The Calendar of Enoch

The Calendar of Enoch

The greatest treasure of the book of Enoch is found in chapters 72-82. These are the calendar instructions that allow us to obey the Sabbath commands of the fourth commandment and Exodus 31:13. The calendar of Enoch is a solar only calendar that consists of twelve months of thirty days plus four days that divide the seasons of the year every 90 days.


Enoch 72:10 The day is slightly longer than the night. Enoch begins the new year with the spring equinox according to Israel Standard Time on March 20th. The spring equinox is a pin point of time when the sun crosses the equatorial plane of the earth at the intersection of the ecliptic of the stars, which are at a 23.4 degree angle to the equator. This agrees with Genesis 1:14, where we are told the lights of the heavens, the stars, are for signs, appointed times, days and years. This day is what Enoch refers to as the first leader of the seasons and should be regarded as a Sabbath. Jubilees 6 tells us the four leaders of the seasons are a remembrance to Noah and the flood for saving us from the terrible Nephilim. When counted correctly, the four leaders of the seasons will always fall on the weekly Sabbath of the thirteenth week of each season. However, per Enoch 82, the four leaders of the seasons are not counted in the days of the months, they stand alone to lead their respective season.


The day following the spring equinox, March 21st, is the first day of month one, when we begin a count of thirty days for each month. The count for each season looks like this, 1 + 30 + 30 + 30. Beginning with day one month one we count every seventh day as the weekly Sabbath. The appointed times are counted to per the instructions of Leviticus 23.


When referenced to the Roman calendar, the spring equinox will cycle through the days of the week as the years pass. This is due to the perpetual nature of the Roman calendar. However, the dates of the Sabbath and appointed times are always on the same date every year, this is why a universal time is needed. Unlike the calendars of man, the calendar of Enoch is self-adjusting, needing no involvement by man or his religions. This self-adjustment occurs on a four-year cycle to compensate for the .25 day of the solar 365.25 day year, according to the timing of the spring equinox at Israel standard Time.


Twice in the book of Jubilees, four times in the book of Enoch, we are commanded to make the year a count of 364 days "only". The 365th day is uncounted as we await the day of the spring equinox to begin a new count of days. However, the 365th day serves some purpose. First, the 365th day acts as a partition between the old year and the new year to stop the count of days. Second, the 365th day is a buffer that allows the whole earth to finish it's count of days and begin a new count all together.

The calendar of Enoch comes with an accuracy test. In astronomy circles it's known as "The Spring Phenomena". This phenomena occurs on alternating cycles of eight and eleven years. When this phenomena occurs, the calendar of Enoch will align with the lunar calendar of Judaism for the first month. This alignment took place on the crucifixion year of 30 AD, which is also confirmed in the Talmud. The last alignment took place on the new year of 2015, with the next alignment to take place on the new year of 2023. Messiah Yahshua sacrificed himself on HIS Sabbath, the fourteenth day of the first month, known as Passover. Although Judaism has done away with Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, relegating it to nothing more than a day of preparation.

See the attached calendars for use as a visual aid to understanding the calendar.

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Why Gnostic Christians Should Not Use the Rosary!

Why Gnostic Christians Should Not Use the Rosary!

There are many websites claiming to be Gnostics on the internet most of them advocate the use of the rosary with prayers similar to those used by the Roman Catholic Church which have been adapted for a more Gnostic style. However not many people know the true origin of the rosary and how it was used as a spiritual weapon against Gnostic Christians this study will look into this:

Rosary a string of beads for keeping count in a rosary or in the devotions of some other religions, in Roman Catholic use 55 or 165 in number.

The term “rosary” Latin: rosarium, means "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"

The rosary was not used by Jesus, by His apostles, or by the early church fathers, nor is it referred to in the Gnostic Gospels.

A Troubled history

The original, lengthy prayer cycle is devoted to the Virgin Mary and was composed by St Dominic as an antidote to heresy at a time when the Catholic Church was seeking to crush the Cathar sect in what is now south-western France.

The crusade against the Cathars stands as one of the bloodiest episodes in Church history.

The Rosary was roundly cursed by Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century as "mere babbling, as stupid as it is wicked, nourishing a false confidence". (Pope updates ancient Rosary prayer BBC NEWS Monday, 21 October, 2002, 14:55 GMT 15:55 UK)

One Catholic website says "Our Lady gave Saint Dominic the Rosary as a weapon to combat the awful Cathar (Albigensian) heresy."

St. Dominic set up his headquarters in the town of Fanjeaux in 1206, becoming its parish priest and taking charge of its ancient church, Notre Dame de Prouille. In Fanjeaux, St. Dominic founded a convent for young women fleeing the vice and debauchery of the Cathar sect. Soon after, St. Dominic added monks to his growing community. From these small beginnings, he planted the seeds of what would later become the Dominican Order.

Church tradition tells us that, in the year 1208, St. Dominic had a vision of the Virgin Mary while praying in his church. The Blessed Mother reportedly taught him to pray the Rosary, telling him to use this weapon to defeat the heretics.

Aflame with enthusiasm, St. Dominic called on Catholics and heretics alike to pray the Rosary. By 1213, many Catholic Crusaders had taken St. Dominic’s advice. Devotion to the Rosary had spread among them like wildfire.


That year, a Crusader army under Simon de Montfort met a Cathar army under Raymond of Toulouse in the battle of Muret. The heretics were routed. Years later, when the Cathar heresy was finally extinguished, many Catholics attributed its defeat as much to St. Dominic’s zeal as to the Crusaders’ arms. (From a Catholic Website)


From a Cathar website:

Leo XIII claims that the Cathars were defeated not by human force, but by Mary's Rosary:

8. Moreover, we may well believe that the Queen of Heaven herself has granted an especial efficacy to this mode of supplication, for it was by her command and counsel that the devotion was begun and spread abroad by the holy Patriarch Dominic [Dominic Guzmán] as a most potent weapon against the enemies of the faith at an epoch not, indeed, unlike our own, of great danger to our holy religion. The heresy of the Albigenses had in effect, one while covertly, another while openly, overrun many countries, and this most vile offspring of the Manicheans, whose deadly errors it reproduced, were the cause in stirring up against the Church the most bitter animosity and a virulent persecution. There seemed to be no human hope of opposing this fanatical and most pernicious sect when timely succour came from on high through the instrument of Mary's Rosary. Thus under the favour of the powerful Virgin, the glorious vanquisher of all heresies, the forces of the wicked were destroyed and dispersed, and faith issued forth unharmed and more shining than before.


