation to the apostle John wherein is revealed a most important fact concerning Satan and the serpent. This truth is stated twice in the book. Two is the number of WITNESS, thus has God given a clear and unmistakable WITNESS concerning the identity of the serpent. Hear, now, the Word of the Lord! "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him ... and I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years" (Rev. 12:9; 20:1-2).

Here Satan is called "that old serpent." The word "old" is from the Greek word "archaios" which means ORIGINAL or PRIMEVAL. "Primeval" means FROM THE FIRST AGE OR AGES: PRIMITIVE. "Archaios" is from the Greek word "arche" which means A COMMENCEMENT OR BEGINNING. Furthermore, "arche" is an abstraction of the Greek word "archomai" which means TO COMMENCE IN ORDER OF TIME. Putting this all together can we not see that Satan is that OLD serpent, that ANCIENT serpent, that ORIGINAL serpent, that PRIMEVAL serpent, the serpent of THE FIRST AGE, from the BEGINNING, who existed as a serpent right FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF TIME!

Phillip's translation reads, "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the pit and a huge chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, the SERPENT OF ANCIENT DAYS, who IS both the Devil and Satan ..." Another version states, "And he seized the dragon, the ORIGINAL SERPENT, WHO IS the Devil and Satan ..." The Amplified Bible says, "And he gripped and overpowered the dragon, that OLD SERPENT OF PRIMEVAL TIMES, WHO IS the Devil and Satan ..." It is a common fault among us to repeat what the theologians and preachers of Babylon say instead of saying what GOD SAYS, but it is a very great blessing to us when once we comprehend the utter simplicity of the truth of God and simply believe it. Practically all sermons preached today are merely the philosophy of the preacher, and practically all the philosophy of the preacher is the tradition of men handed down from one generation to the next.

MAN, on the one hand, says that a fallen angel, Satan, used the serpent in Eden. God, on the other hand, says that that original serpent IS THE DEVIL and Satan. I once read a book which explained how Satan was the greatest ventriloquist of all time, he threw his voice into the serpent so that the serpent only appeared to speak - it was really the Devil! GOD SAYS that THE SERPENT HIMSELF WAS MORE SUBTLE than any beast of the field, that the SERPENT SPOKE, and that the serpent IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN! MAN says that the Devil somehow got into the serpent and spoke through its mouth, whereas GOD declares that THAT ORIGINAL SERPENT I-S THE DEVIL!

Answer 4

Well, if you are talking about the serpent in Eden? Revelation tells us that the "original serpent" is Satan (meaning reviler) the devil (meaning slanderer). Revelation also refers to Satan as a "dragon."

The serpent itself was used as though Satan was a ventriloquist. The serpent did not really speak (Common sense - and Science proves that the serpent cannot speak), The words came from an invisible spirit creature (angel) that rebelled against God.

Answer 5

The snake is a common fixture of nearly all religions, whether seen as good or bad. The notion of the source of evil being a serpent in Hebrew culture has to do with the origin of the Genesis myth in Egypt and the cult of the snake-god Set. We can read in Plutarch's treatise on Isis and Osiris an exegesis of the mythical relations between Set and Osiris, derived from sources which seem to have been quite authentically Egyptian.

The original Priesthood of Set in ancient Egypt survived for twenty-five recorded dynasties (ca. 3200-700 BCE). It was one of the two central priesthoods in predynastic times, the other being that of HarWer ('Horus the Elder'). Unification of Egypt under both philosophical systems resulted in the nation's being known as the 'Two Kingdoms' and in its Pharaohs wearing the famous 'Double Crown' of Horus and Set.

Originally a circumpolar/stellar deity portrayed as a cyclical counterpart to the Solar Horus, Set was later recast as an evil principle by the cults of Osiris and Isis. As the great enemy of the other principal gods; of Osiris, of Isis and of Horus, Set came to represent the forces of chaos and destruction. He was the manifestation of Apep or Typhon, opposers of the power of light. In this character he was ritually cursed in the great myths and in ceremonies held in the great temples. During the XIX and XX Dynasties Set returned as the Pharaonic patron, but by the XXV Dynasty (ca. 700 BCE) a new wave of Osirian persecution led to the final destruction of the original Priesthood of Set.

Some contend that when the Hebrews emigrated from Egypt during the XIX Dynasty, they took with them a caricature of Set: 'Satan' (from the hieroglyphic Set-hen, one of the god's formal titles), but there remains no archeological evidence of a Hebrew sojourn in Egypt, nor is one required to explain the spread of Set mythology along the trade routes between Egypt and Babylon through Canaan. Indeed the Babylonians had their own snake gods, as did African, Nordic, Hindu, Chinese, and native Central American and North American cultures.

Answer 6

Sara get off the beast thing ok old already

Answer 7

Adam, that 1 of his resposibilty to name all the animals.

Answer 8

From where did you learn English?

Answer 9

I'm sorry for saying well duh to your last question (and I deleted it), can you give me the verses (or context) of which, you are speaking about ?