You were made from b. It was the ground that was cursed due to Adam's sin, so that he had to toil by the sweat of his brow throughout this earthly life to provide what was originally bestowed in plentiful supply. 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). Men and women have each known sorrow throughout history, yet the unique sorrow of women is well known. Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. 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. i. ii. The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. God came to them patiently, waiting for the cool of the day the evening time. The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. The taking was all her doing. WebGenesis chapter 3 tells the story of the fall of man through the temptation of Eve and the entrance of sin into the world. All Rights Reserved. Cookie Notice: Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. The beasts, from whose skins they were clothed, it is supposed were slain, not for man's food, but for sacrifice, to typify Christ, the great Sacrifice. 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. You will not surely die: Satan first wanted Eve to forget all about what God said about the consequences of sin. i. The Gospels Having food and a covering, let them be content; they are as well off as Adam and Eve. WebGenesis 3:17. By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. WebChapter 3. Minor Prophets Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. WebGenesis 3:14-19. The Old Testament ii. The New Testament He quoted the command wrong. i. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. Not only does Adam unjustly accuse Eve, but also he refused to accept proper responsibility for his part in her sin. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. A gracious promise is here made of Christ, as the Deliverer of fallen man from the power of Satan. Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. Matthew Henrys Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. i. Gods question demanded an answer. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. It was true your eyes will be opened, and this was fulfilled (Genesis 3:7). You are cursed more than all cattle, Though Adam and Eve and their descendants were prevented from eating the fruit of the tree of life (by Gods mercy), they could still come there to meet God. She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise though at the time the woman had borne no children. (Spurgeon). Many have speculated that Adam sinned because he didnt want Eve to be alone in the fall, and he ate of the fruit out of a romantic impulse. We can see the precise truth of Pauls statement in 1 Timothy 2:14, that Eve was deceived when she sinned. b. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Thank you for registering. Their hearts must have been sorely perplexed within them while they were waiting to see what God would do to them as a punishment for the great sin they had committed. (Spurgeon). Minor Prophets This creature didnt start as a snake as we know it, it became one. It was Satan who said, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will be like the Most High (Isaiah 14:13-14). Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). ii. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. Also, there is a continual struggle between the wicked and the godly in this world. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). Wisdom Literature WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. Pentateuch And he shall rule over you.. He was nailed to the cross; he hung there in thirst and fever, and darkness and desertion (Spurgeon). I will put enmity between you and the woman: In addition, there is a natural aversion between mankind and serpents, especially on the part of women. He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of lusting after, Romans 5:19; disobedience to a plain, easy, and express command. And I will put enmity And let those that are finely clad, learn not to make the putting on of apparel their adorning. 2. i. Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. b. ii. God commanded the serpent to slither on the ground instead of walking on legs like any other animal. Sin appears most plainly in the glass of the commandment, therefore God set it before Adam; and in it we should see our faces. So he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told you that you were naked? 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. We will see Adam and Eve in heaven. Historical Books WebGenesis 3:19 The last part of God's curse on Adam involves the brevity of physical life. Web19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. Pauline Epistles (Genesis 3:22-24) God sets cherubim to guard the Tree of Life. 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, a. b. Adam and his wife hid themselves: This shows that Adam and Eve knew that their attempt to cover themselves failed. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. 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. Because you have done this, i. As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. Between you and the woman, Such are all the rags of our own righteousness. ii. 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. Poetical Books In an echo of the flood story, God destroys Sodom for the wickedness displayed earlier in the chapter. The principle of Adams headship as a husband was established before the fall (see Genesis 2:18 and 2:22). Her words, you shall not eat it and lest you die are close enough, but she added to the command and put words in Gods mouth when she said, nor shall you touch it. It reminded them they were not God, that God had a legitimate claim to their obedience, and that they were responsible to Him. Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other! Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. (Genesis 3:16) Gods curse upon the woman. 2. WebGenesis 3:19. i. Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. Unto He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to disobey their good Creator. b. 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. We read ( ch. In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. f. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ii. The New Testament The heel is the part within the serpents reach. 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.. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. Anthony Robbins, motivational guru and king of late-night infomercials, consulted with President Clinton at Camp David. i. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. She couldnt rightly say, the devil made me do it.. All the days of your life. The Old Testament God put marks of displeasure on Adam. a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. The serpent deceives Eve. Rebellion against God is not better when motivated by a romantic impulse. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. 5. ii. It has been a sort of speculative opinion that the creature either had wings, or was able to move without creeping upon the earth as it now does. (Spurgeon). Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: Cursed is the ground for your sake; Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. He shall rule over thee, is but God's command, Wives, be subject to your own husbands. (Genesis 3:17-19) Gods curse upon the man. General Epistles 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. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. The question was meant to arouse Adams sense of being lost. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. Major Prophets 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. This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. He spoke in a taunting way. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. General Epistles The two angels come to Sodom. And the woman said to the serpent: Eves first mistake was in even carrying on a discussion with the serpent. WebAs Genesis 3:20 records an instance of humble, apprehending faith in the divine word, so here we have a manifest act of mercy on the part of God, indicating the pardon and acceptance of confessing, believing man, rejoicing in anticipation of that future victory over the serpent which was to be accomplished by the seed of the woman. The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him. (Spurgeon). This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. With anxiety and perhaps a bit of agony they waited until God patiently came to them. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. Yet man is not sentenced to eat dust as the serpent, only to eat the herb of the field. 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. He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. 