The Moment Satan took over Adam’s Soul

Darkness

“And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did est, and gave also unto her husband with her; and did eat.”

Genesis 3:6

The moment they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their were opened, and they knew that they were naked.  At that moment, Satan came into their souls and took over!

Satan came into Judas’ heart.

“And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him.”

John 13:2 (KJV)

In the same chapter, a few verses down, John 13:26, Jesus knew who was going to betray him. Jesus had been praying for Judas. He knew Judas was stealing money out of the ministry’s fund. Once Judas reached a certain point, Jesus released him.

How do we know this? Jesus’ disciples wanted to know who was going to betray him.

“Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”

When did Satan enter Judas? When Judas started stealing. Judas was offered 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus. But what Judas didn’t know was that he was going to be used by Satan to kill Jesus. Once Judas realized the error of his betray, he was filled with regret and committed suicide.

Judas gave the money back. He confessed to his wrong. They told him to deal with his guilt. Judas threw the thirty pieces of silver back at the council. The council recognized that the 30 pieces of silver were blood money. They refused to put it back into the general fund. They took the blood money and bought a cemetery to bury strangers.

Ananias and Sapphira

Satan came into Ananias and Sapphira souls to convince them to secretly keep back part of the price they got from selling land. The amount of their offering was always based on free choice, but secretly, they hatched a plan to make like they were giving the whole price of the land to the work of God. The apostle Peter said

“…Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” Acts 5:3-4

Satan evidently had a place in their minds and hearts because they discussed this among themselves and agreed to it. Satan was able to use them to hinder a move of God.

In two previous examples, Satan gained access to people who listened to him. He gets into people’s minds, and from there sow seeds into their hearts.

Eve knew the truth about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because she quoted to the serpent. The serpent lied to her. Once the serpent got into her head, it was a matter of time before acting on his lie.

Eve saw the tree that it was good for food. It was pleasant to the eyes, and good to make one wise, and she took it and ate it.

The lie was first spoken to her mind and conceived in her heart. She acted on what began as another vision, a new reality, and they opened the realm of the knowledge of good and evil.

Adam and Eve lost everything. Their son Cain murdered his brother Abel. Their descendants all died at the great flood of Noah’s day. Their one act of disobedience opened a flood gate of darkness that reverberate down to the generations of our time.

The process

The process is always the same. According to Genesis 6:5-6

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

The moment Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the sacrifice, their eyes were opened, and they knew they were naked.

They ran from God and hid in the garden among the trees. When God called for Adam, Adam said, “I was afraid because I am naked” 😨 😱

Fear was the first sign that Satan had gained control of Adam’ soul. He was full of fear.

Adam blamed God and his wife for his failure. Adam said, “The woman you gave me, she gave me the fruit, and I did eat.”

Facts about darkness

Darkness creeps, invades, and slowly takes over. Satan wants you to take your eyes off of God. He tries to fill us with his agenda, plans, and vision. Remember, God’s vision is singular, and everything else is di-vision.

The weapons of our warfare

You might know someone dealing with dark issues. According to the apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. He said, casting down imaginations and every high thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ!

Keep going back to the original vision of Genesis 1:26-27. Refocus, renew, get back up, repent. God never has to change his plans. His ways are perfect!

The Prince of the Power of the Air

The Prince of the Power of the Air

In my last post, I talked about how the atmosphere changed after Adam sinned in the garden. The atmosphere changed again in the days of Noah after the flood. Every thought of the imagination of the heart and mind was only to do wickedness (Genesis 6:5-8)

In the days of Adam and Eve, their atmosphere was radically changed from being radiated with the light of God’s glory to one of darkness, where Satan was the ruler.

“In the process of time”, Satan started started and with Cain managed to murder his brother Abel; and a generation of evil was birthed that impacted every part of society to point that “every thought and imagination the heart and mind was evil continually”

Ephesians 2:1-5 (KJV)

“AND YOU hath he qickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

The prince of the power of the air is another title describing Satan’s influence over regions, territories, and nations.

He is the ruler who influences culture. He blankets entire cities and nations with darkness. He works through people to spread the virus called darkness. Darkness has a life of its own.

The apostle Paul wrote the New Testament book of Ephesians out his experiences ministering to the city of Ephesus in Acts 19.

Ephesus was a city wholly given to the worship of the goddess Diana. They had craftsmen who made shrines for the worship of Diana. They had a thriving book business that taught people how to practice the curious arts.

Once the apostle Paul went to Ephesus to preach the gospel, a revival broke out, and many people were delivered out of darkness.

In Isaiah 25:7, it is prophesied about the day when God will destroy the covering cast over nations.

