Genesis 3:1 ESV
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
The serpent is near the forbidden tree and is filled with the darkness of Satan. Satan was in heaven until he was cast out. To be present in the garden along with the tree of temptation explains why he, the embodiment of temptation and rebellion, would be found in this sacred place. He is there to allow the man to choose God.
The snake is part of God's plan just as the forbidden tree. We are placed on this earth that we might choose God, that we would enter that light which would separate from the darkness. Satan seeks to undermine the very word of God which brought forth creation. That strategy has proved very successful through the ages.
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