genesis 3:19 explained

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 Gospels 1. His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). 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. Their eyes were opened, they did know good and evil, but not as gods. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. ii. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve 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.. However, Lots wife glances back, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. 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). 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). This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. c. And clothed them: This, together with the expression of faith in Gods promise indicated in the naming of Eve (Genesis 3:20), indicates that Adam and Eve were rescued from their sinful condition. God came to them with care, coming before the darkness of night. 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. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. Adam even blames God. Web19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. What Satan said is more important than how he said it. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. But man was only sent to till the ground out of which he was taken. Minor Prophets c. Where are you? Gods plan wasnt defeated when Adam and Eve sinned because Gods plan was to bring forth something greater than man in the innocence of Eden. Luke-Acts They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: Adam and Eve knew that when they heard the LORD coming, He would want to be with them. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. i. i. a. f. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And between your seed and her Seed; 6. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. It was Satan who said, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will be like the Most High (Isaiah 14:13-14). And you shall eat the herb of the field. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). It would not be until the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8) when God would normally come to them. No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. He shall bruise your head, The taking was all her doing. Beings engaged in evil designs have no other way of going, but with tricks, devices, concealments, double meanings. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. 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. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. i. Because she was the mother of all living: Adam named her Eve, even though she was not a mother at all at the time. Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. b. WebCommentary on Genesis 3:16-19. Prophets Thus men's frivolous pleas will, in the day of God's judgment, be turned against them. 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. Johannine Writings Web19 By the sweat of your brow. 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. 2. The serpent was more cunning than any beast: Satans effectiveness is often found in His cunning, crafty ways. 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. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. (16-19) The first clothing of mankind. Notice is given concerning Christ. She saw. 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.. 2023 Christianity.com. Was he crowned with thorns, and do you wonder that they grow up around your feet? The words of our text, so far as they literally concern the serpent, threaten that a change would be wrought in him. For dust you are, Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Then the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.. ii. And Christ's sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for his name. iv. i. 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. In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). The curse promised thorns and thistles, and we remember that Jesus was crowned with thorns (Matthew 27:29). By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. Between you and the woman, Chapter 3. He excused the fault by laying it on his (20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. This creature didnt start as a snake as we know it, it became one. Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. ii. ii. ii. b. Deceived me: The problem comes when we fail to see that being deceived is sin in itself. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. His habitation is cursed. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread i. ii. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. a. a. They have more care to save their credit before men, than to obtain their pardon from God. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. The New Testament See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. This is why we are called to never give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). c. In toil you shall eat of it: Adam worked before the curse, but it was all joy. ii. i. b. Cursed is the ground: Because of Adam, there is a curse upon all creation. 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. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. Pentateuch (9-13) The serpent cursed, The promised Seed. iv. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. God didnt ask Satan (the being animating the serpent) any questions because there was nothing to teach him. i. Jewish rabbis embellished on Satans temptation to Eve: Nothing but malice has prompted Gods command, because as soon as you eat of it, you will be as God. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. 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. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy Or, perhaps the idea focuses on mans greater knowledge (though in a bad sense) now that he has the experiential knowledge of evil. c. God has said: Eves ignorance of exactly what God said was really Adams responsibility. 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." 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. 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. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). 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. You are cursed more than all cattle, 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. Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. He was crowned with thorns for us. v. This is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth. Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! Genesis 3:19 in all English translations. You will not surely die: Satan first wanted Eve to forget all about what God said about the consequences of sin. But though Satan's subtlety may draw us into sin, yet it will not justify us in sin. 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). Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. 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 her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. 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. 1. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. i. iii. (22-24). Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife Obeyed her word and counsel, contrary to my express command. It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. He was nailed to the cross; he hung there in thirst and fever, and darkness and desertion (Spurgeon). 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). Johannine Writings So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. ii. i. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. This same word for desire is used in Genesis 4:7 of the desire of sin to master over Cain. c. The eyes of both of them were opened: The way they saw themselves changed, but also the way they saw the entire world was now different. Adam had faith in Gods promise of a Savior, and God provided a covering for them through a sacrifice. Luke-Acts GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. Did death come in with sin? If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? Poetical Books Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. (Genesis 3:6) Adam and Eve both disobey God in their own way. They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. iii. Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. 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. 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. i. (Genesis 3:10-12) Adam tries to explain his sin. 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). (Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. Take and eat will one day become verbs of salvation, but only after Jesus had lived in the world of Adams curse and surrendered to death. Who told you that you were naked? In her mind, she thought she was doing something good for herself. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Wisdom Literature Web2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, 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. i. Genesis 3:19. Prophets We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the badness of sin. 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. WebGenesis chapter 3 tells the story of the fall of man through the temptation of Eve and the entrance of sin into the world. 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.. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. And it was only true in Eves mind that the tree was desirable to make one wise. But God made them coats of skin, large, strong, durable, and fit for them: such is the righteousness of Christ; therefore put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. 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. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. b. 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.. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. 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. Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. 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. 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. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. a. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. 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 principle of Adams headship as a husband was established before the fall (see Genesis 2:18 and 2:22). It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). 2. 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. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed 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. 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. (1-3) Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him. This failure on Adams part made Eve more vulnerable to temptation. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. And the woman said to the serpent: Eves first mistake was in even carrying on a discussion with the serpent. And more than every beast of the field; 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. It was the ground that was cursed due to Adam's sin, so that he had to toil by the sweat of his brow throughout this earthly life to provide what was originally bestowed in plentiful supply. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. When too late, Adam and Eve saw the folly of eating forbidden fruit. There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. And you shall eat dust The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. Major Prophets Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. iii. WebThe temptation from the serpent. And you shall bruise His heel.. 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). iv. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. General Epistles iii. He drew all his posterity into sin and ruin. Yet death being dreadful to nature, even when life is unpleasant, that concludes the punishment.

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