GENESIS CHAPTER 3 - 3:23

GENESIS  CHAPTER  3

3:1  > The serpent, in his Edenic form, is not to be thought of as a writhing reptile. That is the effect of the curse ( GENESIS  3:14 ). The creative which lent itself to Satan may well have been the most beautiful as it was the most "subtle" of creatures less than man. Traces of that beauty remain despite the curse. Every movement of a serpent is graceful, and many species are beautifully coloured. In the serpent, Satan first appeared "as an angel of light" ( 2  CORINTHIANS  11:14 ).

3:14  > The Adamic Covenant conditions the life of fallen man__conditions which must remain till, in the kingdom age, "the creation also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God" ( ROMANS  8:21 ). The elements of the Adamic Covenant are:
( 1 ) The serpent, Satan's tool, is cursed ( verse  14 ), and becomes God's illustration in nature of the effects of sin__from the most beautiful and subtle of creatures to a loathsome reptile! The deepest mystery of the atonement is intimated here. Christ, "made sin for us," in bearing our judgment, is typified by the brazen serpent ( NUMBER  21:5__9;  JOHN  3:14 ). Brass speaks of judgment__in the brazen altar, of God's judgment, and in the laver, of self-judgment. 

( 2 ) The first promise of a Redeemer ( verse  15 ). Here begins the "highway of the Seed," Abel, Seth, Noah ( GENESIS  6:8__10 ), Shem ( GENESIS  9:26__27 ), Abraham ( GENESIS  12:1__4 ), Isaac ( GENESIS  17:19__21 ), Jacob ( GENESIS  28:10__14 ), Judah ( GENESIS  49:10 ), David ( 2  SAMUEL  7:5__17 ), Immanuel-Christ ( ISAIAH  7:9__14 ). 
( 3 ) The changed state of the woman ( verse  16 ). In three particulars: ( a ) Multiplied conception; ( b ) motherhood linked with sorrow; ( c ) the headship of the man ( GENESIS  1:26__27 ). The entrance of sin, which is disorder, makes necessary a headship, and it is vested in man ( 1  TIMOTHY  2:11__14;  EPHESIANS  5:22__25 ).
( 4 ) The earth cursed ( verse  17 ) for man's sake. It is better for fallen man to battle with a reluctant earth than to live without toil. 

( 5 ) The inevitable sorrow of life ( verse  17 ).
( 6 ) The light occupation of Eden ( GENESIS  2:15 ) changed to burdensome labour ( Verses  18__19 ). 
( 7 ) Physical death ( verse  19;  ROMANS  5:12__21 ). See Death ( spiritual)"  ( GENESIS  2:17 ). See for the other covenants: Edenic ( GENESIS  1:28 ); Noahic ( GENESIS  9:1 ); Abrahamic ( GENESIS  15:18 ); Mosaic ( EXODUS  19:25 ); Palestinian ( DEUTERONOMY  30:3 ); Davidic ( 2  SAMUEL  7:16 ); New ( HEBREWS  8:8 ). 

3:15  > The chain of references which begins here includes the promises and prophecies concerning Christ which were fulfilled in His birth and works at His first advent. See, for line of unfulfilled promises and prophecies: "Christ ( second advent )" ( DEUTERONOMY  30:3;  ACTS  1:9 ); "Kingdom" ( GENESIS  1:26__28:  ZECHARIAH  12:8;" Kingdom ( New Testament )" LUKE  1:31;  1  CORINTHIANS  15:28 );  "Day of the Lord" ( ISAIAH  2:10;  REVELATION  19:11 ). 

3:21  > Coats of skins: Type of "Christ, made unto us righteousness"__a divinely provided garment that the first sinners might be made fit for God's presence. See Righteousness, garment ( GENESIS  3:21;  REVELATION  19:8 ).

3:23  >  The Second Dispensation: Conscience. By disobedience man came to a personal and experimental knowledge of good and evil__of good as obedience, of evil as disobedience to the known will of God. Through that knowledge conscience awoke. Expelled from Eden and placed under the second, or Adamic Covenant man was responsible to do all known good, to abstain from all known evil, and to approach God through sacrifice. The result of this second testing of man is stated in Genesis  6:5, and the dispensation ended in the judgment of the Flood. Apparently "east of the garden" ( Verse  24 ), where were the cherubims and the flame, remained the place of worship through this second dispensation. 

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