Bible Study
Genesis Chapter 3
Chapter 3: The Fall of Man
The talking Serpent:
Hebrew word for Serpent is nakhash- This is a literal
translation for serpent not a figurative one. Yes lucifer himself is depicted
as a serpent including in the book of revelation. However we are dealing with
the literal here, a literal talking serpent.
So right out of the gate here Eve has her hands full with
this talking serpent that you would think has a Harvard law degree by the way
this animal is presenting a case. Now should Eve of been SHOCKED, FREAKED,
BEFUDDLED that she was having an actual conversation with a serpent?!!! Well
lets break this down shall we…Eden is supposed to be an extension of Heaven, the ideal.
Now lets look at our fallen world for a moment, parrots,
parrots can talk, African grey's especially can have vast vocabularies, put
sentences together and even reason. There is actually an African grey Parrot
named Petra who knows how to use amazon’s alexa and is constantly asking alexa
to turn the lights on and off.
Also
Dolphins, beluga whales, even dogs can learn to say human words! So if Eden is an extension of heaven, the ideal, it is not
so far fetched to think that many of the animals in the garden had some ability
to vocalize their thoughts. This serpents nature was cunning, skilled in deceit is what
the amplified Bible says. So this serpent thrives on deception and for many
reasons this is why lucifer himself is labeled as such and the serpent becomes
the poster child, the mascot of the enemy and who he is.
Revelation 12:9-11: (This is the cross reference:) 9 (And the great dragon was
thrown down, the age-old serpent who is called the [a]devil and
Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces
the entire inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels
were thrown down with him. 10 Then I
heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,
“Now the salvation, and the power, and the
kingdom (dominion, reign) of our God, and the authority of His Christ have
come; for the [b]accuser
of our [believing] brothers and sisters has been thrown down [at last], he who
accuses them and keeps bringing charges [of sinful behavior]
against them before our God day and night. 11 And they
overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb
and because of the word of their testimony, for they did not love their
life and renounce their faith even when faced with death.
So right off the bat in genesis 3:1 the
serpent turns it around on Eve and poses it to her as a question: Did God
REALLY say that you shall not eat from any tree of the garden. What he is
doing is deceptively setting this question up for Eve to be baited into saying
they can eat from the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:2-3 READ:
In Genesis 3:4 -what does the serpent do he
immediately negates the last and MOST IMPORTANT part of the instruction?? THE
CONSEQUENCE.
VS 4”You certainly WILL NOT die!!!”
(CROSS REFERENCE): 2 Corinthians 11:3:
But I am afraid that, even as the serpent
beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led
away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.
Genesis 3:5:
This serpent tells the BIGGEST
DIRTIEST lie in History. If he was Pinocchio his nose would of stretched around
the entire earth! For God knows that on the day you eat from it
your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you
will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.
Here is the set up for this lie and the
foundation: That the Lord is threatened by Adam and Eve and is trying to keep
them from reaching their full potential by keeping them from partaking of the
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because when they eat of it
THEY WILL BECOME JUST LIKE GOD AND KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL”
LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!!
Eve saw 3 things:
1. The tree
was good for food
2. It was
delightful to look at
3. A tree to
be desired to make one wise and insightful
Vs 6-Eve takes the fruit off the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, and eats of it which is bad enough. However she
also gives the fruit to Adam to eat and he foolishly eats of this fruit right
here she has made an active choice to choose the words of the serpent over what
her Creator Almighty God has told her. She chose the words of an animal, a
created being from the dust of the earth, over the Creator of ALL things,
Almighty God. This had to do with greed as well.
There were SO many trees and plants in Eden to
eat from, the majority 99 percent they were given full permission by the Lord
to eat from. And still they were not satisfied and went for the 1 percent. There was life in the 99 percent there was death
in the one- and here we can connect the verse He leaves the 99 to go after the one!
Matthew 18:12-14:
“What do you think?
If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them
gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search
of the one that is lost? 13 And if it
turns out that he finds it, I assure you and most solemnly say
to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not get
lost. 14 So it is not the will of your
Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones be lost.
