I: Creation and Eden

The Ancient Serpent (the Dragon's Names) Counterfeit court

one adversarial force under four titles

Root
Gen 3:1, 14-15 · nachash (H5175), satan (H7854)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 3:1
  2. Num 22:22
  3. Job 1:6
  4. Isa 27:1
  5. Zech 3:1
  6. Rev 12:9
New Testament
Rev 12:9; Rev 13:2; Rev 20:2

The serpent enters at Genesis 3:1, "more subtil than any beast," and is sentenced to the bruised head (Gen 3:15). Job and Zechariah show "the satan" as accuser in the court (Job 1:6; Zech 3:1), and Isaiah sees Yahuah punish "leviathan the piercing serpent... the dragon that is in the sea" (Isa 27:1). Revelation 12:9 gathers the titles into one: serpent highlights deception, dragon destructive power, devil slander, and satan is a descriptive term meaning accuser or adversary, not a personal name. In Num 22:22 the angel of Yahuah himself stands as "satan" against Balaam. The popular fallen archangel "Lucifer" rests on a stolen title in Isaiah 14, not a real name.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 169, 176, 201, 333–334