Upon cracked and barren earth sit Adam and Eve, dark here as an allusion to the ultimate ignorance they possessed regarding the consequences of their rebellion. Behind them skulks the scheming Serpent, and behind it lies the source of its own power and ambition, the fallen cherub Lucifer (based upon Ezekiel 28:12-15, and further supplemented through descriptions of cherubim in Ezekiel 1:5-10,13, and 10:12) heralded by cracking lightning from a coming storm…