1891-09-22- SS Leo XIII - Octobri Mense: Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on September 22, 1891 On the Rosary


Leo does not explain why Mary's Rosary had so little effect before Catharism was exterminated by physical force - a long war of extermination followed by operations of the Inquisition over generations.


Leo still seems to accept that Catharism was descended from Manicheism, as the medieval Catholic Church held, but the modern Catholic Church doubts.


Pius XI elaborates on The Rosary and likens Catharism to Communism:

19. The Holy Virgin who once victoriously drove the terrible sect of the Albigenses from Christian countries, now suppliantly invoked by us, will turn aside the new errors, especially those of Communism, which reminds us in many ways, in its motives and misdeeds, of the ancient ones.

20. And as in the times of the Crusades, in all Europe there was raised one voice of the people, one supplication; so today, in all the world, the cities, and even the smallest villages, united with courage and strength, with filial and constant insistence, the people seek to obtain from the great Mother of God the defeat of the enemies of Christian and human civilization, to the end that true peace may shine again over tired and erring men.

BUT IS IT CHRISTIAN?

Does God’s Word authorize such repetitious praying? No. Jesus said: “But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. So, do not make yourselves like them, for God your Father knows what things you are needing before ever you ask him.” How well Jesus knew the human tendency to want to repeat prayers! And, in view of his warning, the fact that the use of the rosary is widespread among the people of the nations carries no weight with it whatsoever!—Matt. 6:7, 8.

Apologists for the rosary try to rob Jesus’ words of their effect by pointing to Revelation 4:8, in which the word “holy” appears three times: “Holy, holy, holy.” But it is quite different from repeating one word twice in a prayer for a total of three words to repeating the forty words in Hail Mary fifty-two times for a total of 2,120 words, not to say anything of the other repetitions involved. Repeating a thing twice for emphasis is done throughout the Scriptures and makes sense. Thus when Jesus was faced with his greatest test he prayed three times to Jehovah his Father. Likewise Paul three times asked God to remove a certain “thorn in the flesh.” There is nothing, however, in the Scriptures to indicate that Jesus and Paul had memorized these prayers or had used them at some other time in their lives. These prayers were born out of the serious trials they were undergoing.—Matt. 26:39-44; 2 Cor. 12:7.

But trying to remember all the various recitations required in saying the rosary and to repeat them in their proper order makes saying the rosary a memory test rather than a spontaneous expression of heartfelt prayer. Besides, one’s mind cannot help but wander when one has to say the same forty words fifty-three times in one prayer. Such repetition is but a variation of the prayer wheel of certain Oriental religions. It consists of a cylinder in which written prayers are placed. Each time the cylinder is revolved the prayers in it are supposed to have been repeated.

Nor is that all. The Hail Mary is said nine times as often as the Paternoster, or “Our Father,” fifty-three times as compared with six times. Is the prayer composed by men and directed to Mary nine times as important or effective as the prayer taught by Jesus and directed to God himself? The fact is that, look where we will in the Scriptures, not once do we read of anyone seeking access either to God or to Jesus by way of Mary.

NO BENEFITS

As for the benefits of indulgences promised those reciting the rosary: How can anyone gain such benefits when, look where we will in God’s Word, not a word do we find about a purgatory? On the contrary, we are plainly told the following: “The wages sin pays is death.” When man “goes back to his ground, in that day his thoughts do perish.” The dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” Man’s hope lies in a resurrection from the dead, “of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Rom. 6:23; Ps. 146:4; Eccl. 9:5; Acts 24:15.

And regarding the forgiveness of our sins, we are assured that it is “the blood of Jesus his Son [that] cleanses us from all sin.” And “if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”—1 John 1:7, 9.

The repeating of fifty-three Hail Marys every time the rosary is recited flies in the face of Jesus’ express condemnation of saying the “same things over and over again.” Its widespread use outside of professedly Christian lands argues that its origin is pagan. And the same must also be said regarding its associated features, the exaltation of Mary, the offering of indulgences for saying the rosary, the crediting of victories to it and its claimed power to decrease purgatorial suffering. None of these find any support in the Scriptures, but they do find parallels in pagan religions.

In view of all these facts, can the rosary be said to be Christian? It cannot!

Not Biblical

Unsurprisingly, we are given various advice in the Bible, both about how we should, and how we should not pray.

In particular, we look to the words of Jesus himself, as reported in the Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 6, verses 5-13. Please, look at what Jesus said and then repeated, to clearly stress the importance of what he was saying (Matthew 6:7-8 AMP)

7 “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
8 So do not be like them [praying as they do]; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”

Can you see this? Jesus says “do not use meaningless repetition“. If you prefer the KJV, these two verses are even stronger

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

In the KJV, we are told even more clearly not to use vain repetitions as the heathens do.

Jesus then “doubles down”. First he castigates people who use vain/meaningless repetition and calls them unGodly, and then he tells us not to be like them.

Can this be any clearer? How can Jesus’ own words, speaking clearly and literally, be reconciled with 53 identical prayers in a row to the mother of Jesus (an unkind person would suggest that the act of praying to anyone other than the Father is in and of itself a heathenish act)?


One of the justifications for using a rosary is that it helps us to concentrate and gives us a format for our prayer. But do we need a necklace of beads to help us pray? No. We don’t. God offers us all the help we need, in the form of the Holy Spirit. In Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Rom 8:26-27), we are told (AMP)

26 In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words.
27 And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes [before God] on behalf of God’s people in accordance with God’s will.

