Genesis - Lecture 4
Say, Good day to you, welcome to the Shepherd's Chapel, welcome to this family bible study hour. Hey we're ready to get back in our Father's Word and Chapter three of the great Book of Genesis.
I want to say a word before I begin today. Many people just love labels, you know. Like this is the way so-and-so teaches, and a man teaches this way in order to be... he's probably a so-n-so... you know, this denomination or that... Hey, it doesn't matter what this person or that person teaches, how much of it or how little. What matters is what does the word of God say. And anyone that will bend from teaching God's word exactly as it's written.
[Concerning men that do teach exactly as God’s Word is written] - don't try to label them. I don't care if it is different then locally you might have been taught. Then maybe you'd better dig deeper. But what is important is to document it, know that it is God's Word, and I don't care what man says about it. Stick with God's Word and you'll always be a winner. Labels? I kind of dislike labels. I like to be a child of God that studies God's Word (period). Because there's nothing really important in this world shaping your morals and your success as God's Word will. So always stick with it and don't care a whole lot about what men say, alright.
I hope you realize I'm preparing you for a chapter that goes to some depths and many people shy away from controversy. But anyone that would call God's Word a controversy, or better yet I should say would shy away from it, is just a little bit too out there for God. He's not going to visit them. Always teach it exactly as it is written.
Okay, here we come back to Genesis chapter three. We're going to begin with verse one. Remember the creations of the sixth-day man. Remember the creation after the seventh day, that we had "eth ha Adam", the eighth-day man created; that specific one, then certain domestic animals, and then his wife. And that's where we left it. Let's pick it up now with chapter three, verse one. Let's go with it with a Word of Wisdom from our Father and much understanding. Verse one reads:
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent5175 [the serpent is Satan, the Dragon, the Devil (Rev 12:9)] was more subtle than any beast of the field [the field is the world (Mtt 13:38)] which the LORD God had made. [Yes, God even made Satan (Ez 28:13)]
H5175
נחשׁ - nâchâsh - naw-khawsh'
From H5172; a snake (from its hiss): - serpent.
H5172
נחשׁ - nâchash - naw-khash'
A primitive root; properly to hiss, that is, whisper a (magic) spell; generally to prognosticate: - X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
He was smarter, always stewing around trying to take advantage.
And he said unto the woman,
He thought he found maybe a weak spot here. Well, would he be surprised.
Yea,
What's Satan's method of operation? He's always quoting God. That's what he did before Jesus when he tempted Him.
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Now that's wide open. Well don't forget God gave orders and after God states it, that becomes law. God had told them, "You can eat of except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And naturally they did not have the opportunity to partake of the tree of life which is to say Christ. We're going to be talking about trees at quite length today. And God uses symbology often times to teach on a deeper vein than many people are able to receive. So let's hang tough.
That's what Satan asked her, that's not what God said to Eve. Let's see what the woman says. Two:
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree6086 which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat398 of it, neither shall ye touch5060 it, lest ye die.
Now it becomes very important that you know what are "eat" and "touch". You really need to know what this word is because it's kind of like, as I told you in the beginning, if you don't start with the truth, like for example; if you were opening a feed sack or a flower sack, if you don't get the twine or the thread started right you're going to have it all hacked up. So you need to know exactly what God said. What God hand spoken concerning the serpent and this tree. Okay, so if we may, let's have for the moment, the word "touch" in the Hebrew tongue. And there you have it at the bottom your screen. It's "naga" in the Hebrew tongue. It's a prime-root properly...
Tree - H6086
עץ - ‛êts - ates
From H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks): - + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
H6095
עצה - ‛âtsâh - aw-tsaw'
A primitive root; properly to fasten (or make firm), that is, to close (the eyes): - shut.
Eat - H398
אכל - 'âkal - aw-kal'
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively): - X at all, burn up, consume, devour (-er, up), dine, eat (-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in . . . wise (-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Touch - H5060
נגע - nâga‛ - naw-gah'
A primitive root; properly to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
That will do it. Then what is a euphemism? A euphemism is where someone uses the word touch to be a nicer word than they chose to translate "to lie with a woman". In other words it was nicer it seemed to say "touch" rather than "intercourse". For that's what it means. Now many might say, [gasping] - “Oh dear Lord, did you hear what he said?" I didn't say it. God said it. That's what the word means in the Hebrew tongue. And if you're too good for God's Word then you really a goodie-goodie two shoes aren't you? You need to stick with God's Word so that you understand God's Word.
