Dr. Pothana's Teaching

2. Creation
Chapters 1-2
• Life
• Innocence
• Presence of
God
Chapters 3-4
Fall
• Death
• Sin
• Banishment
from God’s
presence

3. Events leading
up to the fall
Genesis 3:1-6
• Serpent
introduced
• Temptation
• Sin
Genesis 3:7-24
Results of the
fall
• God’s pointed
questioning
• Curse of sin
• Coats of skin
• Banishment
from the garden

4. Genesis 3:1a
Now the serpent was more
crafty than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made.
~Wr[' And the man and
his wife were both
naked and were
not ashamed
(Genesis 2:25).
~Ar['

5. Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more
crafty than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made.
And he said to the woman,
“Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall
not eat from any tree of the
garden’?”

6. Genesis 3:2-3
The woman said to the
serpent, “From the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat; 3
but from the fruit of the tree which
is in the middle of the garden, God
has said, ‘You shall not eat from it
or touch it, or you will die.’”

7. Genesis 3:4-5
The serpent said to the
woman, “You surely will not die! 5
For God knows that in the day you
eat from it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”

8. Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, and
that it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was desirable to
make one wise, she took from its
fruit and ate; and she gave also to
her husband with her, and he ate.

9. For all that is in the world, the
lust of the flesh and the lust of the
eyes and the boastful pride of life,
is not from the Father, but is from
the world. (1 John 2:16).

10. The
Tree
was…
The lust
of the
flesh
Good
for food
The lust
of the
eyes
A delight
to the
eyes
The boastful
pride of life
Desirable
to make one
wise

11. Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves loin coverings.

12. Tempted
in a
Garden

13. Genesis 3:8
They heard the sound of the
LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and the man
and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the LORD God
among the trees of the garden.

14. Genesis 3:9
Then the LORD God called
to the man, and said to him,
“Where are you?”

15. Genesis 3:10-12
He said, “I heard the sound
of You in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; so I
hid myself.” 11 And He said, “Who
told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten from the tree of
which I commanded you not to
eat?” 12 The man said, “The
woman whom You gave to be with
me, she gave me from the tree,
and I ate.”

16. Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to
the woman, “What is this you have
done?” And the woman said, “The
serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The
man
The
woman
The
serpent
Blames Blames

17. Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the
field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life…”

18. Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her
seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the
heel.”

19. Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Satan Jesus Christ
His head bruised
on the cross
(A fatal wound)
His heel bruised
on the cross
(Humanity)

20. Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Satan Jesus Christ
His head bruised
on the cross
His heel bruised
on the cross

21. Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Abel & Seth
Cain
Lamech
Enoch
Noah
Shem
Ham
Abraham
Canaan

22. Seed of the Woman
Seed of the Serpent
Ishmael Isaac
Abraham
Jacob
Esau
Whose Seed
are You?

23. Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain in
childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth
children;
Yet your desire will be for your
husband,
And he will rule over you.”

24. Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply your pain in
childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth
children;
Yet your desire will be for your
husband,
And he will rule over you.”

25. A woman must quietly receive
instruction with entire
submissiveness. 12 But I do not
allow a woman to teach or
exercise authority over a man,
but to remain quiet. (1 Timothy
2:11-12).

26. For it was Adam who was first
created, and then Eve. 14 And it
was not Adam who was
deceived, but the woman being
deceived, fell into transgression.
(1 Timothy 2:13-14).

27. But women will be preserved
through the bearing of children if
they continue in faith and love
and sanctity with self-restraint.
(1 Timothy 2:15).

28. Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said,
“Because you have listened to the
voice of your wife, and have eaten
from the tree about which I
commanded you, saying, ‘You
shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of
you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life….”

29. Genesis 3:18-19
“Both thorns and thistles it shall
grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the
field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

30. Examples of Retributive Irony
More crafty than
any beast of the
field...
The
Serpent
...is now made
lower than all of the
other animals.
Bruises Christ on
the heel...
Satan ...is bruised on the
head.
Desires her
husband...
The
Woman
...finds that he shall
rule over her.
Made of dust
who would rise to
be like God...
Man ...is returned to
dust again.
Warren Gage

32. For the creation was subjected to futility,
not of its own will, but because of Him who
subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation
itself also will be set free from its slavery to
corruption into the freedom of the glory of
the children of God. 22 For we know that the
whole creation groans and suffers the
pains of childbirth together until now.
(Romans 8:20-21).

33. Genesis 3:20
Now the man called his
wife’s name Eve, because she
was the mother of all the living.

34. Examples of Redemptive Irony
Who was
tempted to sin...
The
woman
...becomes the
mother of all
living.
Will die on a
cross...
The God-
man
...to bring life to
many.

35. Genesis 3:21
The LORD God made
garments of skin for Adam and his
wife, and clothed them.
• Taken by the shedding of blood
• Innocent substitute
• Replaced fig leave of human righteousness

36. For we know that if the earthly tent which is
our house is torn down, we have a building
from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed in this
house we groan, longing to be clothed with
our dwelling from heaven, 3 inasmuch as
we, having put it on, will not be found
naked. (2 Corinthians 5:1-3).

37. For indeed while we are in this tent, we
groan, being burdened, because we do
not want to be unclothed but to be
clothed, so that what is mortal will be
swallowed up by life. (2 Corinthians 5:4).

38. “And behold, I am
sending forth the promise
of My Father upon you;
but you are to stay in the
city until you are clothed
with power from on high.”
(Luke 24:49).

39. Genesis 3:22-23
Then the LORD God said,
“Behold, the man has become like
one of Us, knowing good and evil;
and now, he might stretch out his
hand, and take also from the tree
of life, and eat, and live forever” --
23 therefore the LORD God sent
him out from the garden of Eden,
to cultivate the ground from which
he was taken.

40. Genesis 3:24
So He drove the man out;
and at the east of the garden of
Eden He stationed the cherubim
and the flaming sword which
turned every direction to guard the
way to the tree of life.

41. Adam
He has been
banished from
the garden.
The People of Israel
They have departed from
the “garden of Egypt” and
are now in the Sinai
Wilderness.
Adam leaves the
garden by the
eastern route.
The Israelites also leave
Egypt by the eastern
route.