And the LORD God said to the serpent: When God spoke to Adam and to Eve, He questioned each of them. Mankind can no longer stay in the ''very good'' garden, and is banished. Perhaps there is a note of sarcasm by God here (as Elijah used in 1 Kings 18:27), regarding Satans empty promise to become like gods. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). (2-3) Eves You were made from Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. Did thorns come in with sin? Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. ii. i. a. Genesis 3:15 has been called the proto-evangelium, the first gospel. c. Your desire shall be for your husband: This is true of women in a way that it is not true for men. f. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? But instead of acknowledging the sin in its full extent, and taking shame to themselves, Adam and Eve excuse the sin, and lay the shame and blame on others. The tree was not really good for food, though Eve was deceived into thinking it was so. WebThe temptation from the serpent. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. ii. When cherubim are represented on earth (such as in the tabernacle, Exodus 25:10-22), they mark a meeting place with God. An animal had to die. After the fall, everything looked worse. Johannine Writings Without shedding of blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point His victory over Satan thereby. a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. 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). But the tree was nothing more than a restraint on Adam and Eve. 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.. of Scripture. She saw. Now the two angels came to The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. We can assume this is God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, appearing to Adam and Eve before His incarnation and birth at Bethlehem, because of God the Father it is said, No one has seen God at any time. ii. 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. Pauline Epistles Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). And you shall bruise His heel.. Thus men's frivolous pleas will, in the day of God's judgment, be turned against them. A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. 1. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. Historical Books Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Poetical Books 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. Robbins is also recognized as a leader in the New Age movement. iii. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. WebChapter 3. The question was meant to arouse Adams sense of being lost. All the days of your life. 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. (Genesis 3:6) Adam and Eve both disobey God in their own way. i. Jesus was tempted in the same three-fold way: an appeal to the physical appetites, an appeal to covetous and emotional desires, and an appeal to pride (Matthew 4:1-11). This is because, in this picture, the serpent (a personification of sin and rebellion) is made of bronze (a metal associated with judgment, since it is made with fire). b. By saying the woman whom You gave to be with me, Adam essentially blamed God for the sin saying, You gave me the woman, and she is the problem. Adam wasnt content to blame Eve; he had to blame God also. ii. 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. Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. The New Testament But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). i. 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. All the days of your life. He pressed upon them greatly Partly because he would by no means have them to expose themselves to the perils and insults which he was aware awaited their Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. 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. 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. This wasnt primarily a wardrobe problem or a fear problem or a self-esteem problem. This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. Adam even blames God. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. But when Adam ate, he was not deceived as Eve was. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. That bruised heel is painful enough. In pain you shall bring forth children; iv. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. 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. 1. Sin appears most plainly in the glass of the commandment, therefore God set it before Adam; and in it we should see our faces. 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. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. a. I will greatly multiply your sorrow: God first cursed the woman with multiplied sorrow. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). Cookie Notice: i. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. Web19 By the sweat of your brow. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point d. Then the man said: Notice that to this point, God has not addressed Eve at all. a. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. He drew Eve into a discussion with him and planted the seed of doubt about Gods Word, and he exposed Eves incomplete understanding of Gods Word. b. Tunics of skin: In order for Adam and Eve to be clothed, a sacrifice had to be made. Pentateuch GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 3. i. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Did death come in with sin? In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). 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Anthony Robbins, motivational guru and king of late-night infomercials, consulted with President Clinton at Camp David. On your belly you shall go, Satan took Gods positive command in Genesis 2:16-17 (Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat) and rephrased it in a purely negative way: God wont let you eat of every tree.. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had There is now a natural fear of Satan in the heart of man. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). i. 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. He drew all his posterity into sin and ruin. iii. Notice is given concerning Christ. ii. Your desire shall be for your husband, And let those that are finely clad, learn not to make the putting on of apparel their adorning. In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. 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. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. 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. He spoke in a taunting way. 3. 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.. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. a. The representation of Satan as a serpent makes the idea of Moses saving Israel by lifting up a bronze serpent all the more provocative (Numbers 21:8-9), especially when Jesus identifies Himself with that very serpent (John 3:14). i. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. It is idle to call the narrative of the Fall a mere allegory; one had better say at once that he does not believe the Book There was a real serpent, as there was a real paradise; there was a real Adam and Eve, who stood at the head of our race, and they really sinned, and our race is really fallen. It has the idea that women would experience pain in regard to their children in general, not just in the act of giving birth. 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. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a They knew they were naked, in the sense of having their shame exposed to all creation. See Romans 7:11; Hebrews 3:13. He excused the fault by laying it on his To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). 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. e. Enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed: The second part of the curse is directed against Satan himself. 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. Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. Let those that are meanly clad, learn from hence not to complain. We are called to talk to the devil, but never to have a discussion with him. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. Prophets His habitation is cursed. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. iii. It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. Major Prophets (Genesis 3:14-15) Gods curse upon the serpent. 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. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy 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. WebCommentary on Genesis 3:16-19. Prophets WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. 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. 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. The serpent: The text here does not, by itself alone, clearly identify the serpent as Satan, but the rest of the Bible makes it clear this is Satan appearing as a serpent. It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. Pentateuch 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. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. ii. They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. i. The Lamb of God has made for us a garment which covers our nakedness so that we are not afraid to stand even before the bar of God. (Spurgeon). WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. Major Prophets Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife Obeyed her word and counsel, contrary to my express command. Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! b. d. To the woman: Satan brought his temptation against the woman because he perceived she was more vulnerable to attack. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. 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. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. She couldnt rightly say, the devil made me do it.. iii. This is because she did not receive the command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil directly from God but through Adam (Genesis 2:15-17). They have more care to save their credit before men, than to obtain their pardon from God. d. You shall eat dust all the days of your life: This was true of the serpent as an animal, but it is also true of Satan. 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. b. 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). Satan and the flesh will present a thousand reasons to show how good it would be to disobey His command. (Barnhouse). God came to them with truth, showing them their lost condition. i. And he shall rule over you.. The words of our text, so far as they literally concern the serpent, threaten that a change would be wrought in him. (Genesis 3:16) Gods curse upon the woman. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.?
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