Did God Really Say?
Genesis 3:1
“Adam and Eve’s faith was sabotaged as their free will was tempted to make their own choices according to their own desires and limited understanding”
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals Yahveh God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”… “You will not certainly die,” … “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:1,4-5). Satan’s strategy, through the spirit of “the power of suggestion”, was that God could not be trusted and was not good and fair through His restricting commandment. Adam and Eve’s faith was sabotaged as their free will was tempted to make their own choices according to their own desires and limited understanding.
The “father of lies” added and deleted from the purity of Yahveh God’s commandment infusing doubt, pride, and rebellion into Eve’s heart. Satan successfully “deceived Eve” undermining her faith and loving obedience to her Father. The Spirit of truth is instructing us to pray for great discernment and wisdom in order that we do not distort and misinterpret His holy words and fall prey to Satan’s deception. Be careful to obey the Almighty’s instruction which says, “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahveh (the Lord) your God which I command you” (Deuteronomy 4:2). Again He emphasizes this saying, “Do not add to His words or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.” We must take heed to the warning at the conclusion of Scripture, clearly stating that no liar will ever enter the gates of the eternal righteous kingdom (Proverbs 30:6, Revelation 21:8, 27, 22:15).
Satan stimulates discontent; he robs us of the promised blessing of “godliness with contentment is great gain” (1 Timothy 6:6). Adam and Eve lived in a state of great contentment until the ancient serpent began enticing their minds and senses to greedily covet and aggressively desire to have what their Father had forbidden. Grievously, that “great gain” turned into great eternal loss, not only for them but for all humanity to follow. Believing the lies of Satan stimulated discontent in every arena: with their Heavenly Father’s loving wise commandment, with the food they had, with the beauty of the Garden, and now they wanted to acquire knowledge that they were never meant to have. It is written, “The secret things belong to Yahveh our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our sons and daughters forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29). The fear of Yahveh [leading to obedience] is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding” (Proverbs 9:10).
“Our first parents began to resemble the likeness of Satan and his rebellious pride, instead of reflecting the holy image of their heavenly Father”
The same wicked desire that caused Satan to rise up in prideful defiance against the Almighty was now working in and through Adam and Eve, to rise up against the supremacy of their Creator and God. Through this, our first parents began to resemble the likeness of Satan and his rebellious pride, instead of reflecting the holy image of their heavenly Father through loving reverence and obedience to His expressed will and commandment.
Adam and Eve knew only good but now they wanted to be like the Most High having “knowledge of good and evil”. They fell prey to Satan’s powerful deception as he lured them to follow in his wicked nature to rebel and sin against their holy God and Creator. His demonic powers are more intoxicating and destructive than the most mind controlling drugs. The Evil One is diabolically successful at keeping people intoxicated, in a spiritual stupor and under his demonic control. As soon as Eve started dialoging with the Enemy he started twisting God’s words, casting a dark shadow of doubt on Eve’s mind, causing selfish ambition and jealousy to crave what was not hers to have. It is written, “If you have bitter jealousy [covetousness] and selfish ambition in your heart … this wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is … demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil [demonic spirit and] thing” (James 3:14-16).
The Serpent tempted and deceived Eve saying, “your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil”. “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate” (Genesis 3:5-6). Satan stimulated the lusts of their eyes, the god of their stomach (referring to all forms of craving), and the willful pride to be like God to make their own choices and definition of good and evil. The Almighty’s word says, “I hate pride and arrogance” (Proverbs 8:13).
That “old serpent” victoriously deceived Adam and Eve to sin, leading them as captives out of their Father’s kingdom of Light and truth into his kingdom of darkness and deception in this temporal world. Adam and Eve, our first parents, now bore Satan’s sin nature which past on to all generations. The bad and horrifying reality is that we have all inherited a sin nature but the good news is Yahshua (Jesus), the Son of the Almighty, came to “destroy the works of the devil” and to “set his captives free” (1 John 3:8, Luke 4:18). There will be so much revealed in the forthcoming teachings in Truth versus Deception glorifying the work of our blessed Savior who came to save our souls from the wrath that is coming upon Satan and all those who continue to do his prideful rebellious deeds against the Almighty and His commandments.
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