We are also encouraged not just to “not repeat empty incantations”, but to make our requests specifically known. Philippians 4:6 (AMP) says

Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.

Summary

The word “Rosary” is not found in the Bible
The Rosary was created as a spiritual weapon to use against Gnostic Christians called the Cathai or the Albigensians for this reason alone Gnostic Christians today should reject the use of the Rosary.

Since gnosis does not come by repetitive praying Gnostics should not use the Rosary
Repetitive praying is a type of brainwashing or mind control 

at war prayer manual by Traci Morin:

Father God, I repent and renounce using Demons of candle burning, rosary prayers and idol worship to do evil or through ceremonies, and I take authority, dominion, bin and break and cast out all demonic spirits of curses to go to the pit of hell, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

What is Divine Philosophy?

What is Divine Philosophy?

The Greek word φιλοσοφία philosophia means, literally, “love of wisdom.” In modern usage the term relates to human endeavors to understand and interpret through reason and speculation the whole of human experience, including the underlying causes and principles of reality.

The Greek words for “philosophy” and “philosopher” each occur only once in the Christian Greek Scriptures. (Col 2:8; Ac 17:18) Evidently when Paul wrote to the congregation at Colossae in Asia Minor, some there were in danger of being affected by “the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men.” 

Greek philosophies were then quite prominent. But the context of Colossians 2:8 shows that of special concern to Paul were Judaizers who were trying to bring Christians back to observing the Mosaic Law with its required circumcision, festival days, and abstinence from eating certain foods. (Col 2:11, 16, 17) 

Paul was not opposed to knowledge, for he prayed that Christians be filled with it. But, as he showed, one must appreciate the role of Jesus Christ in the outworking of God’s purpose in order to obtain true wisdom and accurate knowledge. (Col 1:9, 10; 2:2, 3) The Colossians were to look out lest perhaps someone with persuasive arguments carry them off as prey through a human way of thinking or outlook. Such a philosophy would be part of “the elementary things [stoi·khei´a] of the world,” that is, the principles or basic components and motivating factors of the world, “and not according to Christ.”—Col 2:4, 8.

When in Athens Paul had an encounter with “the Epicurean and the Stoic philosophers.” (Ac 17:18) They termed the apostle a “chatterer,” using the Greek word sper·mo·lo´gos, which literally applies to a bird that picks up seeds. The word also carries the thought of one who picks up scraps of knowledge and repeats such without order or method. Those philosophers disdained Paul and his message. Basically the Epicurean philosophy was that the obtaining of pleasure, particularly mental pleasure, was the chief good in life (1Co 15:32); though it acknowledged gods, it explained these as being beyond human experience and concern. The philosophy of the Stoics stressed fate or natural destiny; one should be of high virtue but strive for indifference to pain or pleasure. Neither Epicureans nor Stoics believed in the resurrection. In his speech before such men, Paul highlighted the relationship and accountability of the individual to the Creator and connected therewith Christ’s resurrection and the “guarantee” this provided men. To Greeks asking for “wisdom” the message about Christ was “foolishness” (1Co 1:22, 23), and when Paul mentioned the resurrection, many of his hearers began to mock, although some became believers.—Ac 17:22-33.

Divine Philosophy.

PHILOSOPHY is defined in our dictionaries as, "The knowledge of the causes of all phenomena, both of mind and matter". Paul encountered " certain philosophers " on Mars' Hill, at Athens (Acts 17:18). The subject of his argument with them (that of the Godhead) is especially interesting in view of the gulf between the Grecian and Hebrew philosophy. The Greek philosophy started from the formed, or creature, back to the Former, or Creator; and thus God was last with the Greek philosopher. Far different was it with the Hebrew thinkers and writers; at any rate, with those whom God inspired, and who are known as Prophets and Apostles. They never troubled about tracing God by His works, or creatures; but began with God, taking His existence for granted and seeing Him everywhere and in everything. This is noticed throughout the Holy Scriptures, especially so in that most practical of books, the Book of Proverbs. See Proverbs 1:7, 29; 2:17; 3:5, 7, 9, 19, 33; 5:21; 8:13, 34; 12:2; 14:26, 31; 15:3, 9, 33 ; 16:2, 4, 6, 9, 33; 17:5; 18:10; 19:17, 23; 25:2; 28:5 ; 30:5.

Manmade Traditions Matthew 15:1-9

Manmade Traditions Matthew 15:1-9

Matthew 15:1-9

15:1Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying, 15:2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 15:3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 15:4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 15:5But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given to God; 15:6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition. 15:7Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

15:8This people honoreth me with their lips;

But their heart is far from me.

15:9But in vain do they worship me,

Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

TRADITION

What is Tradition?

Information, doctrines, or practices that have been handed down from parents to children or that have become the established way of thinking or acting. The Greek word pa·ra´do·sis means, literally, “a thing given beside” and hence “that which is transmitted by word of mouth or in writing.” (1Co 11:2, Int) The word as used in the Christian Greek Scriptures is applied to traditions that were proper or acceptable aspects of true worship, as well as to those that were in error or were followed or viewed in a way that made them harmful and objectionable

Manmade Tradition

Which is held in greater reverence, the divine law or manmade tradition? With the personal man, tradition holds the higher place, for back of it is the weight or authority of the race mind, and its hold on the race mind is unquestioned. The spiritual man has reverence for the divine law, not manmade tradition.

Which of the two does the Christ Consciousness observe? The divine law always. “I came not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill.” Where tradition conflicts with the divine law, Jesus the Christ sets aside or disregards tradition. So should we as we follow Him.

Why should we not accept the wisdom of past ages, as handed down in tradition, as a guide to conduct? In following tradition we accept our beliefs and opinions ready-made instead of thinking things through and understanding them originally before accepting them. 

When we think things through for ourselves our mind lays hold of the formless stuff of divine substance and transforms it. By this thought process, which is the proper function of the mind in us, we discern the truth of the accumulated wisdom of mankind, and are enabled to discard what does not concern us.