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. It was the craftiness of Satan that made him successful against Eve: as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness (2 Corinthians 11:3). He drew all his posterity into sin and ruin. By his death he gave a fatal blow to the devil's kingdom, a wound to the head of this serpent that cannot be healed. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. I. Read full chapter. i. His incarnation, or coming in the flesh. Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. We can almost picture Adam telling Eve, See that tree in the middle of the garden? The Gospels in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. 1. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). Under Jesus, some of the effects of the curse are relieved, and it has been the Christianizing of society that brought rights and dignity to women. 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. 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). Prophets (Genesis 3:10-12) Adam tries to explain his sin. b. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. i. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). See Romans 7:11; Hebrews 3:13. No wonder our sorrows are multiplied, when our sins are so. i. They knew they were naked, in the sense of having their shame exposed to all creation. If Adam would have sinned first, and if he had then given the fruit to Eve, she might have a partial excuse before God: I was simply obeying the head of our home. See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. General Epistles He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. If sinners will but consider where they are, they will not rest till they return to God. Did thorns come in with sin? In our courts of law, we do not require men to answer questions which would incriminate them, but God does; and, at the last great day, the ungodly will be condemned on their own confession of guilt (Spurgeon). i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. Major Prophets c. The LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden: We dont know if Adam and Eve wanted to stay in the garden of Eden. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point God named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife: It wasnt just as if Adam took Eves advice. We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Eves knowledge of what she should not do is partially correct, but what she doesnt seem to know makes her all the more vulnerable to deception. Let those that are meanly clad, learn from hence not to complain. i. What Satan said is more important than how he said it. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. e. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate: Adams attempt to blame Eve is completely consistent with human nature. 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). It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. c. In toil you shall eat of it: Adam worked before the curse, but it was all joy. Major Prophets And you shall bruise His heel.. This does not mean God did not have a name for Eve, but we are told what the name is in Genesis 5:2: He called them Mankind. 3. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). iii. Gods judgment on Satan is for him to always know defeat. He became obedient unto death. Chapter 3. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. We are still made in Gods image, so we want to be in the presence of God and hear His voice, while at the same time, we are afraid of Him. Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. Did sweat come in with sin? 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. And it was only true in Eves mind that the tree was desirable to make one wise. This curse of the earth was on his head, and wounded him full sore. It is the craft of Satan to speak of the Divine law as uncertain or unreasonable, and so to draw people to sin; it is our wisdom to keep up a firm belief of God's command, and a high respect for it. iv. Was he crowned with thorns, and do you wonder that they grow up around your feet? WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. a. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). Those who would be safe, need to be shy of talking with the tempter. 3. And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! 1. Like Adam, we have reason to be afraid of approaching to God, if we are not covered and clothed with the righteousness of Christ. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. b. When too late, Adam and Eve saw the folly of eating forbidden fruit. He excused the fault by laying it on his The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. The words of our text, so far as they literally concern the serpent, threaten that a change would be wrought in him. This prophecy also gives the first hint of the virgin birth, declaring the Messiah the Deliverer would be the Seed of the Woman, but not of the man. God came to them with care, coming before the darkness of night. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. However, Lots wife glances back, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. Adam, being the head, is the problem here. We all sin, but when we sin, we can still give glory to God by openly confessing without shifting the blame onto others (Joshua 7:19-20). Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. Genesis 3:15 has been called the proto-evangelium, the first gospel. Luke-Acts This wasnt primarily a wardrobe problem or a fear problem or a self-esteem problem. This is not because there is something intrinsically unclean in our sexuality, but because we have both received our fallenness and pass it on genetically through sexual reproduction. 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. Pentateuch d. To the woman: Satan brought his temptation against the woman because he perceived she was more vulnerable to attack. The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. c. God has said: Eves ignorance of exactly what God said was really Adams responsibility. 20 The man gave his 3. 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). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point You are cursed more than all cattle: The first part of the curse is directed at the animal that Satan used to bring the temptation. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. Prophets ii. Did death come in with sin? i. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. This is the last historical mention of the garden of Eden in the Bible. More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. Barnhouse explained: This verse will be understood better when it is realized that the desire of man toward his wife alone is solely by Gods grace and not by nature.. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. Email / username or password was incorrect! It is the common fault and folly of those that have done ill, when questioned about it, to acknowledge only that which is so manifest that they cannot deny it. i. His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. If Satan doesnt couple it with some truth, there is little power in his temptation. i. Eve does not seem to know the name of this tree; she only calls it the tree in the midst of the garden, instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17). A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Minor Prophets This was their holy of holies. Therefore, it was important to send cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. The creature that tempted Eve became a serpent as a result of Gods judgment on it, and it went slithering away into the bushes. (Boice), ii. iii. The New Testament Johannine Writings His habitation is cursed. Prophets 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. Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. i. Your desire shall be for your husband, WebGenesis 19. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. In virtually all cultures, adults cover their genital areas, even though other parts of the human body may be more or less exposed from culture to culture. All the days of your life. a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. God revealed this to Adam, not to drive him to despair, but to quicken him to look for life and happiness in the promised Seed, by whom a new and living way into the holiest is laid open for us. Pauline Epistles When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). Pauline Epistles ( Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. 2. The serpent was more cunning than any beast. It was a memorable discourse indeed, with Jehovah himself for the preacher, and the whole human race and the prince of darkness for the audience. (Spurgeon). The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. She saw. 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.
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