 I heard somebody say something yesterday and let me just tell you this guys, it was all so blasphemous. This person had the audacity, the mitigated gall to claim that on his channel that he had the best chat. Well that's blasphemous. That's absolutely blasphemy. There has never been a collection of more awesome earth people in the history of YouTube than on this channel. It's just a fact. It just is what it is. Now they can fight and jockey for the second best group of people, the second best chat, but no. This one right here, number one. So they can be number two or three or four or five but they can never be, the only group of people that will ever be better than you guys will be when you get to heaven. That's the only way a group, it gets better. That's the only way. Now I want to thank you guys. By the way, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, how are you all doing? Welcome to the world's greatest, and I mean the world's greatest Bible study ever in the history of mankind. I take it back. I take it back. It does take a second, it's second, it's the second greatest behind when Jesus was speaking, it's behind now. And after that, yeah. Anyway, anyway, the reason why this Bible study is good, the reason why I like it is because one is tested. It's gone through and dealt with the worst of the worst, the craziest of the craziest. People who don't play nice with each other, people who don't like, literally, literally did not like people on the other side of the room who thought that these people, they're not safe. Why are they here? So no, Jesus didn't have a chat, but if he did, if he did, Karen, if he did have a chat, I would go ahead and concede that if Jesus had a YouTube channel and a chat, it would be better. I would concede that, but just to Jesus. Peter and Paul and them, no, no, no. If they had a chat, it wouldn't be better than you guys. So this is what it is. But the reason why this Bible study, I think, is the best, not because of me or anything like that, but it's just the way we do it. You cannot, and you guys are going to, I think you guys have seen it in the first two sessions. You'll see it more that people are going to hold themselves accountable to just what the text says thus far. And there will be some people that are going to come along and who, maybe this is their first time watching it or they'll come in later and they're not privy to the rules. And again, I'll have to keep addressing it because it just needs to be stated. We're only sticking to what we know so far. And what we know so far is true. Really whatever we read in Genesis one is truth. Whatever we read in Genesis two, that's true also, all of it. Now will we read the rest of the Bible? That also be true? Sure. But how they wrote it, how they understood it, that was true. And so, so far, I don't know if you've noticed this, but so far we don't have very much disagreement between us. And I don't care what your background is. If you are more charismatic or more Pentecostal, if you're more on the conservative side, I don't care if you're male or female. If you're rich, I don't care what your denomination is. What your theological or doctrinal confession is. So far, we pretty much all been in agreement. The only time that we get out of agreement is when we start, well, what about this chapter over in this book down yonder? Well, we haven't gotten there yet, but right now. And so what we do is we formulate a foundation and we don't deviate from the foundation that's being set. So everything has to line up with the foundation that's being set. We're building off of this foundation. Are you guys with me? And that works. It just absolutely does. So that being the case, let me also say another thing kind of in housekeeping housekeeping. That is to remember, unlike other times where we're on, there is no back and forth arguing or anything like that or whatever, you will be timed out or escorted out or what have you, because that's not what it is. Just act as though you're in a class. Not one of these classes that you might see in one of these colleges and one of these universities where they're just yelling and going, not like that, no. You know how it used to be back in the day? Back in the day when we actually had sense and we respected the, we didn't have to like the teacher, but we respected the teacher. And if your parents got a phone call that you did something or something was happening at the school, they didn't take your side. They took the teacher's side. If for no other reason, they had to leave work to come deal with you. Yeah, that's how we want to act. By the way, can I just tell you something? And I'll cut all this down after it finishes running this processing. But do you know I heard something disheartening? I really did. And maybe it's just today's group of people. And then we'll go ahead and jump in the Bible study, but I had my little workout this morning and I was working out with my son, my son-in-law, my son. And I asked him a question. And you guys, I don't care if you're male or female, if you're in your, maybe you're late 40s, you're mid 40s, late 40s, 