Scaly king 'over all the children of pride'

From the website Mythopedia: "One of the most iconic Egyptian deities, Anubis, possessed several distinctive features. While he had a human body (like most Egyptian gods), he also had a jackal’s head and tail. He was typically all black, and was often portrayed in a seated position. Like many Egyptian gods, Anubis was capable of shapeshifting; he was so shocked at the sight of Osiris’s dead body that he immediately turned into a lizard.

"Early on in Egyptian history, Anubis was worshiped as a god of the dead. After Osiris rose to prominence, he became a god of embalming and psychopomp who escorted the dead on their journey to the afterlife.

"In the post-Late Period (664-30BCE) era, Anubis became associated with necromancers. Demotic (a written language that superseded hieroglyphs) spells would invoke Anubis, who would then act as an intermediary, fetching spirits or gods from the underworld."

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"Ezekiel 26 and 27 set up the stuff about Pharoah in Ezekiel 28 and what you'll see is, just like Tyre was used by the satanic policy of evil to try and duplicate and replace Israel, the power behind the throne is really Satan," explains Richard Jordan.

"Egypt has long been, from the very earliest days of God's dealing with the nation Israel, a problem.

Genesis 12:10: [10] And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

"All of a sudden, Abraham is looking for help and instead of turning to the Lord, he goes DOWN into Egypt. The geography just represents the spiritual declension that's involved in going into Egypt.

Isaiah 31: [1] Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

"Instead of looking to the Lord, they're going to Egypt and the Lord says, 'That ain't going to work.' Verse 3: [3] Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

"All through Israel's history Egypt was the alternative to trusting the Lord. Israel had this propensity when trouble was there to run to Egypt.

"You remember when Moses goes into Pharoah and says, 'The Lord says let my people go,' and Pharoah responds, 'Who is the Lord God that I should obey him?' Well, that's the spirit of Egypt and Egypt is a stronghold in Scripture of the satanic policy of evil, carrying out the opposition against what God's doing.

"When you look at Israel being sent into captivity, one of the things that they have to face is the fact that the Egyptians are rejoicing in that.

"In Daniel 11, one of the two kingdoms (king of the north and king of the south) that opposes in the tribulation--the Antichrist is the king of the north and the king of the south is Egypt. So all the way over to the last days, Egypt is opposing Israel.

"Ezekiel 29 begins: [1] In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[2] Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:
[3] Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

"Pharoah, by the way, is a term like president or prime minister. He's lying in the midst of his rivers and he says, 'My river.' That would be the Nile River. He says, 'It's mine; I made it!' Now, that dude didn't make anything. He's claiming to be God. He says, 'I'm the one who ought to be in control of everything because I made it,' and that's why he's called 'the great dragon.'

"If you look at Ezekiel 32: [1] And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[2] Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

"Notice he's called a young lion, the great whale, the dragon--who is all that? Who do those titles refer to? They're references to Satan. What the Word of the Lord is saying to Ezekiel is, 'Pharoah represents the will, the purpose, the plan of the devil. He's trying to take God's throne; make himself like the most high. He's the personification of that.'

"Like I just said, when Moses goes into Pharoah and says, 'The Lord says let my people go,' Pharoah doesn't go, 'Oh, wow, better do what He says.' He says, 'Who is the Lord God that I should obey him? He's not bigger than me.' He's taking the position of the Adversary.

Revelation 12: [7] And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

[8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
[9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

"Notice there's Satan and he's got a whole bunch of followers. You go to Ezekiel 29 and Pharoah, as Satan's man, has a whole bunch of followers. You see how he says in verse 3, 'My river is mine own and I've made it for myself'?

"Well, God says in verses 4 and 5: [4] But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

[5] And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

"Pharoah doesn't just have a river; he's got tributaries. There's Satan and his angels. He's got the fish in his--he's got all these cohorts who've joined with him and working for him. Remember how Jonah was three nights in the whale's belly? Tries to kill Israel? Well, that's what this guy's about.

"Talking to Israel, Isaiah 51 says: [9] Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

[10] Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

"You remember in Genesis 1: [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

"The water is the chaos that Satan brought into God's creation. The great enemy of God's truth is chaos; the destruction of order in the world. You're looking at some characters--the lion, the dragon, the whale--that go all the way back to the original conflict between God and Satan; the angelic rebellion.

Isaiah 27:1: [1] In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

"What's the name of Satan as the piercing serpent? Leviathan, the serpent, the dragon--they're all talking about Satan in various forms of his manifestation.

"They had understanding of these things from the very beginning. In Job, the oldest book in the Bible, you have the character called the Behemoth and the doctrine of that will be the Antichrist (Revelation 13). Leviathan, from Job 41:1, is Satan: [1] Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

[2] Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Verse 15: [15] His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

[16] One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
[17] They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

"Notice the thing about 'his scales are his pride.' They're where his glory is. Job 41:34: 'He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.'

"We just read about this in Ezekiel 29:4 where God's talking to Satan: [4] But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

"He's king over all the children of pride for the scales that he uses to demonstrate himself. He's got all this fish; all these people who join him because they're all the children of disobedience.

"Here's the judgment in verse 5: [5] And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

"He's going to take him out of the river, throw him up on the land. Down South we'd say, 'I'm going to throw you to the wolves.'

"God's saying, 'I'm just going to put you up on the land and let anybody eat on you; just eat you up, take all your defenses away and you're not going to do a thing about it. I'm going to destroy you.'

Verse 6: [6] And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. In other words, 'Everybody's going to know you aren't the Creator; I am.' "