Is defilement or infection primarily a physical or a mental phenomenon? It is first of all mental. Where faith in the protection of Divine Mind is absolute and complete, there is no fear and no infection. Perfect faith is the greatest prophylactic.

What evidence have we that tradition is not God-given? The fact that although tradition has the unquestioning acceptance of the race mind while the race believes it, every tradition sooner or later is superseded by something else. For example, the scientific truths of one age become the exploded superstitions of the next, and new so-called scientific truths take their place.

What is “the heart,” as used by Jesus in the text for today? The heart is the inner or emotional nature, which harbors will, desire, and the individual and personal thought.

Where should the chief cleansing of the individual take place? In the inner nature or the heart. We should learn to control our thought processes and think constructively. As we preserve the unity of the Spirit we lose our fear of contagion and become immune to outer contaminating influences. With the thought fixed on the purity and oneness of the Mind of God we become expressions of both purity and unity.

Do we make our life, or is it predestined without our volition? We make it by our habitual thought. Our security is also self-made. As we drill our soul in right principles we are ready to meet any emergency when it comes, with a stout, steadfast heart.

Christian Traditions

Viewing tradition in the sense of guidelines handed down orally or by example, the information that the apostle Paul received directly from Jesus could properly be passed on to the Christian congregations as acceptable Christian tradition. This was so, for example, regarding the celebration of the Lord’s Evening Meal. (1Co 11:2, 23) The teachings and example set by the apostles constituted valid tradition. Thus, Paul, who had personally toiled with his hands so as not to be a financial burden on his brothers (Ac 18:3; 20:34; 1Co 9:15; 1Th 2:9), could urge the Thessalonian Christians “to withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition [pa·ra´do·sin]” they had received. One who would not work was plainly not following the fine example or tradition of the apostles.—2Th 3:6-11.

The “traditions” that are necessary for worship of God that is clean and undefiled were in time included as part of the inspired Scriptures. Hence, the traditions or precepts that were transmitted by Jesus and the apostles and that were vital for life were not left in oral form to be distorted by the passage of time but were accurately recorded in the Bible for the benefit of Christians living at later periods.—Joh 20:30, 31; Re 22:18.

Misreading False knowledge 1 Timothy 6:20

Misreading False knowledge 1 Timothy 6:20

1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

A well known example is the misreading of the Greek word gnōsis in 1 Timothy 6:20 as a reference to Gnostic teaching. Having decided that the word referred to Gnosticism, expositors attempted to find evidence throughout the letter that the Gnostics were the specific false teachers mentioned. The conclusion that Paul was warning against Gnostics was then transferred wrongly to Paul’s other letters.

‘We must beware of imposing an outside situation upon the letters. For instance, in previous generations some scholars read Gnosticism from the second and third centuries A.D. into the New Testament letters, so that the opponents in almost every Pauline letter were identified as Gnostics. Virtually no one advocates the Gnostic hypothesis today, for it is illegitimate to read later church history into first century documents. The Gnostic detour could have been avoided if scholars had read the Pauline letters themselves more carefully, for evidence for full-fledged Gnosticism cannot be read out of his letters.’, Schreiner (complementarian), ‘Interpreting the Pauline Epistles’, Southern Baptist Journal of Theology (3.9), (1999).

Bazaars John 2:13-16

Matthew 21:12 ►,Berean Study Bible

Then Jesus went into the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

John 2:13 Now the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 
14 And he found in the temple those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money brokers in their seats.

Heracleon: Fragment 13, on John 2:13-16 The ascent to Jerusalem signifies the ascent of the Lord from material realm things to the animate (psychic) place, which is an image of Jerusalem. (In John 2:14, “In the sanctuary he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.”) The words, "In the sanctuary, he found” and not "in the temple" are used so that it may not be thought to be the mere “calling” (animate), apart from the Spirit, which elicits help from the Lord. The sanctuary is the Holy of Holies, into which only the High-Priest enters, into which the spiritual go. The temple courtyard, where the Levites also enter, is a symbol of the animate ones who attain a salvation outside the Fullness (Pleroma). 

This is a similar to a description of the Temple in the Gospel of Philip

The Gospel of Philip The Temple in Jerusalem

There were three structures for sacrifice in Jerusalem. One opened to the west and was called the holy place; a second opened to the south and was called the holy of the holy; the third opened to the east and was called the holy of holies, where only the high priest could enter. The holy place is baptism; the holy of the holy is redemption; the holy of holies is the bridal chamber. Baptism entails resurrection and redemption, and redemption is in the bridal chamber. The bridal chamber is within a realm superior to [what we belong to], and you cannot find anything [like it…. These] are the ones who worship [in spirit and in truth, for they do not worship] in Jerusalem. There are people in Jerusalem who [do worship] in Jerusalem, and they await [the mysteries] called [the holy] of holies, the curtain [of which] was torn. [Our] bridal chamber is the image [of the bridal chamber] [70] above. That is why its curtain was torn from top to bottom, for some people from below had to go up.
John 2:15 So, after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 

16 And he said to those selling the doves: “Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise!”

Heracleon: Fragment 13, on John 2:13-16 Those who are found in the temple selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there represent those who give nothing away out of charity, but regard the entrance of strangers to the temple as an occasion of trade and profit-making, and who provide the sacrifices for the worship of God for their own gain and love of money.

Heracleon: Fragment 13, on John 2:13-16 (In John 2:15-16, “And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, ‘Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade.’”) And the whip which Jesus made of small cords and did not receive from another is an image of the power and energy of the Holy Spirit which blows away the wicked. The whip and the linen and the napkin and all such things form an image of the power and energy of the Holy Spirit. . . The whip was tied to a piece of wood, and this wood is a type of the Cross. On this wood the merchants who were intent on gain, and all wickedness was nailed up and done away. . . Out of these two substances was the whip made, for he did not make it of dead leather, but in order that he might make the Church no longer a den of robbers, but the house of his Father.

