"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him(Revelation 12:9)...And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood"(Revelation 12:15). This water as a flood in Lehi's dream is the river of filthy water(1Nephi 15:27).
(This oracle drawing no.0029 in the oracle database is shown no modern Chinese meaning)
The way we follow decide our future, one helping us to the tree of life, and the other pulling us back from the tree of life.
(This oracle drawing also filed no.0029 in the oracle database is shown no modern Chinese meaning)
Those people who didn't follow the strait and narrow path would put themselves in danger.
Satan "maketh war with the saints of God, and encompasseth them round about"(D&C 76:29). This is shown that the serpent and his angels encompass the rod of iron round about, and lie in wait to catch the people who don't follow the rod of iron.
They can't wait to bite the foot of men who are away from the rod of iron, and poison the mind of men to death.
This oracle drawing shown as "small" now, but its meaning was contrary to "holding the rod of iron" at ancient Chinese book of Confucius.
When they were bitten by serpent, they should return to the middle part to the rod of iron, which lead them to the tree of life, and the rod of iron and the fruit of the tree of life can cure, in spiritual, the poison of serpent. This is also like the story of the people of Israel in the wilderness. Nephi explained this story, “And he did straiten them in the wilderness with his rod; for they hardened their hearts, even as ye have; and the Lord straitened them because of their iniquity. He sent fiery flying serpents among them; and after they were bitten he prepared a way that they might be healed; and the labor which they had to perform was to look; and because of the simpleness of the way, or the easiness of it, there were many who perished.”(1 Nephi 17:41)
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