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The only created pre-Adam beings were satan and the 1/3 evil-turned angels that were thrown down to earth. At that time they had bodies. Satans body had been changed to a serpent. They co-habituated with descendants of Adam and Giants were born. The Bible calls them inhabitants.
Noah built the Ark and people not on the Ark were DROWNED. The evil angels had no bodies again. But their Invisible demonic spirits were able to Enter into evil sinful people who may or may not have known they were possessed. That's how they get around. They can get into creatures and animals. Example: when Jesus cast them into pigs that leaped off a cliff and died. No bodies again.
The only way to be free from that cycle is to be saved and born again with the Holy Spirit of God living on the inside of you.
That's why so many people are afflicted with illness, sicknesses, depression, mental and emotional afflictions. Drug abuse is a demonic invasion of the spirit of Death. Which can influence the afflicted person to end their life. The Holy Spirit will eject all those spirits in an instant: but the accepting of Jesus has to be genuine. God isn't a quick fix for a demonic problem; like an aspirin for headache.
No one who is born again can call God accursed. No one can call Him Lord.
You must be born again. Believe. Repent of sins past and present. Receive Jesus as Lord. If you get saved and go back into sin as before; you will be worse off than you were before. If you Blaspheme the Holy Spirit, you'll be doomed to hell as before. You can't fake out God. He sees the intent of your heart.
Adam and Eve were the first marriage. We're to be equally yoked; as a team of horses pulling a cart. That's why they used to say "getting hitched".
As a team, they both suffered loss for the breakdown of Communication!
Adam as the head of the family was supposed to lead Eve into rightness and obedience.
Genesis 2:16
"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:"
Genesis 2:17
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that OLD SERPENT 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.
Is the serpent a mere figure of speech?
Was Eve speaking with a beautiful angel as mentioned in Ezekiel?
Ezekiel Chapter 28:15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Created, not born)
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with VIOLENCE violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
(war in heaven Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,)
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy BEAUTY beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy BRIGHTNESS brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of LIGHT light.
I do not lean towards the talking snake thing personally.
You can even scroll down to the commentary box that will briefly explain your verse.
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16: 22-24 It is an offense to the Lord for us to live
according to the soul.
Romans 16:19-20 Be wise about what is good, Innocent about what is evil. 1 Corinthians 13:2 You're nothing without love. 1John 4:8 God is Love.
We can keep from being beguiled by the devil by loving.
1 John 4:8
"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love
1 Corinthians 13:2
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
I know what you are saying but I don't think that that has any particular meaning in this case. It is interesting that they would be in the middle and that may have made them easy to find; but apart from that. I don't see any other significant in their location; but in revelations; it specifically refers to the 7 churches I think, each having significant problems, none of them being true believers in Christ and God. They were sort of in the middle of the road; poor teachers; not doing the job that they should have being doing, sort of like the church when Jesus went there
Thanks again, it was very interesting and it is always good to learn I think. I don't know why I thought that they would have been sort of hidden. I don't think that God would hid these trees from man; but I think that He did with the tree of life from Adam after Adam sinned.