The lesson study for Tuesday, December 28, 2004 is titled
Satan's Earthly Exile.
I want to draw your attention to this part of that study:
quote:
Read Genesis 3:1. Compare it with Genesis 2:16, 17. What ploy did Satan use to set his trap?
How fascinating that Satan used a mixture of truth and error. He took a direct command from God and simply rephrased it in a way that sounded almost as if he were repeating what God said, only he put a different spin on it. In other words, he mixed just enough truth with error in order to make it sound right.
Read Genesis 3:2,3. What does it say about Eve's knowledge of God's command and, thus, her responsibility for her action?Though deceived (1 Tim. 2:14), Eve, by her words, showed that she knew what God had told her to do. That's a powerful lesson for us: We could save ourselves a lot of heartache, sin, and deception if we simply obeyed the clear commands of God, no matter how much we might not understand a certain situation or all the variables in it. Deplorable as Eve's sin was, Adam transgressed with eyes wide open. Even amid their ignorance, they could have saved themselves from deception simply by obeying God, trusting that His way was the best way, even when they didn't fully understand it.
Read Genesis 3:6. What were the things about the tree that led Eve to disobey? What principles were at work there? How are these same principles manifested today?
I now want to quote Genesis 3:1-7 below:
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of 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 hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And
the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her; and
he did eat.
7 And
the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Was Adam also there with Eve during the conversation between her and the devil through the medium of the serpent?