In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 1:1-2

God spoke, and there was light.  His Word entered creation, and light was over the vast expanse of the deep.  God approved of this light, and as He separated light from dark, there was day and night.  The first day.

God created the skies, and the lands beneath.  His Word set the boundaries for the sea, so that it might only come so far.  His Word called forth, and it came into being.

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Genesis 2:16-17

The Word came to the man that He had created.  It commanded him, and told him how he should live.  Thou may eat freely of all this, but not this.  For this, to you, is to die.

There is no other truth.  He is the Word, He is the Truth.  He is the Tree of Life.

But another word came, saying, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 2:1).  God’s Word had said nothing of the sort.  Confusion, trickery, reversal, all to throw the mind off the true, to divulge the real.  The serpent was crafty.  God had said “you may eat freely”, and the serpent asked “Ye shall not eat?”  The woman’s response was wrong from the get go.

This new source of a word knew nothing, other than to attack the very core of truth, which the woman offered.  It didn’t even know the answer to give, but rather was fishing.  Fishing for ways to snag the woman.  Finding some way to offend the woman,  and the man, before God.

The woman did not need to answer anything, but instead of that, she  offered the whole command of the Lord to the one who apparently knew nothing.  But not only that, but added to it.  And, so the other word spoke the opposite.  The True Word spoke, and created light.  The other word spoke confusion, darkness, and contradiction.  It had no light of its own.  It had no glory except that which it was given.

It contradicted the true Word, and turned the simple heart against the one that gave it life through accusation.  The eye was turned to that which was not proper, the desires for extra knowledge was engaged through the speaking of the false, fallen word (Isaiah 14:12).

And then, this new seed multiplied.  She gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it also.  What she did deceived, he did because he listened unto her voice and ate.  The same false word that the serpent spoke, and became planted within her by her own deception and disobedience entered the man.  This was not a familiar voice.  It was the voice of the serpent speaking through a person, just as it would to others, including centuries later (Matthew 16:23).

The the false word had entered, been received, and spread forth its seed.  It filled mankind, and as man was now separated from the true Word, the Tree of Life, by the flaming sword, he now had to bring a sacrifice of blood to cover over his trespasses.

The true Word had created what was good, approved, and right.   The serpent created that which was crafty, fallen, and broken.  No crossing of the two would ever be possible.  As light does not dwell with darkness, and land does not co-occupy with water, so these two plants would never co-exist.  Though, centuries later, they would prove to be in the same field at the same time, the one would always be what It was, and the other true to its own nature.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15

As the first man existed as the “first” Adam, as none had been before, Jesus came as the last Adam, with none to be as He had been ever again.  As the first Adam was created in perfection, so was the last.  There was no bent-ness in Eden before the serpent’s words came.  There was no corruption in that Adam before he partook of that fruit with his wife.  That original compromise, that entry into the first, brought such a profound change upon him, that he could never be the same.  It would take the blood of the last, which speaks a better Word, to reverse the curse, and turn back the clock on the enemies work.

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; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 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.

Genesis 3:17-19

For Jesus was the original Word.  He was in the beginning, and He was with God, and He was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life, and that life was the life of men (John 1:1-3).  The life that the first Adam had lost, the very Tree of Life, came now in the flesh, dwelt as in a tent among men (meaning His body), and spoke again the words that bring life, eternal life (John 6:68).

The flesh wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit wars against the flesh.  They are at enmity, one with another, so that you cannot do what you want (Galatians 5:17).  The carnal man cannot even comprehend the spiritual, for it is spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).  For, as Jesus said, no one can see nor enter the Kingdom unless they are born again, born of water and of the Spirit (John 3:3-5).

These two words continue to this day.  The seed is the Word.  By one word, light, division, life, and all existence came forth.  By another, confusion, disorder, mixture, death, and all decay came.  They are in enmity with one another.

The true word speaks, and bids to come and die, for by dying is the only way to be free from the old and be released into the new.  The other covers over, disguises once again, deceives, and lies about the end.

But, though it may bruise temporarily the heel of the true, the false’s head is set to be crushed…

The same message that was true in a garden is the same message heard today.  Let God be true, and every man a liar (Romans 3:4, portion).  The other voice is always standing beside, and it is always that same snake, whispering, “You shall not die!”.  It doesn’t know the Word of God’s commands, for if it did, it would not fallen, but it stands, hissing and whispering, “That’s not really true.”

But, the woman’s seed, even Christ, has appeared to destroy the work of the devil.  The woman’s seed, even Jesus Christ within, speaks, with His Eternal voice, and says, Get thee behind me satan, for it is written, Worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.  Get thee behind me satan, for you have in mind the things of man, and not of God.  Get thee behind me satan, for it is written….

He is the Word, the same yesterday, today, and forever.  And He still speaks.