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Poole says the woman wasn’t surprised at the serpent’s speaking because Adam and Eve had free conversation with angelic beings that often appeared in the form of men. That Satan has power to enter into living bodies is clear, for he did so upon a very large scale with regard to men in the days of Christ… Being compelled to have an embodiment, the master evil spirit perceived the serpent to be at that time among the most subtle of all creatures and therefore he entered into the serpent as feeling that he would be most at home in that animal” (Spurgeon). “An immaterial spirit must be invisible and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). It has been a sort of speculative opinion that the creature either had wings, or was able to move without creeping upon the earth as it now does.” (Spurgeon) The words of our text, so far as they literally concern the serpent, threaten that a change would be wrought in him.
“In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. This creature didn’t start as a snake as we know it, it became one. And he said to the woman: Apparently, before the curse pronounced in Genesis 3:14-15, the serpent was different than what we know today as a serpent. “Man has, perhaps, far more cunning than any mere creature… but Satan has more of cunning within him than any other creature that the Lord God hath made, man included.” (Spurgeon)Ĭ. It was the craftiness of Satan that made him successful against Eve: as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness (2 Corinthians 11:3). We can’t outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. The serpent was more cunning than any beast: Satan’s effectiveness is often found in His cunning, crafty ways. “It is idle to call the narrative of the Fall a mere allegory one had better say at once that he does not believe the Book… There was a real serpent, as there was a real paradise there was a real Adam and Eve, who stood at the head of our race, and they really sinned, and our race is really fallen. We may not understand everything involved in the way Satan used the body of a serpent, but we can know it was true and this is no mere fable. Isaiah 14 tells us Satan’s fall had to do with his desire to be equal to or greater than God, to set his will against God’s will. Ezekiel 28 tells us Satan, before his fall, was an angel of the highest rank and prominence, even something of a leader of worship in heaven. The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. This is because, in this picture, the serpent (a personification of sin and rebellion) is made of bronze (a metal associated with judgment, since it is made with fire). The representation of Satan as a serpent makes the idea of Moses saving Israel by lifting up a bronze serpent all the more provocative (Numbers 21:8-9), especially when Jesus identifies Himself with that very serpent (John 3:14). Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). In Ezekiel 28:13-19 tells us that Satan was in Eden.
The serpent: The text here does not, by itself alone, clearly identify the serpent as Satan, but the rest of the Bible makes it clear this is Satan appearing as a serpent. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”Ī. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
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