Read Gen. 3:1-5
God placed man in a garden with a serpent in it. Jesus sent his disciples out into the world in John 17 and prayed that they would stay clean. God has never been afraid of the devil and we shouldn’t either. We were put here to have dominion over him and put him under our feet. The Devil is the great deceiver which is why he chose the serpent to use. The serpent was more subtle than any other creature God had created. It was sly and crafty by nature. In Rev. 12:9 the serpent is identified as Satan himself. He went to the woman because she was the weaker and youngest. She didn’t have the relationship with God that Adam did. Adam walked with God every evening in the garden. We don’t know what Eve was doing during this time but she isn’t mentioned being on these walks. Satan’s goal was Adam but he knew he could only get Adam through Eve. He starts with a trick question: “Hath God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” He is trying to make God look like an ogre. Eve explains that there is only one tree they can’t eat of and they can’t even touch it or they will die. (Now Eve is exaggerating.) Interestingly, she had the concept of death even though nothing had died yet. Satan argued with her that the fruit from that tree would not kill her but open her eyes to understand, like the gods, what good and evil is. (Who wouldn’t want to be “like the gods”?) So Satan tempted her with the power of being able to decide for herself what was best for her. He won that battle, but Jesus won it back for us on the cross!
Lord, make us wise to the antics of the devil and help us not to be deceived by his lies.
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