BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: GENESIS CHAPTER 3

OBSERVATION STAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic which limits the observer to the content offered by the book of Genesis. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

Genesis chapter 3 continues the context of Gen 2:25 with Adam and the woman in view in the Garden of Eden:

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I) [Gen 3:1-24]:

A) (Gen 3:1-7) CHAPTER 3 BEGINS A NEW NARRATIVE: NOW THE SERPENT HAS BEEN CLEVER / DEVIOUS LIKE NO ANIMAL - EVEN BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF ANY ANIMAL JEHOVAH ELOHIM HAD CREATED - INDWELT BY SATAN. THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN TO MANIPULATE HER INTO DISOBEYING JEHOVAH ELOHIM, "HAS ELOHIM SAID, 'THEY DO NOT EAT FROM EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN?' " THE WOMAN THEN SAYS TO THE SERPENT WITHOUT HESITATION, SUBMISSIVELY AND WITHOUT QUESTION, "'FROM THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN WE HAVE EATEN BUT FROM THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN, ELOHIM HAS SAID, 'THEY SHALL NOT EAT FROM IT AND YOU SHALL NOT TOUCH IT, OR YOU DIE" - EDITORIALIZING WHAT JEHOVAH ELOHIM HAD SAID. THE SERPENT'S RESPONSE QUESTIONED THE INTEGRITY OF JEHOVAH ELOHIM, CONTRADICTING WHAT HE HAD SAID BY SAYING, "YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE, FOR GOD IS THE ONE WHO KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY OF YOUR EATING OF IT - YOUR EYES THEY HAVE BEEN OPENED, AND YOU HAVE BEEN AS GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL." THE WOMAN WAS TEMPTED AND DECEIVED, EATS OF THE TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN, GIVES TO HER HUSBAND AND HE EATS. THEIR EYES ARE OPENED, THEY REALIZE THEIR NAKEDNESS AND COVER THEMSELVES UP WITH FIG LEAVES SOWN TOGETHER

1) [Compare Gen 1:26]:

2) [Compare Gen 1:25, 31; 2:3]:

3) [Compare Ez 28:1-19]:

4) [Compare Isa 14:12-15]:

5) [Compare Job 1:6-12]:

6) [Compare Rev 12:7-10]:

7) [Compare Rev 20:1]:

8) [Compare Heb 1:13-14]:

9) [Compare what Jehovah Elohim had commanded of Adam with the woman's and the serpent's responses: Gen 2:16-17]:

10) [Compare Ro 5:12]:

11) [Compare 1 Tim 2:13-14]:

12) [Compare Gen 5:5]:

B) (Gen 3:8-14) ADAM AND THE WOMAN HEAR THE SOUND OF JEHOVAH ELOHIM WALKING IN THE GARDEN AT THE BREEZE OF THE DAY. THE MAN AND HIS WIFE HIDE THEMSELVES FROM JEHOVAH ELOHIM IN THE MIDST OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN. JEHOVAH ELOHIM CALLS TO THE MAN, "WHERE ARE YOU?" ADAM RESPONDED, "YOUR SOUND I HAVE HEARD IN THE GARDEN, AND I AM AFRAID FOR I AM NAKED, AND I HIDE MYSELF." JEHOVAH ELOHIM ASKED HIM, "WHO HAD DECLARED TO THAT YOU ARE NAKED? OF THE TREE OF WHICH I HAVE COMMANDED YOU NOT TO EAT, HAVE YOU EATEN?" THE MAN ANSWERS, "THE WOMAN WHOM YOU HAVE PLACED WITH ME - SHE HAS GIVEN TO ME OF THE TREE - AND I DO EAT." WHAT IS THIS YOU HAVE DONE, JEHOVAH ELOHIM ASKED OF THE WOMAN? THE WOMAN RESPONDED, "THE SERPENT HAS DECEIVED ME AND I DO EAT." JEHOVAH ELOHIM SAYS TO THE SERPENT - TO SATAN, THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SERPENT'S EVIL BEHAVIOR - "BECAUSE YOU HAVE DONE THIS, CURSED ARE YOU ABOVE ALL CATTLE, AND ABOVE EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD: ON YOUR BELLY DO YOU GO, AND DUST DO YOU EAT, ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE."

1) [Compare Ro 5:12]:

2) [Eph 2:1]:

3) [Gen 3:22-23]:

4) [Compare Gen 2:18]:

5) [Compare Gen 2:23]:

6) [Compare Isa 65:17, 25]:

C) (Gen 3:15) AND JEHOVAH ELOHIM PUT ENMITY, I.E., AN ONGOING ADVERSARIAL ANIMOSITY - WAR - BETWEEN THE PARTICULAR SERPENT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN / SATAN AND THE WOMAN - HUMANITY; AND BETWEEN THE SEED OF THE SATAN - HIS EVIL ORIENTED, SPIRITUAL FOLLOWERS, AND HER SEED - THE SUPERNATURALLY BORN MALE DESCENDANT OF THE WOMAN - REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL HUMANITY IN PROVIDING ATONEMENT FOR THEM FOR THE SINS OF ALL MANKIND, WHO IS SPIRITUALLY ALLIGNED WITH ALL OF MANKIND WHO HAVE TRUSTED IN HIM FOR ETERNAL SALVATION AND ARE NOT ORIENTED TOWARD EVIL / SATAN. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ENMITY IS TO RESTORE MANKIND AND EARTH TO ITS ORIGINAL, RIGHTEOUS CONDITION

