I find it very informative to summarize the vast amount of Biblical information on Lilith into a time-line of probable events.\u00a0 The following summary timeline of events in Genesis is what I can safely say is supported by the Biblical evidences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Adam was created from dust, both a male and female were created at that time (Ge 1:27, 2:6-7, 5:2).\u00a0 The man and woman were both created as golems shaped from the dust (Job 26:13).\u00a0 This female (whom is Lilith) was nominally named ha\u2019adamah (the woman) at her creation (Ge 5:2), just as Adam was named ha\u2019adam (the man).\u00a0 It was God\u2019s original intention that both the male and female would be created in his image (Ge 1:26).\u00a0 But whereas the man was created from dry dust and animated by the breath of Jehovah, the woman was animated by a satanic mist that erupted from the earth and watered the face of her prepared body (Ge 2:6).\u00a0 This preemptive mist animated her in the image of Lucifer\u2019s spirit instead of God\u2019s (Ge 1:27, 5:1).\u00a0 This ruined the woman for God\u2019s purpose of her being a suitable helpmate for the man.\u00a0 The woman was not fully human, but was rather considered the supreme beast of the field, a mammal (Ge 3:1).\u00a0 This was because she was not created in the image of God like the man.\u00a0 Genesis insinuates that the female had come to curse the earth, whereas the male had come to bring remembrance of Jehovah\u2019s inheritance to the earth (Ge 1:27, 5:2).\u00a0 It flatly states that with the creation of this male and female two rival generations were being established \u2013 one the generations of the heavens and the other the generations of the earth (Ge 2:4-7).\u00a0 The generations of the earth would be those of the man.\u00a0 After serving the curses of the woman for a time, the ultimate fate of the man\u2019s generations was to flourish upon the earth.\u00a0 The generations of the heavens would be those of the woman.\u00a0 Sired from angels, the ultimate fate of her generations was to become complaining voices of the field.\u00a0 This happened after God rained down the curses of Noah\u2019s flood upon the earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the woman\u2019s flawed creation, God blessed both her and Adam and commanded them to fill the earth (Ge 1:28).[1]<\/a>\u00a0 God stated that both would go by the name of Adam though.\u00a0 This implied the male\u2019s ascendency.\u00a0 God also granted them permission at this time to eat of every tree (Ge 1:29).\u00a0 God then planted the Garden of Eden and placed the man there (Ge 2:8).\u00a0 After the man was placed in the garden, the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life came to exist (Ge 2:9).\u00a0 In addition, a river of water began to flow from Eden to water the garden (Ge 2:10-14).\u00a0 At this point, if not already before, something must have transpired.\u00a0 God \u201ctook\u201d the man from some situation and caused him to rest (to be free of troubles).\u00a0 It could also be understood to say that God began to personally lead the man.\u00a0 At this time God commanded the man to serve the garden and \u201cguard\u201d it (Ge 2:15).\u00a0 God also warned the man that he might no longer eat of every tree.\u00a0 Upon pain of death he was forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge (Ge 2:16-17).\u00a0 It is apparent that something had transpired to cause this new command.\u00a0 Moreover, the command to guard the garden implied there was a threat against it.\u00a0 These new commands may reflect new circumstances following the woman\u2019s rebellion.\u00a0 This notion is supported in the very next verse which relates that at some point the woman had separated from the man, for the man \u201chad become alone\u201d (Ge 2:18).\u00a0 It is realistic to guess that the woman may have acted on her demonic nature, rebelled, and left.\u00a0 Her act of defiance may have also played a role in establishing the tree knowledge and the eruption of the river from Eden that watered the garden.\u00a0 In any event, something important transpired after the man was taken to the garden, for he was forbidden to eat of the tree and commanded to guard the garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n At this point God declared that was not good that the man had become alone, and that he would create another helpmate for the man like one previously shown unto him (Ge 2:18).\u00a0 This previous helpmate refers to ha\u2019adamah (the woman, Lilith).\u00a0 However, the man may not have entirely given up on the woman yet, because God then brought to the man all the beasts of the field, including the woman, so that he might name them.\u00a0 In naming them the man demonstrated his authority over them by pronouncing judgment of their character (their names reflected their characteristics and traits).\u00a0 The woman came and was judged and named by the man.