50s, more. No, you cannot use the bathroom camera and you sit down and you just wait. You just wait, you hold it. You should have used a bathroom before the bell rang. So you sit there and hold it. No, I'm kidding. But that's how you used to do it though. Back in the day, teacher, can I use the bathroom? And she would say, no, Corey, it's your second time using the bathroom. But I really got to go. Of course, one time I didn't have to go and I wet myself. So, and I was at fault. My mother didn't get on the teacher, she got on me. But I asked him a question. I said, did you guys ride your bikes growing up? Because, you know, it's Saturday, kids are out riding their bikes. You know, after Saturday morning cartoons. He said, no, I wrote a bike. So I asked him, did you guys jump ramps? You know, just get a brick or something. Put a piece of wood aboard and run your bike and just jump over it? No, I wasn't in that BMX stuff, in that X-Games type stuff. What? It's not X-Games. That's just regular childhood stuff. I said, well, OK, well, did you climb trees? You know, when we were little, we walked past a tree. We saw it. If it was climbable, we climbed it. Why? Because it was there. It's what kids do. You fell out of it last week. I might fall out of it this week. Did you build a treehouse? No, never built a treehouse. What? Never built a treehouse or a clubhouse? Are you serious? Never had rock fights? Now, I understand it's Texas, so they didn't have snowball fights. What about making your own little, you ever made a gun? You take the stick, take your mother's clothes, pen line, clothes, pen, tie it to the back of it. Take some rubber bands, tie them together. Take a piece of nail, nail it at the front of the board, bend it over, pull the rubber bands back into the clip of the clothespin. And then you put a bottle cap in that bad boy, and you shoot your buddy's eye out. That was fun. Yeah, that kind of, he had no idea what I was talking about. He had no, yeah, rock fights. See, you guys don't, that's what's wrong with your generation. You guys don't know what living is. You have no idea what living is. You know what living is for you guys, this. Getting on the, you know, your little video games, the Xboxes and PlayStation and Nintendoes. Yeah, that's living for you guys. No, we, somebody's gonna have a football or a basketball. We're gonna go out there and knock the crap out of each other and have fun doing it and have fun doing it. But I just, I'm still floored. I'm still floored, but that's society. But that was back when kids had respect for the teachers. They might not like the teachers, but they had respect for the teachers. Cause you get a paddling. Now you won't get a paddling here. There are, we don't dull out paddlings here at the Smart Christians channel. No, we don't do that. We should, shouldn't we? You know, I'm, Lisa, what do you think? Should we start, we should start paddling. Yeah, I think, I think we should, I think we should. Anyway, it was fun, but wait a second, Sheila. But didn't, didn't you girls do the same thing? You girls, now granted, girls were girlier. Girls were much girlier than, but as you're we girls, you're little girls, you still would do stuff, climb trees and so forth and get on a skateboard and fall. Now by the time you were, as a girl started deviating later and started to do more girl stuff. But by the time you were a 10 year old boy, your legs looking, your legs and arms looking nothing like they did when you were born. They're all scratched up, scarred up. If you didn't have a scratch or scar or something on there, then you wouldn't live it. You wouldn't live it. Nowadays kids are allergic to grass and air. We've got brand new lab, tested milk. Anyway, I digress. Now let's go back into the Bible study. So remember, you have to earn a statement. Wherever we are, whatever we say, it's only because of what we've read so far. So thus far, we are only in, we're starting Genesis three. When I tell you this is one of the most, obviously all of the Bible is important, but this is it. This is it. We've asked some questions that may or may not have anything to do with it. Hold on one, give me guys, give me one second. I have to take this call, give me one second. Sorry about that. That was Biden. He wanted to know, he wanted my advice on something. And I said, Joe, listen, you know, do not call during this time when I'm on the live stream. And I didn't call him Joe. I said, Mr. President. So I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Yeah, it was fast. I just had to let somebody know that something was okay. So anyway, but yeah, I'm on a first name basis with Joe and with Donald. It's hard keeping these guys apart. It really is, but anyway. But in this study, you only get to go over or discuss what we know. You can't go forward, right? When your compatriots come in, let them know because they're going to reference, I promise you it's going to happen. It is going to happen. Someone's going to reference them. I have a question and someone is going to reference a passage that we hadn't gotten to yet. So as we're reading this, a