All who were buying and selling there, are the receivers, and servitors of the rulers of the Religious World

the "Names and Denominations" of "the Religious World" are a miserably executed counterfeit of the true, and current only with such as are indifferent to, or ignorant of the truth.

the rulers of the Religious World are merchandisers of souls the house of the Father was turned into Bazaars, or places of traffic in spiritual merchandise, and in "the bodies and souls of men!" (Rev 18:13). 

FIGURES OF SPEECH

“FIGURES OF SPEECH”

The following definition was derived from the encyclopedia and Companion Bible.  The explanation is equally true of proverbs, parables and dark sayings.  It is a style used by God to express His truth hid in a mystery (secret).

A figure of speech relates to the FORM in which the words are used.  It is a designed and legitimate departure from the laws of languages.  This peculiar form or unusual manner may, or may not, be true to the LITERAL meaning of the words; but it is true to their REAL sense, and truer to truth.

In a figure of speech, a word may be transferred from an object, to which it property belongs, to another, in such a manner that a comparison is implied though not formally expressed, or a sentence in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in properties and/or characteristics.  The principal subject is thus kept secret.

Thus saith the Lord: “I wiIl open my mouth in a parable.  I will utter dark sayings of old” (Psalm 78:2).  Jesus quotes: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the FOUNDATION of the world” (Matthew 13:35).  Thus indicating that 'dark sayings' and 'figures of speech' were used from the beginning (the Garden of Eden) to keep secret the things of the SPIRIT (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Colossians 1:26).
“It is the gloty of God to conceal a thing.- but the honour of kings is to search out a matter” (Proverbs 25:2).

Moses was a prophet of God (Deuteronomy 34: 10).  God made known his ways to Moses (Psalm 103:7).  God spoke unto Moses “mouth to mouth and face to face” and “not by dream or vision” (Exodus 33:11; Numbers 12:7-8).  Thus, Moses' writings were dictated by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21).  For God, who spoke through his Son, also spoke through his prophets (Hebrews 1: 1-2).
We have heard it said by some that the Bible does not give all the answers, that certain scriptures are vague and lacking in detail, particularly the opening chapters of Genesis.  Yet, it is written: “Man shall live by EVERY word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3).  Man shall not change or modify God's word (Deuteronomy 4:2, 12:32; Revelation 22:18-19).  For, “all scripture is given by the inspiration of God ... that the man of God might be COMPLETE, thoroughly fumished unto ALL good works” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
These testimonies prove that for all Intents and purposes the scriptures meet the FULL requirements of the “children of God.”  Hence, any vagueness or misunderstanding of the scriptures is primarily due to taking “figures of speech” as literal or vice versa.   Signs, types and symbols were used in dark sayings to keep secret from the worldly wise the things of the Spirit (Matthew 1 1:25).  To know and understand these things is to be “taught of God” (John 6:45).  For he revealeth them unto us by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2: 10).  His word is spirit (John 6:63).

Jesus said:  “… be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves”
(Matthew 10: 16).  Here are two symbols used in a figure of speech:
they are SERPENT and DOVE.
THE DOVE is a symbol of peace because of its gentle, peaceful and harmless nature.  Jesus used it in this proverb to signify the characteristics desired in his followers (see Isaiah 66:2; Psalm 34:18) who humbleth themselves before their God (Matthew 18:4; James 4: 10).  God used the dove to signify the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16; John 1:32) thus anointing Jesus of Nazareth as the “Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6) with power (Acts 10:38).

THE SEPPENT, in whose mouth is the poison of death, signifies a sinful person according to God's definition given in Psalm 140:1-3; Romans 3:12-13 and Matthew 12:34.  The name serpent was attributed to those men whom Jesus and John the Baptist had encountered (Matthew 3:7, 23:34; Luke 3:7).  Hence, when the word serpent is used to indicate an intelligent, reasoning creature having guiie (deceit) in his mouth, it signifies a man exhibiting such characteristics.

Is it reasonable to presume that the God of love and mercy, whose thoughts are as high above the thoughts of man as the heavens are above the earth, would utilize a brute beast for frustrating his purpose right at the beginning.?  If so, then why did it repent him for creating man (Genesis 6:6)?  The answer is in verse 5 and chapter 8:21: “For the imagination of man's heart was evil from his youth.”   The thoughts originating in the man's heart and issuing out of his mouth (Matthew I5:18-20) proved to be the venom of death.  Therefore, the Lord signified his (the man's) words as those of a serpent.
The Spirit, speaking through Jesus, is the same Spirit that spoke through Moses (Hebrews 1:1).  Therefore, the same type of dark sayings would have been used in the beginning(Psalm 78:2; Matthew l3:35).  For “God changes not”
(Malachi 3:6; James 1: 17; Psalm 102:27).

With these few thoughts In mind, let us examine the opening chapters of Genesis, giving particular attention to Chapter 3:

CHAPTER 1 - Reveals God's activity in creating the heavens, the earth and the living creatures of the earth.
CHAPTER 2 - Reveals God's activity In creating the man and the woman and establishing them in the Garden of Eden, to dress and keep it.
Adam (the son of God - Luke 3:38) was also a figure of the Christ to come (Romans 5: 1 4).
Eve (the mother of all living - Genesis 3:20) became his bride.  She was out of Adam and thereby is a figure of the ecciesia to be developed “out of” Christ.  The ecciesia will become the bride of Christ.
CHAPTER3 - Reveals MAN's activity with the results.  It is the prologue to the saga of mankind CHAPTER upon the earth: his heart was evil from the beginning.  This narrative was written approximately 2300 years after the fact, so we can be sure it was written in the words of the Spirit and not after the flesh.

