GENESIS: Chapter 3 1 Now the serpent was more subtil…

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GENESIS: Chapter 3

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
(The word “serpent” in the Hebrew is nachash and means snake. Snake means to practice divination or to hiss, meaning to weave a magic spell. The serpent in this verse is not a literal snake, it is Satan telling lies and weaving his web of deceit. Satan was a spiritual being, yet he was very dangerous and deceitful as well as beautiful.)

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
(Adam and Eve were allowed to eat of any of the fruit trees in the garden, including the apple tree.)

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
(The word “touch” in the Hebrew is naga’ and it means to lie with a woman. God had told Adam and Eve to not “touch”, or have a sexual relationship with Satan, who is the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. See 2 Corinthians 11:2, you will have a better understanding of this verse. We will cover the word “beguiled” in verse 13 of this chapter.)

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(He is lying. This is the first lie. God has already told them that they will. This is what life comes down to. God gave us free will. We can choose to listen to God’s truth or we can choose to listen to Satan’s lies. The choice is completely ours to make, we just need to be aware of the consequences or rewards of our choice.)

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
(Satan is telling Eve that they will be like the angelic beings, even as God. This is another lie. The word “tree” in the Hebrew is ‘ets and it means a tree, of any variety. However, the primitive root of ‘ets is ‘atsah and it means to shut. Satan is telling Eve that her eyes will be opened when in fact they will be shut. Shut to the truth. When our flesh eyes are opened, our spiritual eyes are closed. From ‘atsah comes ‘atseh which means the spine. What goes through your spine? Your Central Nervous System that allows your brain to work your entire body. It is what gives you knowledge of good and evil. You know right from wrong. This is the tree they were not to partake of. Isaiah 61:3 tells us how God refers to man as trees. Satan knows that it will be through Adam and Eve’s line that Christ will come so he is trying to destroy the purity of it.)
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
(Eve had a sexual relationship with Satan as did Adam. Understand that Satan was a beautiful spiritual being and could be whatever he chose to be to someone, either man or woman.)

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
(They made aprons to cover their nakedness, not masks for their mouths. They covered the part of the body that they had sinned with. No where will you read that Adam and Eve ate an apple. The fig leaves tell us where they were. They were in the fig garden. This is why the parable of the fig tree is so important. God said we should know it, not maybe we should know it. See Mark 13:28-31.)

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
(Adam is trying to pass this off and blame it on the woman. Adam was the one in charge and therefore responsible for the woman and her doings. He was deceived by Satan just as much as Eve.)

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
(The word “beguiled” in the Hebrew is nasha’ and it means to morally seduce. In 2 Corinthians 11:3, it speaks of when the serpent beguiled Eve. The word beguiled utilized there in the Greek is exapataō and it means to seduce wholly. This is further truth that there had been a sexual relationship with Satan.)

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
(The serpent is one of Satan’s names. God is telling Satan that he will never again be able to rise to a point of salvation. This is a statement of degradation. Satan is the only one mentioned by name in the Bible that is destined to perish.)

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
(This is the first prophecy in the Bible. It was Satan’s children, the Kenites, that caused Christ to be crucified. See Matthew 13:37-39 and John 8:42-44. Enmity is hostility. Between her seed and Satan’s seed means children. God has put hostility between the offspring of Satan and the offspring of God’s children. When God says it shall bruise thy head, He is talking about when Christ returns at the second advent and crushes Satan. To bruise His heel, is when Jesus was crucified and nailed to the cross. Satan knew that Christ would come through this woman and therefore tried to destroy the bloodline, to corrupt it. This isn’t the only time he will try to corrupt the bloodline.)

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
(Conception has occurred. A child conceived between the union of Eve and Satan.)

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

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.
(This is why it is not easy to farm the land. God is not a liar and the things that were are the things that are today.)

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
(The mother of all living means Christ. Christ is life for all who will believe on Him and walk in His ways.)

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(This meant that God had to sacrifice the life of animals, so they could have clothing. Sin changes everything.)

22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
(God is using the word “take”, not “touch”. This means to partake of the word of God and Christ, who is the Tree of Life. This would be their only salvation. Christ is our only salvation. If we don’t believe in Jesus Christ, then neither do we believe in God.)

23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
(This flaming sword is the tongue that is a two-edged sword. It is God’s truth.)

Study notes by: Angela Petree
And I agree with her notes 100%.