A short while ago, over the period of a week ending about a week ago, three times in a row when I entered my garage there was a scorpion walking about on the concrete floor. I wondered at this but did not delay long to destroy it in each instance. Now, Australia is home to many undesirable creatures, having the most substantial stock of venomous creatures of any continent. I regularly see, and deal with, the eastern brown snake, the second most venomous land snake on Earth. Every year I see at least one, typically two or three, sometimes more. I had a juvenile get inside my house once, finding it on the carpet of the living room floor one summer day. More recently I have seen an increase in other snakes, such as a full grown and somewhat aggressive tiger snake in the front yard, among other such critters. We also get many dangerous spiders. Fortunately I do not have to deal with the Sydney funnel-web spider here in the south east of the country but we do have a lot of other little nasties to contend with. My garage regularly fills up with red-back spiders. I have become so used to their presence that I do not notice them very much any more, despite their potentially deadly venom. In general they keep to themselves, making very strong and sticky webs and capturing whatever unfortunate bug or flying insect which happens to come along. Each year, sometimes twice a year, I use "insect bombs" to wipe out the spider and insect population in the garage, only to find it full again within months. What a nuisance!
It's rare to see scorpions here, though they are around, but they tend to stay outside, hiding among rocks and such. When I lived in suburban Melbourne, on a couple of occasions over the eleven year period I spent in my last residence there, I found a scorpion in the bath room. It baffled me as to how they get in. These are small scorpions, about two inches long, perhaps a little longer, but I suspect still quite dangerous.
However, seeing a new scorpion, three times in a row in the garage where I now live in central Victoria, over the span of only one week, having only ever seen a single one here before, in the house, years ago and having been here over sixteen years now, seemed odd. "Ah, just coincidence," I thought, but the Holy Spirit impressed on me to research the significance of the scorpion, so I did.
There are numerous mentions of a scorpion or scorpions in the bible, a number of them being the same reference to the incident when King Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon, was advised by his young (arrogant and inexperienced) advisers to impose undue burdens upon the people, threatening them with scorpions rather than whips (1Ki 12:11, 1Ki 12:14, 2Ch 10:11, 2Ch 10:14). The meaning taken here is a type of knotted whip rather than a simple whip, as per the Strong's reference to the word (H6137). The same word is used in other old testament references to the scorpion without implying a whip of any kind so we see the word literally means scorpion and is used both literally and figuratively.
H6137 עַקְרָב ‛aqrâb ak-rawb'
Of uncertain derivation; a scorpion; figuratively a scourge or knotted whip: - scorpion.
It is one reference made to the scorpion by the Lord, Himself, that seems of the most value in this situation:
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
The Greek word for scorpion in Strong's concordance is as follows:
G4651 σκορπίος skorpios skor-pee'-os
Probably from σκέρπω skerpō, an obsolete word, (perhaps strengthened from the base of G4649 and meaning to pierce); a scorpion (from its sting): - scorpion.
So then, the word for scorpion is related to the word meaning to pierce. Scorpions pierce and inject venom, likewise also do serpents, so the power of serpents and scorpions refers to the power of the enemy which is, parabolically, to pierce and inject venom. Smacks of the recent global "vaccination" program, doesn't it? Although that is a literal interpretation it is no less meaningful than a figurative interpretation, for all that is true in the physical is parabolic of that which is true in the spiritual. For the enemy to pierce and envenomate can mean that the enemy penetrates a person's soul with deception and temptation leading to sin and, through the power of sin, he brings death. Venom is really the doctrines of the devil, the lies of Satan, things we now hear so much of among those who call themselves "progressive" and "woke", among others. However, one can only be poisoned by the venom of the scorpion, that is, the doctrine of the devil, if one receives it by succumbing to temptation leading to sin.
This event of an attempt by the godless to pierce and envenomate the entire human population is parabolic of something deeper, that is the fact that the whole world is under the power of deception, blinded to the truth by the power of the enemy. It perhaps also relates to the scripture in Revelation 9 in some way, maybe in that the prophecy of scripture is warning us about something of the nature of this recent vaccination program in the future, something utterly diabolical, worse than anything now occurring, but that's only speculative at this point. The entire past century has been a process of envenomation of people and societies all around the world, indoctrination with the ways of wickedness, steering mankind onto the path of destruction under the influence of strong delusion born of the rejection of the biblical account of creation, because the enemy is angry for he knows that his time is short and you can be certain that he means to take down as many souls with him as possible to eternal destruction, such is his hatred of the image of God on the Earth.
Be certain, though, that those in the Lord Yeshua, under the blood of the Lamb of God, in the ark of the eternal covenant, have power to "tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Though they be subjected to powerful forces of influence, even under duress, to accept the doctrines of demons, such venom will by no means hurt them.
Fear not man who has power only to destroy the body, for his days are as the grass, one day green, the next yellow, the next nothing more than the smoke of a smouldering fire. Fear only God who has power to destroy both body and soul in Gehenna, and worship and serve Him only.
