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Genesis 3 — The Fall
The serpent deceives Eve, Adam joins her in disobedience, sin enters the world — and God speaks the first promise of a Redeemer. This chapter explains everything wrong with the world and the beginning of God's plan to fix it.
“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.”
— Genesis 3:15
- v.1-5 The serpent's questions and lies
- v.6-7 The fall — Eve eats, Adam eats, eyes open
- v.8-13 Hiding, blame-shifting, the broken relationship
- v.14-15 Curse on the serpent — and the first Gospel promise
- v.16 The consequences for the woman
- v.17-19 The consequences for the man and the ground
- v.20-21 Adam names Eve; God provides covering
- v.22-24 Exile from the garden — the cherubim and flaming sword
The first lie ever told. A direct contradiction of God's plain word.
Every false religion and false teaching since traces back to this same lie — denying the consequences of disobedience to God.
Jesus called him a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44). Every lie has its origin here.
The second lie: that God is withholding good from them. This is the same temptation Satan still uses — God is restrictive, joyless, holding back.
The third lie: "ye shall be as gods." This is the original sin — wanting to be God instead of obeying God. It is the root of pride, the same sin Satan himself committed (Isaiah 14:13-14).
Three temptations, three categories — and they match exactly what John writes in 1 John 2:16: "the lust of the flesh" (good for food), "the lust of the eyes" (pleasant to the eyes), "the pride of life" (desired to make one wise).
The same three categories Jesus was tempted with in the wilderness (Matthew 4). He overcame where Adam and Eve fell — because He is the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Adam was "with her" — he was present, not deceived (1 Tim 2:14), and chose sin with open eyes. His failure was a failure of headship.
This is the protoevangelium — the first Gospel. In the very curse on the serpent, God promises a Deliverer.
"Her seed" — singular, and unusually phrased (women do not have seed; men do). A pointer to the virgin birth, where the seed would be of the woman alone (Galatians 4:4).
"Bruise thy head" — a fatal wound. "Bruise his heel" — a painful but survivable one. At the cross, the serpent bruised the heel of Christ. At the resurrection, Christ crushed the serpent's head.
The first death in Scripture — an animal slain to cover the shame of sinful humans. This is the first picture of substitutionary atonement.
Adam and Eve had tried to make their own covering of fig leaves (3:7). Religion — man's effort. God replaces it with skins — blood was shed.
Every Old Testament sacrifice flows from this moment, and every sacrifice points to the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
Every weight you carry — every temptation, every fear, every broken relationship — traces back to this chapter. But notice: in the same chapter where sin enters, God speaks the first promise of a Savior. There has never been a moment in human history when grace was not already at work.
Verse 15 is the seed of every Gospel. The "seed of the woman" is Jesus, born of a virgin. The "bruising of the heel" is the cross. The "crushing of the head" is the resurrection and Christ's ultimate victory at His return. The coats of skins are the first foreshadowing of the slain Lamb of God.
The serpent is identified explicitly in Revelation 12:9 as "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan."
The first weapon Satan uses is not a direct lie but a question: "Hath God said?" — designed to make Eve doubt God's Word. This is still his first move with every believer.
Notice the subtle distortion: God said they could freely eat of every tree except one (2:16-17). The serpent twists it to "ye shall not eat of every tree" — making God's generosity sound restrictive.