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Feathered Serpent

Genesis 3:14
So Yahweh God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all
cattle, and more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust
all the days of your life.”

The serpent did not crawl on its belly in its original form. You may ask, “How does one know
that the serpent had wings?” This is revealed through a number of ways. Satan is described as
“the serpent of old” and “the dragon.” Dragon’s are winged serpents.

Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan...

Satan is also described as “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). It is logical that
Satan would appear in the Garden in the form of an animal that flew through the air. Yahweh
judged the winged serpent even as He had previously judged Lucifer when as an angel he had
rebelled in heaven.

Ezekiel 28:17
“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your
splendor. I cast you to the ground...”

The winged serpent was cast to the ground, cursed to ever crawl upon its belly. I share these
things because the emblem adopted by the medical profession, despite the mythology
surrounding Hermes, Asclepius, and other fables, bears stunning resemblance to the story of
Satan’s temptation of mankind in the Garden. There is a serpent, or serpents, entwined on a pole
even as the serpent in the Garden appears in a tree. There are wings, yet the wings are detached
from the serpent. The ball depicted at the top of some staffs even resembles the fruit that is a
central part of the story.