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Nov. 6, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
08:00
What Really Happened in the Garden - Pastor Carl Gallups
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Garden Of Eden Revisited 00:07:18
You start all the way in the Garden of Eden.
I do.
And you think there's some misconception there.
Is that right that you talk about in this book?
Yes.
That's another two-hour teaching, brother.
And I've got about four chapters on that.
But let me just lay the groundwork by saying this, and I'll whet people's appetites so they can do the study.
And by the way, I use 36 scholarly commentaries in this.
I use 24 scholarly versions of the Bible to compare.
I use the work of people, modern-day scholars like Dr. Michael Heiser, who's been on this show, who's a dear friend, a brilliant man.
I use the work of him and others like him in the world today to back up the study that I do and the conclusions that I draw.
So I'm not just pulling this out of my hip pocket and just making something up and saying, well, wouldn't this be cool?
When I do speculate, I say that I'm speculating, like when I said about God bringing the animals.
The Bible doesn't say God brought the animals because only he knew which ones weren't corrupt, but I think that makes good biblical sense.
So the bottom line is that in the garden, we come to the Garden of Eden, and here's the first question.
I get people thinking about it like this.
I'm going to whet your appetite.
So the first character that we meet in the garden, I mean, besides God, who started it all, but I mean, when we get to Genesis 3, the first character where we meet is something or someone called the serpent, right?
It says the serpent said to Eve, all right?
And by the way, a lot of people think that whatever Eve did and the serpent convinced her of, that then she went and found Adam somewhere in the garden and got him, but the Bible doesn't say that.
The Bible says that she ate of the fruit and Adam was with her.
Yes.
And he did eat.
So he was with her.
He wasn't off in a corner of a garden somewhere.
They were there.
But Eve was the one having this conversation at the first.
Satan went to Eve.
But watch.
The first character is the serpent.
So we have to ask, is this a literal talking snake that's smarter than God's creation of humanity, convincing a woman not to eat a piece of fruit or everybody's going to go to hell forever?
Or is it a metaphor?
I mean, there's a real Adam, there's a real Eve, there's a real garden, no doubt, there's a real tempter there.
But the teaching behind it, is there a metaphor?
Is this a symbol of something much deeper, much darker, much nastier, if you will, than a woman eating a piece of fruit because a talking snake convinced her into that?
By the way, that'd have to be a smart snake.
Second of all, I don't know of a woman alive on the planet that would have a snake stand up in the garden and speak to her, and she'd go, oh, you're really cute.
I'll do whatever you say.
Yeah, that's right.
I don't know of a man alive that would do that.
Was it that?
Or was it, all right, here's the thing.
The Bible answers it.
The Bible answers it.
Carl Gallups didn't say what I'm getting ready to say, but the Bible says it.
And here's what the Bible says about the serpent.
Let's go all the way to Revelation 12.
It says, And that ancient serpent who is the devil or Satan, Revelation 20, and that ancient serpent who is the devil or Satan, 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verses 2 and 3, Paul is talking to the Corinthian church, and he says, I'm afraid you've been deceived.
And then he says, I'm afraid you have been deceived in the same way Eve was deceived in the garden by the serpent.
But a few verses later, he defines the serpent as Satan, who even appears in human form, but he even appears as though he's full of truth, an angel of light.
So Paul tells us the serpent was symbolism.
It was Satan.
John tells us in Revelation chapter 12 and chapter 20, the serpent was Satan.
Ezekiel chapter 28 is a, there's two passages in the Old Testament that tell us who Satan is and describe him to us, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.
Ezekiel starts off as a lament against the king of Tyre.
Isaiah 14 starts off as a lament or a taunt against the king of Babylon.
But these are what are known as compound references because they both move into a category of something that's not about these kings.
It gets deeper.
It gets spiritual.
It's like Psalm 22 that starts off, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
And the things that it starts with, it's actually things that happened to David.
But before long, it starts talking about, they pierced my hands and my feet.
They gambled for my clothing under my feet.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
My bones are out of joint.
They say, he saved others.
Let him save himself.
None of that happened to David.
He has now been taken in the Spirit to this realm.
Same thing with Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.
It starts about Babylon, King of Babylon, and Tyre, but it moves to a description of Satan himself.
And in Ezekiel 28, guess what it says?
God says to Satan, you were in the garden.
And he says, you were one of my anointed cherub.
He was a cherubim.
Watch.
When you go to Ezekiel 10, Ezekiel says, I saw the cherubim, which are the living creatures of God.
Well, when you go to Revelation chapter 4 and 5, John says, I saw the living creatures.
They guarded the throne of God.
They surrounded the four living creatures.
Satan was a guardian of the throne.
In fact, Ezekiel 28, God says, I made you a guardian cherub.
Guardian of what?
Of the throne.
And he said, You are full of beauty and wisdom.
Of everything I created, you are the highest.
And then he says, But I cast you out because you were found to be.
And the English word is profane or defiled.
The Hebrew word is chala, C-H-A-L-A-L.
I do a deep study of it in gods and thrones.
And that word has powerful significance.
So, the first character we meet, Pastor Jim, in Genesis 3 is the serpent.
But is it really a talking snake?
Revelation says no.
Revelation 12 says no.
Revelation 20 says no.
2 Corinthians chapter 11 says no.
Ezekiel 28 says no.
What does the word of God say?
It's Satan.
It was Satan in all of his beauty, in all of his majesty, in all of his glory, in all of his wisdom.
He came to Eve.
That's why it was so easy for Eve to believe that he could give her whatever knowledge she wanted.
And so he comes to Eve, and then I will leave it for the people to read all the rest that probably is involved in this.
But the bottom line is, we have turned the garden scene and Noah's Ark into little children's cartoons and bedtime stories.
Now I understand we need to start with our children to teach them so they need to be colorful and bright and understandable to our kids.
I get that.
Days of Wickedness 00:00:56
But I'm saying for the church today in America, we're not little children.
We need to get off the milk and eat the meat.
And we need to understand, Pastor Jim, that what we are up against happened in the Garden of Eden.
It has transported itself into our culture.
The days of Noah, the days of Sodom and Gomorrah are on us again.
This is demonically wicked.
The gods are behind the thrones, brother.
They are manipulating what's happening in America, in Europe, the European Union, the Middle East, Israel, all over the world.
It is being manipulated.
We're living in the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus Christ.
We're 70 years on the other side of the return of Israel.
Technology is bursting forth.
Communication, information, transportation systems, Google, number one in the world.
I mean, you know, everything you just read a moment ago, this is us.
No generation before us has seen this.
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