{"id":8,"date":"2017-11-04T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T23:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress_bw2\/the-biblical-case-for-lilith\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T02:55:19","slug":"the-biblical-case-for-lilith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/the-case-for-lilith\/the-biblical-case-for-lilith\/","title":{"rendered":"3) The Biblical Case for Lilith"},"content":{"rendered":"

This chapter puts forth the Biblical argument for identifying the Serpent as Lilith.\u00a0 It presents 23 Biblical evidences that I have discovered which support her case. \u00a0Although each evidence considered individually may make an inconclusive argument, when they are weighed together as a whole, they form a cogent and hefty case for such a conclusion.\u00a0 The first ten evidences support the notion that a woman was co-created with Adam before Eve and that she was in rivalry with Adam.\u00a0 The next ten support the notion that this first created woman was the Serpent of the garden and that this Serpent later came to be called Leviathan, the fleeing serpent. \u00a0The next two establish that there was a demoness named Lilith in Isaiah and titled Alukah in Proverbs who matches all of the critical features of Lilith\u2019s legend.\u00a0 Isaiah places Lilith at the crux of the Yom Kippur judgment of the nations.\u00a0 The final evidence establishes that the demon Azazel in the Yom Kippur ceremony of Leviticus was the infamous seed of the Serpent Lilith.<\/p>\n

The collected evidences do not support all facets of the Lilith legend, but they do support most.\u00a0 Many of the few unsupported elements of the legend are easily assumed extrapolations of events that must have taken place.\u00a0 The evidences are briefly outlined below.\u00a0 Each evidence will be covered in more detail in a section dedicated to it in this chapter.<\/p>\n

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  1. Genesis recounts of the creation of a man and woman four times. Three (Ge 1:26-29, 2:4-8, and Ge 5:1-2) imply the co-creation of a woman with the man from the dust of the earth.\u00a0 The creation account of Eve comes in a forth passage in Ge 2:21-25.\u00a0 That passage clearly indicates that Eve came later and was taken from the man\u2019s side.<\/li>\n
  2. A careful reading of the Hebrew of the second creation account of Adam in Ge 2:4-8 reveals that \u201cthe woman\u201d (ha\u2019adamah<\/em>) was created at the same time as \u201cthe man\u201d (ha\u2019adam<\/em>). The woman was animated by a mist which erupted from the ground and watered her face, whereas the man was animated by the breath of Jehovah which entered his nostrils.\u00a0 The passages declare that these two are the heads of two rival generations — the generations of the heavens and the generations of the earth.<\/li>\n
  3. The first and third creation accounts of a man and woman in Ge 1:26-29 and Ge 5:1-2 clearly state that when the male and female were created, only the male was created in God\u2019s image. The female not being created in God\u2019s image is consistent with her being Lilith.\u00a0 She was created by God, but not in His image, for a demonic mist arouse from the ground and animated her in its image instead (Ge 2:6).\u00a0 Eve would bear God\u2019s image, for she was taken out of Adam\u2019s side.<\/li>\n
  4. The first creation account of a man and woman in Ge 1:26-29 states that God\u2019s original intent was to create the woman in his image. However, as 3) above explains, only the male was created in God\u2019s image.\u00a0 Only the Lilith legend explains this thwarting of God\u2019s intentions.\u00a0 The mist arose and preemptively animated the woman in Lucifer\u2019s image.<\/li>\n
  5. Conflicting commands from God to the first woman and Eve indicate they must be different individuals. Ge 1:26-29 states that after God created the first woman and Adam, God gave freedom to both to eat the fruit of every<\/u>\u00a0 However, Eve could have never received permission to eat of every tree.\u00a0 This is because before God creates Eve in Ge 2:18-25, God warns Adam that he may no longer eat of every tree.\u00a0 Adam could not eat of the tree of knowledge.\u00a0 Thus, the prohibition against eating of all trees is already in place before Eve\u2019s creation.<\/li>\n
  6. Ge 5:2 implies a dual creation from the ground for the first created male and female because the common name of Adam was given to both of them. Only the Lilith legend explains the simultaneous creation of both the male and female from the ground.<\/li>\n
  7. Lilith\u2019s rebellion explains why God suddenly rescinded permission to eat of every tree, why the tree of knowledge came to exist, and why Adam had to guard the garden.<\/li>\n
  8. Lilith\u2019s departure explains how Adam suddenly \u201cbecame alone\u201d in Ge 2:18. The literal Hebrew of the verse reveals that God did not create Adam alone, but rather that Adam \u201cbecame alone\u201d after some time.\u00a0 Lilith explains how Adam became alone.<\/li>\n
