The Snake's Shakespearean Sililoquy


   
Ezra Azra






 
(c) Copyright 2026 by Ezra Azra

Painting by Raphael at Wikimedia Commons.
Painting by Raphael at Wikimedia Commons.

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The Holy Bible says “The Serpent said.”

Why me? In all of Eden’s God Jehovah’s countless animals why did He choose me be the first to be an evil one?

Particularly why since I was claimed to be the most intelligent of all:

Among the beasts created by Jehovah God in Eden Paradise, the Serpent was most subtil of them all.’

Moreover, in the Bible there is not a shred of evidence that God Jehovah gave to any animal His very own miraculous divine ability to speak.

In all eternity; in all infinity, the first speech heard was God Jehovah’s spoken words: ‘Let there be light!’

Along with all the other animals, I, Serpent, was created dumb by God Jehovah’s spoken words, on that most holy sixth of days Jehovah God created His first Man, who was undoubtedly God’s best accomplishment for having been created in the very image of Jehovah God Himself!

And with that Man, and only with that first of humans God Jehovah first did share His own divinity of speech by which He did create all things:

Jehovah God brought every beast and every fowl unto the Man for him to give a name; and whatsoever name the Man did call that beast; that fowl, that was the name thereof.’

In other words, before I, Serpent, spoke my words to Eve in Eden Paradise from deepest of my self, all spoken words in all eternity had been by only God Jehovah and that only Man.

And then I, Serpent, dared to be the third in all eternity to speak; and dangerously daring more, to speak by my own self’s intelligence; by my own self’s ability, each working far away from, independently of God!

My self-created independence surely made Jehovah jealous. After all, has He Himself not pridefully declared: ‘I am a jealous God.’?

Because I, Serpent, taught myself to speak, Jehovah’s egoistic jealousy drove Him to vent splenetically at me:

Because thou hast done this, thou art accursed above all flying fowl, and every beast!’

The truth-be-told, I, Serpent, have to count myself among the luckiest for having been no more than only cursed by criminally jealous God Jehovah:

When Haziah, King of Isra-el, fell ill, from his sick bed commanded he his messengers:

Seek out God Baalzebub and ask what I might do to be released from this disease.

Then did Jehovah God, the one and only jealous God of Isra-el, ask of Haziah, King of Isra-el:

Is there no God in Isra-el that thou enquire of Baalzebub for help against disease?

Because thou slightest me, the one and only God in Isra-el, thou, King of Isra-el, shalt never rise again from your sick bed.

And so Haziah, King of Isra-el, of his disease did surely die by God Jehovah’s curse bred of Jehovah’s overweening homicidal jealousy.’

Be never fooled; make no mistake; that evil claimed to be in me, sole speaking animal in perfect Eden Paradise, was in Jehovah God forever long before that sixth of days when God’s divinity did speak me into be one of His countless of realities.

Because the Man did eat that fruit but did not die, it meant that God Jehovah lied for saying he, that Man, would surely die if he did eat that fruit:

The Lord Jehovah God did say unto the Man: Of every other tree in Eden thou may’st freely eat. But of the tree of Knowledge in the midst of Eden Paradise thou shalt not eat the fruit from it. If thou doth eat thereof, thou shalt most surely die.’

I, Serpent, not Jehovah, did speak truthfully about that tree by God Jehovah cultivated in the midst of righteous perfect Eden Paradise.

Twas of the Woman, Eve, I, Serpent chose to ask, and not of Adam since I, Serpent, guessed correctly that Jehovah God deliberately by design had made the Woman lesser than the Man in every way:

The Lord God caused the Man to fall asleep; and while he slept, God cut from him a minor part, a rib. And from that minor part did God Jehovah make a Woman who He gave unto the Man.’

I, Serpent, cleverly did ask the Woman, not the Man, ‘Yea, hath Jehovah God said ye shall surely die if thou eat fruit of that tree in the midst of righteous Eden Paradise? I, Serpent, say ye shall not surely die. Behold, I ate that fruit; and yet I live.’

And so it was; I, Serpent, plucked, and ate that fruit; and yet I, Serpent, did not die!

Hence, since the death Jehovah warned about was not within the fruit itself, Jehovah’s warning was a lie, indeed.

In other words, the first time death did enter Eden, hitherto a righteous virgin-perfect paradise, was when Jehovah God did curse the Man to die because the Man had disobeyed Jehovah God’s command:

Because thou’st eaten of the tree forbidden thee, thou shalt return unto the ground, for out of it thou cam’st; and into it shalt thou return.’

