Today's Journal
SNAKE TALK I
The lie from the beginning was when the serpent, (snake, devil, Satan) convinced Eve and Adam; “you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:2-5). The couple was told by the Lord, “not to eat of the tree in middle of the garden” (3:3), it was forbidden with the consequence of “if you eat from it or touch it, you shall die” (3:3).My question has long been… how do snakes talk?
I read in the (Book of Jubilees 3:27-29): “And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame.
And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.
And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types unto the places which had been created for them.
On that day [the day the man and woman were expelled from the orchard] the mouth of all the beasts and cattle and birds and whatever walked or moved was stopped from speaking because all of them used to speak to one another with one speech and one language [presumed to be Hebrew. Book of Jubilees 12:26 says: “And I opened his mouth, and his ears and his lips, and I began to speak with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation.”
This was a sort of Tower of Babel experience… all language confused (see Genesis 11:1-9) “Now the whole earth used the same language and same words... (11:1). It is then confused into many languages and many words.
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“The seeds that fell on the footpath represent those who hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved.” Jesus