The Jason DeMars Podcast
The Jason DeMars Podcast
Mysteries Revealed - ETMH Section 25 - The Mystery in the Garden
Could the original sin be more than just eating forbidden fruit? What if it symbolically represents a controversial and profound act that changes our understanding of Genesis entirely? In this episode of "Genesis Mystery," we challenge traditional interpretations by exploring the possibility that Eve's interaction with the serpent resulted in Cain being the serpent's seed. We dive into key scriptural passages, genealogical records, and interpretations from both Christian and Jewish traditions to uncover hidden complexities within the book of Genesis. Join us as we unveil a fresh perspective on original sin that dares to question long-held beliefs.
In "The Serpent's Curse," we delve into the punishment of the serpent in Genesis 3:14-15 with insights from the renowned Bible scholar Adam Clarke. We unravel the dual aspects of the serpent’s curse, examining its physical and symbolic ramifications. From the downfall of the serpent to its enmity with humanity, we trace this theme through biblical events, including the murder of Abel by Cain and the profound implications of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. Prepare for a thought-provoking discussion on the metaphorical interpretation of the forbidden fruit as we reveal deeper, revelatory meanings behind these ancient texts.
End Time Message Handbook, section 25, chapter 3, mysteries of Genesis. When you read the book of Genesis for the first time, there are many conundrums. It seems these are seemingly unexplained events which puzzle the heart of believers. But there are many great truths hidden in plain sight within the book of Genesis. As you review these articles, you will see the mystery of the garden, the mystery of the ark and the mysteries as they unfold.
Speaker 1:The Original Sin Was the original sin literally eating fruit from a tree. Did you ever wonder why the woman's punishment for eating a literal fruit was to have increased pain and childbirth? Why does the Bible say there will be enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman? Is it possible that the record of the original sin is a word picture? This booklet will examine the biblical evidence to reveal the truth. The Bible holds many truths, hidden to the eyes of the wise and prudent and revealed to babes For those who say they are walking in the Spirit as little children. The Scripture says is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom Matthew 13, 11. The truth on the original sin is a very simple teaching, but the truth of the original sin will cause the Bible to open up to you in a whole new way, as it did for me.
Speaker 1:Though the majority of Scripture, especially the book of Genesis, is to be taken literally and believed just as it is written, there are certain phrases in Scripture that require other passages of Scripture to reveal their hidden meanings. Finding these key phrases can help us understand the doctrine of original sin more clearly. The commonly held interpretation of the original sin is that Eve and Adam were eating actual fruit from a fruit tree called the Tree of Knowledge, but, based upon the context of Genesis and what is written throughout the Bible, the original sin was a sexual relationship between Eve and the serpent, resulting in the birth of Cain. Reading this may be a surprise to you, but let's look at some of the key phrases in scriptures, the historical teaching of Judaism and the Church and the judgments the Lord placed on man to demonstrate that they point to this interpretation of original sin. Please read to the end of this booklet to understand the full context of what is being taught the Scriptural Keys to the Truth. Think about these hidden keys that provide context for the fall.
Speaker 1:1. Genesis 3.15, the serpent is said to have a seed. Who was that seed? 2. Genesis 3.7,. Instead of covering their mouth, they covered their nakedness. Why cover their nakedness if they ate an actual fruit? They covered the part of the body that they sinned with.
Speaker 1:3. Proverbs 30.20 and Song of Solomon 4, 16 speak of the sexual relationship as eating. Genesis 4, 8, there was enmity between Cain, the serpent seed, and Abel, the woman seed. Genesis 3, 20,. Why is Eve called the mother of all living and Adam is not called the father of all living? Genesis 5, 1-3,. Why is Cain never mentioned in Adam's genealogy? Yet Genesis keeps the line of Cain distinct from that of Adam.
Speaker 1:7. Genesis 5.3. Why does Adam state that Seth and Abel are in his own image but never Cain? In his own image but never Cain? 8. Genesis 3.16. Why is part of the curse having to do with conception and labor if the sin was eating food? Could it be that pain and childbearing indicates a punishment commensurate with its crime?
Speaker 1:9. 1 John 3.12 states that Cain was of the wicked one, in the same way that genealogy would be listed In Luke 3.23-38 in the original Greek. There is no son listed. It simply says of Heli, of Methet, of Levi, etc. 10.
