Genesis 3:1-24
The serpent was “crafty” and Eve was gullible. Nice to know not much has changed since the beginning.
Satan, in the form of a serpent, lied without hesitation and Eve was overcome by his “reasonable” and false arguments. He said that she would not “die” if she disobeyed God, but her spiritual relationship with God died instantly. He said that she would be “wise” but she only became knowledgeable about the pain of sin. To Eve the fruit forbidden by God looked good, should taste good, and it would bring her up to God’s level. Suddenly God’s requirement of obedience was forgotten. Her dilemma sounds so much like our own as we face today’s temptations.
The familiar blame game was played out during the confrontation between God and His people. Adam blamed Eve and God. Eve blamed the serpent, and I suspect that Satan merely smiled.
But God’s love continued even in the face of rebellion. Verse 15 is the first promise from God that He would send a Savior to erase the gap now created between God and His world. That would not have been clear to Adam and Eve. They could only know that God still loved them in spite of their sin.
As we live in a world that has pretty much rejected the existence of Satan and Hell, and even God in some cases, let’s remember that sin is a reality and it is pure rebellion against God. At the same time we can rejoice in the confidence that Jesus, God’s only Son, has indeed come and has restored to us what was lost so long ago.
(For a further description of Satan by Jesus see John 8:44)
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