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. Satan will often attack a chain at its weakest link, so he gets at Adam by tempting Eve. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. iii. Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. He was crowned with thorns for us. i. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. WebGenesis 3:19 The last part of God's curse on Adam involves the brevity of physical life. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. Those who would be safe, need to be shy of talking with the tempter. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. 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. of Scripture. Pauline Epistles The question was meant to express Gods sorrow over mans lost condition. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. It was as if God could not wait to announce His plan of salvation, to bring deliverance through the one known as the Seed of the woman. WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. Your good works are essential to what it takes to live out your life, but they are not legal tender before God. Wisdom Literature God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. From the beginning, Satan has tried to undermine Gods people by undermining Gods Word. Poetical Books ii. And take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: In mercy, God protected Adam and Eve from the horrible fate of having to live forever as sinners by preventing them from eating from the tree of life. She was not even pregnant yet. iv. Did thorns come in with sin? ii. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. ( Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. The heel is the part within the serpents reach. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. 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. 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. If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? WebThe temptation from the serpent. Instinctively, we dont serve God or Satan; we serve ourselves (which is fine with Satan). Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. 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. A complete lie is rarely effective in temptation. Sin has corrupted both the willing submission of the wife and the loving headship of the husband. Adam and Eve made for themselves aprons of fig-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah 28:20. Notice is given concerning Christ. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? The fruit probably was pleasant to the eyes, though that shouldnt mean much. Obviously, they covered their genital areas. 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. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate, I will put enmity between you and the woman, You shall eat dust all the days of your life, Enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed, He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel, Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children, Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, Dust you are, and to dust you shall return, The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil, And take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever, The LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden, He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltera, David Guzik :: 1 Juan 2 Impedimentos para una comunin con Dios, David Guzik :: Gnesis 3 La tentacin y cada del hombre, David Guzik :: Gnesis 2 La CreacinTerminada; Adn en el Jardn del Edn, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), 1 Samuel 1-10 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 15-18 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Third Person of the Trinity (Chuck Smith). God put marks of displeasure on Adam. Web19 By the sweat of your brow. Historical Books If Satan doesnt couple it with some truth, there is little power in his temptation. c. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. CSB 19 You will eat bread by the Jesus, in taking on humanity, brought Himself near to Satans domain so Satan could strike Him. i. a. God announced that Satan would wound the Messiah (you shall bruise His heel), but the Messiah would crush Satan with a mortal wound (He shall bruise your head). i. d. To the woman: Satan brought his temptation against the woman because he perceived she was more vulnerable to attack. And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.. One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. Johannine Writings If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? i. That Satan has power to enter into living bodies is clear, for he did so upon a very large scale with regard to men in the days of Christ Being compelled to have an embodiment, the master evil spirit perceived the serpent to be at that time among the most subtle of all creatures; and therefore he entered into the serpent as feeling that he would be most at home in that animal (Spurgeon). The taking was all her doing. Between you and the woman, He was nailed to the cross; he hung there in thirst and fever, and darkness and desertion (Spurgeon). f. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel: In this, God prophesies the doom of Satan, showing that the real battle is between Satan and the Seed of the Woman. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Pauline Epistles 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). 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.. Was he crowned with thorns, and do you wonder that they grow up around your feet? Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. 1. And between your seed and her Seed; We read ( ch. You are cursed more than all cattle, We can see the precise truth of Pauls statement in 1 Timothy 2:14, that Eve was deceived when she sinned. (Genesis 3:17-19) Gods curse upon the man. 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. A gracious promise is here made of Christ, as the Deliverer of fallen man from the power of Satan. He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. ii. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. Not only does Adam unjustly accuse Eve, but also he refused to accept proper responsibility for his part in her sin. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. WebGenesis 3:19 Catholic Bible: You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. 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. i. (2-3) Eves Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? Pauline Epistles c. Where are you? New Age author Marianne Williamson (author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles), guru to many of Hollywoods spiritual seekers, spent a night at the White House as the personal guest of Hillary Clinton. Pentateuch a. 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. He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. 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). Satan and the flesh will present a thousand reasons to show how good it would be to disobey His command. (Barnhouse). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. If we are born naturally rebellious against God, we are also born cautious and afraid of Satan. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. i. ii. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, 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). This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. Now the two angels came to His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a 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. 1. 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. 2. We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. 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). c. And he said to the woman: Apparently, before the curse pronounced in Genesis 3:14-15, the serpent was different than what we know today as a serpent. 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. That bruised heel is painful enough. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. 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). ii. i. 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. God came to them patiently, waiting for the cool of the day the evening time. 1. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. The question was meant to show that seeks after lost man. 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. The Whole Bible 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. Satan, by their corruptions, buffets them, sifts them, and seeks to devour them. i. Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. Poetical Books 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. a. Johannine Writings By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.. Johannine Writings He turned aside quickly. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. Email / username or password was incorrect! There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. 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). Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children: The first curse upon women is a broad one. (1-3) Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him. (9-13) The serpent cursed, The promised Seed. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible And you shall eat the herb of the field. iv. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forevertherefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. Genesis 3:19. In an echo of the flood story, God destroys Sodom for the wickedness displayed earlier in the chapter. a. i. Not in the dead of night when the natural glooms of darkness might have increased the terrors of the criminal, not in the heat of the day, lest he should imagine that God come in the heat of passion; not in the early morning, as if in haste to slay, but at the close of the day, for God is long-suffering, slow to anger, and of great mercy. (Spurgeon). iii. They saw a loving God provoked, his grace and favour forfeited. a. ii. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. When Adam and Eve saw their nakedness and felt terrible about it, it didnt feel good but it was good. 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. i. 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. Men and women have each known sorrow throughout history, yet the unique sorrow of women is well known. Luke-Acts The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. Or, perhaps the idea focuses on mans greater knowledge (though in a bad sense) now that he has the experiential knowledge of evil. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. This was a sin problem and Adams wardrobe, fear or self-understanding could not be addressed until the sin problem was addressed. See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. 1. ii. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. The greatest potentate of evil was here doomed to cringe and crawl, and his seed have never forgotten their fathers posture. (Spurgeon). But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other! Pauline Epistles Before they sinned, they would have welcomed God's gracious visits with humble joy; but now he was become a terror to them. Cool of the day is literally the breeze of the day. From Hebrew geography and culture, we might guess this means late afternoon or early evening. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point 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.