“And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.” Isaiah 25:7 (KJV)

There is presently a cloud of darkness covering covering nations and blinding people to the truth. This spirit of darkness works its way into people’s hearts and minds.

Let back to the beginning; Adam’s transformation from light to darkness

Adam’s environment was full of the abundant blessings of God. They walked in the light of God’s glory. The light of God’s glory flowed to the inside of Adam and Eve to outside, blessing everything within their environment. The radiate glory of God flowed out them, clothing them in glorious light.

All of their physical senses (eyes, ears, smell, feeling, and taste) received the fullness of God. Their faces reflected the glory of God. They knew one another by their voices. The glory radiated out of them.

After Adam’s trespassed the boundaries of their dominion by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their eyes were opened to their environment. They knew that they were naked. They hid themselves. Their faith was turned from confidence to fear!

God said to them,’Who told you that you were naked?’

Death began working in them and in their atmosphere. Satan is working in their environment, getting into their hearts and mind, and twisted them into streams of darkness.

But we have been restored to a blessed relationship with God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (KJV)

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9

My personal experience

Back in 2001, I remember having a dream about this dark cloud that covered this community. All the people in this region were dark covered people. Dark colored people in the sense that the darkness of the atmosphere and the culture turned people into dark colored figures. In this dream, I saw a man who was dressed in priestly garments of light, called this person out of darkness, and began ministering to him.

I was the dark colored person I saw in the dream. I was dealing with a lack of resources. Things were hard and difficult. The economic situations of those days had gotten into my heart and mind just as they did with the rest of the people.

You can be saved and suffer from a lack of knowledge. I was saved but had a highly developed lifestyle of living in credit debt. But once I found out God’s will that he was my source and that he would deliver me from debt of all kinds, I sought his will with a passion. God delivered me from debt. I am debt free!

Satan has always used a lack of resources to force people into debt or into compromising situations as a means of controlling them. He sows seed of hopelessness and despair to force people into his service.

But God called us out of darkness into his marvelous light! God provides seed! God has always provided seed, but we didn’t know what to do with it or how to sow it.

Go back to Genesis chapters 1-3. God’s original vision. He illustrated what means to be like God, created in the image of God. When God wanted something, he called for it! He spoke words!

Grace & peace!

Di-vision

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The Original Vision

God gave man a singular vision in Genesis chapters 1-2. Man was created in the image of God, to be like God. They were to exercise dominion over the earth. They were to be fruitful, to multiply, replenish, subdue it, and exercise dominion over fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over very creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Definition of Vision

“The faculty or state of being able to see. The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom.” (Source: Google definitions)

Di-vison

The root definition of the word “di”, according to Google, is of Greek origin meaning two, double, twice, twofold. We get the following words: divert, divest, digress, directive, disposal, divergent, diversion, dilate, and dilute. (Source: Google definitions)

Adam and Eve were created in the image of God, to be like God. But in Genesis 3:1-5, we see a second vision being cast,

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said, unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 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, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:1-5 (KJV)

The serpent cast a vision. His vision says, its alright to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for then your eyes will opened and you will be as gods knowing good and evil.

Once they ate the fruit of the sacrifice, their eyes were opened and they knew that they were naked. They ran and hid themselves among the trees of the garden.

“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together; and made aprons”

The man and his wife didn’t even know that they had physical bodies. They associated with one another by voice. They had the same name. He called their name Adam. Genesis 5:2, “Male and Female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” Adam gave his wife the name of Eve after the fall, Genesis 3:20.

They identified God by his voice. They walked in the glory of God. Their original clothing was the glory of God. The glory of God radiated from the inside out. They looked upon the face of God and the glory of God was reflected in their face. It was never God’s will for Adam, Eve or their family to be judges of good or evil.

When God showed up on the appointed day, at the appointed place; God calls out to Adam, “Adam where are you?” Adam responded,

“And said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

God said, “… Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”

The reality of the serpent’s vision

The reality of the serpents vision began to manifest early, when one of Adam and Eve’s sons murdered his brother. Cain murdered his brother Abel over the offering of the sacrifice. The serpent vision began to pick up speed until God said,

“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. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Genesis 6:5-6

The key words, “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” Where is their focus? It’s on themselves and their environment. The image that filled their hearts and minds was only evil all the time. They acted upon those twisted impulses.

What did Satan gained by enticing Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit?

He gained third-party benefits. He gained seed, the right to plant and reap a harvest. God said, “I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed”, Genesis 3:15

The serpent was given a place, authority and dominion over Adam’s descendants. Adam’s sin corrupted things in heaven and on earth. Once God made a sacrifice for their sin, he had to drive them out of the garden of Eden and he placed Cherbims in their place. God also placed a flaming sword in the entrance of the garden of Eden to protect the tree of life.

