Cockatrice, Fiery Flying Serpents, and Biological Imprinting

I told the young stranger he was in an unusual place.  I said he could ask any question he had ever wanted an answer for, and today, he would get his answer.  He looked at me somewhat quizzically, thought for a moment, and asked: Who made God? 

I answered the stranger with one word and immediately moved on.  The answer was: Nobody. 

God’s Holy Bible, His beautiful Book, answers every question and solves every problem.  God’s beautiful Book brings correction and comfort, perfect instruction and eternal purpose, judgement and victory, and the promise of everlasting glory.  His beautiful Book teaches my hands to war, to war victoriously over all of Satan’s devices.  The blood-bought are made more than conquerors.  Romans 8:36-37:

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

How marvelous and spectacular is God’s beautiful Book!  This beautiful Book is not simply printer’s ink and paper…no.  It lives!

🕇 John 1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.    

🕇 Revelation 19:13: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

The true religion is a Book.  It has always been an issue of God’s Word.  This beautiful Book is discovered in written form in the majority-text/textus receptus, and in English in the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.  Go buy one while you can.  (If you cannot buy one, free versions can still be found online.)

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10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

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GOD SAID, Isaiah 14:29:

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent''s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

GOD SAID, Psalm 19:9:

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

GOD SAID, Psalm 33:6:

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

MAN SAID: So what if the first dino-chicken was a fake?! So what if the rest of them have also been found to be fakes?! So what!  Everybody knows the dinosaur evolved into the hummingbird!  EVERYBODY!!!

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The world is mystified, but the redeemed are not.  The blood-bought have a good understanding.  Psalm 111:10:

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

A few examples of the world’s mystification:

Biologists are mystified.  They regularly find male DNA in female brains.  How did it get there?

Research published in September and reported in the November 3, 2012 issue of Science News is back inside the female brain.  The title reads, “Male DNA found in Female Brains.”  Excerpts follow:

Not only is male DNA present in women’s brains, it’s common, researchers report online September 26 in PLOS ONE.  J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and her colleagues found snippets of a male-only gene in the brains of 18 to 26 women who died without neurological disease.  The male DNA was spread throughout their brains.

What’s interesting is how the DNA could have gotten there.  Male cells from a fetus could have broken through the blood-brain barrier—a wall that protects the fragile brain from pathogens in the blood.  But that shouldn’t be possible, Johnson says.  [End of quote]

Male DNA in the female brain?  Johnson said, “But that shouldn’t be possible.” [End of quotes]

They’re mystified! Would anyone dare to suggest Genesis 2:21-23?

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Of course male DNA is in the female brain; she was made out of Adam’s rib! How about this amazing revelation in Genesis 3:16?

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.  

Male DNA in the female brain?  No mystery to the Sunday Schooled. 

Physicists are mystified. In their particular academic discipline resides the pursuit of an understanding of the four forces of nature, the strongest of which being aptly named “The Strong Force.”  This mysterious and invisible force holds all things together.  Without this Strong Force, physicists tell us we would simply go *poof!* and disappear.

The blood-bought find this “mystery” no mystery at all. In Sunday School, we learned that all things are made and held together by the omnipotent and invisible power of God’s Words.

🕇 Hebrews 1:1-3:

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Colossians 1:16-17 speaks of Jesus Christ:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

The “Strong Force” is a person. 

Cosmologists are mystified. Something strange is going on in outer space.  Many now theorize that there exists an invisible parallel universe, or one great megaverse, that controls all that goes on in the physical universe we know, and what separates us from it is the thinnest of membranes.  This is no mystery to the Sunday Schooled. What they are stumbling over is the invisible, all-powerful Kingdom of God.  It is separated by the thinnest of membranes, and this membrane has a name.  Jesus Christ dubbed it BORN AGAIN.

🕇 Luke 17:21:  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

🕇 John 3:3:  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.    

🕇 John 3:5: Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

When you start your quest for your personal identity and overarching purpose upside-down in unbelief, you should not expect to end rightside-up.  It should also be noted that unbelief produces varying levels of reprobate.  If you hang around unbelief long enough, you will begin to be convinced of the most absurd things.  For instance, you will believe that there was a big cosmic bang out of nothing, and from that mysterious and fortuitous explosion, the earth and its universe with all its life-supporting constants, and all of its spellbinding lifeforms came to be!  You will begin to believe that somehow, this cosmic explosion just so happened to form just the right kind of inert, non-living chemicals, and as those chemicals just randomly crossed paths with each other, life from non-life came to be!  You will believe that a single-celled living organism wiggled out of a warm, mysterious puddle of goo and evolved over and over again to become—eventually, randomly—you.  Your first cousin was a mushroom, your second cousin a banana, and your father a monkey.   