So what God had said… I think the implication is sufficient enough that it will clear itself up. Now don't get away from me now. This is a little heavy for some; you put it on the shelf. But it is God's Word. And I give you and tell How to acquire the tools. If I say "naga" means a certain thing in the Hebrew, you can check it out yourself in a Strong's Concordance or a good Hebrew dictionary. It's not that big a push for an English reader. Verse four:
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Well now here he lies. "Ye shall not surely die". God had already told them you will [die]. So who are you going to believe? Now basically this is what life comes down to. You make your own bed. It wasn't God that brought death into the world. Well, could we say it was Eve? Well, no. It was Satan. But by Eve not being obedient to God as well as Adam, [they] did bring death to the world through Satan; Satan of course being [death].
Now, we have covered this here, this verse four, and we see here, what does it mean? How can we understand then "touch"? Can we verify that just a little bit more; what it's talking about? Well we certainly can. Let's go to 2nd Corinthians. Just hold your place there. We're going to make a little side trip here over to the 2nd Book of Corinthians in the New Testament. You've got it. And we're gong to go to chapter eleven. Let's understand this word "touch" just a little bit more, alright. Let's go with it, let's pick it up if we may in verse two of 2nd Corinthians, Paul teaching:
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you
That's "engaged" you…
to one husband,
That would be Christ of course...
that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
That is to say that you won't be deceived, you won't be beguiled, but that... the subject is a loss of virginity here. In a spiritual sense here, you bet. Listen to it carefully. Verse three:
2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled1818 Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Now it's very important that you know... What is this word "beguiled"? It is the exapataō in the Greek. And it comes from G1537 G1538 and it has one meaning only "to seduce wholly", completely. It doesn't have any other meaning.
Beguiled - G1818
ἐξαπαταìω - exapataō - ex-ap-at-ah'-o
From G1537 and G1538; to seduce wholly: - beguile, deceive.
Let it be settled in your mind. Verified even in the New Testament as to what we are talking about in the garden from the Hebrew word, "naga" as well as the beguiling of Eve. Now if we were to continue on in this eleventh chapter we would find, let it be know marvel for in end times Satan himself will come, the English word "transformed" in verse fourteen, but it's "disguised".
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed3345 into an angel of light.
Transformed - G3345
Μετασχηματιìζω - metaschēmatizō - met-askh-ay-mat-id'-zo
From G3326 and a derivative of G4976; to transfigure or disguise; figuratively to apply (by accommodation): - transfer, transform (self).
G4976
σχῆμα - schēma - skhay'-mah
From the alternate of G2192; a figure (as a mode or circumstance), that is, (by implication) external condition: - fashion.
Satan's subtle. He's always disguising himself. So it is in the Greek. So a person, many might say, "Well that's certainly spiritual." No it isn't. It is using an actual event so that that is spiritual for you can be brought to pass before the spurious Messiah …
spu·ri·ous [spyoo
r-ee-uh
s]1.not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
without being seduced by him spiritually whereby you are not deceived. And certainly we'll go a little deeper into this when we come to the sixth chapter of Genesis concerning the event. Okay, so having said that let's go back to the Book of Genesis, chapter three. Let it flow. It is God's word and that's what you need to know. Verse five reads:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
Satan continues speaking...
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
In other words, you will find enlightenment. Now let's hold on just a minute. Satan is really… you know never trust Satan, number one. What does it mean? “You'll be like us, the angelic beings, you will know good from evil”. At this time Eve is created innocent. But I don't want you to forget the comment that you're eyes shall be opened and I'll document for you that certainly rather than an opening what is about to transpire brings about a closing. I want to call up the word "tree" as it is used of eating all of the fruit of the garden.
Okay, let's call up the word tree as it is utilized there. And it will be the Hebrew word H6086. Do we have that on the monitor at this time? The Hebrew word, H6086... or which ever Hebrew word you have there will be fine [said with sarcasm]. Is it another verse down? If I can I'm going to hesitate just a moment if the director can tell the camera person... Have we got our verses crossed or what? It's coming up? Okay we'll have it hear in just a second. I'll continue talking until we get here.
You need to know how God uses the word tree. It's very important. God uses symbology, where as with symbology, He is able to say more than is written and also to protect tender ears from that that He would say. Certainly we find that, as I will document here in a moment, that it is not unusual for ourselves to address "tree" as our own bodies, our own personage. God even called Satan a tree in Ezekiel, chapter thirty-two [correction: chapter 31] when He [God] was talking to Pharaoh and instead of calling Satan a Cedar of Lebanon which is the tree that is symbolic of our people, He called him a "Te’ashur" which in the Hebrew tongue means a plain old box Cedar.
