The story of the garden of Eden is thought to be well known. But is it? Many were taught that it had something to do with a snake and apples. Well, the word apple is not even in the actual story. Apples have nothing to do with what happened in the garden of Eden. So what really happened? We can only pray for understanding as we read and Bible and study to explain what really did happen in the garden of Eden. Without understanding what really happened we miss out on so much information that we need to know to better understand God’s word.
If you never heard the story told like this before it may come as a shock to you what really happened. Yet we must not be shocked at the truth of God’s word. What you will read will be graphic at times but it was always there that’s the way it is. We can never let God’s word be to graphic for us. If we do, then we are getting to self righteous for God and He doesn’t like that.
Ecclesiastes 7: 16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
One other thing that we need to remember is God uses symbology in His words. Now we all know that snakes do not talk. This is not some special talking serpent but a name given to the Devil. Satan is given many names in the bible.
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.
Revelation 9: 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
FQ: So now we know Satan was in the garden of Eden. That can be found in Ezekiel 28: where it talks about Satan before and after his fall.
Ezekiel 28: 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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FQ: So Lucifer was given the job of caring for the throne of the almighty God, creator of all things. After wanting God’s throne and being found unworthy of heaven he is cast down upon the earth. We know this because of what we read in Ezekiel 28: 13
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?
FQ: Are we talking about real trees here? Many times people are spoken of in the bible as seeds or trees meaning symbolic of people. Lets take a quick look .
Matthew 13: 24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
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FQ: Christ gives the meaning of this at Matthew 13:
Matthew 13: 35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. 36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
Matthew 13: 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Jeremiah 17: 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
17: 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
FQ: Tree means to fasten (or make firm), i.e. to close (the eyes). It also means the spine (as giving firmness to the body) backbone. So we are not really talking about a tree at all. We are talking about Satan. He is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan invented evil as he was the first one to sin which can be read in Ezekiel 28:14-15. We can also see that it was their nakedness which they covered. Prior to sin they where not ashamed.
Genesis 2: 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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FQ: In Corintians 11:2 God states he is a jealousy God. Who had espoused Eve, as seen at 11: 3 to one husband to be presented as a virgin to Christ. Had Adam and Eve obeyed God their children would have been free of a direct sinful bloodline. However it states at 11: 3 that the Devil beguiled Eve. Meaning she was totally suduced by Satan to a point the simplicity of Christ could be changed by another Christ or spirit or gospel. One you just might accept.
2- Corintians 11: 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
: 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
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Genesis 3: 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. 3: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3: 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. 3: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
FQ: Prior to sin Adam and Eve’s decisions were made with and in innocence. However after sinning their choice’s were made with the knowledge that illmoral sin’s of the flesh through their knowledge of good and evil would produce manifastations of fleshly desire.
Genesis 3: 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
FQ: Some say scripture is simple and a child could understand. I hope this means to just take a close look at things in a very simple way. Let’s look at this. The woman saw the tree was good for food. What was the food? Knowledge. It pleased her sight, meaning she like the way it looked. That it was desirable to gain a form of wisdom and she per-took of it.
To eat or take of implies that Satan, Eve and Adam took part and shared in a sinful action which presented knowledge of not only what was good but that which was evil was now known. That knowledge was more than eating a fruit because it wasn’t their mouth’s which they covered with fig leaves afterward.
Genesis 3: 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3: 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
FQ: Understanding the serpent is Satan. He is also the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Beguiled means to lead astray, i.e. (mentally) to delude, or (morally) to seduce. Satan by twisting God’s word with his lies and the power he has by being supernatural seduced Eve. Satan is very crafty and as we read in Revelation 12:9 he is the one that deceived the world.
Genesis 3: 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
3: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
This is God’s way of letting Satan know He thinks he is the lowest form of life ever created. Enmity means to hate (as one of an opposite tribe or party); hence to be hostile. Seed means seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity. This tells us that there will be hostility between Satan’s children and Eve’s children.
Satan’s child Cain, will grow up and become the first murderer. Satan’s offspring in time will bruise Jesus Christ’s heel when they nail Him to the cross. Eve will have two children, Cain and Abel but they do not both have the same father. Adam is Abel’s father while Satan is Cain’s father. Later when we take a look at Adam’s genealogy we shall find that Cain is not mentioned. That’s because Adam is not Cain’s father, Satan is.
John 8: 42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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