Bad things happen when you hang around unbelief.  Romans 1:28:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Reprobate simply means worthless.

Evolutionists tell their constituency that the multi-ton reptilian creature known as the dinosaur is still living among us today, and has, in fact, evolved into a hummingbird.  This, of course, is absurd, but many would be shocked to know that the Bible does speak of a strange creature called a fiery flying serpent and a very bizarre creature called the cockatrice.

🕇 Isaiah 14:29: Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent''s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 

🕇 Isaiah 59:5: They hatch cockatrice'' eggs, and weave the spider''s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

🕇 Jeremiah 8:17: For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Old records that read like a daily police blotter declare so matter-of-factly their encounters with the terrible lizards.  The following accounts are documented by William Cooper in his book, After the Flood:

Concerning Isaiah’s account of fiery flying serpents, the elderly people of Penllin, England, spoke of them as late as the early 1900s.  Marie Trevelyan tells us the following:

The woods around Penllin Castle, Gamorgan, had the reputation of being frequented by winged serpents, and these were the terror of old and young alike.  An aged inhabitant of Pennlyne, who died a few years ago, said that in his boyhood, the winged serpents were described as very beautiful.  They were coiled when in repose and ‘looked as if they were covered in jewels of all sorts.  Some of them had crests sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow.’  When disturbed, they glided swiftly, ‘sparkling all over,’ to their hiding places.  When angry, they ‘flew over people’s heads, with outspread wings bright, and sometimes with eyes too, like the feathers in a peacock’s tail.’  He said it was ‘no old story invented to frighten children,’ but a real fact.  His father and uncle had killed some of them, for they were as bad as foxes for poultry.  The old man attributed the extinction of the winged serpents to the fact that they were ‘terrors in the farmyards and coverts.’

Again from After the Flood:

The last monster to be destroyed by Beowulf (and from which encounter Beowulf also died in the year AD 583) was a flying reptile which lived on a promontory overlooking the sea at Hronesness on the southern coast of Sweden.  Now, the Saxons (and presumably the Danes) knew flying reptiles in general as lyftfloga (air-fliers), but this particular species of flying reptile, the specimen from Hronesness, was known to them as widfloga, literally a wide (or far-ranging) flyer, and the description that they have left us fits that of a giant Pteranodon.  Interestingly, the Saxons also described this creature as ligdraca, or fire-dragon, and he is described as fifty feet in length (or perhaps wingspan?) and about 300 years of age.  (Great age is a common feature even among today’s non-giant reptiles.)  Moreover, and of particular interest to us, the name widfloga would have distinguished this particular species of flying reptile from another similar species which was capable of making only short flights.  Such a creature was portrayed in…a shield-boss from the Sutton Hoo burial which shows a flying dragon with its wings folded along its sides.  Its long tooth-filled jaws are readily seen, and the shield-boss can be seen to this day in its showcase at the British Museum.  Modern paleontologists, working from fossilized remains, have named such as creature Pterodactyl. 

In a 1793 statistical account of Scotland, a sober government report read:

In the end of November and beginning of December last, many of the country people observed…dragons…appearing in the north and flying rapidly towards the east; from which they concluded, and their conjectures were right, that…boisterous weather would follow. 

Flying reptiles have been reported as recently as the early 1900s.

From the GodSaidManSaid feature, “Cockatrice,” you’ll find the following:

One new "missing link" candidate that did arrive was the Chinese chicken-lizard. This was offered for public consumption as proof positive—the "missing link"—proof that reptiles evolved into birds. This first chicken-lizard, much to the chagrin of the promoters, and evolution''s darling National Geographic, was proven to be a forgery. Just recently, a new bird-lizard was found (also in China). "Mei long," which is Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon," is also being portrayed as proof of evolution. A science writer for Discover magazine, Jessa F. Netting, said, "Mei long''s slumber provides rare evidence of a behavior linking dinosaurs to their living bird relatives." [End of quote] Of course, the purpose of this purported "missing link" is to give credibility to evolution and to discredit God''s 6,000- plus year-old earth.

