In the beginning one day in the Garden of Eden. A Serpent on a mission to destroy all the Lord God had created, deceived Eve. Eve even deceived her husband Adam, and this deception led to a curse resulting in mankind's spiritual death. Our spiritual death is what detached us from the Lord Himself, and if you enjoy my studies then get ready. This is strictly a study that stays within the Scriptures itself, and how deception led to a curse in the garden Eden leading us to spiritual death from the Lord God. In the end the same deception will next time lead evil to its final downfall, their eternal death, and Yes in the end the Lord God wins!!! I see the Bible directly as it is written, and I have found through my own personal studies there are many wolves in sheep's clothing deceiving the flock...
NOTE: I will posting Revelations 12, 13 and 18 in steps this was a huge study I pray everyone finds it helpful...
Genesis 3: The Fall of Mankind:
The Temptation and Fall of Man
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was [a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave it to her husband with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves [b]coverings.
3:1-7: The Serpent is the devil also known as Satan or Lucifer (2 Corinthians 11:3; Revelation 12:7-12 and revelation 13, The Deception), and he tempted Eve...he contradicted YHWH’s (God’s) commandment by denying death and decay in the grave as the penalty for disobedience (you shall not die by death)...He also tempted Eve with the promise of deification (you will be like gods, knowing good and evil)...But the deification comes through obedience to YHWH, not through disobedience...Nevertheless, Eve was deceived, and thus disobeyed YHWH...She, in turn, gave the fruit to her husband, and he ate it...In his disobedience, he willed contrary to the will of YHWH ,and thus ate...His free will was the first thing to suffer in the Fall, and thus is the first thing that needs healing in man (JohnDm)...
Serpent: נָחָשׁ nâchâsh, naw-khawsh'; from H5172; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
Beast: חַי chay, khah'-ee; from H2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:— age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop
Cunning-Subtil: עָרוּם ʻârûwm, aw-room'; passive participle of H6191; cunning (usually in a bad sense):—crafty, prudent, subtil.
Field: שָׂדֶה sâdeh, saw-deh'; or שָׂדַי sâday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat):—country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.
Lord God: יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
2 Corinthians 11:3: But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the [a]simplicity that is in Christ.
Genesis 3:8: And they heard the [a]sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the [b]cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
3:8: Adam and Eve now had a fallen will and tried to hide from YHWH… Fallen man now has fallen will, thus he has a tendency to run away from YHWH (God)...But the grace of Christ heals the will of those who return to Him through repentance, so they might freely pursue YHWH (God) and do his will…
Lord God: יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
Eve: חַוָּה Chavvâh, khav-vaw'; causatively from H2331; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman:—Eve.
Adam: אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Wife: אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Presence: פָּנִים pânîym, paw-neem'; plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun פָּנֶה pâneh; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.):— accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, × as (long as), at, battle, because (of), beseech, countenance, edge, employ, endure, enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, × him(-self), honourable, impudent, in, it, look(-eth) (-s), × me, meet, × more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), × on, open, out of, over against, the partial, person, please, presence, prospect, was purposed, by reason of, regard, right forth, serve, × shewbread, sight, state, straight, street, × thee, × them(-selves), through ( -out), till, time(-s) past, (un-) to(-ward), upon, upside ( down), with(-in, -stand), × ye, × you.
Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
3:15: The woman’s seed is first Christ, and second His Church (Galatians 3:16, 26)...The serpent’s seed are those who reject Christ and follow the devil (1 John 3:8-10)...Christ destroyed the devil through the cross (bruise your head)...
Enmity: אֵיבָה ʼêybâh, ay-baw'; from H340; hostility:—enmity, hatred.
Genesis 3:17-20: Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
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Both thorns and thistles it shall [a]bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
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In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve,[b] because she was the mother of all living.
Adam: אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Eve: חַוָּה Chavvâh, khav-vaw'; causatively from H2331; life-giver; Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman:—Eve.
3:17-20: Adam’s disobedience cursed the ground and placed mankind under toil and labor until his end in death and decay in the grave (return to the ground)...For death and decay in the grave entered the world through him…(Romans 5:12)...
Cursed the Ground: אָרַר ʼârar, aw-rar'; a primitive root; to execrate:—× bitterly curse. Ground: אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Return to the Ground: שׁוּב shûwb, shoob; a primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again:—((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw. Ground: אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'; from H119; soil (from its general redness):—country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Romans 5:12: Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
Genesis 3:24 : So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
3:24: Because of Adam, man is born outside Paradise...The tree of life prefigures Christ, through whom man regains Paradise…
Cherubim: כְּרוּב kᵉrûwb, ker-oob'; of uncertain derivation; a cherub or imaginary figure:—cherub, (plural) cherubims.
East: קֶדֶם qedem, keh'-dem; or קֵדְמָה qêdᵉmâh; from H6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward):—aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, × ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare H6926.
Garden of Eden: גַּן gan, gan; from H1598; a garden (as fenced):—garden. Eden: עֵדֶן ʻÊden, ay'-den; the same as H5730 (masculine); Eden, the region of Adam's home:—Eden.
Flaming Sword: לַהַט lahaṭ, lah'-hat; from H3857; a blaze; also (from the idea of enwrapping) magic (as covert):—flaming, enchantment. Sword: חֶרֶב chereb, kheh'-reb; from H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement:—axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Tree of Life: עֵץ ʻêts, ates; from H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks):— carpenter, gallows, helve, pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood. Life: חַי chay, khah'-ee; from H2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:— age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, merry, multitude, (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.