couple of things keep in mind. One, obviously the Jews who are hearing this for the first time, they do know some things. They understand what a day is and so forth. So when Moses is giving the creation account, they already know what a day is. He's just explained to them how it came to be. And so the words that are being used, the words that are written down, the words that are being said, they already know what these words mean. It's not as though they're going to look at these words and have to get a Hebrew lexicon to figure out or get a strong some cordons to figure out what is Moses saying. No, Moses is speaking to them in their language and the point of language is there are rules. The point of communication is that I'm trying to convey to you a thought. And I don't want to speak to you to try to confuse you. I want you to hear what I'm saying and to understand what I'm saying. So let's remember that as we're reading this. Let's remember who is doing the speaking, who he's speaking to. And then it will help. Again, there will be somebody that's going to fight it. That's just the way it is. If I brought in a Hebrew Israelites, if I brought in a Muslim, not that they can't understand it, they just won't understand it, which is fine. Which is fine. But going by the rules of this, now what we said before, and you're going to see this more so now. We came to the conclusion. We stated that above all else, God is sovereign. Above all else, it's rule number one. Above all else, God is sovereign, okay? And so we don't have to try to look at things from our own standpoint. We want to view things from his standpoint, not ours. Even though we are numero uno we're number one, but God is most important. So we'll also want to keep in mind how he sees things, are you with me? So now, that being the case, let's go ahead and jump into it. I will remind you as we go about some of these things that we're dealing with. I will cover, as a matter of fact, will we get into, let me see, let me look at some of these. We spoke about these communicable attributes and in-communicable. We're going to look at some of these as we go. We're already taught, we've already covered the day of creation. But now what we're seeing is we're starting to see how God relates to man. We're getting ready to get into this issue of the reconciliation we dealt with creation. But now we're going to look at one, how God relates to Adam, mankind in the fall. So let's go ahead and jump into it. Let me do something real quick also. Where's it at? Okay, I don't see it. Okay. All right, let's go ahead and jump into it in Genesis three, which is where we're starting at. We're only in, incidentally enough, the first two sessions. We've only made it to Genesis one through one and Genesis two. So a matter of fact, let me answer this question. Jake asks a question. He says, are you doing Bible study for the whole Bible, the way you break down scriptures and analyze it? Yes, this is going through the entirety of the Bible. Now, we're not going to go over every little verse, every no week, because we would be here forever. Think about it, we're just on chapter three. We would be here forever. There are some passages that require a lot and we'll deal with the most pertinent parts of it because what this Bible study is, what the point of this, what we're really doing is, we're covering, we're dealing with, so I had this, let's put it on the screen, what this Bible study is about. We're dealing with hermeneutics, Bible survey and systematic theology. What that means by hermeneutics is this is how we read the Bible and that's important. And I think it, matter of fact, that's a good question. So I need to go ahead and get some timeliness for some Bible that's joining in. How you read the Bible matters. How you read a set of instructions matter. If you are looking at Grandma's recipe for, I don't know, her world's greatest chocolate chip cookie or her cake, what have you. And there are some instructions. How you read those instructions absolutely matter if you want the cake or the cookie to taste just like hers did. And when she tells you, I don't know, 14 grams of sugar and you think she means 14 ounces of sugar. It's a big difference. What I think Grandma meant is because she wanted to be sweet. I understand the four, she said seven. She said seven ounces of milk and since seven is the number of completion, let me do this. Let me add, if you start reading into, because we don't do that. We don't read into instructions, whether it be a manual or whether it be how to take medicine. We don't read it. We take it at face value or normal reading for what it says. You wanna have an actual, a real life honest of goodness hermeneutic when you're reading. A hermeneutic is just the method that you employ when you're reading. I employ and I'm gonna push this on you until you decide to go a different route. I'm going to push a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic. Now, there are people who do not like the literal grammatical historical hermeneutic. It is what's called a dispensational hermeneutic. Not to mean that you're