Notes from Companion Bible: See Ezekiel, chapter 31 http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Eze/Eze031.html#top
You try to be something real special but all you are is an old box Cedar. So it's not unusual for God to refer to men as trees. Now here is the word utilized in the Hebrew tongue, "ets" and it comes from H6095 in the Hebrew dictionary:
H6086
עץ - ‛êts - ates
From H6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence wood (plural sticks): - + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Now let's go to that H6095 if we may and we'll have it there following that, that the word for tree comes from, it's prime, whereby we can recognize it. Again I stated it's coming along. And please have H6096 ready for me after that. That God utilizing trees, calling Satan a tree, we're going to take this to the fact that... what do you call your arms? Do you not call them limbs? And what about the torso of the body? What is it called? The trunk of course. So there's nothing new under the sun. And it is not unusual at all for a person to use even God's vein, His thought that is to say, in the vein in which He would think that He utilizes trees.
Now the tree we just covered that is good and bad, an oak tree knows enough that when the first frost hits it sheds its leaves and they fall to the ground. It knows the sap has got to go down or it will freeze up and so-forth. But a tree that has knowledge of good and evil we need to go a little deeper. So here we have the word, the prime, from which the word "ets" come from. And you will notice it is:
H6095
עצה - ‛âtsâh - aw-tsaw'
A primitive root; properly to fasten (or make firm),
And this is what I want you to get from it...
that is, to close (the eyes): - shut.
What did Satan say? Surely your eyes will be opened. So he lied again. Now let's go on if we may to H6096 from the Hebrew language. And we find here note it’s also from H6095 so that you get the full picture here.
H6096
עצה - ‛âtseh - aw-tseh'
From H6095; the spine (as giving firmness to the body): - back bone.
So we're talking about the back bone of the body. So here we can pretty well begin to understand why Satan would lie when the prime from the word atsah is to close the eyes, Satan says, "Surely they will be open". What it means is it will close your spiritual eyes and open your eyes of the world and that that it demands and so-forth. But know and understand that it is not an unusual term for us to say this is the trunk of my body. Or, what about your family? Many of you are proud of them and some of us, we have maybe one or two that we would like to break a certain limb off [said with humor]... It's called a family tree. It's not unusual at all. Now let's go on if we may for Genesis three, six. That sixth verse, alright. And that sixth verse reads:
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
Now picture what's happening...
and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
Ah ha...
she took of the fruit4480, 6529 thereof, and did eat,398 and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Fruit - H4480
מנּי מנּי מן - min minnîy minnêy - min, min-nee', min-nay'
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (propositionally), from or out of in many senses: - above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, X neither, X nor, (out) of, over, since, X then, through, X whether, with.
Fruit - H6529
פּרי - perîy - per-ee'
From H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively): - bough, ([first-]) fruit ([-ful]), reward.
Eat - H6509
פּרה - pârâh - paw-raw'
A primitive root; to bear fruit (literally or figuratively): - bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
Now there’s one thing I want to make very clear; that they both partook of the same fruit. She simply indicated it to her husband and directed him to it. Now again, is it unusual for God to mention men as trees? No. I really want to nail this one down. Go with me to Isaiah, chapter 61, and let’s pick it up in the third verse of that Isaiah, chapter 61. And it reads:
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
That means, because the antichrist has taken over…
to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees
That they might be called WHAT?
they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Now God planted trees but it seems that Satan would have a little habit of planting trees also. I find it interesting that even in this same chapter in verse 21 of 59 [correction, 60] that it reads, now you won’t have it but I want to read it to you:
Isa 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting,
In other words, a branch of a tree… Christ, Himself, was even called “The Branch”. So again, think not just because the subject is trees… Now, I have a question for you. Some might say, “Well this is just a little bit steep if we’re talking about what I think he’s talking about, conception and people not retaining their virginity for the coming of Christ… This is really kind of heavy.” Well, that’s what God’s Word states. Now let me ask you a question. Have you observed as of yet the word apple? And I guarantee you, as a student of the Hebrew, “apple” is not mentioned in the manuscripts either. No way could you translate any tree that has been mentioned thus far as “apple”.
