Therefore, He forbids you to eat of it, lest you create other worlds Hurry now and eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, and become independent of God, lest He bring forth still other creatures that will rule over you (Ginzberg). c. And clothed them: This, together with the expression of faith in Gods promise indicated in the naming of Eve (Genesis 3:20), indicates that Adam and Eve were rescued from their sinful condition. 2. But to this point, she was called a female (Genesis 1:27), a helper comparable (Genesis 2:18), a woman (Genesis 2:22, 23), and a wife (Genesis 2:24, 25; 3:8). Luke-Acts When cherubim are represented on earth (such as in the tabernacle, Exodus 25:10-22), they mark a meeting place with God. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). Because she was the mother of all living: Adam named her Eve, even though she was not a mother at all at the time. c. In toil you shall eat of it: Adam worked before the curse, but it was all joy. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. He quoted the command wrong. He sweat for us, as it had been great drops of blood. i. Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. ii. God knew the answer to this question. Now the two angels came to iii. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy 1. He was crowned with thorns for us. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Also, there is a continual struggle between the wicked and the godly in this world. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. Because you have done this, b. Web2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18); and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father (1 Timothy 6:16). a. (Genesis 3:6) Adam and Eve both disobey God in their own way. Satans hatred of Eve was nothing new; it was already present but now man will, generally speaking, have antagonism towards Satan. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question which seemed innocent. b. Verse Genesis 3:19. CSB 19 You will eat bread by the We cant outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). (Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. i. See her what dishonour and trouble sin is; it makes mischief wherever it gets in, and destroys all comfort. i. Wisdom Literature God has a covering for His people (Isaiah 61:10), and the exhortation from Jesus is for us: Behold, I am coming as a thief. 2. Before they sinned, they would have welcomed God's gracious visits with humble joy; but now he was become a terror to them. i. Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan. a. God obviously knew where they were but He also knew a gulf had been made between Him and man, a gulf that He Himself would have to bridge. Some creature had to die in order to provide them with garments, and you know who it is that died in order that we might be robed in his spotless righteousness. Genesis 3:19 in all English translations. The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. Our use of these terms is not merely cultural, it is Biblical. Prophets In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, 2. ii. In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day. ii. ii. 1. Yes, I am sure he has, and it is well said; and by his grace I will abide by it. i. The serpent (Lucifer) deceives EveShe and then Adam partake of the forbidden fruitHer Seed (Christ) will bruise the serpents headThe roles of woman War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. He asked it because He allowed Adam to make the best of a bad situation by repenting right then and there, but Adam didnt come clean and repent before God. i. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Webhis body was composed of the dust, was of the earth, earthly, and should be reduced to that again by death, which is not an annihilation of man, but a bringing him back to They knew they were naked, in the sense of having their shame exposed to all creation. The Old Testament God didnt ask Satan (the being animating the serpent) any questions because there was nothing to teach him. Eve was responsible. Your desire shall be for your husband, We read of the travail of Christ's soul, Galatians 3:13. 3. There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. As He creates and destroys worlds, so will you have the power to create and destroy. Adam sinned willfully, having abdicated his leadership position. Satan couldnt cram the fruit down her throat. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. This creature didnt start as a snake as we know it, it became one. His victory over Satan thereby. It reminded them they were not God, that God had a legitimate claim to their obedience, and that they were responsible to Him. Because of Adam: ii. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. The way God came to Adam and Eve is a model of how He comes to lost and fallen humanity ever since. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? 3. Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. Johannine Writings We may not understand everything involved in the way Satan used the body of a serpent, but we can know it was true and this is no mere fable. Where the gospel has gone, the load has been lifted, and woman in Christ has become the reflection of the redeemed Church, the bride of Christ. (Barnhouse). a. I will greatly multiply your sorrow: God first cursed the woman with multiplied sorrow. Jesus, in taking on humanity, brought Himself near to Satans domain so Satan could strike Him. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. Like Adam, we have reason to be afraid of approaching to God, if we are not covered and clothed with the righteousness of Christ. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. Pauline Epistles He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. If man had not sinned, he would always have ruled with wisdom and love; if the woman had not sinned, she would always have obeyed with humility and meekness. And the LORD God said to the serpent: When God spoke to Adam and to Eve, He questioned each of them. He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. God confronted Adams problem squarely. Gods plan wasnt defeated when Adam and Eve sinned because Gods plan was to bring forth something greater than man in the innocence of Eden. Take and eat will one day become verbs of salvation, but only after Jesus had lived in the world of Adams curse and surrendered to death. It speaks great encouragement to sinners, that their Saviour is the Seed of the woman, bone of our bone, Hebrews 2:11,14. This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. iv. The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning; and scoffers are his children. Those who by sin go astray from God, should seriously consider where they are; they are afar off from all good, in the midst of their enemies, in bondage to Satan, and in the high road to utter ruin. Isaiah 14 tells us Satans fall had to do with his desire to be equal to or greater than God, to set his will against Gods will. The Old Testament This same word for desire is used in Genesis 4:7 of the desire of sin to master over Cain. Poole says the woman wasnt surprised at the serpents speaking because Adam and Eve had free conversation with angelic beings that often appeared in the form of men. Prophets c. In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened: Satans temptation was all the more powerful because there was truth in it. iii. i. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. It is an ill sign with men when they cannot be brought frankly to acknowledge their wrong-doing. (Spurgeon), And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.. We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, You will be like God, knowing good and evil, The woman saw that the tree was good for food, Then the eyes of both of them were opened, They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, walking in the garden in the cool of the day, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid. In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). iii. The two angels come to Sodom. Albeit that henceforth all he ate was to be with the sweat of his face, yet still he was to have enough to eat, and he was to live on. (Spurgeon). Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Was he crowned with thorns, and do you wonder that they grow up around your feet? Under the cover of the serpent, the devil is sentenced to be degraded and accursed of God; detested and abhorred of all mankind: also to be destroyed and ruined at last by the great Redeemer, signified by the breaking of his head. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. The tree was not really good for food, though Eve was deceived into thinking it was so. ii. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. Prophets Let those that are meanly clad, learn from hence not to complain. General Epistles 16-19 The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. Satan wants us to see sin as something good that a bad God doesnt want us to have. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. (Genesis 3:14-15) Gods curse upon the serpent. 1. i. And you shall eat dust Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. Major Prophets So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. ii. All the days of your life. It is difficult for women in Christian lands to realize the miseries of their hundreds of millions of sisters in pagan lands, where the lot of women is little above that of cattle. Our good works are like monopoly money great for monopoly, but not legal tender. ii. i. The Gospels Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. (20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. It may be that Adam and Eve were previously clothed in Gods glorious light, and the immediate loss of this covering of light left them feeling exposed and naked. One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it; but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls. ( Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. (Genesis 3:22-24) God sets cherubim to guard the Tree of Life. d. He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden: Cherubim are always associated with the presence and glory of God (Ezekiel 10, Isaiah 6, Revelation 4). God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. WebGenesis 3. Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. The question was meant to arouse Adams sense of being lost. Gods judgment on Satan is for him to always know defeat. a. 1. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. i. Now the curse on Eve makes it much harder for her to submit and flow with Gods institution of male headship in the home. If this is true, it wasnt so strange to Eve that an angelic being might appear to her in the form of a beautiful pre-curse serpent. His victory over Satan thereby. We can speculate that God did not destroy it, but left it to the effects of the curse and suppose that it generally deteriorated from its original condition, blending into the surrounding geography. The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. WebGenesis 3:19. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a God ordained that the pain with which women bring children into this world be an example of the pain they experience more generally in life. Did death come in with sin? Believe this (Spurgeon). i. WebCommentary on Genesis 3:16-19. 20 The man gave his Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? However, Lots wife glances back, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. 2. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread His business, before he sinned, was a constant pleasure to him; but now his labour shall be a weariness. There is a strange proneness in those that are tempted, to say, they are tempted of God; as if our abuse of God's gifts would excuse our breaking God's laws. Before the curse on man, the ground only produced good. But their eyes were instantly opened to their own sin and rebellion. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. General Epistles Adam even blames God. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Adam and Eve must have been terrified as this once-beautiful creature called a serpent was transformed into the creeping, slithering, hissing snake we know today. If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. General Epistles That bruised heel is painful enough. ii. And still the devil draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. In 1995, New Age influence made it all the way to the White House. Because of the curse, Eve would have to fight a desire to master her husband, a desire that works against Gods ordained order for the home. iv. Pentateuch He excused the fault by laying it on his Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. 1. Thus the devil was from the beginning a murderer, and the great mischief maker. (1) The serpent begins his temptation.. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD 2. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. Now work has a cursed element to it, with pain and weariness a part of work. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. Poetical Books Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. When too late, Adam and Eve saw the folly of eating forbidden fruit. He was guilty of unkindness to his wife and of blasphemy against his maker, in seeking to escape from confessing the sin which he had committed. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). WebGenesis 19:3. Historical Books Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. The principle of Galatians 3:13 is established as we consider that Jesus bore each aspect of the curse upon Adam and Eve in its totality: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. ii. Adam named her in faith, trusting God would bring forth a deliverer from the woman because God said He would defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). Web(Read Genesis 3:16-19) The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of As a result of the fall, man no longer rules easily; he must fight from his headship. Thank you for registering. Learn hence, that Satan's temptations are all beguilings; his arguments are all deceits; his allurements are all cheats; when he speaks fair, believe him not. Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. Little reason have we to be proud of our clothes, which are but the badges of our shame. Adam laid the blame on his wife; but though it was her fault to persuade him to eat the forbidden fruit, it was his fault to hearken to her. Did travailing pains come with sin? After the curse, it still produced good, but thorns and thistles will come faster and easier than good fruit. Their eyes were opened, they did know good and evil, but not as gods. It was true your eyes will be opened, and this was fulfilled (Genesis 3:7). When God made clothes for our first parents, he made them warm and strong, but coarse and very plain; not robes of scarlet, but coats of skin. Of course, it was a good idea to completely avoid the temptation; no good could come from massaging the fruit youre not supposed to eat. (22-24). Prophets We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. a. WebGenesis 19 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah A. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). There is now a natural fear of Satan in the heart of man. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. iv. g. He shall bruise your head: For God to see the defeat of Satan at Satans first flush of victory shows God knew what He was doing all along. i. Robbins is also recognized as a leader in the New Age movement. ii. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. We are called to talk to the devil, but never to have a discussion with him. God wanted more than innocent man; His plan is to bring forth redeemed man. Sin brought pain to childbirth, and no one knew more pain than Jesus did when He, through His suffering, brought many sons to glory (, Sin brought conflict, and Jesus endured great conflict to bring our salvation (, Thorns came with sin and the fall, and Jesus endured a crown of thorns to bring our salvation (, Sin brought sweat, and Jesus sweat, as it were, great drops of blood to win our salvation (, Sin brought sorrow, and Jesus became a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, to save us (, Sin brought death, and Jesus tasted death for everyone that we might be saved (, Barnhouse, Donald Grey "Genesis: A Devotional Exposition" Volumes 1 and 2 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1973), Boice, James Montgomery "Genesis: An Expositional Commentary" Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1987), Ginzberg, Louis "The Legends of the Jews" Volumes 1-7 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968), Leupold, H.C. "Exposition of Genesis: Volumes 1 and 2" (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1976), Spurgeon, Charles Haddon "The New Park Street Pulpit" Volumes 1-6 and "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit" Volumes 7-63 (Pasadena, Texas: Pilgrim Publications, 1990). The New Testament (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. There is no doubt this is a prophecy of Jesus ultimate defeat of Satan. The New Testament Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. This lost sheep had wandered without end, if the good Shepherd had not sought after him, and told him, that where he was straying he could not be either happy or easy.
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