gonna be dispensational but it's a dispensational hermeneutic. The reason why people don't like that hermeneutic, that's to be told they do like the hermeneutic because they use it most often until it gets to doctrine or affects doctrine that might change their opinion on it. For example, the way they read Genesis, they don't read Revelation the same way. The way they read Genesis, they don't read Isaiah that way or Jeremiah that way, are you with me? They don't read Daniel that way. Why not? God didn't all of a sudden think, you know what, the people that are gonna read this book are a little bit smarter and more holier and more a spirit field than the people that were reading Genesis and Exodus. So I'll allow for them to delve into it and allegorize the text. But whatever you do, you wanna be consistent. And so this part, this Bible is to just to kinda get you honed in on your hermeneutics. Even if you depart from the way that I think you ought to do it, which is fine. I don't care about your conclusion, I care how you got to your conclusion. The second part is Bible survey, meaning we are looking at the by way of birds, I view looking at how these different Bibles, Bibles, these different books relate how they go together and so forth. Then the next thing is systematic theology, how the different doctrines, the different studies of theologies actually formulate soteriology, pneumatology, hermeteology, all those differentologies, how they work together. Are you with me? So now that being said, let's go to Genesis three. After all of that, now let's start the Bible study. In Genesis three, one, 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 to you, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden. Now, a couple of things, a couple of things before we go. Yeah, just wanna make sure. One, we get introduced to this character, the serpent. Well, where did he come from? Who is this guy? As far as we know, we have not heard about the serpent. But remember Moses is telling the story. He's been told the story by God. He wasn't there. So he knows the story because God tells him, he's writing it down and conveying it to who? To other human beings who are also alive. And so when he says the serpent, we understand that they already know who he's speaking of, who he's talking about. They know that he's speaking of the devil, okay? So, but now he's introduced here and that doesn't say how he got there, when he got there. I believe that it's likely that whatever happened to him, his heavenly abode that he used to have, his heavenly domain around, that that's no longer the place for him, the case for him, that that happened after, this is just my take after the sixth day because after that, God looked at all that he has done and said that it's good, said it's very good. And it's just hard for me to say that he looks at that, sees sin, sees the most destructive force in the history of mankind there and says that it is good. Now I could be wrong. And the fact of the matter is the Bible doesn't tell us when Satan was cast down to the earth. Matter of fact, the Bible didn't tell us when angels were made or were created. It didn't tell us. We can't even conclusively say who was created first. We can make a guess. We can and we'll get to scriptures later on to say, okay, I think because of this passage when they were made, when they were created, but I just wanna put that in your head now. She makes a statement and this is us testing you to see if you are going to adhere to good sound hermeneutics thus far and that you won't ice it to text. Now look at verse one. Now the serpent was more crafty or cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. Indicating one, the serpent, even though he's in the form of a serpent, he's still made. And he said to woman, indeed, as God said, you shall not eat from any tree of a garden. I wish I had a, and I'm not a big sound effects person, but I wish I had a big extra ant to come up because here's the first thing that Satan does. I think it's telling that we see Satan use, Satan's only got really two tricks, guys. He's only got two tricks. Here's the first one. Did God say, did God really say that? So what do we see today now? Is that really in the Bible? Is that, does the Bible actually say that impugning God's word or our understanding of his word, our knowledge of it? The second thing, we'll see it in the second, I'll go ahead and just say it now is, well, that isn't the Bible, but that's not what it means. We're gonna see that as well. Now I want to look at verse two and notice this. The woman said to the serpent, from the fruit of the trees of the garden, we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree, which it's in the middle of the garden, God has said, you shall not touch, I'm sorry, not eat from it, or touch it, or you will die. Now we've got a problem. Here we've got an issue. What does she say? She says that you shall not touch it, eat it, nor touch it. Let's go back over to Genesis in Genesis two. Let's find the passage in Genesis two. I don't know why I don't have it pulled up. Shame on you, Corey. But let's