This fossilized bird-lizard, if not again proven to be a hoax, is just another example of unearthing one of God''s largely extinct creatures. The Bible knows this part bird/part reptile as a cockatrice. Isaiah 14:29:

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent''s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

In ancient literature, the cockatrice, hailed as the king of the serpents, was a creature that possessed both dragon and rooster features. Noah Webster''s original 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, defines cockatrice in the word "Basilisk." It reads:

A fabulous serpent, called a cockatrice, and said to be produced from a cock''s egg brooded by a serpent. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath and even its look was fatal. Some writers suppose that a real serpent exists under this name.  [End of quote]

The Word of God declares, "...for out of the serpent''s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." The paleontologists have not discovered a missing link, but merely an extinct or nearly-extinct creation of God. It is not millions and millions of years old, but rather in the time of man''s memory. The concept of a flying reptile is not news to the scriptures. It is man''s unbelief and hypotheticals that has created the concept of long ages—not science, not facts, not truth. [End of quote]

In the exhaustive Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume III, you’ll find the following excerpts under the word “cockatrice:”

Further etymological speculation, in France or England, working upon the syllable coc, coq, in basili-coc, coc-atris, probably also associating the crested basilisk with the crested bird, and mingling with it vague notions of the crocodile’s eggs, buried in the sand, and producing a tiny reptile, originated the well-known notion of ‘a serpent hatched by a venomous reptile from a cock’s (i.e. basili-cock’s or cok-adrill’s) egg,’ embodied in the heraldic monster, half cock, half serpent. 

A serpent, identified with the basilisk, fabulously said to kill by its mere glance, and to be hatched from a cock’s egg.

In Her. figured as a hybrid monster with head, wings, and feet of a cock, terminating in a serpent with a barbed tail.  In quot. 1563 allusive.

Again, from the Oxford Dictionary regarding the word “basilisk:”

A fabulous reptile, also called a cockatrice, alleged to be hatched by a serpent from a cock’s egg; ancient authors stated that its hissing drove away all other serpents, and that its breath , and even its look, was fatal. [So called, says Pliny, from a spot, resembling a crown, on its head; medieval authors furnished it with ‘a certain combe or coronet.’]

The serpent and the cock’s egg and a creature with birdlike and serpent features?  The following information regarding biological imprinting may help explain this phenomenon:  

March 5, 2019, Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge published a feature titled, “The Dangers of Imprinting,” informing citizens about the process of “imprinting” in baby birds:

For birds, though, this time period when they are young is called “imprinting,” in which they establish what they belong with by what’s taking care of them.  Regardless if a bird imprints appropriately on conspecifics (animals of the same species) or on humans, the process is irreversible because it actually promotes a physical change in their brain structure, and therefore cannot be undone no matter what method is attempted. 

Imprinting is a process still studied by scientists, and is quite an illusive topic.  What we do know, however, is that different bird species have different imprinting windows, times at which baby birds are susceptible to the process of imprinting.  Although in general, we know that once the process is completed, it is permanent.  [End of quotes]

A final paragraph comes from WildlifeCenter.org’s article “Human-Imprinting in Birds and the Importance of Surrogacy:”

If young birds imprint on humans, they will identify with humans for life.  Reversing the imprinting process is impossible—these birds will identify with humans rather than with their own species for the rest of their lives. [End of quotes]

The beautiful Book…so beautiful!  If it is true and righteous altogether, the miracles included—and it most certainly is—then all of God’s beautiful promises are also true and righteous altogether. 

If it is true, then John 3:16 is true: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

If it is true, then John 1:11-12 is true: He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

If it is true, then John 11:25-26 is true: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

If it is true, then Revelation 21:1-5 is true: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

IT IS TRUE!!!

GOD SAID, Isaiah 14:29:

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent''s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

GOD SAID, Psalm 19:9:

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

GOD SAID, Psalm 33:6:

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

MAN SAID: So what if the first dino-chicken was a fake?! So what if the rest of them have also been found to be fakes?! So what!  Everybody knows the dinosaur evolved into the hummingbird!  EVERYBODY!!!

 

Now you have THE RECORD.

 

References:

Authorized King James Version

GodSaidManSaid, “Cockatrice”

GodSaidManSaid, “Draco Volans Comes Flying”

GodSaidManSaid, “Fear & Dread”

GodSaidManSaid, “The Lady of the Rib”

The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Vol. I (A-Bazouki)

The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Vol. III (Cham-Creeky)

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