However, Satan’s nature was one that man was never meant to possess. This nature is found in the seventeen (17) works of the flesh delineated in Galatians 5:19-21:

Before Satan was able to entice man into this realm of the knowledge of good and evil, man had no knowledge of evil. He simply obeyed God by nature. But the nature of Satan gave Adam and Eve an awareness of both God’s goodness and the devil’s evil. Once Satan’s nature was introduced to man, he had the ability to operate in his own free will. This forced man to have to make daily choices as to whether he was going to obey God or the devil.

When Adam and Eve walked away from the anchor of their souls (the Lord God Almighty) into the soulish den of the devil, they immediately began to spiritually mutate into another life-type– one not created by God, but the devil. Detached from God, man became a strange creation. In God’s presence, he now felt self-conscious, paranoid, unusual, and strange. As we see in Genesis 3:8, man’s fallen nature leads him to hide from God, cover himself up and avoid the truth and light of God.

Since God easily sees all things in man, the only person he is really hiding from is himself. Through the fallen state, man has taken on the image of the devil—not by acts of sin, but by nature. According to the Bible, this makes us the children of wrath. By feasting on the forbidden fruit, we become the offspring of the devil, allowing him to rule the human soul by nature. Once man takes on this nature, he becomes the very antithesis of God and His Creator becomes his enemy. In light of this, God sent His Son, not to destroy us physically, but to destroy the nature we possess. For this purpose was the Son of God manifest, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

When Eve obeyed the voice of Satan in spite of what God had instructed, she gave him preeminence and the right to stand in the place of God. When Adam submitted to Eve’s lies, wiles, and seduction, he gave up his position as the authority for God. He bowed the knee and began to worship and serve Eve, who was supposed to be submitted to him. Here we see the gravest consequences of the fall. When Adam bowed to Eve in rebellion against the Word of God, for all intents and purposes, they switched places. Eve became the authority and Adam the submissive one. This is why we currently have matriarchal rulership seeking to take over and displace God’s Sovereign order.

When God came to Adam (as the authority) and asked, “What have you done?” the effect of the fallen nature is visible in Adam’s reply. He quickly turns to blame the woman. Without hesitation, the irresponsibility of his rebellious deeds is swiftly cast on somebody else. In a single breath, Adam walks away from his authority and responsibility before God in search of a scapegoat. Similarly, when the Lord addresses Eve, she blames the serpent. No one is accountable in this fallen, perverted, and mutated nature