First, let me explain about the "scorpions". (REVELATION 9)
The Bible is a very big book. Until you become familiar with it, it may seem too strange, too varied to make sense.
There are stories about the leaders and early members of the Jews and Christians; there are the set of rules for living that our Creator gave (the Ten Commandments and others); there are songs and poems of praise and thanks and pleading for help to God; there are wise guidance words and instructions on how to do right; there are the words and stories of Jesus Christ, Yeshua; and there are words that are God speaking to one person or many people, people in the past and people now, where (the writer, writing for) God tells what the future will be, in order to warn and encourage the reader, and to show God's reality and power to foretell the future.
This last type of writing in the Bible is called prophecy, and often sounds like a nightmare or dream, full of symbols, strange animals that symbolize people or things.
The book of REVELATION is a book of prophecy that is in the Bible.
One of the types of fantastical creatures in that book, REVELATION, that is symbolic is "the scorpion-like creatures" that swarm out of the "abyss" and sting people.
I have decided that these "scorpions" symbolize electronic devices connecting people to the internet etc. that are so prevalent these days. The description of these monsters (scorpion things) describes beautiful woman's long flowing hair, ferocious, ultra-masculine violent and victorious male. Those two things seem conflicting. What they DO have in common is unrealistically "super" something. My opinion of the media feeds these days is that the offerings are unrealistic- too beautiful, too powerful, too compellingly evil; and these images seem to ask nothing of us , but they take our time and our mental effort, turn our minds to jelly. Is this true? If so, then the Bible warned us.
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