The Trouble with Sin
Satan, who is “the enemy” of God in the world, deceived our original parents, Adam and Eve. Then they disobeyed God. As soon as they disobeyed God, God promised them a Savior who would destroy Satan’s power over them (by a deadly head wound). But this would mean that the Savior who himself would also be wounded (“on the heel”). God kept his promise by sending his Son Jesus (John 3:16). By dying as the sacrifice for our sins Jesus destroyed Satan’s power over us and made it possible for people to live in obedience and peace with God.
Genesis 3:14-20
Punishment
The Lord’s Promise of a Redeemer
So the LORD God said to the snake:
“Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every animal of the field. You shall go upon your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
And to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you and you shall eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
The man Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
