genesis 3:19 explained

To this point, death had been mentioned only as a threatened punishment for sin ( Genesis Between you and the woman, Satan, by their corruptions, buffets them, sifts them, and seeks to devour them. If sinners will but consider where they are, they will not rest till they return to God. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to 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. Commentary on Genesis 3 (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. This is because she did not receive the command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil directly from God but through Adam (Genesis 2:15-17). WebGenesis 3:19 Clarke's Commentary. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. Genesis 3 d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning; and scoffers are his children. Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. Luke-Acts Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? 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. (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. i. 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). 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). iii. Satan wants us to see sin as something good that a bad God doesnt want us to have. Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. Genesis 19 Commentary 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. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. iii. Pauline Epistles We will see Adam and Eve in heaven. 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). General Epistles Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? i. b. Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). 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). Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. In 1995, New Age influence made it all the way to the White House. Genesis 3 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). Genesis 3:17 Commentaries: Then to Adam He said, "Because This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. 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. WebGenesis 3:17. 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. Eve was responsible. WebCommentary on Genesis 3:16-19. WebGenesis 3. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. Major Prophets WebGenesis 19:3. This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Genesis 3 If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? 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. The Gospels 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. The Old Testament 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. b. As a result of the fall, man no longer rules easily; he must fight from his headship. 1. Unto The Gospels Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. (Genesis 3:7) The nakedness of Adam and Eve. Your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children: The first curse upon women is a broad one. 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. Poole says the woman wasnt surprised at the serpents speaking because Adam and Eve had free conversation with angelic beings that often appeared in the form of men. The taking was all her doing. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. Therefore, He forbids you to eat of it, lest you create other worlds Hurry now and eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, and become independent of God, lest He bring forth still other creatures that will rule over you (Ginzberg). b. No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. 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). 1. As He does kill and revive, so will you have the power to kill and revive. Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. b. ii. God came to them patiently, waiting for the cool of the day the evening time. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. i. Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. b. Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. 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. Genesis 3 God named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Any angel of the lowest rank could have dealt with Adam. 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). He excused the fault by laying it on his 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. There is now a natural fear of Satan in the heart of man. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 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, Anthony Robbins, motivational guru and king of late-night infomercials, consulted with President Clinton at Camp David. 3. i. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Few of us are willing to simply say as David did, I have sinned against the LORD (2 Samuel 12:13). iii. He was sent to a place of toil, not to a place of torment. i. Major Prophets It is more than probable that they were clothed in light before the fall, and when they sinned the light went out. (Barnhouse). They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. The Old Testament iii. 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). He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. 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. In contrast, we should be like Jesus, who came as a servant (Matthew 20:28). The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. He shall rule over thee, is but God's command, Wives, be subject to your own husbands. Their hearts must have been sorely perplexed within them while they were waiting to see what God would do to them as a punishment for the great sin they had committed. (Spurgeon). And Christ's sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for his name. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. 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. War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. 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). Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. WebChapter 3. Luke-Acts The Gospels ii. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. b. Adam and his wife hid themselves: This shows that Adam and Eve knew that their attempt to cover themselves failed. 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. The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. It was henceforward in vain for him and his to expect righteousness, life, and happiness, by the covenant of works; for the command of that covenant being broken, the curse of it is in full force: we are all undone, if we are judged by that covenant. Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. 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. Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. d. She also gave to her husband with her: Not only did Eve sin, but also she became the agent of temptation for Adam. An animal had to die. ii. Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. Minor Prophets WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. 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. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. He chose to be with Eve instead of obeying God. The question was meant to show that seeks after lost man. Read full chapter. Your partnership makes all we do possible. The principle of Adams headship as a husband was established before the fall (see Genesis 2:18 and 2:22). 2. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. c. God has said: Eves ignorance of exactly what God said was really Adams responsibility. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. The Whole Bible 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. iv. It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. i. Although the sentence took away from Adam the luscious fruits of paradise, yet it secured him a livelihood. Genesis 3:19 - The Punishment of Mankind - Bible Hub He sweat for us, as it had been great drops of blood. 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. 