Justin Doc Brown

And so when we get to Genesis, you know, at the garden, what happens when God gives the cursings to them?

He looks at the woman and he says, I will put enmity between her seed and thy seed.

Talking to the English translation, the servant.

But Hebrew, that means Nakash.

Now, the Hebrew language is like any other language.

One word can have multiple meanings.

So it's important we go back and see all the various translations and insert them all in to see which one fits better with the context.

So another translation for nakash can be the shining one or the one who practices divination.

So to me, what makes more sense, a talking snake

caused the rebellion of man, or was it a divine heavenly being on God's holy mountain, a member of his divine council that rebelled?

So to me,

That makes a lot more sense.

But that cursing though, he tells them the enmity between the two seeds.

And he says that one will bruise one's head, but the other will bruise the other's heel.

And this ancient text, you know, it was a scroll.

It wasn't a book.

It didn't have chapters.

So just a few verses away from that event, we have the birth of Esau.

And so it says two nations, two peoples are in your womb.

Then it says when they're born, the first one come out red, covered in hair from head to toe like a hairy cloak.