The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

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492. Face—An appearance of the frontal view of something. An expression or confrontation. Can also mean a meeting. Nodding indicates a release, revealed reaction, an approval or disapproval, or other emotion. Genesis 1:2 and 17:3, 17; Luke 9:53; Acts 17:26. 493. Faculty—An inherent or innate power or ability. Faculty applies to the means by which such power exudes based on its specific kin or stock. What distinguishes faculty from its synonyms is that its meanings stress stored up wealth that supplies the resources from which the power and ability of a faculty draws. Deuteronomy 8:18; Daniel 1:17 and 11:6. 494. Faith—The immaterial mechanism that produces material blessings and provisions from Creator God. Hebrews 11:1. 495. Fall, The—The term given to the transgression of Adam, the first man, in the Garden of Eden. Adam was commanded before the appearance of his wife not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. At his wife’s insistence, and the deceptive revelations of the serpent who persuaded them that they would become as gods, Adam did eat. Although his wife, Eve, took of the fruit of the tree and ate first, it was not until Adam followed her that calamity came upon them. The serpent, who was the scout for the entrance of sin into humanity, was always in the world. Sin was now free to enter the spirit and soul of humanity through Adam’s foolish act. The Bible says that the man was not deceived, but entered transgression. The woman on the other hand, Paul told Timothy, was deceived and fell into sin. With Adam it was a matter of volition; he voluntarily ate from the hands of his wife. She, on the other hand, was foolishly deceived, believing the information about her heritage the devil told her. Adam knew better; she did not. The difference is that if Adam had never eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, if he had steadfastly obeyed the command of his God, the world would not have fallen into sin because the command came directly to him and not to his wife. She received the edict from her husband so that when she ate, she only