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Bro. Branham taught that the serpent in Eden was not originally a reptile but the most subtil beast of the field, smart, crafty, and closest to a human being, serving as the missing link between chimpanzee and man, with the ability to walk upright on legs and possessing a form of intelligence nearly like a soul. Evidence: [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶144–¶148]; [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 64-0830M: ¶314–¶315]
He explained that the serpent could reason and speak because Satan entered it, enabling it to converse with Eve, seduce her sexually (beguiled meaning "defiled"), and impregnate her before she went to Adam, resulting in Cain as the serpent's seed while Abel came from Adam. Evidence: [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶157–¶163]; [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 64-0830M: ¶316–¶318]; [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 54-0103M: ¶124–¶125]
This connected directly to the fall, as Eve partook of the forbidden fruit through adultery with the serpent, leading to the curse where God removed the serpent's legs, making it crawl on its belly, and promised enmity between the woman's seed and the serpent's seed. Cain inherited the serpent's nature—shrewd, religious but without true sacrifice—while biblical genealogies from Adam omit Cain, confirming he was not Adam's son. Evidence: [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶164–¶171]; [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 64-0830M: ¶326–¶327]; [MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE — 65-0221M: ¶194–¶195]
The serpent was not a reptile. He was most “subtil” of all the beasts of the field... He was the smartest thing there was, and the more like the human being than anything else that was on the field; closest to a human being. [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶145–¶147]
Notice, now, the devil come down and got into the serpent. And he found Eve in the garden of Eden, naked, and he talked about the fruit in the midst... He begin making love to Eve, and he lived with her, as a husband. And she saw it was pleasant, so she went and told her husband, but she was already pregnant, by Satan. And she brought forth her first son, whose name was Cain, the son of Satan. [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶159–¶161]
She said, “The serpent beguiled me.” Do you know what beguile means? Means “defiled.”... “And, serpent, because you did that, off goes your leg. Upon your belly you’ll go...” [THE SERPENT’S SEED — 58-0928E: ¶166–¶169]
He stood upon his feet just like a man. Notice, then that seed, which was next to the human seed…Satan himself...knew that...the serpent’s seed would [pregnate the woman]... And she was pregnated by Satan first. [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 64-0830M: ¶315–¶318]
Cain...could not be the son of Adam. So he had to be the son of the serpent, and he couldn’t be a son without intercourse. [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — 64-0830M: ¶326]
For full context and to verify wording, read the full sermon and cited paragraphs in The Table: The Table (plain link: https://table.branham.org/)
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