Since the word serpent signifies a MAN of PERVERSE speech, we will paraphrase the verses as we proceed with our investigation:

Genesis, chapter 3:

Verse 1 - “Now the serpent [the man] was more subtle than any beast [living creature, RSV].”  This is the first place in the scriptures where the word SERPENT appears.  To those who believe In a personal devil, the word serpent immediately suggests an animal, so it Is NATURALLY taken literally.  Understood SPIRITUALLY, it is a figure of speech.
Verse 2 - The woman said to the serpent [the man], “We [you and I] may eat...”
Verse 4 - “and the serpent [the man] said...”
Verse 5 - “then your eyes shall be opened.”  Literally, her eyes were already open.  Here is a figure of speech of the type that is used throughout the word of God and denotes the dictation of the narrative by the Spirit to Moses.  It is not the language of a brute beast.
Verse 6 - “… she [the woman] took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and GAVE to her husband with her and he did eat.“
Verse 7 - “And the eyes of them BOTH [simultaneously] were opened [spiritually opened].”  Literally, their eyes were open before, or else they could not have seen that the fruit was pleasant to look upon.
It was not necessary for the Lord (Elohim) to ask any questions, as the Lord knows the thoughts of the heart (Hebrews 4:12-1 3).  Here is disclosed God's principle in judgment.  It is a foreshadowing of the day appointed for judgment (Acts 17:31).  ]esus said: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matthew 12:37).  Adam and Eve were given the privilege to answer for themselves individually (Romans 14:12).
Verse 12 - “And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be wth me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat.”  Here is no indication that Eve seduced Adam into eating.  In fact, Adam is partially blaming the Lord for the woman's presence.
At the same time he was trying to place the responsibility upon Eve for his disobedience.  Yet, there is not one accusation against Eve throughout the scriptures, except to state that she, being deceived, was in the transgression
(1 Timothy 2:13-1 5).  The Spirit places the blame SOLELY ON ADAM
(Romans 5: 12, 17, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
Verse 13 - And she [Eve] said: “The serpent [the man] beguiled me and I did eat.” (She and Adam ate together.)
Verse 14 - “And the Lord God said unto the serpent [the man], because thou hast done this, thou are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast [living creature, RSV] of the field:upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy Iife.” This figure of speech signifies the penalty: death, return to dust of ungodly disobedient man.


The curse above all cattle and living creatures is outlined in verses 17-19.
God provides for the living creatures of the field (Psalm 104:21-23; 147:9; Matthew 6:26) while man must labor in “the sweat of his face” in order to eat (Psalm 128:2; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Timothy 5:8). “Upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shall thou eat” is a proverb signifying the status and penalty of the wicked.  “Upon thy belly” is to be geared to the earth, their destiny downward, their penalty death(dust). For the wicked shall “lick the DUST Iike a serpent” (Micah7:17).
The Spirit uses a similar proverb in Psalm 44:25 - “For our soul is bowed down to the dust. our belly cleaveth unto the earth.”  And Isaiah, prophesying of God's kingdom when his judgments are in the earth, states: “Dust shall be the serpent's meat”
(Isaiah 65:17-25).  This figure of speech denotes the death penalty of the wicked (the serpent).  For: “The soul that sinneth it shall die” (Ezekiel 13:4, 20).
Verse I5 - “And I will put enmity between thee [the serpent, the sinful man] and the woman [the bride of Christ], and between thy seed [the men encountered by John the Baptist and Christ Jesus (Matthew 3:7, 12:34; Luke 3:7)] and her seed [the righteous], it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.” to put to death the devil, Christ was crucified to put to death the devil, the serpent:  sin of the flesh.
Cain, who was banished from the presence of the Lord, (Genesis 4:16), and his descendants (the seed of the serpent: sinful man) fall into this category (1 John 3:8-12). Jude (verses I0-11) discloses who belongs to the “way of Cain.”  The woman (the bride of Christ, the anointed) and her seed are the descendants of Seth, the sons of God by faith (Genesis 6:2).  Adam became one of these through repentance and faith (Luke 3:38).  A son of God Is one “that doeth the will of my heavenly father” (Mark 3:35).
Verse 16 - Here we learn the penalty imposed upon Eve for her part In the transgression (1 Timothy 2:13-15).
Verse 17 - “And unto Adam he [the Lord] said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife....”  This is a figure of speech meaning: because thou accepted the fruit from thy wife and ate with her.  Eve did not coerce Adam to accept the fruit.  The Elohim knew this and recognized Adam's attempt to shift the blame to Eve, whereupon the Lord reprimanded Adam with this figure of speech, then added to the death penalty the curses stated in verses 17-19.
Verse 21 - Shows the covering provided for Adam and Eve, which signifies the acceptance of Adam and Eve through repentance and faith.  The flg leaf covering (V. 7) was after the imagination of the flesh and was evil.
Verse 22 - Reveals that Adam had had access to the tree of life.
Verse 23-24 - Discloses that Adam, because of his disobedience, was banished from the Garden of Eden and barred from the tree of life.  However, we believe that they were taught of God through the covering provided for their nakedness (sin - V. 21) and they in turn instructed Seth and his descendants.  These, through faith, called upon the name of the Lord, thereby becoming the sons of God (Genesis 4:26 with 6:1-2).  The daughters of men were the descendants of Cain (Genesis 4:16-24).

Chapter 3 is expressed by the Spirit in figures of speech (dark sayings) thus concealing the truth hid in a mystery (1Corinthians 2:7; Colossians 1:26).  It discloses the character and natural inclination of man with the results of his behavior.  The enmity between the serpent and the woman and between their seed is the enmity existing between the natural man and the spiritual man (Romans 8:5-8) and between the world and God (James 4:4; 1 Corinthians 2:14).

Personification

FIGURES OF SPEECH: PARABLES, DARK SAYINGS, PROVERBS

“FIGURES OF SPEECH: PARABLES, DARK SAYINGS, PROVERBS”
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A figure of speech relates to the FORM in which the words are used.  It is a designed and legitimate departure from the laws of languages. This particular form or unusual manner may, or may not, be true to the LITERAL meaning of the words, but It is true to their REAL sense, and truer to truth.
In a figure of speech a word may be transferred from an object, to which it property belongs, to another, in such a manner that a comparison is implied though not formally expressed, or a sentence in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in properties and/or characteristics.  The principle subject is then kept secret.  See:
Psalm 78:2 - “I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old.”
Matthew 13:34-35 - “All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and a parable spake he not unto them.
35.  “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things which have been kept SECRET from the foundation of the world.”

