1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

 

The serpent here is acting under the power of Satan. "God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Genesis 1:31. Sin, the  entered the world

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Satan's goal here is to turn Adam and Eve's heart away from believing God and give them a reason to follow Satan. Satan knows that if he can make God look bad, sin would look good. He begins here with doubt.

 

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:

Satan moves to deception.

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,

Satan appeals to Eve's desires.

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.

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 LordGod amongst the

trees of the garden.

 

This is still man today. We wonder where God is. We think He is hiding. But because of sin.

Because we think we don't need God anymore we are the ones hiding from God. Not God

hiding from us.

 

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and

I hid myself.

Adam feels disgrace.

 

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof

I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

God has given Adam a chance to confess and ask God's forgiveness. God knows what

Adam has done. 

 

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the

tree, and I did eat.

Adam becomes defensive.

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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.

Eve becomes defensive.

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14 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 belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

 

This seems to be both curse and prophetic. 1 Peter 5:8 says.

"Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

                                                                   

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which 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;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Adam and Eve understand disappointment.

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19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:

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God is speaking here of our physical bodies. It is through the lust of our physical bodies that Satan uses the temptations of the world to lure us from the presence of God.

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for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Death (physical).

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20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

To cover Adam and Eve, God required a sacrifice. God required the shedding of blood.

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 take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Death (spiritual). This is symbolic of the loss of God's presence.

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