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; 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. Genesis 19 Commentary 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). b. Cursed is the ground: Because of Adam, there is a curse upon all creation. 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. And I will put enmity Adam had faith in Gods promise of a Savior, and God provided a covering for them through a sacrifice. 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. The serpent (Lucifer) deceives EveShe and then Adam partake of the forbidden fruitHer Seed (Christ) will bruise the serpents headThe roles of woman Did thorns come in with sin? c. She took of its fruit and ate: Satan could tempt Eve, but she didnt have to take it. Genesis 3:19 Catholic Bible: You will have to work hard and ii. The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning; and scoffers are his children. The New Testament His incarnation, or coming in the flesh. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). His victory over Satan thereby. Web(Read Genesis 3:16-19) 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 Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. The flaming sword was pointed against Satan to keep him from destroying the way of access to the altar, which God had set up. (Barnhouse). i. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. ii. Pauline Epistles Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, 3. War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. b. The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). i. What does Genesis 3:19 mean? | BibleRef.com 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. 1. 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.. 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. His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. 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. WebGenesis chapter 3 tells the story of the fall of man through the temptation of Eve and the entrance of sin into the world. WebGenesis 3:19 New International Version 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust The question was meant to express Gods sorrow over mans lost condition. It is more than probable that they were clothed in light before the fall, and when they sinned the light went out. (Barnhouse). 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). 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. Genesis 3 The New Testament 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. Of course, it was a good idea to completely avoid the temptation; no good could come from massaging the fruit youre not supposed to eat. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. 5. ii. Your partnership makes all we do possible. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife: It wasnt just as if Adam took Eves advice. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. ii. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). 20 The man gave his The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. So the rule of love founded in paradise is replaced by struggle, tyranny and domination. (Susan T. Foh, cited in Boice). 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. As He creates and destroys worlds, so will you have the power to create and destroy. Johannine Writings 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. 1. You are cursed more than all cattle, Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. Minor Prophets i. c. Your desire shall be for your husband: This is true of women in a way that it is not true for men. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. God confronted Adams problem squarely. Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. The way God came to Adam and Eve is a model of how He comes to lost and fallen humanity ever since. Sooner or later it will bring shame; either the shame of true repentance, which ends in glory, or that shame and everlasting contempt, to which the wicked shall rise at the great day. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. 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 heel is the part within the serpents reach. Yet man is not sentenced to eat dust as the serpent, only to eat the herb of the field. You were made from Sin has corrupted both the willing submission of the wife and the loving headship of the husband. God wanted more than innocent man; His plan is to bring forth redeemed man. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. 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. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point ii. (Genesis 3:7) The nakedness of Adam and Eve. He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. WebGenesis 19 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah A. The womans desire is to control her husband (to usurp his divinely appointed headship), and he must master her, if he can. The principle of Galatians 3:13 is established as we consider that Jesus bore each aspect of the curse upon Adam and Eve in its totality: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. He quoted the command wrong. Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. Satan wants us to see sin as something good that a bad God doesnt want us to have. 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. ii. 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? Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. ii. Poetical Books WebThe temptation from the serpent. Study Guide for Genesis 3 by David Guzik - Blue Letter A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. WebGenesis 3:17. Adam and Eve must have been terrified as this once-beautiful creature called a serpent was transformed into the creeping, slithering, hissing snake we know today. (1) The serpent begins his temptation.. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD 2. The Old Testament iii. Believe this (Spurgeon). All the days of your life. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. It has been observed that women bring forth children with more pain than just about any other creature. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). 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. Rebellion against God is not better when motivated by a romantic impulse. This is the last historical mention of the garden of Eden in the Bible. i. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. ( Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. 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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. Before they sinned, they would have welcomed God's gracious visits with humble joy; but now he was become a terror to them. 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. 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. i. 2. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). God knew the answer to this question. The way to the tree of life was shut. i. You will not surely die: Satan first wanted Eve to forget all about what God said about the consequences of sin. Here was the drawn of the gospel day: no sooner was the wound given, than the remedy was provided and revealed. e. Has God indeed said: Satans first attack was leveled against the Word of God. We read of the travail of Christ's soul, Galatians 3:13. See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. ii. No wonder our sorrows are multiplied, when our sins are so. 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. This was not the interrogation of an angry commanding officer, but the heartfelt cry of an anguished father. 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 was nailed to the cross; he hung there in thirst and fever, and darkness and desertion (Spurgeon). Prophets WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. 1. Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parents with the same desire, that he might ruin them too. 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. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. Between you and the woman, b. Tunics of skin: In order for Adam and Eve to be clothed, a sacrifice had to be made. The serpent deceives Eve. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. Till you return to the ground, Pauline Epistles iii. And you shall eat dust Did death come in with sin? 1. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. Prophets It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. Luke-Acts Genesis 3 General Epistles a. 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. 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GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The Gospels Chapter 3. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. Even so, God continues to provide for His creation. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. i. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. Satan couldnt cram the fruit down her throat. Genesis 3:19 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary ii. It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. 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. The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. After the curse, it still produced good, but thorns and thistles will come faster and easier than good fruit. i. iv. It is by the deceitfulness of sin the heart is hardened. His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. Now the creature Satan used to tempt Eve would be a low, groveling creature. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. iii. If God lies to her, how can He be good? 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.. 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. 3. (Read Genesis 3:16-19) The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. 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 question was meant to arouse Adams sense of being lost. b. No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. His life also is but short; considering how full of trouble his days are, it is in favour to him that they are few. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. 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. a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. 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 In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the goodness of God. The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. The taking was all her doing. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. iv. General Epistles 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. Genesis 3:19. If we are born naturally rebellious against God, we are also born cautious and afraid of Satan. d. Then the man said: Notice that to this point, God has not addressed Eve at all. 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. Then the eyes of both of them were opened: Seemingly, it was only after the sin of Adam that they knew of their sinful state. Major Prophets Web19 By the sweat of your brow. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. Wisdom Literature ii. i. In her mind, she thought she was doing something good for herself. WebGenesis 3:19. Pauline Epistles The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. ii. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. i. He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Cookie Notice: All Rights Reserved. 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. i. Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. 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). 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. i. 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. 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). 1. The Gospels (1-3) Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 1. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. On your belly you shall go, i. Adam named her in faith, trusting God would bring forth a deliverer from the woman because God said He would defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). Pentateuch In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the badness of sin. God commanded the serpent to slither on the ground instead of walking on legs like any other animal. He was to live; the ground was to bring forth enough of the herb of the field for him to continue to exist. And more than every beast of the field; 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. Matthew Henrys Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. a. b. Did travailing pains come with sin? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. Wisdom Literature (22-24). Poetical Books When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. i. With anxiety and perhaps a bit of agony they waited until God patiently came to them. WebThe temptation from the serpent. Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? All the days of your life. The tree was not really good for food, though Eve was deceived into thinking it was so. The goal of becoming God is the center of so many non-Christian religions, including Mormonism. Adam and Eve were clothed with a garment that was purchased with the life of another. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children: The first curse upon women is a broad one. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. An animal had to die. And the LORD God said to the serpent: When God spoke to Adam and to Eve, He questioned each of them. 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). 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 question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery.
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