God did NOT create any LITERAL SERPENT who could talk in HUMAN language. No Beast of the field was found to be a suitable helpmate so that is why he made a WOMAN to be a HELPMATE for the MAN, ADAM. God put them into a PERFECT place called the Garden of Eden. God gave them FREE WILL to choose which trees to eat from. But ADAM LUSTED and then lied to the WOMAN as he BENT the truth. Therefore In Gen 3:1 God started to use THE SERPENT to give us a picture of a CROOKED thing. So it should be easy to see that GOD is using the SERPENT as a figure of speech called PERSONIFICATION to describe the NEW person, WICKED ADAM. There is a connection between the WICKED and a SERPENT that we need to see in Psalm 58:3, “The WICKED are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking LIES, their poison is LIKE the poison of a SERPENT.” As soon as ADAM spoke in Gen 3:1, he SURELY died, which means separation from God,and his TONGUE became full of DEADLY POISON as described in James 3:8. Also we should observe Prov 18:21 “Death and LIFE are in the power of the TONGUE”. Since ADAM died in Gen 3:1, God did not hesitate to immediately use personification to describe this CROOKED speech. The SERPENT was his BEST choice because THE SERPENT is the most CROOKED of all of God’s creatures. As soon as God created Man in Gen 1:26 he said “let them have DOMINION … over every creeping thing”. Since a SERPENT most certainly falls within the category of a CREEPING thing, God could not violate HIS WORD, and let ANY LITERAL SERPENT escape the DOMINION that was given to MAN at creation. No Angel was ever given ANY DOMINION over ANY SERPENT. This rules out any ANGELIC involvement in the Garden. God put only the Man and the Woman into the Garden. When the WOMAN spoke to ‘THE SERPENT’ she said ‘WE’. This pronoun could ONLY refer to ADAM and EVE, because THEY were the ONLY ones told what trees THEY could eat from. It should be obvious then, that the conversations in gen 3:1-5 were between ADAM and his helpmate EVE. Nevertheless, MOST bible students today BLINDLY ASSUME that some FALLEN ANGEL called SATAN, came into the garden without invitation, to inhabit THE SERPENT, and was able to cause it to speak in a language that the WOMAN could understand, so that she would FIRST eat from the forbidden tree . This is one of the GREATEST MYTHS ever told, because the ANGELS of GOD are immortal and cannot die according to Luk 20:36. ANGELS of GOD have NO FREE WILL, because Heb 1:6 says “let ALL THE ANGELS of God worship him”. There is no room here for any SINFUL ANGELS here. When Jacob encountered an ANGEL in Gen 32:30 he said “I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved”. Jacob could NOT separate the Angel from God, so we should ALSO refuse to separate ANY ANGEL from God by calling them sinners. Those that “SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES” are putting their souls at great risk. 2Pet 2:9 calls them UNJUST. Jude 7 says they will “SUFFER the VENGEANCE of ETERNAL FIRE”. I see no difference in believing in Fallen angels and speaking evil of dignities. Why then do so many people today believe in FALLEN ANGELS? It is probably because of Jer 17:9 “The HEART is deceitful ABOVE ALL THINGS, and DESPERATELY WICKED. Who can know it?” Not many people know “IT”, that the source of EVIL in our World is the HUMAN HEART, NOT SATAN. Mat 15:19 says “out of the HEART proceed evil thoughts”. Peter became SATAN as he was the ONLY person called this by our MESSIAH in Mat 16:23. Satan means ADVERSARY. Man is the ONLY ADVERSARY that GOD has. So when Jesus said he saw SATAN as lightning fall from heaven in Luke 10:18, he was referring to PETER, NOT any angel. Peter is a MAN, and NOT an ANGEL. NO SCRIPTURE exists to connect SATAN to ANY FALLEN ANGEL. MAN is the ONLY ONE given FREE WILL in gen 2:15. GOD has total control over EVERY angel as he says in isa 45:12 "MY hands have stretched out the heavens and ALL their hosts have i commanded". God also used personification as he compares the FALL of 3 kings (Babylon, Tyre, and Egypt) back to EDEN, as their HEARTS became lifted up with PRIDE. Angels are spirits and do NOT HAVE hearts. So when GOD uses the term HEAVEN and EDEN We should understand that these kings thought they were perfect, and set themselves UP in HIGH places. But GOD humbled them. and brought them down to hell. God is using this METAPHORIC language to point us back to the GARDEN of EDEN where ADAM also fell. Then According to Rom 5:12 “as by one MAN sin entered into the world and DEATH by sin. Rom 5:14 says “DEATH reigned from ADAM to Moses, therefore ADAM is the SERPENT. This is further verified by Gen 3:14 where God punished The SERPENT and put ENMITY between “THY SEED and HER SEED”. We must insist that THY SEED is HUMAN SEED here, because NO LITERAL SERPENT, nor any ANGEL, can produce SEED with a woman. Instead, God told the MAN and the WOMAN in Gen 1:28 to “be fruitful and multiply”. THEIR SEED was realized in Gen 4:1 where “ADAM KNEW EVE his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.” Therefore ADAM is the SERPENT again, because ADAM produced SEED, in the name of Cain and Abel. The SEED is further identified by Gen 4:25 “For God has appointed me ANOTHER SEED instead of Abel, whom Cain slew”. The ENMITY prophecy in Gen 3:15 WAS FULFILLED in Gen 4:8 when CAIN slew ABEL. Nevertheless, most people ignore the HUMAN SEED and make up an IMAGINARY ANGELIC SEED called SATAN, because they want to create an IMAGINARY WAR with their MESSIAH, the SEED of MARY. But, the REAL WAR is disclosed by 1Pet 2:10 “abstain from fleshly lusts, which WAR against the soul”. If more people would fight in this REAL WAR, then EVIL could be diminished in our world. Instead many people have IMAGINARY MESSIANIC expectations, which WILL destroy their IMAGINARY FALLEN ANGELS. This is opening our world up to unending New denominations as false prophets are claiming THEY know when and where THE MESSIAH will come. Christians, Arabs and Jews are willing to allow one more WAR, and then THEIR MESSIAH will deliver them. I hope and pray that ALL would abandon these FUTURE MESSIANIC expectations and recognize that the REAL MESSIAH came when the temple was destroyed and DEATH was swallowed up in victory. Heaven and EARTH passed away, but the NEW covenant will NEVER pass away. Let’s recognize that the WAR in HEAVEN was ALREADY fought from 67-70ad. Rev 12:7 tells us about THIS WAR, between MICHAEL and the DRAGON enemies of CHRIST who said “Let His blood be upon us and our children”. These were the most WICKED MEN, who committed the GREATEST SIN, being PERSONIFIED here. Jesus also personified these Scribes and Pharisees with these words in Mat 23:33 “ye serpents, ye generation of vipers”. Daniel 12:7 WAS ALSO FULFILLED at the time when the power of the holy people was SCATTERED, and ALL these things WERE FINISHED. We need to realize that Dan 12:7 and Rev 12:7 are talking about the SAME time period of history. God could NOT let the greatest sin in HUMAN history go unpunished , but poured out HIS great tribulation wrath upon THESE
H U M A N SERPENTSSaturday, July 11, 2009
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