The Awesome Shadow of Coming Sins

When Satan came to Eve with his lie about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he revealed his hatred toward God. But he also made plain his hatred toward man, who loved God and was created in His image. He came to Eve in order to get to Adam. And he got Adam, in order to get man's love toward God taken away from the whole human race. Therefore he took possession of the mouth and voice box of the serpent, in order to get into man's heart and mind. Here already we had the shadow of the...