Hi micah7:9,
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman,—Ye shall not die,
Okay theres the lie, but were is the murder?
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You are of your FATHER the DEVIL [the GREAT DRAGON, OLD SERPENT, the DEVIL, and SATAN {Hebrew for Adversary -- I Pet. 5:8} Rev. 12:9], and the lusts of your father ye will do... He was a murderer FROM THE BEGINNING, and abode not in the truth [from the beginning], because there is no truth in him [from the beginning]. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar [from the beginning], and the father [the beginner] of it" (John 8:44).
"Now the SERPENT was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had MADE..." (Gen. 3:1) God "made" this serpent which TALKED with Eve as an articulate, intelligent creature. Satan did not possess this serpent of the field, Satan was this serpent! Satan doesn’t possess snakes! Satan himself was CREATED A SERPENT. Even Paul acknowledges that
it was "the SERPENT" that deluded Eve, and not some other creature possessing a snake (II Cor. 11:3).
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Snakes do not "eat dust" but Satan dines on mankind "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour [Greek: (lit. or fig.) gulp entirely, swallow up] I Pet. 5:08). And he seeks to devour mankind who are "dust" of the earth ("...for dust thou art...." Gen. 3:19).
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"And when the woman [1] SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD [lust of the flesh], and that it was [2] PLEASANT TO THE EYES [lust of the eyes], and a tree to be [3] DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE [pride of life], she TOOK [stole, disobeyed, lusted after the flesh, put an idol before God, worshiped her own presumed but false goodness, helped cause her husband to sin, hid themselves, LIED to God about it, tried to pass the buck and blame others for their sin, etc., etc., etc., and a dozen other sins] of the fruit thereof, and did eat..." (Gen. 3:6).
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Murder - the crime of unlawfully killing a person esp.
with malice aforethought.So Eve already had all the lusts of the world within her carnal flesh, like we all do, all she needed was a push in the right direction and that is where Satan came in. "The woman being DECIEVED" (1Ti 2:14), she was "dust" before the devourer/Satan and he had her for lunch, so to speak. This was the action as well as the "malice aforethought" that made Satan a "murderer from the beginning."
The only murder or man slayer I see is Gen 4:8 And saying is Cain to Abel, his brother, "Go will we to the field. And coming is it, at their coming to be in the field, rising is Cain against Abel, his brother, and killing him.
Are we saying then that it was the devil, the serpent got into Cain to make Cain murder/slay his brother?
Luk 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, that he may sift you as wheat.
Satan as a spiritual being that 'talks' to the minds of mankind, seducing and deceiving us with lies, so that he may sift/devour/destroy us and as with Eve he got Cain as well.
1John 3:12 We should not be like Cain,
who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
Eph 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We are in spiritual warfare and the world hasn't got a chance up against this great deciever, but we who have the Spirit indwelling can resist Satan and not be fearful of him.
1John 5:18 We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
James 4:7 Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
mercy, peace and love
Kat