Amos 3:7 A Love Of The Truth

In his second message in this series, David Guzik lays out the decline and fall of mankind, and the sovereignty of God who has a perfect plan of salvation.Original Sin and God's Sovereignty!  Man’s Temptation and Fall A. The temptation from the serpent.  1. (Gen 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation.  Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”  a. The serpent: The text here does not, by itself alone, clearly identify the serpent as Satan, but the rest of the Bible makes it clear this is Satan appearing as a serpent.  i. In Ezekiel 28:13-19 tells us that Satan was in Eden. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan.  ii. The representation of Satan as a serpent makes the idea of Moses saving Israel by