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years.” The ancient serpent is mentioned here. The serpent, called a snake, crawls on its belly. But the serpent in the Bible was not crawling at first. It was cursed by God because it lured Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge (Gen. 3:14).

The Bible described the serpent as more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. The serpent urged Adam and Eve to eat the fruit which God commanded them not to eat, saying, “Pick it up and eat it. It will be fine.” They ate it. Then God appeared. He said to Adam, “Who made you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” Adam said, “The woman you put here with me - she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.” Because the serpent was cursed, it was forced to crawl now, but it was a beautiful animal before the curse. The ancient serpent

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means the serpent before the curse.

The woman was the second criminal. To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you not to eat from, cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.” This is how God cursed the three of them.

The ancient serpent appears in the Bible, who is Satan and the dragon. Nobody knows what the dragon is, because no one have seen it. So people imagine a python becomes a dragon, having horns. People imagined and pictured it from the stories in the Bible and those became myths until now.

Now, let’s see in detail. The Bible said, “He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were

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