When Jesus showed up, Satan immediately recognized Jesus as the promised seed of the woman prophesy in Genesis 3:15, to be the son of God. The angels broadcast the good news of his birth.

Luke 4:5-6

“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”

There is no division within the kingdom of darkness among those within his spiritual kingdom. But there is division among human beings within his physical kingdom on earth. He hates with pure hatred human beings. How do we know this?

Jesus was casting out devil which caused a person to be dumb. When the devil was gone out of the person, they could speak. There were people who said Jesus cast out devil by Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. Jesus said,

“… Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.”

There is no di-vision in Satan’s kingdom. Satan’s vision is to subvert God’s image in you so that you act contrary to original mandate. This is why people will pour all their energy into planting, harvesting and selling opiates. They will manufacture submarines to transport drugs into countries world-wide.

The real issue is not poverty, or lack of opportunity, the image God has been marred. God has given us all seed for the vision. There is absolutely totally no excuse for lack. People keep feeding on the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Seed is for the vision. Seed is for provision or it is pro-vision. The pre-fix “pro”, simply means “for”. Seed was designed as a blueprint to transmit “life.”

“And God said, BEHOLD, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.” Genesis 1:29-30 (KJV)

Seed is not limited to food, in Genesis 3:15, God gave the woman a seed that would bruise the head of the serpent.

Grace & peace!

The Prince of this world cometh

People say there is no God. But the Bible tells us that there is a god among us, and we can see the evidence of his works everywhere and all in all places.

Jesus said, ‘The prince of this world cometh and he has nothing in me. In other words, there was nothing in Jesus that Satan could use against him.’ John 14:30

Satan has a well organized system with willing participants, passionate followers, and martyrs.

Luke 11:14-26

Jesus explains the system of darkness, this way:  He said, “If Satan be divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand.”

There is “no division” within Satan’s government.

Di-vision is of satanic origin, and he uses it on humans to advance his agenda, See Genesis 3:1-5; Ezekiel 27:15-19; John 8:44 & Revelation 12:4

The apostle Paul identifies Satan as the god of this world in 2 Corinthians 4:4, as the one who blinds the minds; in other words, Satan perverts our concept of God.

The apostle John said,

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. The great dragon was cast out, that 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.” Revelation 12:7-9

There was no place found for Satan in heaven

Adam’s sin affected things in heaven and on earth. Once the sacrifice was restored and put in place, God could legally kick Satan out of heaven down to the earth.

This is extremely important and not be played with:

God gave us weapons of warfare. The apostle Paul said, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Revelation 12:10-11

“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

Those who overcome Satan will value the Blood of Jesus above their own lives!

You must have confidence in the power of the blood of Jesus! This confidence only comes out of a life devoted to applying the Blood of Jesus against the onslaught of Satan and his demons.

You have confidence in the power of the blood because you applied it in battle and have won the victory!

Satan is coming with great anger

“… Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Revelation 12:12b

Satan is defeated

The Seed of the Woman, first prophesy by God in Genesis 3:15, to crush the head of the Serpent is fulfilled in Revelation chapter 12. Satan is soundly defeated, kicked out of heaven. Jesus is seated on the throne as man’s representative.

Notice Revelation 12:13 Satan tries to destroy the woman who gave birth to the man child. Satan failed in his attacks. But according to Revelation 12:17, the dragon went to make war against the remnant  seed of the woman, against those who kept the commands of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Satan doesn’t want anything to do with the blood of Jesus! He knows it is the blood of the covenant promises of God that was shed for our sins.

Satan knows that God values the Blood of the Lamb! He knows what is behind the Blood of Jesus!

So get in the habit of pleading the blood of Jesus’ day in and day out. Plead the blood of Jesus over everything involving you and your family.

The Backing of Jesus

The throne of God is behind Jesus; God hath highly exalt Jesus and given him a name above every name that at the sound of the name of Jesus every knee shall bow of things in heaven on earth and under the earth and that every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of God the father, Philippians 2:9-11

Jesus is seated on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 3:21

Jesus’ conquest

Revelation 5:1-14 declares,

“And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? AND NO MAN in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”

Jesus proved his worthiness through conquest. Jesus defeated every attack of the enemy and secured our salvation!

Creation acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus

According to Revelation 5:11-13, all creation acknowledges that Jesus is worthy to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!

100 million plus angels proclaim his worthiness,

“And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb  for ever and ever.”

Once the final harvest comes in and God’s judgments are concluded on earth; God is going to send one angel to wrap Satan up and throw him into a bottomless pit (Revelation 20:1)

Plead the Blood of Jesus!

Grace & peace!