Sound In The Garden

We first see the connection between Kingdom and dominion in the garden. God’s creation was reflecting His governmental order as in heaven and God created Adam to be His earthly-dominion-agent. (Gen 1:28) Adam was to rule over: all God had created in earth: fish, fowl, animals and all creepers in it. There was no opposition to hinder God’s order in the garden. Communion between God and Adam was unobstructed. (The essential Father/son relationship was alive and well.)  So in Gen. 3, when the voice or sound of the Lord came walking in the garden, that was nothing unusual except that, earlier that day, there was another voice or sound in the garden, a hiss, a whisper of the serpent.  (The root word for serpent in Hebrew is “hiss” which means “whisper, enchant or prognosticate.”)  He slithered into the garden with a whisper, and he slithered out with a stolen taste of dominion.  Under the influence of that trespasser’s sound, man gave the devil a seat on his board of dominion.

(This is the fourth excerpt from Kathy’s SEEC Magazine article “Advancing The Kingdom Through Dominion.” Excerpts will appear on this page Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.)