Genesis 7: READ:
So the veil that had been
intentionally placed there by the Lord to protect them, fell off!!! Imagine the
reaction when they realized they had been frolicking through that garden
naked?!!!!
What is key here is in that
moment they disobeyed in that moment they sinned, shame entered, they were
ashamed they were naked. That was the first time they ever felt shame and
conviction.
So what do they do, they try
to cover up their shame by sowing fig leaves together. Now I find fig leaves an
interesting choice her and I will tell you why:
1. Fig leaves are quite large so a few of them can make a covering
2. Fig leaves have 5 points! Keep in mind that the "5" is the number of grace and in this case their
period of grace in the garden of Eden had come to a screeching halt.
3. Mark 11:12-14:
On the next day, when they
had left Bethany, He was hungry. 13 Seeing at a distance a fig
tree in leaf, He went to see if He would find anything on it. But He found
nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said
to it, “No one will ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening [to what He said].
So figs are related to a
curse of not bearing fruit. All that tree had on it was leaves. And it was the
leaves of the fig tree that Adam and Eve used to cover up their nakedness.
Genesis 3:8-9:
They
kept themselves hidden from the presence of God because now a barrier called
sin has caused a divide. Adam and Eve were now shamed and afraid, so this is
where fear enters too, to stand before the Lord in their nakedness.
Genesis 3:11:
The Lord
already knows what they have done, this is why I believe He came looking for
them. However now they must FACE HIM and ADMIT their sin.
This is where a game show
begins in the Garden of Eden Called The Blame Game!!
1. Adam says “The woman YOU gave me, she is the one who gave me
the fruit.” Notice the woman YOU gave me Lord did it!!
2. So now the Lord turns to Eve and questions her: Eve’s
response-The Serpent beguiled her and deceived her
Definition of beguiled: charm or enchant
(someone), sometimes in a deceptive way. So in a way to put a spell upon them that
lures them into agreement.
So, now it’s the serpents fault why this whole
debacle took place, however the serpent was merely a tool of the enemy, this is
how lucifer chose to get in to back door of the garden of Eden. The Lord had to
punish the one who is driving this plot just as much as He must punish the tool
used to carry the plot out, the serpent.
3. So, now the Lord turns
to the serpent and this is where we see the Lord as the Righteous Judge because
now there are verdicts about to be handed down.
NOTE: He turns to the Serpent: Genesis 3:14-15 READ
So
we can see by this that more than likely serpents had legs before the fall. So
relegating the serpent and all its kind to move on there belly and eat the dust
of the earth was a sever punishment for at that moment the serpent became
cursed more than cattle and would be openly hated by men from that day forward. In verse 3:15, is where this gets very interesting because this is as much prophetic as it
is a sentence.
Genesis 3:15:
Here it speaks of the seed of the
woman, it has been said that the redeeming of humanity began with Abel, however
when Abel was murdered by his brother Cain the Lord caused Eve to conceive and
she bore Seth.
Genesis 4:25:
Adam knew [Eve as] his wife again; and
she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for [she said], “God has granted
another child for me in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.” Seth was
the righteous line the Messiah would ultimately be birthed from.
It is the first mention that a redeemer would
come, Jesus Christ, and indeed was the beginning of a long line of prophecies
concerning the coming of Jesus and His dying for the sins of the world.
Fatally bruise the head in Genesis 3:15 refers
to the ultimate defeat of satan and him being thrown in the lake of fire. Its
talking of a fatal blow, crushing the head is the crushing of the leadership.
The Bruising of the heel spoken of in Genesis 3:15
refers to Jesus on the cross, one of the nails driven into the area of the heal.
The enemy would only bruise the heal because Jesus rose again in 3 days and his
body was restored. A bruise is not permanent, a bruise is a small wound inflicted
from a localized force. The enemy ultimately fell for the set up because his
disturbing desire to kill Jesus ultimately backfired on him as man was
purchased by the blood of the lamb, redeemed, and reconciled back to the
Father.
Resource: Blueletterbible.org
Genesis 3:16:
The Lord, acting as the
Righteous Judge, turns to Eve:
1.
