An explanation of the parables

cern the likeness; and when the eyes of their understanding be opened the wise will see it, and consider, how from a few words being spoken I went on to show them how these things should be fulfilled. And here I shall end with thy Books for the present, and bring them from thy Books to my Bible.

These few words I spoke in the creation, when I laid the foundation of the world, and said, Let us make man in our own likeness; but said, the man was not good alone; I would make a Helpmate a helpful partner, referring to Eve for him, which I did in the Woman; and then discern the Words I said in the Fall, when horror and despair came upon the man and the woman, seeking to shun ME, knowing what they had done. In this despair the Man cast his blame on ME; but the Woman cast it on the Serpent that betrayed her. And now discern the words I spoke: I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy Head, and thou shalt bruise his Heel A reference to Genesis 3:15, interpreted here as the prophecy of the ultimate defeat of Satan. Here were few words spoken in the beginning, like the few words I spoke in thee, before I brought forward the parables, dreams, and visions, to show you how they would be accomplished in the end. Perfectly so stand my Words on record: I first spoke the Words of what the end should be; and as the ages rolled on, I set signs and parables, to show you the end. As I have already told thee, that the type of Cain killing his Brother was a type of my Death, and how the wicked would pursue the good, to have my Heel bruised first, till I come to avenge my Blood on the Adversary, and bruise his Head. Then discern through my Bible, how I went on to show you the end; as I told thee from the deluge the great flood in the time of Noah, when the world was drowned, I saved none but the just; but as the author of evil remained, sin again increased; therefore I told thee, like the deluge sweeping off a race of sinful men, I should in the end sweep off all the powers of evil. Here stood one parable in my Bible, to show you the end; another I told thee