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. The Lamb of God has made for us a garment which covers our nakedness so that we are not afraid to stand even before the bar of God. (Spurgeon). They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. The tree was not really good for food, though Eve was deceived into thinking it was so. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a The excuses men make to cover and lessen their sins, are vain and frivolous; like the aprons of fig-leaves, they make the matter never the better: yet we are all apt to cover our transgressions as Adam. They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. With anxiety and perhaps a bit of agony they waited until God patiently came to them. Wisdom Literature Historical Books Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. 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.. His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the goodness of God. iii. He was crowned with thorns for us. 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. 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.. 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. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise though at the time the woman had borne no children. (Spurgeon). i. God gave the earth to the children of men, to be a comfortable dwelling; but it is now cursed for man's sin. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible His life also is but short; considering how full of trouble his days are, it is in favour to him that they are few. The question was meant to arouse Adams sense of being lost. No wonder our sorrows are multiplied, when our sins are so. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. iv. And to dust you shall return.. This was not the interrogation of an angry commanding officer, but the heartfelt cry of an anguished father. a. Adam even blames God. a. 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. The way to the tree of life was shut. She saw. Genesis 3:19 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Wisdom Literature When Adam and Eve saw their nakedness and felt terrible about it, it didnt feel good but it was good. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve (Genesis 3:4-5) Satans direct challenge to Gods Word. However, Lots wife glances back, and she is turned into a pillar of salt. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. There is a strange proneness in those that are tempted, to say, they are tempted of God; as if our abuse of God's gifts would excuse our breaking God's laws. Luke-Acts 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. (22-24). (Genesis 3:21) God clothes Adam and Eve in the skins of animals. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. 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 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. iii. The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. Because you have done this, Because of this sin, posterity has been cursed with overwhelming toil just to stay ahead, paradoxically for our ultimate benefit. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. ii. But instead of acknowledging the sin in its full extent, and taking shame to themselves, Adam and Eve excuse the sin, and lay the shame and blame on others. This is the last historical mention of the garden of Eden in the Bible. Did sorrow come in with sin? Rather bless him that ever he should have consecrated the thorns by wearing them for his diadem (Spurgeon). 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. 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. (1) The serpent begins his temptation.. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD 2. You are cursed more than all cattle, (Genesis 3:16) Gods curse upon the woman. The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. a. I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid: Sin made Adam afraid of Gods presence and afraid of Gods voice. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. And the LORD God said to the serpent: When God spoke to Adam and to Eve, He questioned each of them. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. There are many temptations to which being alone gives great advantage; but the communion of saints tends very much to their strength and safety. In pain you shall bring forth children; In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Minor Prophets Genesis 19:3 Commentaries: Yet he urged them strongly, so they ii. 1. Genesis 3:15 has been called the proto-evangelium, the first gospel. 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? ii. Adam sinned willfully, having abdicated his leadership position. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. I. 6. Poetical Books WebGenesis 19 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah A. 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. In toil you shall eat of it The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. God didnt ask Satan (the being animating the serpent) any questions because there was nothing to teach him. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). 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. 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. If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. This same word for desire is used in Genesis 4:7 of the desire of sin to master over Cain. Wisdom Literature Genesis 3:19 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary - Bible Tools 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). And you shall bruise His heel.. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Historical Books There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. Yet man is not sentenced to eat dust as the serpent, only to eat the herb of the field. In Ezekiel 28:13-19 tells us that Satan was in Eden. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other! Pauline Epistles The goal of becoming God is the center of so many non-Christian religions, including Mormonism. 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. i. i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. i. 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. Also, there is a continual struggle between the wicked and the godly in this world. Minor Prophets She was not even pregnant yet. ii. It is difficult for women in Christian lands to realize the miseries of their hundreds of millions of sisters in pagan lands, where the lot of women is little above that of cattle. We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. i. We cant outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. i. iii. 1. We are still made in Gods image, so we want to be in the presence of God and hear His voice, while at the same time, we are afraid of Him. If Adam would have sinned first, and if he had then given the fruit to Eve, she might have a partial excuse before God: I was simply obeying the head of our home. The Old Testament ii. And you shall eat the herb of the field. God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. Before the curse on man, the ground only produced good. Little reason have we to be proud of our clothes, which are but the badges of our shame. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. God confronted Adams problem squarely. a. Barnes' Notes on the Bible Here begins the judgment. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. But it is a dangerous thing to teach the doctrines of man as if they are the commandments of God (Matthew 15:9). 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. A woman gains more of her identity from her husband than the man does from the wife. iii. But the tree was nothing more than a restraint on Adam and Eve. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. 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. b. Cursed is the ground: Because of Adam, there is a curse upon all creation. iv. i. (Genesis 3:22-24) God sets cherubim to guard the Tree of Life. WebGenesis 3:19. b. Tunics of skin: In order for Adam and Eve to be clothed, a sacrifice had to be made. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day.