MORE ABOUT GOD'S DEALING WITH MAN

MORE ABOUT THE ADAMIC COVENANT

Gen. 3:14-19

Our last post spoke of the temptation and the yielding of Adam and Eve.  In this post we desire to see God's dealing with man after the Fall.  God inquired of both Adam and Eve giving them a chance to confess their sin which they did.  To the serpent He gave no such chance.  Adam in verse12 blamed the woman which God gave him for his eating.  In effect he was there also blaming God, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me."

            The serpent was cursed and made to go on his belly, and he was given dust for his daily diet.

            Then God turned to the woman in verse 16.  God's punishment for the woman was to add sorrow and suffering in child birth.  She had not given birth as yet, but had she done so, it would have probably been without sorrow and suffering, because this is the punishment she received.  In our last post we stated that all their posterity sinned in Adam.  This would seem to be borne out in the sense that to this day women give birth with suffering and sorrow. 

            Another part of her punishment was she was made subjective to her husband.  Gen. 3:16 "...and they desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.  I realized this goes against the grain of many modern women, but ladies it's all because of our mother, Eve.

            To the man he also gave punishment.  The ground was cursed, so that it no longer voluntarily gave forth fruit to nourish its residents.  Since then it has to be tilled.  Man, whose labor before hand, was simply to dress and keep the garden.  Since the Fall man's punishment has required that by laborious work man should make his living.  In the sweat of his face he would eat his bread as long as he lived.  Verse 17 includes sorrow also for the man.

            There was a bright side as well.  When God cursed the serpent, He, in verse 15, stated, "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 speaks of the rebellion of the seed of Satan (all unconverted mankind) against the seed of the woman, (Christ.)  The Seed of the woman, however, would be victorious.  The Seed of the woman would bruise the serpent's head.  In doing that, however, His own heel would also be bruised.  This is a definite referral to our Lord's crucifixion.  When His two feet would be crossed and nailed to the cross, it would bruise His heel against the cross.

            In this Adamic Covenant we have seen the temptation, the sin, the punishment for man, woman, and the devil...  It only closes, however, when God gives promise of the coming Redeemer.  The curse upon man, woman, and the devil continues, but there is still the hope in the Redeemer Who has come.

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