ii. If sinners will but consider where they are, they will not rest till they return to God. 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). Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. ii. WebGenesis 3. We read ( ch. The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. God put marks of displeasure on Adam. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread And Christ's sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for his name. The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). 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. Historical Books They must have thought, Its our turn next!. 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 Major Prophets 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.. Minor Prophets Obviously, they covered their genital areas. He shall rule over thee, is but God's command, Wives, be subject to your own husbands. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. a. I will greatly multiply your sorrow: God first cursed the woman with multiplied sorrow. Historical Books The New Testament Yet Adam is not himself cursed, as the serpent was, but only the ground for his sake. 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. Anthony Robbins, motivational guru and king of late-night infomercials, consulted with President Clinton at Camp David. 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. Genesis 3:19. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. Minor Prophets Chapter 3. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). Genesis 2. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. God commanded the serpent to slither on the ground instead of walking on legs like any other animal. When men deny the Scriptures and the truth of God, they always go to work in an underhand, mean, and serpentine style: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. If guilty man begins to plot for his own advantage, scheme for his own glory, and aim at perverting the truth, you will notice that he never takes a bold, open, manly stand, but he dodges, he conceals, he twists and shifts: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. Sin is a mean and despicable thing. There is often nothing you can do about yesterdays sin (though in some cases you may be able to make restitution). 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More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. He turned aside quickly. Our use of these terms is not merely cultural, it is Biblical. 3. a. 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. i. Leupold on walking in the garden in the cool of the day: The almost casual way in which this is remarked indicates that this did not occur for the first time just then There is extreme likelihood that the Almighty assumed some form analogous to the human form which was made in His image.. d. You will be like God, knowing good and evil: The final enticement was the most powerful because it was how Satan himself fell, wanting to be equal with God. b. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. For dust you are, 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. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. iii. Often neglected in favor of more "exciting" prophecies, this first prophecy holds the fundamental principles for understanding the nature of Satan's relationship to Christ and the church, woman's relationship with man, man's relationship with nature, and sin's role in human suffering. 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. 1. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. iii. Satan and the flesh will present a thousand reasons to show how good it would be to disobey His command. (Barnhouse). 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. Genesis 3:19 in all English translations. Because she was the mother of all living: Adam named her Eve, even though she was not a mother at all at the time. Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. 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). Did sweat come in with sin? ii. He shall bruise your head, i. 1. Now the creature Satan used to tempt Eve would be a low, groveling creature. c. God has said: Eves ignorance of exactly what God said was really Adams responsibility. Did death come in with sin? So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. WebChapter 3. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had Robbins is also recognized as a leader in the New Age movement. Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. Adam even blames God. The idea that the woman takes her name from the husband, and the idea that both genders are encompassed in terms like mankind, humanity, and chairman. 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. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. 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. Such are all the rags of our own righteousness. Satan wants us to see sin as something good that a bad God doesnt want us to have. From the beginning, Satan has tried to undermine Gods people by undermining Gods Word. 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.. And Adam called his wifes name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. The serpent deceived me, and I ate: When confronted by God, Eve didnt necessarily shift the blame when she admitted the serpent deceived her and then she ate. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. (Genesis 3:6) Adam and Eve both disobey God in their own way. 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. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the badness of sin. iii. It was the craftiness of Satan that made him successful against Eve: as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness (2 Corinthians 11:3). ii. Because of Adam: ii. c. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? The serpent was more cunning than any beast. ii. For out of it you were taken; 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. Notice is given concerning Christ. 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). 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. 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. Genesis 3 The heel is the part within the serpents reach. This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. There is now a natural fear of Satan in the heart of man. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. 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. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. Genesis 3:17 Commentaries: Then to Adam He said, "Because 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.