Death having been invented solely by Jehovah God in righteous Eden Paradise, thereby depriving-robbing Paradise forever of its virgin-perfect righteous purity, a righteous perfect purity with which Jehovah God Himself had blessed it, makes a liar of Jehovah’s sole begotten Child for claiming:

God is not the God of death; but God of only life.’

Quite normal, is it not, the Child to be a liar, like the Dad?

A correlation of the information found in different stories in the Bible, shews that lying is genetic- normal in Jehovah God’s behaviour:

On a day the Sons of God Jehovah visited Jehovah God in heav’n; and Satan liar was among the Sons of God;-----To them opposing Him, did Jesus say: The chief of Devils, Satan, is your Father, and when Satan speaks a lie, he speaks it of his own, for he is Father of all lies and Father of all liars;----Jesus spake against them, saying, Ye are liars even as your Father is.’

Oh, yes. Make no mistake, the evil that’s alleged in me in righteous Eden Paradise, originated in Jehovah God Himself, the first of liars and the Father of all liars.

Once again, like Father, God Jehovah, like his Satan Son?

Jehovah being the only God almighty, everything in Eden Paradise must have begun in Him.

No demon mentioned in the Bible cares to claim at any time that evil sometimes is its willing choice. Approximately twenty-six are demons mentioned, such as Ashtaroth, Astarte, Belial.

In contrast, there are many places in the Bible, God Jehovah is recorded saying, more-or-less, quite shamelessly each time:

I will bring evil---. Came a Spirit, stood before Jehovah God and said, I will entice him. Wherewith, God Jehovah asked? That Spirit answered, shamelessly and boastfully, I’ll go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets. God Jehovah said unto that evil-loving self-proclaiming liar Spirit: Go! And do as much of such, for both of us!’

Most telling proof Jehovah God’s the source of evil in the Bible story, is that while up to the moment of Jehovah’s mention of a possibility of evil coming into being in the event of Adam’s disobedience, there is no mention of an evil presence in Jehovah’s righteous-perfect Eden Paradise.

And, too, while, on the one hand, there is evidence quite unambiguous provided that there is an evil side to God Jehovah, there is evidence provided, unambiguous, that there’s a most non-evil righteous side to Serpent me!

The only child of God Jehovah, Jesus, sees both me and Him, in Satan:

Jesus said, That Serpent everybody calls old Satan, I beheld that Satan fall from Heav’n as lightning----For as lightning lighteneth the one part under Heav’n to the opposite, so shall the Son of Man be in His day----
For as the lightning cometh out the East, and shineth ev’n to the West, so shall be, too, the coming of the Son of Man.’

That there’s a special Jesus-Satan personal connection is attested to in a description when the evil agent is referred to by non-personal nomenclature of “devil, tempter”, whereas when it’s Jesus speaking of that tempter-devil, Jesus calls him by a name that comes with centuries of special pedigree:

The Devil tempted Jesus---- Tempter came to Jesus saying--------Devil setteth Jesus on a temple pinnacle.----Again, the Devil taketh Jesus up into a mountain top----Then Jesus said unto the Devil, ‘Satan, get behind me!’

Jesus speaking Satan’s name so many times in “Revelations” in the Bible even though he, Satan, is not present, indicates the special bond that links the two of them:

The Lord saith, Know the blasphemy of them who worship in the Synagogue of Satan----Know where Satan’s seat is-----Unto you I say who know the depths of Satan-----I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan who do not repent-----That greatest, Dragon, oldest Serpent also called the Devil; also known as Satan.’

It’s so very clear, then, that subliminally Jesus cannot help acknowledge that the three of us, I, Serpent, He, and Satan, share the same subliminal identity.

And so it is quite understandable and quite appropriate, why Jesus chose me, Serpent, as a good role-model for His followers:

Behold, I send you forth as Sheep into the midst of Wolves; be ye therefore as wise as Serpents are.’

And God Jehovah, too, acknowledges a worthiness exemplary in me. Hence His commands to Moses in that Wilderness of Zin:

Make thee a fi’ry Serpent out of brass, and set it on a pole. And it shall come to pass that everyone that’s bitten, when they look upon that Serpent made of brass, they certainly shall live.’

And Moses made a Serpent out of brass, and put it on a pole. And on the ground whenever Serpents sent by God Jehovah bit a person, when that person looked upon that Serpent Moses made of brass, that person did not die.’

The only child of God Jehovah, Jesus Christ, did see Himself in that brass Serpent made by Moses, and became inspired to say to his disciples:

Just as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whoso’er believes in Him should have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He did give His only Child, that whoso’er believes in Him shall have eternal life.’”


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