So I wonder how many of you can remember back in [your Sunday school]… “Oh yes, dear children, Eve ate an apple off of an apple tree.” Lie! It’s not there. You’re lying to the children. Now which is better in God’s eyes? That you teach truth or that you lie to little children and give them a warped view of what happened in the garden that they have to maintain most usually for the rest of their lives? Trust me, I have grown, adult people that will write after a teaching such as this and say, “Well I know the word apple is in there, just where is it?” I mean they can not shake off that that was… You know a little child trusts the adults and the elders of a church. And it’s very difficult to remove lies and false teachings from their minds after they’re implanted there by people they trust. Well, we’re just making points and winning friends and influencing people here… I’m not saying this to insult anyone, but to shame you if that’s what you’re teaching contrary to the Word of God. I assure you the serpent would love that also; the picture of the apple and so-forth when the whole thing is a lie.
Okay, so now we get back to Genesis here. We’re going to pick it up with verse seven:
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened,
…opened to the ways of the world and sin.
and they knew that they were naked;
Uh oh! The old back bone with the central nervous system running through it has already past the little message up to the brain. That’s where the knowledge of the good and evil is. That’s why the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was Satan himself.
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons 2290.
Aprons - H2290
חגרה חגורה חגר חגור - chăgôr chăgôr chăgôrâh chăgôrâh - (1,2) khag-ore', (3,4) khag-o-raw'
From H2296; a belt (for the waist): - apron, armour, gird (-le).
Now I can’t help saying it, “aprons”, and the word in the Hebrew for “aprons” is to gird themselves. “Oh now honey, no honey, they ate an apple so they made a little mask to put over their little mouthy here, you see that? Yes, little fig tree, you know, and just put the little fig leaf right around their mouth”. No! They made aprons to cover their private parts because of what they had just done. Now let’s not lie to children regarding God’s Word. It makes God very angry. And I’ll tell you something, Jesus told you in Matthew 24 and Mark 13, not maybe you should learn the Parable of the Fig Tree, but to learn it! And this is the very “rock” foundation of the Parable of the Fig Tree. If you don’t understand this, you’re not going to understand any other of Christ’s parables as it’s written in Mark, chapter 4, of this thing. And it’s the reason that God speaks through Christ in parables to those that have eyes to see and ears to hear. They made aprons. They girded themselves. They covered their nakedness. Verse eight:
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Why? They sinned, they disobeyed. Nine:
Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Gen 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Gen 3:11 And he said,
God [speaking]…
Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Well, naturally he [Adam] had. Because the evilness that Satan shared with he and the woman both made them ashamed. Verse twelve:
Gen 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
“It’s all her fault!” Old Adam trying to, bless his hide, trying to pass it off and blame it on the woman when he was supposed to be the one that would have kept it from happening in the first place. Understand… Thirteen:
Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
I don’t have to tell you what happened there. You can tell by the outcome of it. Listen to God. He’ll explain it to you that might have difficulty. Fourteen:
Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
You know who the serpent is, that old devil, the dragon, Satan… fourteen:
And the LORD God said unto the serpent Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly1 shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
In other words that is a statement of degradation. That Satan could never again rise to a point of salvation or anything else. Verse fifteen:
Gen 3:15 And I…
How sharp are you? Can you listen to God’s word without thinking of labels or what you’ve heard in the past and let God just speak? Let’s do that.
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed2233 [Satan’s seed] and her seed;2233 [Eve’s seed]
Do you know what we’re talking about? Children, that’s what the seed of man is, okay.
Seed - H2233
זרע - zera‛ - zeh'-rah
From H2232; seed; figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity: - X carnally, child, fruitful, seed (-time), sowing-time.
H2232
זרע - zâra‛ - zaw-rah'
A primitive root; to sow; figuratively to disseminate, plant, fructify: - bear, conceive seed, set with, sow (-er), yield.
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
This is the first prophecy. Satan knew that it would be from this woman that Christ would come. And God is saying, “Because you tried to destroy that, I will put enmity between thy seed and the woman’s seed”, meaning, Christ’s heels were nailed and pierced, but Christ ultimately will crush the head of the serpent. And so it is. “Well how can we be sure that Jesus would teach something like that?” Well, how about reading it?
Let’s go to the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, real quickly here. The thirteenth chapter of Matthew and you’ll find that Jesus did teach that the serpent had “seed” or children here on earth; even though you’ve got a bunch of these wackos, biblically illiterate, so called “teachers” that would run around and tell you otherwise. Here it is for yourself in the good Old New Testament, the words of Christ. And this has to do with the Parable of the Tares and the Sower. And this is the parable that Christ said if you don’t understand this one you can’t understand the rest. And it’s true. Verse thirty-seven reads… when the disciples asked Him, “Why are talking in parables, and what is this parable of the sower in the garden? Verse thirty-seven:
Mat 13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
That is to say the Word of God was with God when the Spirit moved and created the various races on the earth. The good… thirty-eight:
Mat 13:38 The field is the world;
So you don’t have any doubts now, He’ not talking in a parable He’s explaining one.
the good seed4690 are the children of the kingdom; but the tares2215 are the children
[note: Christ would be the “son of man (adam)” and he would be born of the king-line]
That from the conception, and do you know how children get here? From conception…
of the wicked one;
Seed - G4690
Σπεìρμα – sperma - sper'-mah
From G4687; somethng sown, that is, seed (including the male “sperm”); by implication offspring; specifically a remnant (figuratively as if kept over for planting): - issue, seed.
