The desiring, threatening, or pronouncing evil upon someone or something is the basic idea of a number of Hebrew and Greek words in the Scriptures that are translated by the word 'curse' or similar expressions.
The 1st powerful curse employed was at the time of the Edenic rebellion and was directed by God against the instigator of the rebellion that used nature as an agent for his transgression.
The serpent was produced by the earth and was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made.
In other words, the nature of this animal is used as a symbolic comparison of human's nature influenced by the forces of good and evil.
The woman was the personification of God's church in the earth, according to man's will.
When God pronounced His Judgment, He said to the snake, "You will be punished for this, you alone of all the animals must bear this curse:
'From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offsprings will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.'
The evil spirit of rebellion orchestrated by Satan is explained in 2 Corinthians 11. Paul speak about the False Apostles saying, 'You are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.'
The nature of the first man, and Paul's is described like a pure virgin. The woman was form from man's rib in a symbolic representation of the nature of the Church of God in the earth.
Paul then says, 'I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ.'
Corruption entered into the body of God's Church through the woman's deceived mind and the seed of rebellion was planted in the human heart. Satan, in his crafty and deceiving way, made her belief in his preaching and became one to her in the same evil spirit.
Paul continue, 'You will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ -in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies. When you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us.'
The fact that the serpent represents the nature of man God uses this animal to teach us how Satan's evil spirit takes over man's nature and deceive it.
Then Paul says, 'When I preached the Good News of God to you, I humbled myself in order to make you -in your nature- important. I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those who believe about themselves being very special and so-called 'apostles' of yours. Perhaps I am an amateur in speaking comparing their ways, but certainly not in knowledge; we have made this clear to you at all times and in all conditions. I will go on doing what I am doing now, in order to keep those other 'apostles' from having any reason to boasting and saying that they work in the same way that we do. Those men are not true apostles -they are false apostles, who lie about their work and disguise themselves to 'look like' real apostles of Christ. Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light! So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve.'
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