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BEGINNINGS
undated–2100 BC
GOD’S CHOSEN FAMILY
2100–1800 BC
BIRTH OF ISRAEL
1800–1406 BC
GENESIS 3:1-19 (cont.)
some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to
her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7At
that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig
leaves together to cover themselves.
8When the cool evening breezes were blowing,
the man* and his wife heard the Lord God walking
about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God
among the trees. 9Then the Lord God called to the
man, “Where are you?”
POSSESSING THE LAND
1406–1050 BC
UNITED MONARCHY
1050–930 BC
10He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so
I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
11“Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord
God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit
I commanded you not to eat?”
12The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me
who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
13Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have
you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s
why I ate it.”
SPLINTERED NATION
930–586 BC
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Gn 3:8 Or Adam, and so throughout the chapter.
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Gen 3:7-8 After sinning, Adam and Eve felt
guilt and embarrassment over their nakedness. Their guilty feelings made them try
to hide from God. A guilty conscience is a
warning signal God has placed inside of you
that goes off when you’ve done wrong. The
worst step you can take is to try to stifle or
eliminate those guilty feelings without eliminating the cause. That would be like using a
painkiller but not treating the disease that is
causing the pain. Be glad those guilty feelings are there. They make you aware of your
sin so you can ask God’s forgiveness and
then correct your wrongdoing.
Gen 3:8 The thought of two humans covered with fig leaves trying to hide from the
all-seeing, all-knowing God is humorous.
How could they be so silly as to think they
could actually hide? Yet we do the same,
acting as though God doesn’t know what
we’re doing. Have the courage to share
all you do and think with him. And don’t
try to hide—it can’t be done. Honesty will
strengthen your relationship with God.
Gen 3:8-9 These verses show God’s desire
to have fellowship with us. They also show
why we are afraid to have fellowship with
him. Adam and Eve hid from God when they
heard him approaching. God wanted to be
with them, but because of their sin, they were
afraid to show themselves. Sin had broken
their close relationship with God, just as it
has broken ours. But Jesus Christ, God’s Son,
opens the way for us to renew our fellowship
with him. God longs to be with us. He actively
offers us his unconditional love. Our natural
response is fear because we feel we can’t
live up to his standards. But understanding
that he loves us, regardless of our faults, can
help remove that dread.
Gen 3:11-13 Adam and Eve failed to
heed God’s warning recorded in Genesis
2:16-17. They did not understand the reasons for his command, so they chose to act
in another way that looked better to them.
All of God’s commands are for our own
good, but we may not always understand
the reasons behind them. People who trust
God will obey because God asks them to,
whether or not they understand why God
commands it.
EVE
We know very little about Eve, yet she is the mother of us all. She
was the final piece in the intricate and amazing puzzle of God’s creation. Adam
now had another human being with whom to fellowship—someone equally made
in God’s image. Here was someone alike enough for companionship, yet different enough for relationship. Together they were greater than either could have
been alone. • Satan approached Eve in the Garden of Eden, where she and Adam
lived. He questioned her contentment. How could she be happy when she was not
allowed to eat from one of the fruit trees? Satan helped Eve shift her focus from
all that God had done and given to the one thing he had withheld. And Eve was
willing to accept Satan’s viewpoint without checking with God. • Sound familiar?
How often is our attention drawn from all that is ours to the little that isn’t? We get
that “I’ve got to have it” feeling. Eve was typical of us all, and we consistently show
we are her descendants by repeating her mistakes. Our desires, like Eve’s, can be
quite easily manipulated. They are not the best basis for actions. We need to keep
God central in our decision-making process. His Word, the Bible, is our guidebook
in decision making.
• First wife and mother
Strengths and
accomplishments • First female. As such she shared a special relationship with
God, had coresponsibility with Adam over creation, and
displayed certain characteristics of God
• Allowed her contentment to be undermined by Satan
Weaknesses
• Acted impulsively without talking either to God or to her mate
and mistakes
• Not only sinned, but shared her sin with Adam
• When confronted, blamed others
• Women bear the image of God fully
Lessons from
• The necessary ingredients for a strong marriage are comher life
mitment to each other, companionship with each other,
complete oneness, absence of shame (Gen 2:24-25)
• The basic human tendency to sin goes back to the beginning of the human race
• Where: Garden of Eden
Vital statistics
• Occupation: Wife, companion, co-manager of Eden
• Relatives: Husband: Adam. Sons: Cain, Abel, Seth.
Numerous other children.
Key verse
“‘At last!’ the man exclaimed. ‘This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh! She will be called “woman,” because
she was taken from “man”’” (Gen 2:23).
