Tree Serpent and the Seed of Prophecy

Adam had a dream that shaped the memories of the Sons of God:

He was looking east from the bank of the river, opposite the garden. He could see the silhouette of the Tree of Life against the predawn sky. It stood above the fruit trees that had fed him his whole life. Then, in his dream, came the sunrise.

Its rays, like swords that turn in every direction, stabbed the ends of the horizon and the great dome of the heavens. Backlit by the sun of that first day, the Tree was shrouded in white light.

The serpent priest was there, between the river and the brilliant light that stabbed through the leaves. Only he wasn’t the priest, he was the Serpent, a god and not a man.

The Serpent had called God a liar, and the man and wife had believed him. God would continue to deal with them the best way a Father could. As for the Serpent, his slander made him an enemy. His attempt to usurp the love of the children from their Father was an act of war.

There was something that God knew as well as the Serpent; the Serpent had temples and priests throughout the Fertile Crescent.

God had one farm family with no land to call their own.

God was badly out numbered, so naturally, He insulted the Serpent before he threw down the gauntlet.

“Nothing is more hateful than you. You’re lower than the cattle. The wild animals won’t even have anything to do with you. Crawling on your belly your whole life…How’s that dust taste?

“You have insulted and humiliated the woman, Eve. She will teach her children’s children’s…children to hate yours.

“I saved a seed from this Tree of Life, and I’m going to plant it in Eve, and the Seed, My new Adam who is to come at a time I will choose, will put an end to your tyranny over not only My people, but over all people who choose Me.

“He-will-crush-your-head.”

The war was on. The sunrise passed. The tree was gone, committed to that realm of spacetime we call eternity. From Adam’s point of view, the Tree was lost to the past. That which was could never truly be touched again. The only way back to the tree was forward through the long course of centuries.

Adam would never see the tree again. He would never again enjoy the benefits of walking peacefully with God on this Earth. The father of God’s warriors was not planted in the world to make peace. He was planted here to prepare for war.

The Serpent god was gone, but his priest remained on the far bank, hurling curses at the empty horizon.

"I am one of many!

"How can a handful of naked fruit-eaters stand up to us? 'Gods'... You don't even have a proper name -- Eloheem. Who takes a plural noun as a name? Gods, you call yourself…pure arrogance...declaring war on the world just because the world does what the world does.

"Who do you think you are?"

Just before Adam woke from the dream, he heard an echo of words that would be spoken by his distant descendants.

“…and the world did not know Him.”

The war was on indeed, and it wouldn’t be long before it claimed its first casualty

Next Saturday: Self Inflicted 

Peace Out Y’all