<NOBR>Mt 23:14</NOBR>

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Jesus is speaking to those who sit in Moses' seat.  Pharisees, hypocrites.  pretend religion,  yet hate truth and GRACE.  (law folks)

<NOBR>Mt 23:27</NOBR>	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
<NOBR>Mt 23:28</NOBR>	Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Lucifer, you were perfect till iniquity was found in you.)  you hypocrite! you appear beautiful outward.  yes you were so beautiful, till you fell.)
<NOBR>Mt 23:29</NOBR>	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
<NOBR>Mt 23:30</NOBR>	And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
<NOBR>Mt 23:31</NOBR>	Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
<NOBR>Mt 23:32</NOBR>	Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
<NOBR>Mt 23:33</NOBR>	Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Now that is all Jesus' words.  He is calling those religious hypocrites fools, blind guides, killers of the prophets, children of those who did so,  they appear religious outside, but are full dead men's bones, inside.

But notice then, he called them  SERPENTS,  A GENERATION OF  VIPERS.

LOOK UP ADAM.  ONE MEANING IS A HYPOCRITE, A MEAN LOW MAN.  It also means SERPENT.

So I ask again,  if Adam was not that SERPENT in the garden,  was it some other religious hypocrite?  who really was the blind guide there, who deceived Eve?

If that SERPENT was not Adam, then how did that Serpent later father these Pharisees?  Jesus called them SERPENTS.  SO ARE THEY SATAN?  ARE THEY A SNAKE?

WAS SATAN THEIR DAD?  HOW DID THAT SERPENT FATHER THESE SERPENTS?

Someone better get to some answers, or else say you care not for truth.

Who were these rulers?  They had a staff, a rod of rulership.  So How did they acquire the kingship of this earth?

<NOBR>Isa 14:12</NOBR>	How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
<NOBR>Isa 14:13</NOBR>	For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
<NOBR>Isa 14:14</NOBR>	I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
<NOBR>Isa 14:15</NOBR>	Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
<NOBR>Isa 14:16</NOBR>	They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Now these verses makes it very clear that it is speaking of the Lucifer of Eze. 28.  See how it says he will be brought down to the PIT. Notice he weakened the nations.  He ruled them.  He is A   MAN  who caused the earth to tremble and shake kingdoms.  Who is this  MAN?  (it does not say a woman or a spirit.)

Do you believe that Cain and Abel were in this Babylon, golden city?

Let Jesus show you:

<NOBR>Mt 23:34</NOBR>	Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
<NOBR>Mt 23:35</NOBR>	That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
<NOBR>Mt 23:36</NOBR>	Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
<NOBR>Mt 23:37</NOBR>	O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
<NOBR>Mt 23:38</NOBR>	Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Now back to Mt. 23 and Jesus' words against the SERPENTS, the Pharisees of Jerusalem:  v34, he shows that they already killed the servants of God and all his prophets.  v35 -- he started with the blood of  ABEL.  Yes, see, Jesus showed that Abel was killed by the same SERPENTS,  HYPOCRITES,   IN THAT GOLDEN CITY OF BABYLON.

Jesus has not changed one bit, who he is speaking to and about down through all these verses.

v36.  all this comes on this GENERATION....a generation of SERPENTS and vipers.

V37,  HE NAILS IT DOWN AS JERUSALEM.  They are the decendants of that OLD SERPENT in the Garden of Eden.

He showed that they  KILLED ALL THE PROPHETS FROM ABEL DOWN.  (this includes old Cain.)  So Cain lived in that Babylon city of SERPENTS.  He was one of them.  Who was his dad?

Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain.

There you have it.

<NOBR>Re 18:1</NOBR>	And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
<NOBR>Re 18:2</NOBR>	And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
<NOBR>Re 18:3</NOBR>	For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

This Babylon city, was always noted for her merchandizing;  her love for gold and riches.  She is noted for her fornication (spiritual adultery).

<NOBR>Re 18:5</NOBR>

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

(you were perfect, until INIQUITY WAS found in you.)

<NOBR>Re 18:7</NOBR>

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

<NOBR>Re 18:20</NOBR>	Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
<NOBR>Re 18:21</NOBR>	And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

why did God avenge the Apostles and prophets on this rich Babylon city?  Because Jesus showed they are the ones who killed ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING ABEL.

for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
<NOBR>Re 18:24</NOBR>	And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

In Her was found the blood of prophets, and of all that were slain upon earth.  by her ALL NATIONS were deceived,  including Eve.

Now, can anyone doubt that this started with Lucifer in the Garden of Eden?  It was that old serpent, Adam.  You can lay this to no other named in Scripture.

Who did God give the rulership of this earth to?  Find that answer, and you have the answer as to who this OLD SERPENT is.  You will find who Satan is. 

Where is even one Scripture stating that God ever gave Satan the rulership to this earth?

Ever see how God changed many names to another name because of a change in something about their nature?

Abram  -  to Abraham.

Peter  -  to Cephas, a stone.

Jacob  - to Israel.

Saul  - to Paul.

Lucifer  - to Adam.