Satan is very clever. Always his strategy is to confuse reality, to make evil seem good. He knows Eve is living in all the splendor of Eden, with all of her needs met. How do you get at someone who is contented with good?
The serpent has a plan. He approaches the woman with a theological discussion about God. That is a safe subject; she likes to talk about God. The serpent queries, “Did God really say, ‘ You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The serpent makes an overstatement that he allows Eve to correct, but in doing so he makes her aware of a restriction. God is keeping something from her.
The woman corrects the serpent. “No, God isn’t like that….” Then she makes her own overstatement of what God has said (Genesis 3:3). Yet, instead of declaring that the garden is lavish in its provision for her need, and that one tree doesn’t make all that much difference, the woman lets the serpent trick her. He focuses her attention on the one forbidden tree, suggesting that God is keeping something good from Eve. He casts doubt on the character of God. Doubting God makes it easy to “take and eat.”
Eve’s attention is riveted to the tree– not the garden full of goodness, not God’s gracious fellowship and provision. Just the tree. It looks good; it pleases the eye; it is desirable (Genesis 3:6). The more she looks, the more appealing it becomes. It’s always that way when Satan gets us to concentrate on the temptation instead of on God.
I suppose the temptation has been replayed again and again in the history of the human race, and probably in each of our lives. The specifics are different, but the strategy is often the same. How many times has the serpent tempted you to think, “A good God wouldn’t keep me from this, would He?”
The serpent won his encounter with the woman. She took the fruit and gave some to her husband. It will be a long time before another One will say, “Take and eat, ” and this time He will provide His own body and blood as a ransom for their sins.
from: Women’s Devotional Bible
Although God would put enmity between Satan and humanity, and between the Seed of the woman and that of the serpent, a Man would be appointed by God to bruise the serpents head, and remove God’s curse forever, although God’s chosen Saviour would Himself be bruised in the process. But the death of the ONE would triumph over the power of the other, death itself would lose its sting, and Satan himself would be vanquished forever.
One result of their sin would be a perpetual struggle between the satanic forces and mankind until its final completion, and Christ becomes all in all. But until that time, there will be ongoing hostility and bitter enmity between the woman and her human offspring, and Satan, his demonic forces, and all who choose to serve in the kingdom of darkness.
Satan and sin was defeated at the Cross by the death of Christ and His shed blood. Two thousand years ago the promised Seed of the woman crushed the head of the serpent and defeated man’s bitter enemy at the Cross, where His heel was bruised on account of our iniquity and sin. BUT His blood cleanses sin for all who believe in Christ as Saviour. Praise His holy name.
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