In our Bible School, we’ve entered into a subject called Spiritology. It is a study of God’s Spirit, our spirit, and the spiritual realm, and it really is a lot of fun. The truths in God’s word surrounding this subject are awesome, and each time I’m able to teach on this, I leave the classroom with a greater awareness of the spiritual.
One of the veins of teaching in this subject takes us back to the Garden of Eden, where man lost his spiritual dominion and his spiritual life. We take a look at how the enemy always attempts to do one thing, like he did to Adam and Eve; satan seeks to destroy the fellowship between God and mankind.
This is what the enemy is still doing today. The garden, where God placed his man, was the place where it seems God would fellowship with His creation; the garden was the place that God told Adam to keep and to tend. That was, and must always be, the chief employment of God’s people; to take care of our place of fellowship with God.
Snakes don’t belong in your garden, so don’t let them in! It would be anything trying to get in-between you and God, and we must be violently opposed to those things.
I like a joke that our friends from Nagaland tell… the humor of this joke is multiplied when you understand the excessive meat eating practices of this people group; they hunt everything, and they eat just about everything imaginable. In fact, before the gospel swept across their land, they were tribal headhunters. I’m not kidding when I say that there is virtually no wildlife in the state of Nagaland (not even street dogs…understand?)
Anyway, the joke goes like this…”if Naga’s were in the Garden of Eden, we would still be there today…Because we would have eaten the snake!”