Eve’s story is told in Genesis 2:18–4:26. Her death is not mentioned in Scripture.
Gen 3:11-13 When God asked Adam
about his sin, Adam blamed Eve. Then
Eve blamed the serpent. How easy it is
to excuse our sins by blaming someone
else or our circumstances. But God knows
the truth, and he holds each of us responsible for what we do ( see Gen 3:14-19).
Admit your wrong attitudes and actions
to God. Don’t try to get away with sin by
placing blame.
EXILE
586–538 BC
RETURN & DIASPORA
538–6 BC
Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed
more than all animals, domestic
and wild.
You will crawl on your belly,
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
And I will cause hostility between you and
the woman,
and between your offspring and her
offspring.
He will strike* your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.*”
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And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate
from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch
a living from it.
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JESUS CHRIST
6 BC–AD 30
THE CHURCH
AD 30–present
It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
Paradise Lost: God’s Judgment
GENESIS 3:20-24
Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because
she would be the mother of all who live.* 21And the
Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam
and his wife.
22Then the Lord God said, “Look, the human beings* have become like us, knowing both good and
evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree
of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” 23So the
Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden,
and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from
which he had been made. 24After sending them out,
the Lord God stationed mighty cherubim to the east
of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword
that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the
tree of life.
Gn 3:15 Or bruise; also in 3:15b. Gn 3:16 Or And though you will have desire for your husband, / he will rule over you. Gn 3:20 Eve sounds like a Hebrew term that means
“to give life.” Gn 3:22 Or the man; Hebrew reads ha-adam.
SATAN’S PLAN AGAINST US
Doubt
Discouragement
Diversion
Defeat
Delay
Makes you question God’s Word and his goodness
Makes you look at your problems rather than at God
Makes the wrong things seem attractive so that you will
want them more than the right things
Makes you feel like a failure so that you don’t even try
Makes you put off doing something so that it never
gets done
Gen 3:14ff Adam and Eve chose their
course of action (disobedience), and then
God chose his. As a holy God, he could
only respond in a way consistent with his
perfect moral nature. He could not allow sin
to go unchecked; he had to punish it. If the
consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin seem
extreme, remember that their sin set in
motion the world’s tendency toward disobeying God. That is why we sin today. Every
human being ever born, with the exception
of Jesus, has inherited the sinful nature of
Adam and Eve (Rom 5:12-21). Adam and
Eve’s punishment reflects how seriously God
views sin of any kind.
Gen 3:14-19 Adam and Eve learned by
painful experience that because God is holy
and hates sin, he must punish sinners. The
rest of the book of Genesis recounts painful
stories of lives ruined as a result of the Fall.
Disobedience is sin, and it breaks our fellowship with God. But fortunately, God is willing
to forgive us and to restore our relationship
with him when we admit our sin.
Gen 3:15 Satan is our enemy. He will do
anything he can to get us to follow his evil,
deadly path. The phrase “you will strike his
heel” refers to Satan’s repeated attempts to
defeat Christ during his life on earth. “He will
strike your head” foreshadows Satan’s defeat
when Christ rose from the dead. A strike on
the heel is not deadly, but a blow to the head
is. Already God was revealing his plan to
defeat Satan and offer salvation to the world
through his Son, Jesus Christ.
Gen 3:17-19 Adam and Eve’s disobedience and fall from God’s gracious presence
affected all creation, including the environment. Years ago people thought nothing of
polluting streams and rivers with chemical
waste and garbage. The amount dumped
seemed so insignificant, so small compared to
these large water sources. Now we know that
just two or three parts per million of certain
chemicals can damage human health. Sin
in our lives is similar to pollution in streams.
Even small amounts are deadly, and the consequences reach far beyond ourselves.
Gen 3:22-24 Life in the Garden of Eden
was perfect, and if Adam and Eve had
obeyed God, they could have lived there
forever. But after disobeying, Adam and Eve
no longer deserved paradise, and God told
them to leave. If they had continued to live
in the garden and eat from the tree of life,
they would have lived forever. But eternal life
in a state of sin would mean forever trying
to hide from God. Like Adam and Eve, all of
us have sinned and are separated from fellowship with God. But we do not have to stay
separated. And God is also preparing a new
earth as an eternal paradise for his people
(see Rev 21–22).
Gen 3:24 This is how Adam and Eve broke
their relationship with God: ( 1) They became
convinced their way was better than God’s
and acted on that choice; ( 2) they became
self-conscious and hid; and (3) they tried to
excuse and defend themselves. To build a
relationship with God we must reverse those
steps: ( 1) We must drop our excuses and
self-defenses; (2) we must stop trying to hide
from God; (3) we must become convinced
that God’s way is better than our way.
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