When the word of God is cast down it becomes a rod/serpent in the garden it was cast down in ... a relative truth to all; and part of the process of the soul, that you have to sacrifice your son (the soul/women's perception of self) to keep (one/whole), which (in one form) the duality of the tree of knowledge depicts; by which the lack of you perish, or languish) ...
God counted the cost to build his house and found it to be his son, and/or so we to believe the testimony of this process in a meager way, not understanding the riches of Christ to all from the beginning (which is the end in itself) of the foundation of the world whom Christ was crucified from. The experience that awaits those who dare to enter in and remain, will find they have been there from the beginning (a fellowship of one glory, so to speak).
But the path must have a serpent in it, whom without; the house does not get built … It's the process all go through ... (and the only one that is lost is the one that never was) ...