The serpent that came to our Parents in Eden was not a beautiful snake with legs. Revelation 12:9 reveals clearly that it was the devil himself. The Hebrew word there translated “serpent” is nachash. Although this word is translated “serpent” everywhere it occurs in the Old Testament, its root is a word which means “to practice divination.” It also means bright shining brass. On close study, we can conclude that it was a bright spiritual being who came to Adam and Eve. He cast a spell, like that of divination, on Eve. She in turned passed it on to Adam, and thus to all the race of mankind. In the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus—the work of our redemption—He spoiled the serpent’s work. Now, He has given to us authority, in His Name, to command the devil, and any spirit that works under his command, to withdraw. Oh, what a full redemption is ours in Christ Jesus!

John 10:10—The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: lam come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

Luke 13:16a—And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond...?

LORD, I am ready to be free from the curse of satanic interference in my life. I renounce the demonic work that has come through my ancestry. Search it out in me. Where I am blind to the work of any seducing spirit in me, open the eyes of my understanding that I may renounce it. Wherein I have unknowingly invited unclean spirits in, I repent. As I renounce their operations, I open my soul and my spirit to the work of Your grace, and to the power released through Your resurrection.

How Grace Reigns for us through Jesus Christ
Romans 5:13-21