find it. In the, all right. Let's start in verse eight. The Lord God planted a garden. This is chapter two, verse eight. The Lord God planted a garden toward the east and Eden. And there he placed the man whom he had formed out of the ground that the Lord caused to grow every tree that is pleasing in the sight for good food. The tree of life is also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge and good and evil. Let's drop down and he's going to give them a command to not do something. Verse 16. The Lord God commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden, you may eat, eat whatever you want except but verse 17, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die. Let's go back to the other Genesis. The other, what she says, she says, and verse two, the woman said from the fruit of the trees of the garden, we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree, which is in the middle of the garden, God said you shall not eat from it or touch it or you will die. There's a couple of things that we need to address. A couple of things. What's the difference between what he said and what she said? Uh-oh, I see something. I see something. I'm so, all right. CG says touch it. Genesis, she adds. Lynn Moten, twisting guys word Eve was the first one. A-Renee adding to his word. Dutch says Eve was juicing it. Okay. Lisa says touch. Let me ask you a question. Can I ask you guys a question? I need you guys. I want you guys to answer this question. Do you all think? Well, let me ask you a question. Let me ask this way. What do you think about what Eve said? Do you think that what she said was correct? Did she add to God's word? Did she twist God's word? People say that matter of fact, I put a video out covering this one thing, just this little small issue. And there is a monumental issue to be learned from this account. And I want you guys to, if you're wearing a hat right now, take it off. If you're wearing a wig, take it off too. And I want you to put on your humble hat. I want you to put on your humble wig. I want you to put on anything that makes you feel humble because if you say that Eve twisted or added to God's word, you are incorrect. You are incorrect. You know what you just did? You just, I suggested the text, or not the text, but you added a meaning. You interpret for what reason? I have no idea. I have no literal idea of why you guys just said that. And by the way, a lot of people do that with Eve. And it seems like, well, Corey, that's not a big deal. Even if we were to, no, it's a huge, it's monumental. It is, this is the whole point. This is the whole point. This is why the gentleman that asked a question about the Bible said I went over to the hermeneutics part. This is why this is important. Can I ask you guys a question? When does the Bible say sin entered? When does the Bible tell us that sin in mankind shows up? Sin happens when their fruit was eaten. I got a question. Why do you guys think that Eve lied, that Eve twisted it, that Eve, in other words, sinned? What is your basis for saying that Eve made that up? That Eve twisted, that Eve added. What would be the basis for doing so? There is none. It would just be mere speculation. You know why you make that basis? You know why you make that claim? And guys, we covered this before. We covered this before when we talked about the differences between Genesis one and Genesis two. Do you guys remember what I said when we talked about Genesis one and Genesis two? In Genesis one, we have an account of creation. In Genesis two, what do we have? We have an account of creation. Genesis two is the exact same account of Genesis one. Genesis two just adds extra detail. Did the writer lie in Genesis two because he didn't state the same thing in Genesis one? No, he did not. He just added extra detail. Why do we think Eve lied when extra detail was given to us? Do we think that the only time God ever spoke was when he said something to Adam? Not to eat it, not to do it. Do we think that God never spoke to Adam or Eve other than that time? Now, we don't know if he did or didn't, but it'd be kind of hard to believe. So as a matter of fact, I think she's telling us that he did. I think he's telling us that he did. Remember when God makes this statement to Adam, it was just Adam, just him. Now here comes Eve. Eve had not sinned. Eve did not sin. As a matter of fact, here's the other implication. Let's go back to the text when Eve says in verse three, she says, 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. Two things, one, the devil did not say in response, God didn't say you couldn't touch it though. Now she's adding clarification without question. She knows exactly what God said and what God meant. Who's telling us this story? Moses is telling us the story. Where did Moses get this story from? Where did Moses get the account that is happening, this whole encounter between the enemy, the serpent, the devil and Eve? Where did Moses get this from? Is he making it up? Exactly, Jeff. Exactly, God from God. God didn't indicate that Eve lied nor did Moses. There was no lie there. She simply gave