Most of us tell the story of the fall with only one character in it. Adam

eats, the world breaks, and everything that follows is about putting the

visible world right. But Ephesians 1:10 says Christ's redemption was always

meant to gather the whole cosmos, visible and invisible, under his headship.

So if heaven's corruption is missing from our doctrine of sin, heaven's

redemption goes missing from our gospel, and the good news gets smaller than

it is.

In this episode Pastor Andre takes up the trickiest question in Scripture:

where the serpent came from. Genesis 3 never explains how a snake learned to

talk, and it never explains why Adam and Eve were not surprised to meet one.

Reading Eden as the throne room of the cosmic temple, and following Michael

Heiser's work on seraph and nachash, he argues that the serpent is a

corrupted throne guardian who belonged in that room, and that Genesis 3 is

not resting on some earlier unnarrated rebellion. It IS the account of

Satan's fall.

Along the way: why Calvin dismissed the traditional reading of Isaiah 14, why

the church fathers were more divided than we remember, what Ezekiel 28 is

actually comparing the king of Tyre to, and why the better motive for the

rebellion is not naked pride but jealousy of a new image bearer made of dust

whom God intends to raise above the angels. Which is also why the enemy's

agenda has been anti-human ever since.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open: nobody explains the talking snake

00:24 Title sequence

00:35 Reality is not only what you can see

04:12 But what went wrong?

05:19 The fall we only half tell

06:42 The trickiest question in scripture

08:24 Calvin pulls the floor out

10:06 Heiser, the seraphim and the nachash

14:27 He belonged there

16:38 Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14

21:10 Pride, jealousy and a new image bearer

24:34 Sabotage, not a coup

26:00 How evil came into the world

REFERENCED ALONG THE WAY

- Michael Heiser on seraph, nachash and Egyptian throne guardian imagery

- John Calvin on Isaiah 14:12 and the king of the Babylonians

- Meredith Kline on the serpent taking serpentine form

- The church fathers on pride and jealousy as motives for the fall

- Scripture: Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, Exodus 28, Psalm 8,

Isaiah 6, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, Ephesians 1:10

This is a follow-on from the episode on the divine council and hierarchy,

and it sets up what angels and demons actually are.

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