Sex, Sin, and The Sanctuary
From the Garden to Golgotha God is Gracious
Judah is a Lion's Whelp
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall dwell in his Holy Place?
The Serpent's Whisper
Ah yes—“The Serpent’s Whisper”… just hearing it again conjures up shadowy fig leaves rustling under the weight of ancient temptation. Laced with cunning, cloaked in half-truth, and aimed straight at the soul’s vulnerable center:
“Did He really say you must not?” A whisper soft as silk, yet sharp as a serpent fang. “He knows if you touch it, your eyes will open—wide. You won’t perish; you’ll awaken. You were made for more than silence and submission. Why worship boundaries when you could wield understanding?” These questions were intended to create doubt and spark curiosity. They are more (apparently) harmless than questions that challenge your knowledge. Here are some examples:
1. Come see a man who told me all things that I ever did, is not this the Christ?
2. The Baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or of men?
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And they reasoned with themselves. Questions that generate doubt and spark curiosity because they awaken the possibility that you may have been wrong all the time. You may have been missing out on something. Yeah, hath God said, ye shall not eat of the tree of the garden. These cunning whispers of the serpent are alive today.​
The hiss lingers. “Come now—what harm lies in tasting knowledge? Doesn’t wisdom begin with experience? Surely, a bite can’t damn what was called ‘very good.’ Aren’t you curious what it’s like to be like Him?”
That voice doesn’t argue—it seduces. Not with brute force, but with a theology so twisted it sounds like liberation.
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The Serpent's whisper is still sounding loud and long. The serpent continues to whisper "Hath God said" and does not heed the warning "Doh say He he say when you know he did'n say."
​Ah, the serpent’s whisper—it slithers through the pages of literature and the folds of culture like a timeless riddle. Across traditions, it symbolizes temptation, hidden knowledge, and the seductive power of transgression.
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In biblical literature, the whisper in Eden isn’t just about fruit—it’s about autonomy, the allure of divine likeness, and the questioning of moral boundaries and the need and greed for power, money, fame and sex. It represents the moment when innocence flirts with insight, and obedience is weighed against curiosity.
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In broader literary traditions, the serpent often embodies duality—life and death, wisdom and danger, transformation and destruction. From Milton’s Paradise Lost to modern fantasy epics, the whisper becomes a metaphor for the inner voice that challenges the status quo, often cloaked in reason but driven by desire.
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So whether it’s a hiss in the garden or a whisper in the soul, the serpent’s voice is rarely just about the words—it’s about the invitation to see differently, to step beyond the veil, and to risk the consequences of awakening.
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Come with me and explore how the serpent whispers exist today .
The Serpent's whispers
​​​It was the same whisper that Saul heard. Surely. God could not have a problem with sacrifices. You remember how he accepted Abel's sacrifice. But the word of God came from the prophet, "To obey is better than to sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1 Sam. 15:22).
We all know the consequence of listening to the serpent's whisper. That low, quiet, apparently justifiable reasoning. Another sad and most grievous example is the unnamed man of God in 1 Sam. whom God sent to deliver a word and specifically told him to eat no food and drink no water in Bethel.
After delivering the message, an older prophet who lived in Bethel seduced him with the words, "I am a prophet just like you". Of course, he was not a prophet, just like he. He was living in Bethel, and if he was the right kind of prophet, God would have given him the message instead of sending a prophet out from Judah. you know the story. That prophet lost his life for listening to the serpent's whisper. You can find it in 1 Sam. 13. The child of God must be sensitive to and be forever alert, walking circumspectly not as fools,
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor. 2:11.
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Instrument of Whispers
That old prophet was an instrument of whisper. He allowed Satan to use him to subtly speak lies to the man of God and eventually destroy him. And that brings us to our signature story, how "Satan's whispers" through instruments of whisper can destroy a nation, a government, a people, and a church.​
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These whispers come to us in different guises. Just as the word of God came to us, so these whispers come to us "in sundry times and in divers manners" as: old folk stories, culture, poems, nursery rhymes, calypsos, religion, Christmas Carols, and holidays. All designed to poke fun and discredit the "Thus saith the Lord".
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Every time these whispers ask the question, "Did God really say?"
Each time it enters, it stirs the same question: “What, truly, is holy? What is truth —and who told you so?”​
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Let's examine the narrative of Balaam's Sex College.
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If you are sure that God has sent you on a mission and another so-called man of God convinces you to do otherwise on the grounds that he too is a servant of God, would you do it or do it conditionally?
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