Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is Keep the Serpent Out.

And it's taken.

The post is taken from the book Intercessory Prayer, published by Bethany House.

It is not verbatim, but it is very close. It's all based on a chapter in this book. I think it will bless you. And it says, the Hebrew words translated watchmen

are, Natsar, Shar, and Safa. They mean to guard or protect by watching over.

In ancient times, they were also used to describe hedging around crops with thorn bushes

to keep out encroachers. The words include the concept of hiding

or concealing something. Watchmen through intercession create the Psalm 91 secret place

of protection.

Genesis 2.15 is the first time one of them is used in scripture, and it says,

the Lord God took the man, put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to keep it,

Shamar. Adam was told to guard or keep the garden.

Interesting.

From what?

It had to be the serpent.

I assert this firstly,

because it is much in keeping with the nature of God

to have warned him about the serpent, to have done

otherwise would not have been consistent with God's character. Second, neither Adam nor Eve

seemed shocked when a snake talked to them. It evidently didn't come as a total surprise.

Third, what else could there have been before the fall?

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