Enmity

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

(Revelation 12:13) KJV

The whole of the narrative of Revelation 12 centers on the enmity, or hatred, between Satan, the dragon, and the woman. If we apply the relationship of cause and effect we can again place this event after the fall of man.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(Genesis 3:14-15) KJV

Enmity between serpents and the woman, as we see in Revelation 12, was part of the curse placed on the serpent at the fall of man in Genesis 3. This means that the fall of man had to have been before the war in heaven.

Serpent is a broad term which includes a variety of creatures according to several Biblical synonyms. We compiled the list below by analyzing couplets in which the word serpent occurs.

Hebrew Words for Serpent

English	Hebrew	Transliteration	Meaning
Adder	שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן	shephiphon	horned viper
Adder	פֶ֥תֶן	pethen (python)	translated (a venomous serpent) perhaps cobra but phonetically the word sounds like python.*
Adder	עַכְשׁ֑וּב	akshub	asp, viper
Adder	וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י	tsepha‘	adder
Asp	פְּתָנִ֖ים	pethen (python)	(a venomous serpent) perhaps cobra but phonetically the word sounds like python.*
Cockatrice	צֶ֔פַע	tsepha‘	adder (identification dubious; (‘possibly’) daboia xanthina, a venomous viper, but vipers do not lay eggs; Furrer proposes ailurophis vivex.)
Dragon	תַּנִּינִ֖ם	tannin	serpent, dragon, sea monster
Serpent	וְשָׂרָ֣ף	saraph	serpent (a flying serpent, or dragon)
Serpent	נָחָשׁ֙	nachash	a serpent
Serpent	כְּנָחָ֣שׁ	nachash	a serpent
Viper	אֶפְעֶֽה	epheh	(a kind of) viper (snake)

Considering the amount of biological variability that this encompasses we give serpent the taxonomic rank of Order. Serpentes is an order the class Reptilia. Serpentes includes dragons, like Satan, but Serpentes isn’t ONLY dragons, and there are many more kinds of serpent of which the garden of Eden serpent is just one.

Satan, Classification

• Phylum Cordata
  • Subphylum Vertebrata
    • Class Reptilia
      • Order Serpentes
        • Suborder Squamata
          • Family Dragonis
            • Genus Dragonis
              • Dragonis satanas (Satan, the Devil)

The enmity has has had a profound influence on history. The dragon, Satan, is making war with the remnant of the woman’s seed, humanity, specifically the church. This has manifested in many ways but in our time it’s most clearly seen as the power of popular science (SciPop) to make people think that the Bible is irrelevant and stupid.

Travailing in Birth – Navigation

Section	Title	Scripture
1	Travailing in Birth	Revelation 12:1-2
	War in Heaven	Revelation 12:7-9
2	Deducing the Timing of the War in Heaven	Revelation 12:17
	Labor Pains	Genesis 3:16
	Enmity	Revelation 12:13
	Is Satan Limbless?	Revelation 12:4
	Salvation	Romans 10:9-10

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