Tares - G2215
Ζιζαìνιον – zizanion - dziz-an'-ee-on
Of uncertain origin; darnel or false grain: - tares.
Thirty-nine:
Mat 13:39 The enemy that sowed them
“Ooh, here we’re gonna find out! We’re really going to be able to find out what really happened!” [said with sarcasm]
The enemy that sowed them is the devil;
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the serpent, that old dragon, and you can find all of his names listed in Revelation, chapter 20 in one clause/string.
the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Yes it shall come to pass. Yes Christ taught about the children of the serpent. Yes He did. And I make no apologies for it nor should you have any desire to want to. Else again, you wouldn’t be able to understand any of the parables of our Father. Okay, let’s return if we may to sixteenth verse of the third chapter of Genesis. I think that pretty well clears it up, does it not? We’re talking about what happened in the garden and why they used fig leaves or an apron rather than a mask?
Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
What had happened? Conception. Do I need to define conception? I think not.
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,
Rather than listening to God…
and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
That’s where he sinned. It wasn’t listening to his wife it was not listening to God, okay.
I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
And man has had to grub out a living ever since. Eighteen:
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Exactly as it’s written it has always been. There’s nothing new under the sun. And if you don’t understand what happened in the beginning you’re not going to understand the end. Verse nineteen:
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And so it is. Many people dream of these old bodies raising up and all that. No, they go to dust. You raise in a spiritual body. Twenty:
Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Only because it would be Christ that would come through her womb and you either have Christ or you’re not going to have eternal life. That’s what it has reference to. That is to say, for all of God’s children, for all races. Verse twenty-one:
Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
There was blood shed because of that sin and the skins taken to make clothing. Twenty-two:
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take3947
I will caution you to note the word is not “touch” here, or even in the English, and certainly not “naga” in the Hebrew.
Take - H3947
לקח - lâqach - law-kakh'
A primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications): - accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive (-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
take3947 also of the tree of life,
Which is to say, Jesus Christ, himself…
and eat, and live forever:
That means to partake of the Word of Salvation at that time and live forever before having earned the right to deserve salvation. Verse twenty-three:
Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way,
All directions…
to keep the way of the tree of life.
Do you know what way that is? It’s the same way that Christ said, “I Am the Way. I Am the Way to the truth and the resurrection.” Do you want to have eternal life? Then don’t lie about God’s Word. Teach it as it is written on a level that all people may understand; gently, firmly and certainly it is a part that you want a mature child’s mind. There’s nothing wrong with teaching a child the truth. Quite frankly, there’s no way they can understand the rest of God’s Word without understanding how it was in the beginning or to know what that parable meant, the parable of the sower. And Christ explains it in such a way that any child can understand it. Then they can begin to understand the controversy and the war that we have between Satan and the seed of the woman. That is to say Christ and the children of God, that try to follow God. There will yet be one more time that Satan will take an opportunity to destroy that woman through which Christ would come. We’ll find it in the sixth chapter of this great book.
I make no apology for God’s Word. It is very easy for you to check out the Hebrew by the materials that I have submitted to you, even drawing you a picture and showing you the Hebrew and in one case the Greek in this particular lecture and exactly what it means being fully translated rather than transliterated. God’s word is true, it’s simple, it’s wholesome, and it’s good. You never have to make any apologies for God’s Word. It brings about clarity, understanding, and a happy life, most of all, and along with it peace of mind and eternal life. Never apologize for God’s Word to any man.
It is written and it shall come to pass exactly as it is written. The first prophecy concerning what would happen to Satan’s head was listed in that sixteenth verse, fifteenth and sixteenth verse of that Book of Genesis. That hasn’t even happened yet but it’s going to. So some of what you were studying today is prophesy -yet for another day. Don’t miss any of these lectures especially in the first six chapters of Genesis. They are very important and again, I make no apologies for God’s Word and neither should you. Alright bless your hearts, you listen a moment won’t you please.
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