Parables (secrets) have been used since the Garden of Eden: things of the spirit.
Romans 16:2 5 - “Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the MYSTERY, which was KEPT SECRET since the world began.”
I Corinthians 2:7 - “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the HIDDEN WISDOM, which God ordained before the world.”
Colossians 1:26-27 - “Even the MYSTERY which has been HID from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints.
27.  “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this MYSTERY among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ”
By spirit these mysteries are revealed to his followers.
Proverbs 25:2 - “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”
Nothing is hidden from those who seek.
Deuteronomy 34:10 - “And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew FACE TO FACE.”
Psalm 103:7 – “He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.”
Moses knew God's secrets:
Exodus 33:11 - “And the LORD spake unto Moses FACE TO FACE as a man speaketh unto his friend” (dictated by the Holy Spirit Angel).
Numbers 12:6-8 - “And he said, Hear now my words.  If there be a prophet among YOU, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
7.  “My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8.  “With him will I speak MOUTH TO MOUTH, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
2 Peter 1:20-21 – “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21. “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
Hebrews 1: 1-2 - “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2. “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.”
Matthew 4:4 - “But he [Jesus] answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”  Quoting Deuteronomy 8:3, Jesus knew God's words help.  If God's truth is vague, why does it say “every”?) Every word can be understood if shown to us by God's spirit (not man's idea).
Deuteronomy 4:2 - “Ye shall not ADD unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”
Deuteronomy 12:32 - “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not ADD thereto, nor DIMINISH from it.”
Revelation 22:18-19 - “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
19.  If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of things which are written in this book.”
Surely the Bible contains ALL the answers.
2 Timothy 3:16 - “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”

All scriptures are perfect - complete.
These testimonies prove that for all intents and purposes the scriptures meet the full requirements of the “children of God.”  Hence any vagueness or misunderstanding of the scriptures is primarily due to taking “figures of speech” as literal or vice versa.
Signs, types and symbols were used in dark sayings to keep secret (from the worldly wise) things of spirit.
Matthew 1 1:25 – “I thank thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.”
John 6:45 - “It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all TAUGHT OF GOD, Every man that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me [Jesus Christ].”
1 Corinthians 2: 10 - “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.”
John 6:63 - “The WORDS that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT and they are LIFE.'
2 Timothy 3:17 - “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

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Two symbols used in a figure of speech:   (1) DOVE;   (2) SERPENT:
“Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. be ye therefore wise as SERPENTS and harmless as DOVES” (Matthew 10: 16).

1.   DOVE:        Symbol of peace, because of its gentle, peaceful and harmless nature.  Jesus used it in this proverb to signify the characteristics desired in his followers (Isaiah 66:2; Psalm 34:18) who humble themselves before YAHWEH (Matthew 18:4; James 4:10).  God used the dove to signify the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16; John 1:32) thus anointing Jesus the 'Prince of Peace' (Isaiah 4:6) with Power' (Acts 10:38).

2.   SERPENT:   The serpent In whose mouth Is the poison of death, signifies a sinful person according to God's definition (given in Psalm 140:1-3; Romans 3:12-13; Matthew 12:34).
 The name “serpent” was attributed to those MEN who Jesus and John the Baptist had encountered (Matthew 3:7; 12:34; Luke 3:7).  Hence when the word serpent is used to indicate an intelligent  reasoning creature having guile (deceit) in his mouth, It SIGNIFIES a man exhibiting such characteristics.

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Genesis 6:6 - “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

QUESTION:    Is It reasonable to presume that the God of love and mercy, whose thoughts are as high above the thoughts of man as the heavens are over the earth, would utilize a brute beast for frustrating his purpose right at the beginning?  IF SO, then why did it repent him for creating man? (V. 6).

ANSWER:      Genesis 6: 5 - “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only EVIL continually.”  EVIL: source of origin: man's heart (mind, imagination).

Matthew 15: 18-20 “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20. “These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.” Thoughts originating in the man's heart (V. 19) and issuing out of his mouth (V. 18) proved to be the venom of death.
Therefore, the Lord signifies his (the man's) words as those of a serpent. The spirit speaking through Jesus is the same spirit who spoke through Moses (Hebrews 1: 1). Therefore, the same type of dark sayings would be used in the beginning.  For “God changes not” (Malachi 3:6; James 1: 17; Psalm 102:27).  If God never changes, it would appear that his spirit would never change.


GENESIS:   CHAPTERS   1   THROUGH   3.

CHAPTER 1 - Reveals GOD'S activity in creating the heavens, the earth, and the living creatures of the earth.

CHAPTER 2 - Reveals GOD'S activity in creating the man and the woman and establishing them In the Garden of Eden, to dress and keep it.
ADAM, the son of God (Luke 3:38), was also a figure of the Christ to come (Romans 5: 1 4).
EVE, the mother of all living (Genesis 3:20), became his bride.  She was out of Adam and thereby a figure of the church to be developed “out of Christ.  The Church will become the Bride of Christ.

CHAPTER 3 - Reveals MAN'S activity with the results.  It is the prologue to the saga of mankind upon the earth: his heart was evil from the beginning.  This narrative was written approximately 2500 years later, so we can be sure it was written in the words of the spirit and not after the flesh.

Since the word “serpent” SIGNIFIES a MAN of PERVERSE SPEECH, WE WILL PARAPHRASE THE VERSES IN CHAPTER THREE:

1. “Now the serpent [man] was more subtle than any beast [living creature, RSV] of the field which the LORD God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

     This Is the first place in the scriptures where the word “serpent” appears.  To those who believe in a personal devil, the word “serpent” immediately suggests an animal, so it Is NATURALLY taken LITERALLY. Understood SPIRITUALLY it is a FIGURE OF SPEECH.