  9. In Ge 2:18 the literal Hebrew states that Eve was made as a helpmate for Adam \u201clike one shown before him.\u201d This implies that a woman companion was physically shown to Adam before Eve existed.\u00a0 It even implies that Eve was made as a replacement for this first woman.\u00a0 Only Lilith can explain this.<\/li>\n
  10. After Eve\u2019s creation in Ge 2:23, Adam awakes and exclaims upon seeing her, \u201cThis time is this!\u201d The Hebrew word for \u201cthis time\u201d is only used when an event repeats, and the subsequent event is being compared to the first.\u00a0 Adam\u2019s use of this word implies that he is comparing Eve\u2019s creation to a previous creation, namely Lilith\u2019s.\u00a0 The point of his comparison is that \u201cthis time\u201d the result was \u201cbone from my bone and flesh from my flesh\u201d, as opposed to Lilith\u2019s creation from dust, or rather mud.<\/li>\n
  11. The Serpent was not a snake, but rather the most cunning mammal. Ge 3:1 clearly states that the Serpent was the most cunning \u201cbeast of the field.\u201d\u00a0 In the Bible this term refers to higher mammals that are soulish creatures with developed minds capable of emotions.\u00a0 Lilith best fits the unique description as the most cunning of these mammals.\u00a0 She is considered a beast and not human because she does not bear the spirit and image of God, but rather that of her father Lucifer.\u00a0 Moreover, with the brain of man and animating spirit of Lucifer, she is certainly the most cunning.<\/li>\n
  12. The Serpent\u2019s extreme intelligence and ability to speak is best explained by it being human. The Lilith legend provides the only explanation for the origins of this human.\u00a0 The general tenor of Genesis implies that the Serpent\u2019s intelligence and ability to speak is not supernatural or unexpected, but rather the natural created state of the being.\u00a0 It certainly did not surprise Adam or Eve to see the Serpent talking.\u00a0 It is inconceivable that they would express no surprise over seeing an animal speaking.<\/li>\n
  13. Ge 3:1 states that the Serpent \u201cbecame crafty\u201d above all beasts of the field. This means the Serpent had to have a human intellect.\u00a0 The Hebrew word for \u201ccrafty\u201d literally means \u201cnaked.\u201d\u00a0 It also means crafty because a \u201cnaked\u201d mind that is exposed to devious thoughts can acquire those thoughts.\u00a0 Only a human mind can become crafty.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Serpent was not always crafty, but through some transformative event, it \u201cbecame\u201d crafty.\u00a0 The serpent\u2019s act of making its mind naked and becoming crafty mirrors Adam\u2019s act of becoming naked and coming to know both good and evil through the eating of the tree of knowledge.\u00a0 The two words used in Genesis are the same.\u00a0 This strongly hints at the Serpent being human and on par with Adam.\u00a0 Only Lilith can explain this other human.<\/li>\n
  14. The Hebrew noun translated \u201cSerpent\u201d is strongly suggestive of a soothsayer, which is a human speaking through an indwelling demonic spirit. In the Bible inhabited soothsayers are predominately women.\u00a0 Lilith provides the only possible origin of a human soothsayer.<\/li>\n
  15. The strong parallels between God\u2019s curses against Eve and against the Serpent in Ge 3:15 imply that the Serpent, like Eve, was a woman and a would-be mother. They were to be the source of two rival seeds.\u00a0 The Serpent\u2019s seed would bruise the heel of Eve\u2019s seed, but Eve\u2019s seed would crush the head of the Serpent.<\/li>\n
  16. The curses handed out to the Serpent and to Eve in Ge 3:14-16 are the same as those of the bitter water trial for a wayward adulterous wife in Nu 5:10-31. The Serpent\u2019s curses match those of the adulterous wife, and Eve\u2019s curse in childbirth matches that experienced by the innocent woman of the trial.\u00a0 The Serpent, in her role as the defiled Sotah, eats dust and is cursed in her belly, and she shall be slain by the promised seed of the innocent woman.\u00a0 Eve, as the innocent woman in trial, shall temporarily endure the pains of the curse in childbirth, but she shall be saved by her seed.\u00a0 This strong parallelism further solidifies the identification of the Serpent as an adulterous female who has gone astray from under her husband, Adam.\u00a0 This could only be Lilith.<\/li>\n
  17. Isa 34 discusses a demon named \u201cLilith\u201d who fulfills the critical end-time role of the Serpent as a rival against Eve and her seed. Isaiah places Lilith at the crux of God\u2019s final judgment of the nations in the end times.\u00a0 In that great day, when the lots of Yom Kippur are cast, Lilith is eternally damned to a land of withering drought, cursing, and fire.\u00a0 Her seed perishes and comes to naught.\u00a0 Isaiah contrasts Lilith\u2019s eternal punishment with that of a woman named Ishshah<\/em>.\u00a0 Ishshah<\/em> shares Lilith\u2019s hellish abode for a time and suffers the same curses, but Isaiah reveals that God redeems Ishshah<\/em> from that situation.\u00a0 She inherits God\u2019s kingdom.\u00a0 Ishshah<\/em> was the name Eve bore during her cursing alongside the Serpent (Adam later renamed Ishshah<\/em> Eve).\u00a0 Isaiah is clearly discussing the ultimate end of the rivalry established in the garden between Eve and the Serpent Lilith.\u00a0