THE SEED OF THE WOMAN WILL CRUSH THE SERPENT'S / SATAN'S HEAD - A MORTAL BLOW SIGNALING A VICTORY OVER SIN AND SATAN'S CONTROL OVER MANKIND. SATAN, IN DEFEAT, WILL BRUISE HIM ON THE HEEL, SIGNIFYING A NON-MORTAL BLOW TO THE SEED OF THE WOMAN SUFFERING PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL DEATH FOR MANKIND'S SINS BUT FOLLOWED BY A VICTORIOUS RESURRECTION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE

1) Jehovah Elohim Declared Hostility - War - Between The Agent Behind The Serpent In The Garden - Satan - And The Woman - Humanity; And Between Satan's Seed - His Followers; And Her Seed - A Particular Descendant Of The Woman - So That Jehovah Elohim Could Restore Mankind And The Earth To Its Original, Righteous Condition. So Victory Over Sin Via A Perfect Atoning Sacrifice For All The Sins Of Mankind Throughout History By A Perfect Human Who Is Not Contaminated With Sin Himself Is Required To Provide That Reconciliation For Mankind - One Individual At A Time As Each One Chooses To By Faith Alone And Then Is Resurrected Unto Eternal Life Restored In Righteousness Unto Fellowship With Jehovah Elohim

2) It Is Part Of The Decrees And Plans Of Jehovah Elohim That Mankind Would Be Tested To See If He Would Choose Righteousness Of His Own Free Will; And That Satan Would Be Permitted To ChooseTo Disrupt The Creation And Plans Of Jehovah Elohim To Restore Mankind To Its Original Righteous Rule Over The Earth And All Its Creatures - Yet Never Finally Succeed. Conclusion: Jehovah Elohim's Sovereignty Alone Must Prevail In The Universe For It To Be Perfect And Righteous

3) The Phrase Rendered "Your Seed" Refers To Satan's Seed: Spiritually Related Fallen Angels, Human Unbelievers - Enslaved To Sin By Definition, And Human Believers Who Choose To Fall Back Into Sin - All Of Whom Oppose Elohim. The Phrase Rendered "Her Seed" Refers To The Seed Of The Woman - A Supernaturally Born Male Physical Descendant Human Being Who Is Absolutely Righteous, Without Sin With The Power To Defeat Satan To Reconcile Mankind Back To Jehovah Elohim Through Paying The Penalty For The Iniquities Of All Mankind Whom Scripture Identifies As Jesus Christ

a) [Compare Jn 8:41-44]:

b) [Compare Ro 6:12-16]:

c) [Compare 1 Pet 5:8]:

d) [Compare Rev 12:17]:

e) [Compare Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7]:

f) [Compare Gal 3:16, 26, 29]:

g) [Compare Ro 3:21-26]:

4) The Seed Of The Woman, Previously Established As Jesus Christ , Will Deliver A Crushing Blow - A Triumphant Defeat - To The Serpent / Satan And Satan's Seed: The Atonement For The Sins Of All Mankind As A Provision For The Reconciliation Of Mankind With Jehovah Elohim In Order To Restore The Righteous Sovereignty Of Jehovah Elohim Over Mankind And Mankind's Dominion Over The Earth

a) [Compare Isa 52:10, 13-15-53:12]:

b) [Compare Ro 4:9, 11, 13, 16]:

c) [Compare Ro 5:10-11]:

5) The Serpent / Satan Will "Bruise" The Seed Of The Woman Previously Established As Jesus Christ On The "Heel" In The Figurative Sense Of A Non-Mortal Blow That Would Not Be Successful In Defeating Him

a) [Compare Isa 52:10, 13-15-53:12]:

D) (Gen 3:16-19) TO THE WOMAN - HENCE TO ALL WOMEN - JEHOVAH ELOHIM SAID, "I AM GREATLY MULTIPLYING YOUR SORROW, AND IN PAIN DO YOU BEAR CHILDREN, AND TO YOUR HUSBAND YOUR DESIRE [TO RULE OVER HIM], AND HE RULES OVER YOU." THEN TO ADAM - AND ALL MANKIND - HE SAID, "BECAUSE YOU HAVE LISTENED TO THE VOICE OF YOUR WIFE, AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF WHICH I HAVE COMMANDED YOU, SAYING, 'YOU DO NOT EAT OF IT': CURSED THE GROUND ON ACCOUNT OF YOU; IN HARDSHIP YOU - HENCE ALL MANKIND - SHALL EAT OF IT ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. AND THORN AND BRAMBLE IT DOES PRODUCE FOR YOU AND YOU WILL HAVE EATEN THE HERB OF THE FIELD; BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE YOU DO EAT BREAD TILL YOUR RETURNING TO THE GROUND [IN PHYSICAL DEATH], FOR OUT OF IT HAVE YOU BEEN TAKEN, FOR DUST YOU ARE [IN THE SENSE OF THE COMPOSITION OF ADAM'S AND ALL MANKIND'S PHYSICAL BODY] AND UNTO DUST YOU RETURN" - IN THE SENSE OF PHYSICAL DEATH

1) [Compare Isa 65:17-25]:

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[Compare Ro 8:19-22]:

PLANT LIFE WAS EFFECTED BY THE FALL

ANIMAL LIFE WAS EFFECTED BY THE FALL

[Gen 1:30]: