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        -    e-Ministries     -   
        -   by Jon Justvig    -   
        -  January 7, 2010    -   
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        Issue #: 6   
      
        [KJV] 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.    
           
        Adam's wife, Eve was beguiled, or lied to, is exactly what happened.   
        The serpent told Eve that she wouldn't surely eat from the tree that   
        God had strictly forbidden.  Because she was disobedient there were   
        coinsequences for what she had done.   
      
        [KJV] 2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent   
                        beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds   
                        should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in   
                        Christ.    
      
        Just like Eve, this happens everyday in our walk with the Lord.  We   
        stumble and fall by disobeying our Lord; even with simple subtle   
        things that don't seem wrong at all.  We do this in the sight of our   
        Lord, regardless of what it is or how much we think it is okay.  We   
        must take our Bible with us and keep his Word in our thoughts and   
        resist the temptations of the devil.  Always be on guard, take every   
        thought captive.   
      
        [KJV] Gen 3:14  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:   
      
        [KJV] Gen 3:15  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.   
      
        This was the first punishment God had given since he created the   
        Earth and all it's beings and beauty.  The serpent as vile as he was   
        tempted Eve to eat of the unforbidden fruit from the tree of   
        Knowledge.  Something we should know nothing about.  By our own   
        curiousity, we sometimes seek things we shouldn't.  After all, we   
        are only human.   
      
        The serpent was the most cursed.  Have you ever been to the zoo and   
        seen a serpent?  To my own sight, they look very wicked.  If they   
        could talk, I wonder what they would say.  Nothing at all that we'd   
        like to listen to, I'm sure.   
       
        [KJV] Gen 3:16  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.    
      
        For those women out there that have delivered a baby, you understand   
        this pain and sorrow during labor.  This is God's second punishment.   
        Because the woman was disobedient, then shall all women carry this   
        burden.  God was serious about when he said you would surely die.   
        If you didn't die, you would sometimes which you had with all the   
        pain you go through.  There is one more punishment after this one.   
      
        [KJV] Gen 3:17  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;    
      
        It wouldn't be at all fair for just the serpent and Eve to take   
        punishment without Adam.  After all, he ate of it as well as Eve.   
        So what happened to him is that he work the ground for food,   
        assuming before the eaten the fruit, he didn't need to work the   
        ground, he could have just eaten from the tree of l