a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. (22-24). Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. 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. Gods judgment on Satan is for him to always know defeat. She was not even pregnant yet. He was to live; the ground was to bring forth enough of the herb of the field for him to continue to exist. 2018 David Guzik - No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible ii. He was crowned with thorns for us. WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. It is by the deceitfulness of sin the heart is hardened. A complete lie is rarely effective in temptation. 1. 1. Email / username or password was incorrect! 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. But man was only sent to till the ground out of which he was taken. The Gospels It has the idea that women would experience pain in regard to their children in general, not just in the act of giving birth. Where the gospel has gone, the load has been lifted, and woman in Christ has become the reflection of the redeemed Church, the bride of Christ. (Barnhouse). Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. Genesis 19 Commentary Satans hatred of Eve was nothing new; it was already present but now man will, generally speaking, have antagonism towards Satan. Web19 By the sweat of your brow. i. i. (2-3) Eves The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning; and scoffers are his children. 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. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. ii. The serpent was more cunning than any beast. ii. 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). Did sweat come in with sin? Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. Under Jesus, some of the effects of the curse are relieved, and it has been the Christianizing of society that brought rights and dignity to women. 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. i. WebGenesis 3:19 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. King 2. Pauline Epistles Few subjects are more important! i. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. 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. Sin has corrupted both the willing submission of the wife and the loving headship of the husband. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. Men and women have each known sorrow throughout history, yet the unique sorrow of women is well known. Genesis 3 No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. Chapter 3. Genesis 2. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. 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 Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. Luke-Acts The serpent deceives Eve. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. 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. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. 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. 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. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). (Genesis 3:21) God clothes Adam and Eve in the skins of animals. 3. Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). iii. ii. 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. 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. More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. 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. Johannine Writings Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:15 has been called the proto-evangelium, the first gospel. 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. He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). a. Pauline Epistles When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. General Epistles 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. The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. Instinctively, we dont serve God or Satan; we serve ourselves (which is fine with Satan). i. Jesus was tempted in the same three-fold way: an appeal to the physical appetites, an appeal to covetous and emotional desires, and an appeal to pride (Matthew 4:1-11). (20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. And I will put enmity The serpent (Lucifer) deceives EveShe and then Adam partake of the forbidden fruitHer Seed (Christ) will bruise the serpents headThe roles of woman 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. Adam, being the head, is the problem here. 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. Satan wants us to see sin as something good that a bad God doesnt want us to have. Jesus, in taking on humanity, brought Himself near to Satans domain so Satan could strike Him. Genesis 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food u And the woman said to the serpent: Eves first mistake was in even carrying on a discussion with the serpent. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve Genesis 3 And let those that are finely clad, learn not to make the putting on of apparel their adorning. Thus the devil was from the beginning a murderer, and the great mischief maker. She couldnt rightly say, the devil made me do it.. It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). Significantly, if there is any blame, it is on Adam, not Eve. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 19 ii. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. Rebellion against God is not better when motivated by a romantic impulse. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. Did sorrow come in with sin? God gave His approval of the sense of shame which had led our first parents to cover their nakedness. (Leupold). He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. 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). It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. And you shall eat dust Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. He became obedient unto death. 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). 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. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Sin brought death into the world: if Adam had not sinned, he had not died. 2. Genesis 4. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. The question was meant to express Gods sorrow over mans lost condition. I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; This signified the shutting out of him, and all his guilty race, from that communion with God, which was the bliss and glory of paradise. Beings engaged in evil designs have no other way of going, but with tricks, devices, concealments, double meanings. He had no corrupt nature within, to betray him; but had a freedom of will, in full strength, not weakened or impaired. Dont touch it or God says well die! While this is better than saying nothing, what Adam didnt explain made a vulnerable place where Satan could attack. It is the craft of Satan to speak of the Divine law as uncertain or unreasonable, and so to draw people to sin; it is our wisdom to keep up a firm belief of God's command, and a high respect for it. 1. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. WebGenesis 3:14-19. The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. i. In this vivid way, Jesus bore the curse for us. It may be that Adam and Eve were previously clothed in Gods glorious light, and the immediate loss of this covering of light left them feeling exposed and naked. Genesis 3 Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. This wasnt primarily a wardrobe problem or a fear problem or a self-esteem problem. iii. Behold our Lord in his human nature sore bruised: he was betrayed, bound, accused, buffeted, scourged, spit upon. 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. She saw. 1. Genesis 3:16-19 meaning | TheBibleSays.com i. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible (Genesis 3:7) The nakedness of Adam and Eve. 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. If all these people were brought together in a church-like organization, it would be the third largest religious denomination in America. Satan took Gods positive command in Genesis 2:16-17 (Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat) and rephrased it in a purely negative way: God wont let you eat of every tree.. Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan. And between your seed and her Seed; A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. Now work has a cursed element to it, with pain and weariness a part of work. 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. He shall bruise your head, Genesis 3:19 - NIV - By the sweat of your brow you - Christianity (9-13) The serpent cursed, The promised Seed. a. i. 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.. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed According to a 1992 survey, as many as 12 million Americans can be considered active participants in the New Age movement, and another 30 million are avidly interested. ii. 1. Poetical Books Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. 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 curse of the earth was on his head, and wounded him full sore. 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. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. Major Prophets Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. 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. c. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? WebGenesis 3, Sermon Bible Commentary, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this 12 volume, chapter by chapter commentary of 4,800 sermon outlines and 24,000 homiletic references. f. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Now the two angels came to Did death come in with sin? ii. a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. In Ezekiel 28:13-19 tells us that Satan was in Eden. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Your good works are essential to what it takes to live out your life, but they are not legal tender before God. Believe this (Spurgeon). There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. First, she gave in to the lust of the flesh (saw that it was good for food), then she gave in to the lust of the eyes (pleasant to the eyes), then she gave in to the pride of life (desirable to make one wise). The womans desire is to control her husband (to usurp his divinely appointed headship), and he must master her, if he can. Genesis 3 ii. i. Genesis 3 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 If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. 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. 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.. Let those that are meanly clad, learn from hence not to complain. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point ii. iii. ii. (1-3) Lot convinces the angelic visitors to stay with him. In pain you shall bring forth children; Did thorns come in with sin? So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. He quoted the command wrong. Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point i. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. 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. In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). WebGenesis 19. Wisdom Literature i. ii. Johannine Writings 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. Covering ourselves with our good works is like Adam and Eve trying to cover themselves with fig leaves. Did travailing pains come with sin? This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. The words of our text, so far as they literally concern the serpent, threaten that a change would be wrought in him. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. i. Clothes came in with sin. 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. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. Who told you that you were naked? Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. 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). a. 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. 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. 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. Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. Genesis 3 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) 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. Poetical Books Wisdom Literature In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). Because you have done this, 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. As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). 3. 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. Adam and Eve made for themselves aprons of fig-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah 28:20. However, Lots wife glances back, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. I. What does Genesis 3:19 mean? | BibleRef.com Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. 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. They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. God gave the earth to the children of men, to be a comfortable dwelling; but it is now cursed for man's sin. When we know and remember the consequences of sin, we are more likely to give up the passing pleasures of sin (Hebrews 11:25). Obviously, they covered their genital areas. There is often nothing you can do about yesterdays sin (though in some cases you may be able to make restitution). iv. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them; and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. b. Genesis 3:19 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary - Bible Tools