This week we've been thinking a little about the description of the fall in Genesis

Chapter 3.

It's surely one of the most important chapters in the Bible and it's foundational to everything that follows.

But here's a question.

Why did Satan do this?

Why did he entrap Adam and Eve?

Earlier in the week I suggested the reason he enticed Eve first

was because she was the very best gift the Lord had given to Adam.

It was a really hateful way of dragging Adam from his love and loyalty to God.

But what the serpent was doing as an instrument of Satan didn't stop at Adam, or for

that matter, Adam and Eve's family.

Why this destructive hatred for them,, therefore, for the whole human race?

Well, it wasn't just about them, or about us, was it?

No, ultimately Satan's hatred was hatred directed against God.

The Apostle Paul speaks about a mystery in connection with Satan's work, the mystery of iniquity.

And it's true we have questions about Satan that Scripture doesn't directly answer.

But there are some important things that we do know.

First, we know that He was created by God, because He's the creator of all things in the

heavens and also in the earth.

God created a heavenly family of creatures, angels, archangels, cherubim and seraphim, as well as an earthly family of human beings.

Actually, the angels are sometimes referred to as God's sons, his family.

And clearly they're wonderful, glorious, varied creatures, with a nature and powers that seem to be different from ours.

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