Brother In Messiah

…But, after the angels were gone from Adam and Eve, came Satan, with shamefacedness, and stood at the entrance of the cave in which were Adam and Eve. He then called to Adam, and said, “O Adam, come, let me speak to thee.”

Then Adam came out of the cave, thinking he was one of Elohim’s angels that was come to give him some good counsel.

BUT when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure, he was afraid of him, and said unto him, “Who art thou?”

Then Satan answered and said unto him, “It is I, who hid myself within the serpent, and who talked to Eve, and beguiled her until she hearkened to my command. I am he who sent her, through the wiles of my speech, to deceive thee, until thou and she ate of the fruit of the tree, and ye came away from under the command of Elohim.”

But when Adam heard these words from him, he said unto him, “Canst thou make me a garden as Elohim made for me? Or canst thou clothe me in the same bright nature in which Elohim had clothed me?

“Where is the divine nature thou didst promise to give me? Where is that fair speech of thine, thou didst hold with us at first, when we were in the garden?”

Then Satan said unto Adam, “Thinkest thou, that when I have spoken to one about anything, I shall ever bring it to him or fulfill my word? Not so. For I myself have never even thought of obtaining what I asked.

“Therefore did I fall, and did I make you fall by that for which I myself fell; and with you also, whosoever accepts my counsel, falls thereby.

“But now, O Adam, by reason of thy fall thou art under my rule, and I am king over thee; because thou hast hearkened to me, and hast transgressed against thy Elohim. Neither will there be any deliverance from my hands until the day promised thee by thy Elohim.”

Again he said, “Inasmuch as we do not know the day agreed upon with thee by thy Elohim, nor the hour in which thou shalt be delivered, for that reason will we multiply war and murder upon thee and thy seed after thee.

“This is our will and our good pleasure, that we may not leave one of the sons of men to inherit our orders in heaven.

“For as to our abode, O Adam, it is in burning fire; and we will not cease our evil doing no, not one day nor one hour. And I, O Adam, shall sow fire upon thee when thou comest into the cave to dwell there.”

When Adam heard these words he wept and mourned, and said unto Eve, “Hear what he said; that he will not fulfill aught of what he told thee in the garden. Did he really then become king over us?

“But we will ask Elohim, who created us, to deliver us out of his hands.”

THEN Adam and Eve spread their hands unto Elohim, praying and entreating Him to drive Satan away from them; that he do them no violence, and do not force them to deny Elohim.

Then Elohim sent to them at once His angel, who drove away Satan–from them. This happened about sunset, on the fifty-third day after they had come out of the garden.

– The first book of Adam and Eve