2024/04/29

141. Enmity God Has Placed and Accidental Information

As I mentioned last time, I concentrated on the term 'the work of man', meditating on Genesis, its starting point, and the New Testament. Eventually, the meditation evolved into a meditation on the spirituality and formation of the Holy Spirit and the training of Revelation. Then, as I practised that training every day according to the instructions in Revelation, I discovered that it had a prophetic structure. 

In this vein of meditation, I understood the 'serpent' in Genesis as 'information'. This idea is consistent with the statement made by the 'woman' of Genesis to God: "The serpent beguiled me" (Genesis 3:13). As the 'woman' was involved with the 'man', she has taken in as her own the various information exchanged between them. So, this information, which appeared from her memory as if crawling around in her consciousness, gave her the image of a 'serpent'. 

We can also see that the 'serpent' signifies information from God's words to it: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals" (Genesis 3:14). The 'serpent' who "have done this," i.e. the 'word' which spoke to the 'woman', was information. God is considered to have mentioned the information accidentally generated among individuals of the same species of a creature by saying, "above all cattle, and above all wild animals". In this blog, we have called it 'accidental information'. Among these, 'human accidental information' was outstandingly evolved and has become the most "cursed". 

God laid out a new plan, saying to the 'serpent', "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Genesis 3:15). As God clearly states here, this 'enmity God has placed' is inherited through reproduction. It was necessary to wait for the coming of Jesus Christ to know that a hidden plan to send the Son of God into the world as "her seed" was in the above words of God. Jesus, the Son of God, was sent into the world as the very 'enmity God has placed' as Simeon said, "Behold, this child is set for ... a sign that is spoken against" (Luke 2:34). 

This understanding shows that all people need to awaken to the 'enmity God has placed' within themselves, turn to Jesus and be saved, as happened to one of the criminals crucified with Jesus (cf. Luke 23:39-43). That salvation is offered to all because of Christ. 

The devil and Satan are 'serpents', as Revelation describes, "the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan" (Revelation 20:2). So, I believe that they are 'human accidental information'. If so, we can deal with them rationally, just as Jesus set the example in the wilderness (cf. Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13). 

To be continued.

Maria K. M.