will give you the wisdom man toils in church's of mine to find” Apollyon said.
Eve's hand came out across the table and without looking away from her eye's Gabriel grasped her hand. Gabriel felt the lightning through his body sending him into the time of Eve. Gabriel was sitting on a log with Apollyon in a gorgeous forest. “Few men have set foot here Gabriel, though this is just you seeing the original sin. But before you is the garden of Eden and the birth of sin” Apollyon said.
There was a tree like none on earth in front of them. The bark was more like a dark metal than wood. Engraved with fine lines winding up to the branches. Instead of the wind blowing the tree, this tree was blowing the wind and stood like a pillar of earth. The leaves had vibrate colors and none looked the same in color or form.
Apples the size of melons hung from its branches and each apple had its own shade of green and red. At the roots of the tree was a large snake that almost blended in with the tree itself. The snake coiled along the root of the tree and its prescience tainted the glorious forest around it. The snakes tongue flickered in and out like a fisherman casting out his bait. “You are about to see my first and greatest trick of all time” Apollyon said as he laid his hand on Gabriel's shoulder.
Just as Apollyon finished speaking Eve came walking through the forest. She was completely nude. Her body was nor fat or skinny, she was voluptuous and not groomed in any way. She looked more like a beast in the forest than the mother of mankind. The way she walked and looked around the forest with such wounder, like a deer or animal of prey. It was clear she was prey, the prey of the serpent waiting for her.
“Did god really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?” The snake said to Eve. “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, but god did say, you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it or you will die” Eve said to the snake.
The serpent coiled its way up the tree flickering its tongue out at Eve. “You will not surely die, for god knows when you eat of it your eyes shall be opened. You will be like god knowing good and evil” The serpent said.
Eve looked up at the magnificent tree and stepped closer. The closer she got to the tree the more the snakes tongue flickered out of its mouth. “The first lust for temptation” Apollyon told Gabriel. “But why would god leave such power if he wanted man to never have it?” Gabriel asked. “He wanted to prove me wrong, that what he created in his image was good. He held more blind faith in you than you ever did in him.” Apollyon said.
Eve slowly inched her hand out and touched the tree. Then she quickly retracted her hand and looked at it. She studied her hand for a moment and then grabbed hold of the tree with both hands and climbed up on to a branch. She reached out and plucked the darkest red apple on the tree. Eve placed the apple up to her nose and rubbed the apple in her hand.
Then Eve smiled and looked up at the heavens and took a bite from the apple. After tasting wisdom Eve started pulling down as many apples from the tree as she could carry. “So man's lust for power begins!” Apollyon said. Eve walked off with her arms full of apples and then Gabriel was struck with electricity and back at the bar with Apollyon.
“So did god give man free will or did you?” Gabriel asked Apollyon.”Your hunger for power gave you free will. God placed the tree in the garden, and I told you it was good. But only you could eat from it, and so many have” Apollyon said. “But you showed me the tree and told me not to eat so others can. so where does that leave me?” Gabriel said.
“Ah, but your purpose here is the same as Eve's. She was the birth of sin, you are the keeper of it.” Apollyon said. “But the keeper of sin can also be the keeper of hope for mankind. Just like god placed the tree in the garden and let them choose, so can I” Gabriel said but Apollyon was gone.
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He is 28 years old, born and raised in Craig Colorado. He dropped out of high school to join the working world. Another failure in the public school system. He has worked as a butcher, casino cook, truck driver, concrete truck driver and finisher, now he works for the government. The Colorado Rockies are still his home.
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