\u00a0 This is known because all<\/u> the beasts of field did thusly (Ge 2:19-20), and the woman is deemed a beast of the field (Ge 3:1).\u00a0 One may surmise that the man may have given the woman the name Lilith at this time (meaning \u201cdarkness\u201d), but this is not documented.\u00a0 In any event, the man\u2019s search was a failure.\u00a0 No suitable mate was found for him (Ge 2:20).\u00a0 Thus, the woman was judged and found unsuitable for the man at this encounter.\u00a0<\/p>\n Immediately following the man\u2019s failed search, God decided the time was right to create the woman\u2019s replacement, Eve (Ge 2:21-22).\u00a0 From this, we may surmise that the first woman must have decisively rebelled and sinned at her encounter with the man.\u00a0 This notion is supported by the fact that after this point the first woman goes by a new title, the Serpent (Ge 3:1).\u00a0 Her new title implies she was demonically possessed and cursed.\u00a0 It also suggests a new physical state for her, for the Serpent of Eden is called the \u201cfleeing Serpent\u201d named Leviathan in Isa 27:1 and Job 26:13\u00a0 The Hebrew for \u201cfleeing\u201d insinuates winged flight, and it definitely indicates that the Serpent was escaping from a situation \u2013 namely her situation in the garden.\u00a0 Because the woman acquired her title of Serpent late in the Genesis account, this confirms a transformational event must have occurred to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n At Eve\u2019s creation, the man remarked that \u201cthis time\u201d his woman was made of his own bone and flesh (Ge 2:23).\u00a0 \u201cThis time\u201d is in reference to the creation of the previous woman, Lilith, who was not made from the man\u2019s flesh, but rather from dust.\u00a0 The man then named his new mate Ishshah (woman), because she was taken from iysh (man).\u00a0 Adam could not give her the more logical name — Adamah or ha\u2019adamah (the woman), in the sense that she was taken from Adam or ha\u2019adam (the man) — because that name was already taken.\u00a0 The man then prophesized that for Ishshah (i.e. Eve), he would forsake God his father, and he would cling to her (Ge 2:24).\u00a0 This had dire consequences, for the Serpent Lilith returned to the garden and sought to bring down Ishshah.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Serpent deceived Ishshah (i.e. Eve) into sinning by eating of the forbidden tree (Ge 3:1-6).\u00a0 The Serpent began her temptation by challenging Ishshah if God really did forbid her eating of the tree.\u00a0 Ishshah not only confirmed this prohibition, but added an additional commandment that she could not even touch it.\u00a0 The rabbis have speculated the man added this command to Ishshah as a precaution against her accidentally eating of the tree by getting near it.\u00a0 The rabbis further speculate that the Serpent may have caused Ishshah to unintentionally touch the fruit at this time, so that when nothing happened to her, doubt entered into Ishshah\u2019s mind about the validity of God\u2019s command.\u00a0 Whether these speculations are correct or not, there are concrete clues in the literal Hebrew as to what the Serpent did do.\u00a0 The literal Hebrew says that Ishshah \u201csaw\u201d that the tree was 1) good for food, 2) made one beautiful, and 3) made one wise. \u00a0Thus, it would appear that the Serpent Lilith demonstrated these attributes in front of her.\u00a0 To accomplish this, the Serpent herself must have eaten of the forbidden tree in view of Ishshah.\u00a0 After no ill effects overcame the Serpent, this demonstrated the fruit was good for food. \u00a0<\/p>\n Next, the Serpent somehow showed Ishshah (i.e. Eve) that the fruit made one beautiful.\u00a0 One might speculate that the Serpent Lilith used the power and glamour of Lucifer to appear as a beautiful creature of Light before Ishshah, promising her that she too could become the same if she ate. \u00a0This notion is supported by a passage in a 13th century Kabbalistic work called the \u201cTreatise on the Left Emanation.\u201d\u00a0 It says, \u201cAnd the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the husks of Light<\/u> which in itself is holiness.\u201d \u00a0The husks of holy light refer to the glory of Lucifer, who radiates God\u2019s holy light.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lastly, the Serpent somehow demonstrated to Ishshah that the fruit of the tree made one wise.\u00a0 Precisely what she did to demonstrate this is a mystery.\u00a0 In any event, Ishshah was convinced and ate.\u00a0<\/p>\n When the man saw the fallen state of Ishshah (Eve), he was not deceived (1 Timothy 2:14).\u00a0 Instead he listened to her voice (sought to commune with her) and voluntarily joined her in her fallen state.\u00a0 Apparently, he did this out of love, lest he be alone again.\u00a0 The man himself prophesized this in Ge 2:24.\u00a0 There he declared that he would forsake God his father in order to cling unto Ishshah.