Presents
Pamphlet #6218 Genesis KC 6-3
OK, it is now time to "grow-up" and mature in the Word of God.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
OK, it is now time to "grow-up" and mature in the Word of God.
Who is this serpent who was more subtle, meaning wise, than any other living, created being, human or otherwise, in the garden? ... a literal "snake" standing upright like we see in the Bible story books?
Please!
Perhaps
when we first begin reading the Bible
and
have only gotten to chapter 3 of Genesis,
we
might not be quite sure who this serpent is.
But
if we read the whole Word of God,
there
can be no doubt who he is and what he looks like.
Rev. 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.
That
"old serpent" in the garden was Satan himself, not disguised as a snake,
but the creep is a "snake", in the figurative sense, of course!
I've done business with some snakes before and they really are cunning and conniving.
Anyway,
this old serpent has perpetuated a lie,
a
tradition, about the "snake" and the "apple" long enough.
It
is his plan to deceive a Biblically ignorant people with such trot,
"because
it ministers to the acceptance of his lie, the hiding of God's truth,
the
jeers of the infidel, the opposition of the critics, and the stumbling
of the weak in faith."
(Companion
Bible, appendix 19, last paragraph.)
Again in Revelation 20 we see who that serpent was.
He is to be bound during the millennium for 1000 years.