Speaker 1:Paul speaks of the original sin in 2 Corinthians 11, 1-3 and compares it to an engaged woman betraying her fiancé by having a relationship with another man. Matthew 13, 24-30 and 36-43 states that the tares that were sown in the field, which is the world, are the children of the wicked one. 12. John 8.31-47 when Jesus says that the Pharisees' father was the devil, why was their response? We are not born of fornication. 13. Genesis 3, 1-5 when the serpent spoke to Eve, she was not surprised because it was normal for her. The serpent was not a snake or a reptile. The name serpent signifies he is wise and deceptive. He spoke and walked upright.
Speaker 1:14. A woman can conceive from two different men on the same day. It is called heteropaternal superfecundation. 15. In Genesis 3.15, the woman's conceptions were multiplied. If she had not conceived yet by the serpent and Adam, then there would be nothing to multiply. 16.
Speaker 1:Disclaimer this doctrine is not a basis for racial discrimination. All the human race came from Noah and his wife. There is no separate genetic race directly tied to the serpent Historical doctrine. So the question that usually comes up is this Is this view of the original sin new or has it been believed in the past? Amazingly, pre-christian Jewish scholars have espoused the viewpoint of the serpent having a seed via adultery with the woman. In Wikipedia we read this In Jewish tradition, philo Perkta, rabbi Eliezer and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan asserted that Adam was not the father of Cain.
Speaker 1:Rather, eve was subject to adultery, having been seduced either by Samael, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, or the devil himself. Christian exegesis of the evil, one in 1 John 3, 10-12, have also led some commentators, like Tertullian, to agree that Cain was the son of the devil. This is the translation of the Targum of Jerusalem, which is essentially an ancient Hebrew living translation or similar to the Message translation. The Targum looks to the meaning behind the scripture instead of just looking to the literal words. The Targum looks to the meaning behind the scripture instead of just looking to the literal words. While we do not endorse this method of translation, the Targum is useful in understanding Jewish interpretation of scripture Regarding the original sin.
Speaker 1:They say and Adam knew Havah, his wife who had desired the angel, and she conceived and bare Cain, and she said I have acquired a man, the angel of the Lord. And she added to bear from her husband Adam, his twin. Even Abel, the angel they speak of is not the angel of the Lord, as in the personal presence of God himself, rather the fallen angel of the Lord, lucifer or Satan. Satan entered the form of the serpent, which was an upright animal that could speak and communicate with Adam and Eve in order to deceive and inject himself into the human race. And now, what about the early church? Outside of the inspired epistles of Paul and John that are mentioned, the early church, father Tertullian, stated in the third century having been made pregnant by the devil, she brought forth a son From Patience 5.15. What about Genesis 4.1? So let's examine one of the main objections to this teaching. In Genesis 4.1 it reads and Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain and said I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Speaker 1:In order to explain how this verse relates to the serpent seed, we need to understand Hebrew verb tenses. To do that, I will reference Learn Hebrew Words, lesson 3, verb Tenses by Jeff A Benner. Each Hebrew verb also identifies the tense of the verb. In English, a verb can have three tenses past, present or future. Examples of these would be you cut a tree past, you are cutting a tree present and you will cut a tree future. Biblical Hebrew only has two tenses perfect and imperfect, while the three verb tenses in English are related to time. Biblical Hebrew verb tenses are related to action. The perfect tense is a completed action, while the imperfect tense is an incomplete action. With this understanding, I want to examine Genesis 4.1 more closely. To do that, I want to observe what biblical commentator John Gill states.
Speaker 1:And Adam knew his wife, jarchi interprets it had known even before he sinned and was drove out of the garden, and so other Jewish writers. The act of knowing his wife had taken place in the past tense. We will examine that more closely. Let's look at a mechanical translation of the Hebrew that does not take into consideration readability in English. That does not take into consideration readability in English. And the human he had. No. At Hawa woman Him. And she will conceive and she will bring forth. At Kayan acquired. And she will say I did purchase man at Yahweh.
