After creating all the things, God made man and constituted him as an authority on the creation (Gn.1.26). Human beings should dominate everything that exists on the earth. However, this authority only prevailed, while Adam was connected to the fountain of power, which is God. From the moment in which he sinned, Adam stopped dominating. Therefore, Satan became the “prince of this world” (John 14.30; Lc.4.5-6), and since then, “the world lies in the evil” (I John 5.19), so that the whole is undermined by nature the devastating effects of sin (Rm.8.20).

The natural order of the things should have been: Adam and Eva as an authority on the animals. However, in chapter 3, Eva let the serpent control her. An inversion of the order took place then and, consequently, the moral and spiritual chaos was installed. In the same chapter, God established the authority of the man on his wife. From then on, man would not dominate naturally on the animals neither about the demonic powers. God said to the serpent: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it will bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel” (Gn.3.15). The man became prey of the animals and victim of the spiritual and natural forces. The environment became hostile. The life of man has become a struggle to achieve survival, and in some measure, the lost dominion More ahead, in chapter 6, it is the history of Noah. When placing and controlling the animals in the ark, He demonstrated that the dominion still was possible for those that were placed in obedience under the divine authority.

In the New Testament, Jesus came to rescue the authority that the man had lost. In the cross this was accomplished and, while reviving, Christ received all the authority in Heavens and in the land (Mt.28.18). He, the last Adam (I Cor.15.45), undid the mistake of the first man. The new Eva is the church. The divine order of authority is again established. Surviving this new reality, every Christian, as part of the church, is invested of authority on serpents, scorpions and any power of the evil and nothing will damage them(Lc.10.17-19; Mc.16.17-18; 3 At.28-3-6).

In the Meantime, since the serpent deceived Eva, we take risk of being deceived by the Devil, falling in his traps and losing our authority (II Cor.11.3).