Consequences Given to the Serpent, Woman, and Man.

Here, we begin to trace an interesting thread through history. God tells Adam and Eve the serpent will injure the "Seed of the Woman," but he, in turn, will crush the head of the serpent.

Can you imagine the mysterious hope this promise would have produced in them?

Question: Who is this "seed of the woman?"

Prayer Focus: The end of the story is written. We have access to hope and confidence in God's promise of victory. Ask God to strengthen your hope and resolve in every life situation you encounter.

Genesis 3:14-21 New Living Translation
14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed
    more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly,
    groveling in the dust as long as you live.
15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”
16 Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
    and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
    but he will rule over you.”
17 And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
    whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
    All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
    though you will eat of its grains.
19 By the sweat of your brow
    will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
    from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
    and to dust you will return.”


20 Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.[c] 21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.