\u00a0 By eating of the tree, the man forsook God and joined Ishshah, thereby fulfilling his prophesy.\u00a0 Some Sages have noted that when the man explains to Jehovah that Ishshah gave him of the fruit and v\u2019akal (I ate \u2013 lka:w), the verb is in the present future tense.\u00a0 It was as if the man was saying, \u201cI have eaten and will eat again\u201d, given the same circumstances.[2]<\/a>\u00a0 Another interesting line of thought is that the man had little choice in joining Ishshah.\u00a0 He had made a vow in Ge 2:24 that their flesh was one.\u00a0 Thus, when Ishshah ate and suffered the curse of the fruit, it was almost as if the man ate and suffered the curse in the same instant.\u00a0 They were one flesh.\u00a0<\/p>\n After the man ate of the tree of knowledge, he, Ishshah (Eve), and the Serpent were brought together to be judged by God.\u00a0 Ishshah and the Serpent were judged and cursed according to the rituals of the bitter water trial laid out in Nu 5:10-31.\u00a0 This supernatural trial tested women accused of adultery and of turning aside from under their husbands.\u00a0 The Serpent Lilith was judged and cursed according to the defiled adulteress enduring the trial.\u00a0 Like the trial\u2019s adulteress, the Serpent was forced to eat dust, was cursed in her belly, and her seed would wound the innocent woman\u2019s promised seed.\u00a0 Also like the trial, the innocent woman\u2019s promised seed would miraculously revive and slay the Serpent\u2019s seed and the Serpent herself.\u00a0 Ishshah was cursed according to the innocent woman of the trial.\u00a0 She would bear seed in sorrow and pain, but shall be saved in her child bearing (1 Timothy 2:15), just as the innocent woman of the trial initially suffered the curses before having them removed by her promised seed.\u00a0<\/p>\n In God\u2019s judgment of the man, Adam was cursed to serve \u201cthe ground\u201d (ha\u2019adamah), which was cursed for his sake.\u00a0 He would sweat and toil under the burden of this service.\u00a0 The man\u2019s command to serve the ground was in lieu of the man serving the garden, which was God\u2019s previous command to him.\u00a0 The man\u2019s servitude to the ground (ha\u2019adamah) is in allusion to him being subjugated to the evils of Lilith, the woman (ha\u2019adamah), who was cursed by God above all animals for the sake of Adam, such that he and Eve could find eventual salvation.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the conclusion of God\u2019s judgment and cursing of the three, Adam renamed Ishshah with the honorable name of Eve.\u00a0 He did this because Eve (meaning life) was the mother of all living.\u00a0 He recognized that in Eve\u2019s curse of pain in childbirth, came the salvation of them both.\u00a0 In her and her seed, he would not die.\u00a0 God clothed the two with animal skins, so that he might not look upon their nakedness anymore.\u00a0 God then sent them from the garden, lest they should eat of the tree of eternal life in their fallen condition and be forever damned.\u00a0<\/p>\n What Lilith did after God\u2019s judgment of her in the garden is largely the topic of chapter 6.\u00a0 Suffice it to say that she fulfilled God\u2019s prophesy that she would bear a seed in rivalry with Eve\u2019s seed of Messiah.\u00a0 Lilith\u2019s seed was Azazel, who she conceived by consorting with fallen angels called Watchers.\u00a0 In its description of the Yom Kippur ceremony, Leviticus establishes Azazel\u2019s ultimate role as rival to Messiah.\u00a0 In bearing Azazel, Lilith completed the final requirements for being the complete wayward woman of the bitter water trial. \u00a0She turned aside from her husband and God and had adulterous \/ idolatrous relations with angels.\u00a0 Azazel and his Nephilim brethren nearly pushed Adam\u2019s linage to extinction before Noah\u2019s flood.\u00a0 However, God imprisoned the Watchers and brought the flood to destroy the Nephilim.\u00a0 The Nephilim returned after the flood in a reduced state as the Gibborim.\u00a0 They survived across the flood through Naamah, the wife of Noah\u2019s son Ham.\u00a0 Israel apparently destroyed the last of this defiled linage in the time of King David.<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Not punishing the woman is in keeping with the notion that God does not punish sin until it actually occurs because it is not in God\u2019s nature to punish beings for sins not yet committed.\u00a0<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> The Stone Chumash, Bereishis 3:12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I find it very informative to summarize the vast amount of Biblical information on Lilith into a time-line of probable events.\u00a0 The following summary timeline of events in Genesis is what I can safely say is supported by the Biblical evidences.\u00a0 When Adam was created from dust, both a male and female were created at … Continue reading “4) Timeline of Events in the 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