How Satan Became a Slanderer in Rev 12:12 – 13 Part Three

Due to the complexity of the diabolical deception of the identity of the Slander (aka devil) in the New Testament, this analysis has been divided into three parts. First, we looked at evidence that Satan was not a Slanderer Until Rev 12:12 – 13, in part one. Then we saw that the ‘Serpent Ancient’ in Rev 12:9 and 20:2 was a Union of Adam and Satan in Gen 3:1 – 5, in Part Two. Now, we will look How Satan Became a Slanderer in Rev 12:12 – 13 in Part Three.

Let’s look at some important things hidden in the English translation of the Greek text of Rev 12: 12 – 13:

“A ringing cry רנו covered על hereby in it זאת heavens שמים and those dwelling in ושכניהם (a) woe אוי to captives of לישבי (a) earth ארץ and sea וים for כי deep sleep ירד (b) god of you אליכם (b) the Slanderer (aka the Devil) המלשין (c) in wrath בחמה from his knowing מדעתו that כי  short קצרה his time עתו . And be ויהי as leader כאשר (d) appear ראה (e) the Giver (aka the Dragon) התנין when כי cast הוטל toward earth ארצה and persecute וירדף in union with את (e) the Mighty Fire (aka the Woman) האשה leader אשר (d) bear a child ילדה in union with את (e) the male הזכר.”

Words are important! For maximum clarity the Hebrew מלשין is translated ‘Slanderer’ because they are people who have a tongue to do so, התנין is translated ‘Giver’ because that is how Satan rewards his leaders, by giving them power and possessions, and אשה is translated ‘Mighty Fire’, not wo-man, because she was never made from Adam to be his mate, she was separated from him to save her when Yahweh said “Not good become the Adam . . .”  in Gen 2:18, and she was established as the Mighty Fire in Gen 2:22, which was Israel in Rev 12: 1 – 3, who “gave birth to a child, a male, who will rule all the nations with a rod of iron” Rev 12:5.

The following words are mistranslated or not translated at all, to hide some critical truths:

(a) People living in the earth are ‘captives’ שב (Strong’s H7617), not ‘dwellers’ שכן (Strong’s H7934) like in the heavens.

(b) Satan, a god אל to many on the earth, was put into a ‘deep sleep’ רד (Strong’s H7287), like Adam was in Gen 2:21. This resulted in their eyes being closed, like the prophets and seers in Isa 29:10.

(c) Satan is now a ‘Slanderer’ המלשין which means he has a tongue to speak. This is described in Isa 14: 4 – 11 as the time when the oppression and fury of the king of Babylon ceased, Yahweh broke the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth, and kings of the nations, are aroused from their thrones, realizing that he has become weak like them, has become like them, brought down to Sheol where maggots are his bed and worms his covering.

(d) Satan is now a leader אשר (Strong’s H833) on the earth, as the Mighty Fire (aka Woman) was Yahweh’s leader אשר through whom the heavens were filled with saints. The Hebrew is often translated ‘who, which, what, that’ (Strong’s H834), disguising the importance of leaders in Satan’s control network, and in Yahweh’s kingdom. This also reveals that we must be strong in the truth and not be followers or risk being deceived and destroyed as a result.

(e) The Hebrew את means ‘in union with’ (Strong’s H852), and ‘a cutting instrument, a plowshare’ (Strong’s H855). It is often categorized as an untranslatable mark (Strong’s H853), covering up relationships between people, and ‘unions with’ Yahweh or Satan. In A Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament p. 170, Dr. Fuerst states is the “same as אות II that means ‘existence, being, essence, body’ therefore like עצם ‘self, essential’, II ‘side, support’ but only as a preposition ‘at, with’ expressing fellowship or accompaniment, union”, that “very often interchanged with עם (means ‘people, community, association’)”.

When we look at the Book of Revelation, knowing that the 7 creation days in Gen 1:1 – 2:3 prophecy the re-creation of the world, and knowing what really happened in Genesis 2 – 3, our eyes are opened to the reality of the world we live in. We see Satan’s control network, the leader’s he rewards with power and possession, through whom he oppresses Yahweh’s people.

We can only see this in the Hebrew text without vowels. We cannot see this in the English translation of the Greek text, which blinds us to the truth.

We will look at this event in terms of eschatology in the article The Eschatology of the Book of Revelation.