WARNING! 5 Animals the Devil Uses to Spy on Humanity

• Her friends, come close. I want to speak to you tonight about a presence, an observation that is not for your good. There is an enemy to your soul who does not sleep, who does not blink, and he employs creation itself to watch you. He studies the doors of your life, waiting for a latch to lift. And he learned this method, this terrible strategy from the very dawn of time, in a garden.
• Before there were cities, before there were nations, there was a garden, a place of perfect fellowship, where the voice of God was like the cool of the day. And there was no shadow between him and his creation. And in that garden there were two souls, naked and unashamed, living in a truth so pure it needed no covering.
• They knew no fear, no hidden thing. But there was a watcher, a malicious intelligence that could not bear the beauty of that communion, and he could not enter as himself, for his presence was foulness, and the light of that place would have exposed him in an instant. So what did he do? He needed a vessel, a creature that could move among the beauty without causing alarm, that could listen and watch and speak. He chose the serpent.
• Now, don’t think of a slithering horror as we might imagine it today. Scripture tells us it was the most cunning, the most subtle of all the creatures of the field. Beautiful, perhaps fascinating, compelling. It did not crash through the underbrush. It moved with a quiet grace that drew no suspicion.
• It could coil near, its eyes, taking in every detail, learning the rhythms of that first home. Satan saw in that animal the perfect spy. Its very nature, observant, patient, subtle, became his cloak, and he entered in. He didn’t start with a command. He didn’t start with a roar. He started with a question.
• A question that dripped with the poison of doubt, spoken through the mouth of a creature that seemed simply curious. Did God really say, “Oh, can’t you hear it?” the inflection, the suggestion that perhaps there was something they hadn’t quite understood, that the word they had been given was not the whole story, that God was keeping something from them.
• The serpent wasn’t just watching their physical movements. It was watching the heart. It was listening for the echo of God’s command in their minds, looking for the slightest crack of uncertainty in their spirits, and it found it. The serpent watched the woman. It saw her consider the tree not as a forbidden thing, but now as a desirable thing.
• The watcher saw the moment faith wavered and curiosity sparked. The surveillance was complete. The temptation was tailored. It wasn’t a generic sin. It was a precise strike at the very core of their relationship with God. The integrity of his word. The serpent promised them they would be like God.