The Great Satan

The more notable references to ‘satan’ can be found in the New Testament in the words of Jesus Christ. I have elaborated in prior blog posts that Jesus could very well be the continuation of a ‘divine’ EN.KI lineage via the union of Nabu and Mary—Nabu being the son of Marduk and Mary being the daughter of Anna of Glastonbury. With this in mind, let us briefly discuss the meaning of the word ‘satan’ before we interpret what Jesus Christ was really saying in the New Testament.

During the time of Christ, the word ‘satan’ could be used as either a noun or a verb in the Hebrew language as follows: to turn aside, to fall away, to decline, to stray, to seduce, contrary to, adversary, seducer, revolter, rival, obstacle. In some cases, the biblical persona 'Satan' is used to reveal a message, in a disguised manner, when the receiver of the message is not inclined to understand or trust the source. Surprisingly, Yahweh even allows a 'Satan' to wreak havoc on his most devout servant Job in the Old Testament.

In Judaism there is no concept of “the devil” like in Christianity or Islam; and there is no direct link between the Serpent that tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden and the 'Satan' referenced in the first book of Chronicles and in Job. In Hebrew, the biblical word ha-satan (השָׂטָן) means "the adversary" or “the obstacle”, or even "the prosecutor" as God is viewed as the ultimate Judge.

If “the devil” exists in any form of Judaism, his role is as an “adversary” and an “accuser” which is assigned rather than assumed. Christianity and Islam translated the lower-case ‘satan’ to imply "The Devil" and the upper-case ‘Satan’ to personify him. They made ‘satan’ and 'Satan' out to be the frightful, demonic devil we fear today; whereas the original Hebrew context was that ‘satan’ represented an "adversary" in opposition to a particular cause or train of thought. That being said, let’s review the translated scriptures:

Matthew 16:22-23

[22]   Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"

[23]  Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

This is the most telling scripture to describe exactly what "Satan" represented to Christ and to the people of the day-- a “stumbling block” to a message or objective. Just as the aforementioned Hebrew definition of ‘satan’ indicated, the embodiment of a certain “adversary” or “obstacle” is what Jesus Christ was constantly on guard against. Was Jesus saying that Peter was demonically possessed by “the devil” or Satan? Of course not. Jesus was referring to a mindset that was in “opposition” to his Judea-Christian agenda.

Now, let’s take a look at how the lower-case ‘satan’ in Hebrew was translated by Christianity and Islam to personify the modern-day concept of “the devil”.  

Matthew 13:37-39

[37] “He answered and said unto them, 'He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.”

[38]  “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one.”

[39]  “The enemy that sowed them is the devil (‘satan’); the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.”

Teaching in parables, Christ compares the origin of the "bad" seed to the origin of the "good" seed. I don’t think Christ could have been any more clear in his delineation between two feuding offspring, two opposing mindsets, here on Earth. And we know that these two distinct factions were either of EN.LIL-origin or EN.KI-origin because Islam did not appear until 600 years later. The term "the devil" in verse 39 is not an accurate Hebrew translation but, instead, can be replaced by rival, opposer, adversary, or obstacle which correspond to the Hebrew lower-case ‘satan’.

At the time of Christ, we already have the "bad" seed infiltrating the Jewish temples and influencing the Jewish people. It is believed that these "devils" are the ones who attempted to convince others that Christ was not the Son of God. Biblical scholars disagree as to whether this infiltration was of an ever-present Pagan origin or, more likely, the EN.LIL-ite opponents of an EN.KI to Marduk to Nebo royal lineage. Regardless, Jesus confronts them in the following scriptures:  

 

John 8:43-44
[43]  "Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word."

[44]  "Ye are of your father, the devil (‘satan’), and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
 

Who would the offspring of EN.KI (namely Nabu and Jesus) consider to be the original murderer and liar of old? The father of ‘original’ sin? In my mind, all we have to do is recall the earliest struggles between the two brothers EN.LIL and EN.KI below:

1)  The Great Flood – It is EN.LIL who wanted to destroy EN.KI’s creation, the entire human race, by not informing Mankind that the Great Flood was coming. EN.LIL opposed the genetic manipulation by EN.KI to create the first Adam-man; and EN.LIL considered Mankind to be a threat and a nuisance from that day forward. It is EN.KI who secretly notified his son Noah to build The Ark to survive The Deluge. This clearly makes EN.LIL the absolute murderer and liar since the beginning of time.

2)  Nuclear War – It is EN.LIL, once again, who insisted that Mankind be left in the dark when ancient Sumeria was about to unleash a nuclear holocaust upon itself. This nuclear war was the decided outcome in a struggle between two Anunnaki factions struggling to rule the Earth—the offspring of EN.LIL verses the offspring of EN.KI.  It was EN.KI who secretly warned Mankind to flee Sumeria before the nuclear fall-out took its toll. This clearly makes EN.LIL a notorious murderer and liar, for the second time, throughout the Earth’s history.

It is interesting how Jesus so clearly delineates between his members of Mankind (the ‘real’ Jews) as opposed to the members of Mankind spawned by “the devil” (the lower-case ‘satan’ lineage and mindset). Jesus refers to “the murderer” and “the liar” not as a hell-fire demon or devil in the Christian sense. Jesus is referring to men, flesh and blood, with an opposing and adversarial agenda that Jesus could perceive at first glance. No one knows exactly how Jesus could have identified them so easily, but he vehemently calls them out again in the scriptures below:   

Rev 2:9
[9] “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”
 

Rev 3:9

[9] “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

The above scriptures are angry references to upper-case ‘Satan’; and I am convinced that Jesus is referring to the descendants of Someone that he knows personally. Jesus knows their lineage, he knows who seeded them, and he makes a candid accusation that they have infiltrated the Jewish temples and they are "pretending" to be Jews. This is most significant considering that Jews today are divided into Jews who follow the rule of Secularism verses Jews who follow Judaic Law.

And who is the never-ending proponent of Secularism and its opposition to Christianity? Who was the first designated Commander of the Earth?  His name is EN.LIL and it is not just Christianity he has opposed. He has worked alongside ALALU and the Nation of Islam to divide and conquer EN.KI’s chosen offspring—the ‘real’ Jewish people. Christ clearly stated this in the aforementioned biblical texts. Thus describes the 3-way power struggle between three separate Anunnaki “gods” here on Earth.

It appears that EN.KI is dead-set on protecting and keeping his ‘divine’ lineage in-tact—the Jewish people. All the while, EN.LIL celebrates the chance to divide and destroy EN.KI’s creation at any cost. Read the following Old Testament verses from Genesis Chapter 6 to understand precisely what EN.LIL thought of EN.KI’s creation both BEFORE and AFTER the infamous Flood:

Genesis 6:5-7 – The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:11-13 – The earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

Genesis 8:20-21 – Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

I conclude with a final reference to the idea of a ‘satan’ or ‘Satan’ bringing out the worst in Mankind here on Earth. The aforementioned Genesis chapters 6 & 8 clearly state that man was a lost cause from the very beginning. A thousand more verses, from Exodus to Revelations, prove that man will never change his wicked ways. The infamous words of comedian Flip Wilson, “the devil made me do it!” personifies the modern-day Satan that Christians have been taught to blame. The world is a bad place because Satan has made it that way.  Really?  Man's creation story, the book of Genesis, would beg to differ.