Once Satan was kicked out of heaven to the earth, when is the next time we hear about him?
Well that would be the garden of Eden
God created man in His own image, and breathed the breathe of life into him. (You can read the account of this in chapter one of Genesis.), He made man a spiritual being, as Himself, that is God being a spiritual being. We are spiritual people housed in a human body. Therefore the answer to the age old question is answered here. Do we live on after our body is dead? The answer is yes, our spirit lives on to go into eternal life with Christ, if we receive Christ as our Lord & Savior, or into eternal death if we do not receive Him as Lord. This eternal death is not the same kind of death we as humans think of, because our bodies are mortal, and eventually will die, and return to the dust from which God made our human bodies from. In other words, our human bodies are just a house for our spirit to use while on this earth. Once we die a physical death your spirit lives on, and if you do not believe in Christ as savior, your spirit still exists, but you will go into eternal death. This is not the same kind of death we think of as humans, but is a spiritual death, or a separation from God & His presence in eternal hell. Let me explain something here. Hell was never meant for humans, it was made for the devil, and his bad angels, & demons. We were never meant to go there, that’s why God provided a way for us not to go there thru His Son Jesus Christ at the cross, thru His death & resurrection. So eternal death is separation from God, but you say: God is omnipresent, He’s everywhere. That’s what makes hell so scary, because it’s a place God made for the punishment of the devil & his bunch where God deliberately, as chosen to with hold His presence from.
Well now let me regroup because I’ve kind of gotten ahead of myself here. Let’s get back to the garden of Eden.
God gave Adam rule over all the plants, and animals, and went so far as to allow Adam to give names to the animals. (Again you can read all about this in the first few chapters of Genesis).
God then looked around at all He had created, and saw it was good, but He could find no suitable helpmate for Adam among all He had created. God said, It is not good for man to be alone, so in Genesis Chapter 2: 21-25, God caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam, and took one of his ribs, and from that created the first woman (Eve). (Notice God did not create another man to be Adam’s helpmate, but a woman, and so the biblical pattern for a family was instituted by God Himself.) (Don’t get upset with me if you do not agree with this pattern of man & woman making up a family, it’s God’s doing, not mine.) Now the fact that she was created from Adam’s rib makes her, as the bible says, flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone. In the institution of marriage, the two really do become one flesh. (This is why we were meant to only have sexual relations with our spouse, because it’s totally ignored in our society today does not make it any less so.) When a man & woman have intercourse the man enters the woman’s body, and the two become one flesh. You say you don’t believe that! Well then what is the normal result of having intercourse without man made protection? Pregnancy! The two come together, and as a result one flesh is created. A baby the has both the mother & fathers genes. This is the true culmination of becoming one flesh. Do not get mad at me if you do not agree with this, God’s the one who set it up this way! Well again I’ve wondered from the storyline, but these are important facts that we as a society today choose to ignore, and let me say this while I’m on the subject, God did not create man, and woman to be equals. Now that’s going to stir up some trouble, but let me explain as you can read in Genesis, they were created to be one together. Not one better, or smarter, or higher than the other, but one completing the other. Together they make up one flesh. Together they create a covenant to become one, each complimenting the other one> Now then to get on with the story. Which is a true story I might add, only written thru my understanding of scripture. You may not agree with me, but that’s O.K. I’m not trying to make enemies, but disciples of Christ.
God gave Adam & Eve control over all of the garden of Eden, and told them they could eat of any of the fruit from the trees except the tree of the knowledge of good & evil. That is the only thing they were forbidden to do. They had it made in the shade, but they goofed up!
One day while Eve was alone in the garden, she was approached by the serpent(here he is, that old dragon, the Devil, or Satan.) Now bible scholars have suggested that the serpent walked upright at this time in history, and had the ability to speak. (I don’t pretend to be a scholar, but from reading the events in scripture it seems very possible to me that this was the case, which I’ll elude to further in the story.) The bible does say, The serpent being the craftiest of all the animals, came to Eve.
What did that old dragon the Devil do? The same thing he still tries to do today to all of us. He twisted God’s word for his own purpose, which is to deceive, and trick us into disobeying God’s word.
The bible says, (Again you can read the account of this in Genesis chapter three.) He deceived Eve, by trying to confuse her, and twist God’s word, by saying, Did God really say you could not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good & evil? He said, the real reason God doesn’t want you to eat of it is, because if you do you will become like God, and her eyes would be opened, and they would become like God. (That’s why Satan got kicked out of heaven, because he wanted to be like God.), so now he tempts Eve to do the same thing, and what’s bad is she believes him, and eats of the fruit. Then she took some to Adam, and he also ate of it, only he wasn’t deceived, he willing disobeyed God.
Once they both ate of the fruit their eyes were opened to the fact that they were naked, what happened? Sin is what happened, they disobeyed God, and sin entered the world, not thru Eve, for she was deceived, but thru Adam because he was not deceived, but he disobeyed God willingly. He used his own will to make a decision to willingly disobey God, that’s why sin entered the world thru Adam’s disobedience to God. So therefore, that is why every person that is be born into this world is born with the sinful nature of Adam. The worst part was that by doing this Adam gave up his rule over this earth to who? You guessed it. Satan, That’s why sin running wild in this world today, because to a degree Satan has the control that was given to him by Adam, but wait, God had a plan to make a way for man to get back to Him.
He told Adam that he would be cursed all the days of his life, and would have to toil to make his way in this world. (Thank Adam for the fact that you have to work to make a living.) He told Eve she would struggle in child birth for her part in all of this. Lastly He told the serpent he would crawl on his belly from here on out, thus modern day snakes crawl on their bellies. (This is why some scholars believe that the serpent originally walked upright.), but lastly God told Satan that the seed of the woman would crush his head, and Satan would strike this man’s heel.
Satan did not know it at the time, but God was referring to the birth of Jesus, being born of a woman, conceived by the Holy Spirit, thus the virgin birth, and Jesus being born without sin, because He was not conceived from Adam, therefore He had no sinful nature, and no sin. He was born both God, and man!
To Be continued:


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