Indonesia
In this study we're going to focus on the islands of Sumatra and Java
eastward to Timor, as well as the western part of Malaysia, and the southern tip
of Thailand. We've already seen the latter two in the study on China.
Now let's take a look at what Indonesia represents. The following map was rotated 135 degrees to the right, and then Indonesia and Malaysia were joined together to form...
... a serpent!
Malaysia and Thailand form the lower jaw, the island of Sumatra forms the upper jaw and head, and the other islands form the tail. Here's a close up of the head:
The lower fang is the island of Phuket. The eye of this serpent is called Lake Toba, and it's actually an impact
crater from a meteorite. Talk about precision bombing!
Other islands in this chain include Krakatau and Komodo, and on Komodo Island lives the world's largest lizard, the Komodo Dragon:
There is an abundance of reptiles in Indonesia, including about 400
species of snakes.
And I bring up Krakatau Island because back in 1883 there occurred on this island a very powerful volcanic eruption. "This eruption, the 2nd largest in Indonesia during historical time, caused more than 36,000 fatalities, most as a result of devastating tsunamis that swept the adjacent coastlines of Sumatra and Java. Pyroclastic surges traveled 40 km across the Sunda Strait and reached the Sumatra coast" (from Volcano World (2006)).
Recall from the study on China that Thailand and western Malaysia represent the tail of a camel. So this serpent is swallowing the camel (figuratively speaking)! This should help make it even more clear that Jesus was speaking to the Serpent's children in Matthew 23 when He said:
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. ...
33 Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of hell?
Only a very large snake could literally swallow a camel. Such a snake doesn't exist, but it does make me think of the Serpent, and his ability to deceive, and thus consume entire nations, even the whole world, as it is written in Revelation 12:
9 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.
The most obvious feature about the Indonesian serpent is that it is broken into many pieces, especially the tail, and the head is broken in two. This illustrates that the Serpent is already sentenced to death (Revelation 20:10). I think that's why Krakatau is located right where the serpent's head and tail would meet. He's like so much volcanic ash or cinders (Ezekiel 28:18).
In closing, I would like to point out the location of the earthquake that occurred on December 26th, 2004:
The epicenter of the earthquake was right beside the mouth of the Indonesian serpent.
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