    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Isaiah not only confirms Lilith\u2019s critical role as the Serpent in the end times judgment of Yom Kippur, the prophet also corroborates many other mundane details of her legend.\u00a0 He confirms that Lilith dwells in the midst of the sea; that she is a deadly birdlike creature; that she is the slayer of stray younglings; that she is closely associated with a snake, and that she is the mother of failed seed that perishes from a cursing of God.<\/li>\n
  18. Lilith best explains Leviathan, which is commonly recognized as Lucifer in the form of the Serpent of the garden. Leviathan is described in Job 26:13 and Isa 27:1 as a Serpent fleeing from before God and dwelling in the seas.\u00a0 This matches Lilith\u2019s legend of fleeing on wing from the garden and her subsequent oceanic abode.\u00a0 First Enoch confirms that Leviathan dwells in the seas, and adds that Leviathan is female.\u00a0 This again matches Lilith.\u00a0 Psalm 74:14 speaks of God crushing the head of Leviathan.\u00a0 This matches God\u2019s curse on the Serpent in Genesis that Eve\u2019s seed in the form of Messiah would crush the head of the Serpent.<\/li>\n
  19. Job 26:13 implies the Serpent Leviathan\u2019s creation was analogous to that of Adam \u2013 that it was fashioned by God through twisting and manipulating of earth into a golem. This similar creation supports the notion that the Serpent was created at the same time as Adam and in a similar fashion.\u00a0 This is consistent with the Serpent being the first woman, Lilith, created from dust of the earth.<\/li>\n
  20. The literal meaning of the name Leviathan is \u201cjoined one.\u201d It implies a continual and eternal connection between Lucifer and the Serpent Leviathan.\u00a0 The Serpent being fathered by Lucifer and animated in his likeness best explains this continual connection.\u00a0 This is because a simple possession of the Serpent by Lucifer would be a temporary and reversible condition.\u00a0 The Lilith legend provides an explanation for this irreversible fusing event with the Serpent.\u00a0 Lucifer became the animating father spirit of the Serpent Lilith when his mist broke through from the depths of the earth and watered the ground of her creation.<\/li>\n
  21. Job 3:8 implies that the Serpent Leviathan is especially suited for instigating abortions of fetuses. This matches a critical feature of Lilith in Isaiah 34, which intimates that she is a slayer of children. \u00a0This also matches a key feature of Lilith\u2019s legend, namely that she is a danger to pregnant women in childbirth.<\/li>\n
  22. Proverbs 30 describes a demoness titled Alukah who is very similar to Lilith. Alukah is described as having a mystical power like that of the bitter water cursing agent in a Sotah trial, which is the spirit of Lilith.\u00a0 Proverbs declares that when two types of barren women are given over to the power of Alukah\u2019s curse, two different outcomes are possible.\u00a0 For the woman who survives the ordeal, Alukah\u2019s curses somehow grant her a promised seed, but to the other barren woman of the ordeal, Alukah brings the curses of death.\u00a0 In rabbinic tradition, Alukah\u2019s rich and detailed mythos matches enumerable aspects of Lilith.\u00a0 Alukah was the mother of estries, which are female vampires.\u00a0 Common attributes between estries and the spirit of Lilith include: 1) both had winged flight and a birdlike appearance, 2) both engaged in the murder of children, 3) both of their powers were activated by unleashing their hair, 4) both of their cursed powers could be revitalized by deceitful eating, 5) both were constrained by an oath, 6) saying \u201camen\u201d concerning either women was dangerous, 7) the death or banishment of both was effectively brought about by filling her mouth with earth.<\/li>\n
  23. Lilith best explains the origins of the demon Azazel in the Yom Kippur ceremony of Leviticus 16. In that ceremony, Azazel plays a rival role to Messiah.\u00a0 As such, Azazel is the Serpent\u2019s infamous seed, which God prophesied would bruise the heel of Eve\u2019s promised seed, Messiah.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With the summary of evidences complete, let us study each in detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This chapter puts forth the Biblical argument for identifying the Serpent as Lilith.\u00a0 It presents 23 Biblical evidences that I have discovered which support her case. \u00a0Although each evidence considered individually may make an inconclusive argument, when they are weighed together as a whole, they form a cogent and hefty case for such a conclusion.\u00a0 … Continue reading “3) The Biblical Case for Lilith”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}