GREATLY multiplied pain in child birth- which means child
birth was not going to be as it is today. Because today its like blowing a
turkey out your nose! Or so I hear- so that multiplication of pain came
from choosing as an act of their will to defy the Living God. Disobedience
multiplies pain perhaps. However even in that pain she will continue to desire
her husband.
2.
Her desire and longing would be for her husband and he will
rule (with authority) over her and be responsible for her.
A human female is unique
among mammalian creatures in this respect. Animal females generally bear their
young without pain and rarely sicken and die during or from the experience.
Women, on the other hand, always experience pain and grief throughout their
pregnancies—from morning sickness to contractions—and have historically had a
very high mortality rate from childbirth. Better nutrition and hygiene have cut
the numbers of deaths dramatically, but the pain and grief remain.
This curse
on Eve has a direct relationship with the end of the curse on the serpent,
which involves the woman's "seed," both general and specific (Genesis 3:15). We can infer that God intends us to
understand that, because of sin,
producing "seed" to fight Satan and
his seed will be made more difficult. In a spiritual sense, the church,
"the mother of us all," endures great hardship in producing children
of God.
Thus, the
Bible testifies, "the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence, and the violent
take it by force" (Matthew 11:12),
"We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22),
and "all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer
persecution" (II Timothy 3:12).
Even the sinless Christ, the promised Seed, was "a Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief" (Isaiah 53:3),
forced by sin—yet willing—to bear the agonies of human life and death to become
the Son of God, the Firstborn among many brethren.
Reference: Bibletools.org-forerunner
commentary
Genesis
3:17:
The lord, the righteous Judge turns to Adam:
1. The ground
would now be under a curse because of him.
2. In sorrow
and toil he shall now eat the fruit of it all the days of his life, and the
lives thereafter.
3. Both
thorns and thistles would come forth from the earth.
4. He would
now eat the plants of the field.
5. By the
sweat of his face he would eat bread until he returns to the ground.
So, basically Adam would no longer be able to rely on the fact that food would just
grow and be there for him and Eve with little to no work on his part. He was
going to have to toil to bring forth crops from the earth. That he would eat
bread now by hard labor (the sweat of his brow)
For from
it you were taken (the ground), For you are dust, and to dust you shall return
Now
genesis 3:21 is very important this is where the first animals had to be killed
for clothing in order to now clothed Adam and Eve.
Before this, the Lord’s
original plan in Eden was for all animals to be herbivores and plant eaters
strictly. That man were to be herbivores and plant eaters strictly. God never
originally intended for us to hunt animals or eat animals AT ALL. When Adam and Eve did what they did they basically caused a curse to fall upon all the lord
had created, the living creatures, this is when sin entering too caused animals
to prey upon each other and all animals were no longer herbivores.
Genesis 3:22:
(READ very important)
Right here
is why the Lord banished Adam and Eve from the garden. Because if they after
eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and Evil, now went and took from
the tree of life and ate, it would solidify matters were man would live in this
fallen sinful condition forever unable to be redeemed. The Lord banished them
from the garden in order to protect them and stop them from making matters even
worse, solidifying what they had just done so there could be no redemption. The
banishing from the garden were the very first steps the lord took to redeem man.
They could not have access to eternity until the Lord dealt with their sin.
So, Adam
and Eve were sent away and they would now have to till and cultivate the ground
from which they came, So the Lord
drives them out at the East of the Garden of Eden and permanently stations a
cherubim, a specific type of angel.
Cherubim are described as serving the will of God, performing
divine duties in the earthly realm. Their initial responsibility was protecting
the Garden of Eden as referenced in the book of
Genesis.
Resource:(Christianity.com)
These
Cherubim had a flaming sword as mentioned in the king James which turns in
every direction to protect and guard the way to the tree of life in order to
prevent man from solidifying their separation from God for All Eternity. For
even though the Lord was incredibly grieved at what had taken place, he could
not bare separation from man for all eternity and immediately created a plan to
redeem man and reconcile them back to Him through raising up the Messiah
through the righteous line of Abel and Seth In genesis Chapter 4. We will cover Genesis Chapter 4 next week.
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