What is an…
asp

Hebrew: pethen (appears in Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:14, 20:16; Isaiah 11:8)

It was probably the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), which was very poisonous (Romans 3:13; Greek: aspis).

It was found in the desert and in the fields.

The Egyptians worshipped it as the uraeus.

• About idolatry and false gods in the Bible

Millennial Kingdom of God on Earth

The peace and security of Messiah’s reign during the Millennium is represented by the figure of a child playing on the hole of the asp, probably referring to a cobra.

The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. —Isaiah 11:8 NKJV

• What is the Millennium?
• The coming 1,000 years of peace and environmental calm — Jesus Christ has promised to usher in a future reign of peace on Earth, when even the environment will be calmed and animals will live in peace with each other. What is the Biblical MILLENNIUM? And what will it be like? Answer
• The Kingdom of God—What, when and where is it? Answer

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