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ADAM WISHES TO PROTECT EVE

*1* THEN Adam wept and said, "O God, remove us to some other place, that the serpent may not come again near us, and rise against us. Lest it find Thy handmaid Eve alone and kill her; for its eyes are hideous and evil."

*2* But God said to Adam and Eve, "Henceforth fear not, I will not let it come near you; I have driven it away from you, from this mountain; neither will I leave in it aught to hurt you."

*3* Then Adam and Eve worshipped before God 'and gave Him thanks, and praised Him for having delivered them from death.

[1 Adam+Eve 20:1] — THEN Adam wept and said, "O God, remove us to some other place, that the serpent may not come again near us, and rise against us. Lest it find Thy handmaid Eve alone and kill her; for its eyes are hideous and evil."

In the Adam+Eve verse above, Adam made "Weeping Prayer" to God petitioning the Sovereign God to remove or relocate he and his wife to any where safe out of the reach of the Terrorist (Serpent), who's eyes were hideous and evil, lest he comes burning revenge and kills Eve when it catches her defenseless and alone.

There was a time when the only terrorist or terrorism mankind had to worry about in the entire surface of the earth was the Serpent. Now, mankind have different terrorists and terrorism acts to both fear and defend against, including "Killer Herdsmen Marauders, Anti-Christ Groups, Anti-Jewish Groups, Islamic Anti-Western Civilization Groups, Anti-Eastern Rising Groups, Government Anti-Freedom of Religious Expression Groups, Witches and Wizards Groups, Satanic Cultists Groups, Militia Groups, Robbers Groups, Rapists Groups, Anti-Virginity Groups, Racist/fascist Groups.

But, is that the best way to pray against terrorists? Should the prayer point be about fleeing away, loosing your ground or land to travel to safety somewhere else as Adam prayed here?

Well, when you have vulnerable women and children (like Adam here thinking of his vulnerable wife), you may consider the option of getting displaced and losing away from your land that's infested with chances of terrorists attack or invasion. The sense in losing one's properties and estate just to save and protect his vulnerable family, becomes louder. Lives are more important than houses, lands and properties, to responsible persons. But if such men could lose lands, estates and properties, just to save and protect their lives, why are they not do so to save and protect their souls? Why would they rather gain the world and lose their souls, but turn around to lose the world to save their lives?Listen, your own soul is more important to you than lives you have, including the lives of your family. Do not gain your family and lose your own soul for them, but you may gain your family and lose your own life for them.

Remember, those who may be terrorists to your lives are usually not terrorists to your souls; those who may be enemies to your lives may be helpers to your souls. When the Serpent was friendly with the woman, the Serpent was not a threat to her life but a threat to her soul; now that the Serpent became the first enemy of a Woman or Mankind, the Serpent became threat (terrorist) to her life (lives) but was no longer a threat to her soul then. Your life is in your body, and ends when your body dies; but your soul lives on even beyond and outside your body. Thus, it is written:

[Matthew 10:28-31] — "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows."

[1 Adam+Eve 20:2] — But God said to Adam and Eve, "Henceforth fear not, I will not let it come near you; I have driven it away from you, from this mountain; neither will I leave in it aught to hurt you."

According to this Word of God to Adam and Eve, from henceforth you do not have to fear the Serpent forever again. You are not the ones I have to relocate to some other place, but the Serpent is the one I have driven away from you and from this mountain, because I first gave this Mountain and Place to you before the Serpent came here. Wait, am I now speaking directly as God?

God is more likely to drive terrorists away from you, than to drive you away from the terrorists, because God has established you in the land or ground He Himself appointed to you. And behold, He is your Refuge and Fortress, who will not allow Serpent, Scorpion, Lion or Powers of the Enemies, to by any means harm you.

When God put hedge around you as He did Job, Satan or the Serpent cannot touch you by reason of the hedge, boundary or seal of God around you.

Do not be like those rebellious children of Israel that were fleeing into Egypt away from the Terrorists of the Chaldeans/Babylonians against the express Word of God by Jeremiah to them, instructing them to remain in their God appointed land or ground for them; for God has driven away their terrorists. As it is written,

[Jeremiah 42:9‭-‬17 BSB] — Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition: ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him. And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’ But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the Lord your God, and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’ then hear the word of the Lord, O remnant of Judah! This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there, then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there. So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

Remember, the major (if not the only) direct instruction of God to Isaac, which Isaac obeyed, was the instruction for him not to flee to Egypt in fleeing away from the famine or economic hardship in the land; but to dwell in the same land and trust God who is with him to deliver him. Isaac obeyed, just as Adam and Eve agreed.

[1 Adam+Eve 20:3] — Then Adam and Eve worshipped before God 'and gave Him thanks, and praised Him for having delivered them from death.

This was the first Worship and Thanksgiving and Praises from those whom God showed His Salvation and Deliverance from death. They have believed in the Salvation of God, and have faith that His Deliverance shall never fail. That's the first Deliverance from death for which mankind fulfilled these three fold Package to God -*1*Worship, *2* Thanksgivings and *3* Praises, to God.