[1 ADAM+EVE 17:1] - THEN Adam and Eve came out at the mouth of the cave, and went towards the garden.

It was at coming outside the cave's mouth that their direction towards the garden became very clear. Hardly would it be clear they were headed toward the garden when they were still within the cave's mouth. The enclosure was obscuring their destination.

Like Adam and Eve here, we have to come out of the mouth of some things first before we are clear to the direction we are headed. And may our coming out of the mouth of the cave, or mouth of the bondage that imprisoned us in the past night, be to our direction towards the Gates of the Garden and Kingdom of God. Amen.

[1 Adam and Eve 17:2] — But as they went near it, before the western gate, from which Satan came when he deceived Adam and Eve, they found the serpent that became Satan coming at the gate, and sorrowfully licking the dust, and wiggling on its breast on the ground, by reason of the curse that fell on it from God.

Adam and Eve had spent one day and night without Satan in the world outside the Garden of Eden. And behold, they had spent that day and night in sorrows, pains, and weeping, even though the Serpent was not yet out to add to their sorrows by then. Behold, in this verse was the Serpent called Satan out from the Garden to them in woes and sorrows.

[Revelation 12:12] — "Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time."

All the inhabitants of the earth by then saw Satan the devil coming out of the Garden in great sorrow, pain and anger, for those things he had but lost because of the curse that fell upon him from God. He was both a wounded and furious Serpent, the first of the living creatures of the earth to be thus. Surely, the Curse of God upon the Serpent did not add to his dominion, but took away much from him. Are you among those saying the Serpent or Satan collected the Dominion from Mankind after they sinned? Do not say that anymore. The only thing the Serpent collected was the Curse and Enmity for what the Serpent had done to the Woman and Mankind. As it is written,

[Genesis 3:14‭-‬15 NKJV] — So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

Now notice what you never noticed before in this Bible Reference of "Genesis 3:14:" — The Serpent was cursed above two out of three categories/groups of earthly living creatures. There were three categories: "Cattle, Beasts, and Creeping Things." But the Serpent was cursed above the Cattle, reducing the Serpent into Beast. And again the Serpent was cursed above every Beast, reducing the Serpent into Creeping Things. But at the levels of Creeping Things, the Serpent was not cursed above them but reduced to the levels of Creeping Things but having no legs or moving on its belly/breast. That was the lowest in the humiliation.

A Sheep that's among Cattle is ranking higher than a wolf that's among Beast, though a wolf would tear a sheep in battle. Thus, Satan or the Serpent had no Dominion, but Humiliation and curse.