2. “And the woman said unto the serpent [man], We [you and 1] may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3. “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, test ye die.
4. “And the serpent [the man] said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.-
5. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened”

   Literally her eyes were already opened.  Here is a “spirit” of speech used all through the Bible.  The Holy Spirit revealed these words to Moses; it is NOT the language of a brute beast.
“... and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6. “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that k was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and GAVE ALSO UNTO HER HUSBAND WITH HER,- AND HE DID EAT.”
7.  “And the eyes of them both [simultaneously] were opened [spiritually]”... Literally, their eyes were opened before, or else they could not have seen that the fruit was pleasant to look upon.

       “... and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
 8. “And they HEARD the VOICE of the LORD God waiting in the garden in the cool of the day - and Adam and his wife hid thenuelves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
 9. “And the LORD God called unto Adam and said unto him Where art thou?
10. “And he said I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
11. “And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?  Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”

Hebrews 4:12-1 3 says concerning this: “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discemer of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.“

    God did not need to ask Adam and Eve questions - as is God's principal on Judgement Day (Acts 17:31; Matthew 12:37 - “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”)  God will ask US on judgment day, just as He did Adam and Eve.
   Romans 14:12 - “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
12. “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”

This gives no indication that Eve deceived Adam or seduced him into eating.  In fact, Adam is partially blaming God for the woman's presence.  At the same time he was trying to place the responsibility on Eve for HIS disobedience.  Yet there is NOT ONE accusation against Eve throughout the scriptures, except to state that she, being deceived, was in the transgression (1 Timothy 2:13-15 “For Adam was First formed, then Eve.  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.  Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”)

The Spirit (Bible) places the blame SOLELY on Adam - “Adam was not deceived.”  See Romans 5: 12-14, 17, 19:  12.  “Wherefore, as BY ONE MAN sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:  13. “[For until the law, sin was in the world.- but sin is not imputed when there is no law.  14.  “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transition, who is the figure of him that was to come ...  17. “For if by one MAN's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.]  19. “For as by ONE MAN’s DISOBEDIENCE many were made sinners.”

So, by Adam (man) - not Eve - sin (V. 12) entered the world by man's offense (V. 17), man's disobedience (V. 19).
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 - “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
One MAN (Adam); not WOMAN (or Eve).

13.  “And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?  And the woman said, The serpent [man] beguiled me, and I did eat.”
         She and Adam ate TOGETHER (V. 6).
14.  “And the LORD God said unto the serpent [man], Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast [living creature] upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”
Penalty (figure of speech) signifies:  death, return to dust of ungodly, disobedient man.
15.  “And I will put enmity between thee [serpent, the sinful man] and the woman [the bride of Christ] and between thy seed [the men encountered by John the Baptist and Christ Jesus, Matthew 3:7; 12:34; Luke 3:7] and her seed [the righteous] it shalt bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

          Christ was crucified to put to death the devil, the serpent: sin in the flesh.
          Cain of Genesis 4:16 and his descendants (seed of the serpent: sinful man) banished from the presence of God: these fall in the category of “serpent's seed' (as in 1 John 3:8-12 - “He that committeth sin is of the devil. for the devil sinneth from the beginning.  For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.  In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.  And wherefore slew he him?  Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.”
         And Jude 10-11 - “But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsay of Core.”
         The woman (Bride of Christ) and her seed are the descendants of Seth, the Sons of God by Faith (Genesis 6:2).  Adam became one of these through repentance and faith. (Luke 3:38 - “... which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.”)  A Son of God is one who does God's will (Mark 3:35 - “For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”)
16. “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”  The woman's penalty for her part in the transgression (1 Timothy 2:13-15 - “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”).

(GENESIS 3 : 17 - 19:    CURSE   OUTLINED:)
Psalm 104:21 -23 – “The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.  Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.” God provides for the living creatures of the field (also see Psalm 147:9; Matthew 6:26).  God feeds BEASTS (creatures) while man must labour to eat.

Psalm 128:2 says, “For thou shalt eat the LABOUR of thine hands.- happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.”
     2 Thessalonians 3: 10 - “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”

     Man must labour to eat:  Even Christians - 1 Timothy 5: 8 – “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
     Serpent's curse continued in man's curse: “upon thy belly” is: to be geared to the earth: their (evil people) destiny downward into the dust (death).  Wicked shall “lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms  of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee” (Micah 7:17).

17. “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: CURSED IS THE GROUND for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”

(Figure of speech meaning because you accepted the fruit from your wife and ate with her.  Eve did not seduce Adam into accepting the fruit.  God (Elohim) knew this and recognized Adam's attempt to shift the blame to Eve, God reprimanded Adam.  This figure of speech then ADDED to the death penalty - FOR THE LIE - the curses in verses 17-19.)

18. “Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20. “And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
           Compare the covering provided by God (acceptable and showing faith and repentance) and the flg leaf (V. 7) which was after the imagination of flesh and was evil.
22.  “And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.- and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.”  Adam had access to the Tree of Life.
23. “Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24. “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
   
 Verses 23 and 24 disclose that Adam, because of disobedience, was banished from the tree of life, but they were taught of God through the covering provided for their nakedness (V. 21 ) and THEY taught Seth and his descendants.  These were the sons of God.
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COMPARE GENESIS 4:2 AND 6:1-2:

Genesis 4:2 - “And she again bare his brother Abel.  And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground “
Genesis 6:1-2 - “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were bom unto them,Tthat the sons of God saw the daughters of MEN that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

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Chapter Three is expressed by the Spirit (Bible) in Figures of Speech (dark sayings), thus concealing the Truth In a mystery as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 2:7-16:
7.  “But we speak the WISDOM of GOD in a MYSTERY, even the HIDDEN wisdom, which God ordained BEFORE THE WORLD unto our glory.
8.  “Which none of the princes of this world knew.- for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9.  “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10. “But GOD hath REVEALED them to us BY HIS SPIRIT for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God
11. “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the THINGS OF GOD KNOWETH NO MAN, but the Spirit of God.
12. “Now we have receieved, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13. “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; COMPARING SPIRITUAL THINGS WITH SPIRITUAL.
14. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. for they are foolishness unto him. neither can he know them, because they are spiritually DISCERNED [examined].
15. “But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?  But we have the mind of Christ.”

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