Genesis 3:19 in all English translations. i. It has been observed that women bring forth children with more pain than just about any other creature. d. Dust you are, and to dust you shall return: The final curse upon man promised there would be an end of his toil and labor on the earth but it was an end of death, not an end of deliverance. ii. Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. And I will put enmity The contents of this chapter we have, 2 Pet 2 6-8, where we find that "God, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and delivered just Lot." 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. And to dust you shall return.. a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. In 1995, New Age influence made it all the way to the White House. Luke-Acts God passes sentence; and he begins where the sin began, with the serpent. 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. It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. For dust you are, The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. There is no doubt this is a prophecy of Jesus ultimate defeat of Satan. iii. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread iii. Because she was the mother of all living: Adam named her Eve, even though she was not a mother at all at the time. iv. Adam sinned willfully, having abdicated his leadership position. 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. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Man has, perhaps, far more cunning than any mere creature but Satan has more of cunning within him than any other creature that the Lord God hath made, man included. (Spurgeon). If God lies to her, how can He be good? His habitation is cursed. Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. The question was meant to express Gods sorrow over mans lost condition. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. 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 cant outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. ii. Major Prophets War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Wisdom Literature But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. 2018 David Guzik - No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible 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. 1. Now the curse on Eve makes it much harder for her to submit and flow with Gods institution of male headship in the home. He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. 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. It is by the deceitfulness of sin the heart is hardened. The heel is the part within the serpents reach. When cherubim are represented on earth (such as in the tabernacle, Exodus 25:10-22), they mark a meeting place with God. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, iv. 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. Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. i. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. 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.. He excused the fault by laying it on his Martin Luther said of this verse: This text embraces and comprehends within itself everything noble and glorious that is to be found anywhere in the Scriptures (Leupold). Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. 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. 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. ii. You are cursed more than all cattle, We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. i. In the sweat of thy face Though the whole body may be thrown into a profuse Bridgeway Bible Obviously, they covered their genital areas. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. i. WebGenesis 3:19 The last part of God's curse on Adam involves the brevity of physical life. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. You were made from Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other! 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. Because you have done this, 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. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. Yet Adam is not himself cursed, as the serpent was, but only the ground for his sake. i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. Before they sinned, they would have welcomed God's gracious visits with humble joy; but now he was become a terror to them. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. c. In toil you shall eat of it: Adam worked before the curse, but it was all joy. General Epistles i. Few of us are willing to simply say as David did, I have sinned against the LORD (2 Samuel 12:13). d. She also gave to her husband with her: Not only did Eve sin, but also she became the agent of temptation for Adam. This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point WebThe temptation from the serpent. 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). And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! iii. Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? The womans desire is to control her husband (to usurp his divinely appointed headship), and he must master her, if he can. For out of it you were taken; Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). 1. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. 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. The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). Their eyes were opened, they did know good and evil, but not as gods. 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. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). 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. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. God knew the answer to this question. A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. 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). c. Where are you? iv. Genesis 2. We read ( ch. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. iii. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. i. Sin appears most plainly in the glass of the commandment, therefore God set it before Adam; and in it we should see our faces. 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. Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. An animal had to die. 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. Thank you for registering. 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. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. a. Pauline Epistles GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. General Epistles 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. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. Minor Prophets It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. Satans hatred of Eve was nothing new; it was already present but now man will, generally speaking, have antagonism towards Satan. Satan will often attack a chain at its weakest link, so he gets at Adam by tempting Eve. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. 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. Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. Believe this (Spurgeon). Poetical Books Historical Books Historical Books 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. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. Mankind can no longer stay in the ''very good'' garden, and is banished. 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. They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. Read full chapter. d. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you: The idea is to contrast the womans desire and the husbands rule over her. 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. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. iii. 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. The taking was all her doing. The serpent was more cunning than any beast. a. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). 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. ii. The question was meant to show that seeks after lost man. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. (Genesis 3:22-24) God sets cherubim to guard the Tree of Life. i. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. WebGenesis 19:3. 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. 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. The Old Testament i. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? God came to them patiently, waiting for the cool of the day the evening time. 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. See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. 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 The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. The serpent deceives Eve. 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. 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). 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). Email / username or password was incorrect! GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point She was not even pregnant yet.
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