What is dust? Notice in
Genesis after the serpent deceived Eve. Gen 3:14 So
the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you
have done this, You are
cursed more than all cattle, And
more than every beast of the field; On your belly
you shall go, And you shall
eat dust All the days of your life. We know
that
serpents do not eat dust, and there is an example in
the bible about this. In
Exodus Moses went to Pharaoh to demand that the
Israelites be set free. God knew
that Pharaoh would not do this as God had hardened
his heart. Exo 7:8 Then
the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Exo 7:9
"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Show
a miracle for
yourselves,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take
your rod and cast it
before Pharaoh, and
let it become a serpent.' " Exo 7:10 So
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did
so, just as the LORD
commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod before
Pharaoh and before his servants,
and it became a serpent. Exo 7:11 But
Pharaoh also called the wise men and the
sorcerers; so the magicians of Egypt,
they also did in like manner with their
enchantments. Exo 7:12 For
every man threw down his rod, and they became
serpents. But Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. We see
here that
the serpent did not eat dust. The
serpent ate another rod which was turned into a
serpent. The
serpent is
not to eat dust as food to live but the serpent’s
food will be trying to
corrupt or deceive man. As man is dust. Gen 2:7 And
the LORD God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man
became a living being. Gen 3:19 In
the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till
you return to the ground, For
out of it you were taken; For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return." Num 23:10
"Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number
one-fourth of Psa 103:14
For He knows our frame; He remembers that
we are dust. Who
is the serpent? The serpent
brings the beginning of evil
to man. Gen 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man
has become like one of Us,
to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out
his hand and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live forever" The serpent
bore a child with Eve. Gen 3:14 So
the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you
have done this, You are
cursed more than all cattle, And
more than every beast of the field; On your belly
you shall go, And you shall
eat dust All the days of your life. Gen 3:15 And
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." Notice here
that seed means child. When Eve ate
the piece of fruit, she was
not eating, this is the way that the serpent puts
evil into the world. How the
seed of the serpent is passed on to man is possibly
through sex, although this
is not certain.
When Mary became
pregnant, the Holy Spirit came upon her.
Perhaps this is what happens when the serpent
wants a child born to
him. Remember
also that these are sons
of God. Eve said she
had acquired a man from God,
the serpent is a son of God. Gen 4:1 Now Adam
knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore
Cain, and said, "I have
acquired a man from the LORD." Notice that
Cain was of the wicked one. 1Jn 3:12 not
as Cain who
was of the wicked
one and murdered his brother. And why did he
murder him? Because his works were
evil and his brother's righteous. Is
the serpent the devil? In the
following scriptures it says the
serpent is the devil. Rev 12:9 So
the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of
old, called the Devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the
earth, and his angels were
cast out with him. Rev 20:2 He
laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who
is the Devil and Satan, and bound
him for a thousand years;