Speaker 1:The perfect tense in Genesis 4.1 does not directly connect Cain to the serpent but as a result of the perfect verb tense for he knew, had known it distances the act of Adam from the conception of Cain. Since the Hebrew does not have the punctuation, two thoughts are often separated by verb tenses, so this could be understood as saying Adam had known his wife, eve period. She conceived and bore a son. So the action of knowing his wife is distinct from her action of conceiving Cain, since they sinned in the garden. They indeed had known each other in the garden after the act between Eve and the serpent. To further bolster this understanding, let's review Genesis 4.17 and 25.
Speaker 1:And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son, enoch, genesis 4.17. And Adam knew his wife again and she bare a son and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew, genesis 4.25. These are two verses that have the same pattern as Genesis 4.1, but let's examine them in the Hebrew Mechanical Translation. And he will know Kyan, at woman him and she will conceive and she will bring forth at Hanak, and he will exist, building city, and he will call out title the city like title son Hanak, no human. Yet again, at woman Him and she will bring forth son and she will call out at title him, shate, given that he did set down to me, elohim, seed Other under Hevel, given that he did kill him, cain. Both words are in the imperfect tense and are therefore connecting the two actions together.
Speaker 1:Cain knowing his wife is connected directly to the conception of his son. Adam knowing his wife again is directly connected to the conception of his son as well. To repeat, in Hebrew there are no punctuation marks, so two different actions are separated by two verb tenses. Genesis 4.1 has two different verb tenses and therefore the action of Adam knowing his Eve is separated from the action of Eve conceiving Cain, though it does not directly connect that act of conceiving Cain to the serpent. The verb tenses distance the act of Adam and the conception of Cain. Adam is not connected to the conception of Cain. Adam is not connected to the conception of Cain. This bears record with the remaining context of the Bible that we have previously examined. Therefore, the objection that Genesis 4.1 is an open and shut case, disproving that Cain is the serpent seed, has been disproven. The comparison of Genesis 4.1 with Genesis 4.17 and 25 reveals that something distinct took place in Genesis 4.1. There is not a direct connection in the verb tenses to the two acts. There are two distinct actions separated by two distinct verb tenses the Woman's Punishment.
Speaker 1:If you examine the punishment that Eve received in Genesis 3.16, you will see within it the conception and birth process. To the woman he said I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you. Genesis 3.16. If the original sin was literally eating fruit from a forbidden tree, why did God punish the woman with increased pain and childbirth? Secondly, why is the desire for her husband included as a punishment, unless she sinned by desiring another? The concept in the Old Testament is that the punishment should be commensurate with its crime. Exodus 21, 22 through 25. Since Eve sinned by allowing her body to be used by the serpent to produce an offspring, god punished her with increased pain and conception and childbearing. Again, if conception had not yet taken place, why was her pain and childbearing to be increased?
Speaker 1:The serpent's punishment. The Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this, cursed, are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field. On your belly you shall go and dust shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3, 14 and 15.
Speaker 1:I will allow renowned Bible scholar Adam Clark to explain the first part of the verse. The Nachash serpent, whom I suppose to have been at the head of all the inferior animals and in a sort of society and intimacy with man, is to be greatly degraded, entirely banished from human society and deprived of the gift of speech. Cursed art thou. Above all cattle and above every beast of the field, thou shalt be considered the most contemptible of animals. Upon thy belly shalt thou go. Thou shalt no longer walk erect.
Speaker 1:The curse is twofold One upon the literal, physical serpent and two upon Satan, who used the serpent as his instrument. There was enmity placed between the woman and the serpent and then between their offspring. This of course has an immediate impact, but also a prophetic impact. Immediately, we find the offspring of the woman through Adam, her rightful husband, and the serpent, manifesting enmity with the murder of Abel by Cain. And ultimately the enmity finds its fulfillment in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The hidden keys in the biblical context, the historical Jewish interpretation, the tenses of the verbs Genesis 4.1, and the judgments leveled on the first family all point to the same conclusion that eating from the tree of knowledge was a metaphor. This is not a coincidence, but it is a revelation of what eating from the tree of knowledge actually was. The serpent, under the influence of Satan, deceived Eve into a sexual act, resulting in the conception of Cain, and later that day she had a relationship with Adam, resulting in the conception of Abel.