the facts. That's it. She literally gave the facts. Here's the problem though. And this is why I say this can be tricky, guys. We took something and made it more than what it is. Matter of fact, we, now, and Eve should be blamed for what she does later, but we blamed her for a lie that she hadn't committed. Nowhere in the Bible does the Bible say that Eve lied. We just assume that because the earlier portion says, where he says Adam, don't eat of it. Now, it wasn't necessarily a verbatim response. This could have just been how God is related. I mean, Moses was relating to what he said to Adam. Are you with me? So therefore, it would be incorrect to conclude that Eve lied here. She did not lie. She told him what God said, at this point in time, Eve was without sin, so too was Adam. Now, she's been looking at something though. That's a different story. She's been looking at something and Moses goes into her heart in just a second. Well, God tells us and then Moses relates it back to us. But then there's something else. There's something else that we need to check out as well. Let's go back up to, no, let's keep reading. Let's keep reading and I wanna go back to something that we should have looked at before. Look what he says in verse three, verse three, but from the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden or the middle of the garden, God said, you shall not eat from it or touch it or you will die. Verse four, look what he says. The serpent said to the woman, you will not die. Okay, wait a second. So now he's telling, she heard what, she knows what God's word is. The devil says, nope, nope, nope, you will not die. What he says, you will surely not die. Think about what we're hearing now, guys. God says, you will die. The serpent says, you will not die. For God knows that in the day that you eat of it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Are you with me? I'm going to assume you're gonna say, yeah, I'm with you, but I'm going to also assume you're probably not. I'll tell you why in a second. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, now, how does, how do we know that she saw that the tree was good for food? Because Moses tells us, well, how in the world does Moses know? God is telling us. So therefore, God is not leaving out details that we need to know. That's why we know that she didn't lie. Now, she saw that it was good for food and that it was a delight to the eye. She's been checking this out and that the tree was desirable to make one wise. She took from it, its fruit and ate and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate. Here we go. Then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves lowing coverings. We have an issue on the floor. We got a problem. If I go back to the scriptures, if I go back to Genesis chapter two, verse 17, let's look what he says. Because is it possible that we can conclude that the devil was right and God was wrong? Is it possible? Here's what I mean. Verse 17, but from the tree of the knowledge, this is verse 17 of chapter two, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat for in the day that you eat from it, you will surely die. Question, why didn't they die? Satan said, when you eat of it, you're not gonna die. God says, in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Satan says, nope, you will not die. Your eyes will be open. So it seems like, wait a second Satan, we didn't die and our eyes were opened. It seems like, it seems like they didn't die. Okay, okay, and I see some stuff here. I see BJ says spiritual death. I see Ben says they didn't die yet. Okay, they did just maybe not that day. But wait a second though, future and for everybody else, because it's not just future, it's everybody else. Let's go back to the text and let's see what he said. This is what God said this. God said this. He says, verse 17, in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. Does he mean you'll eat of it? He says, in the day that you eat of it, what do we do with that statement? In the day, in the day, in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. How do we take that? Well, let me help you out. Remember back in Genesis one, let's go back. Let's go back to Genesis one, all the way back. I mean, if I just hit enter, it will take me back to Genesis one and I have to scroll all the way up. Remember I said, as we look at the Hebrew, when I say it, the way we read in English, by the way, you all tell me how your Bible reads. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And we say, in the beginning. But I said, if we go over to the Hebrew, we see this word, Bereshith, which is in the beginning. However, is it the beginning? Or is it sometime in, this is a rough way of putting it in a beginning? Meaning, when we look at this word right here, this letter right here, this is a bath in Hebrew, the one that's highlighted on your screen to the right. This is the bath. You know what? I didn't even realize you can actually, I didn't realize this. You know what, I'm just now noticing something. Wow, I did notice you guys could actually see my cursor on the screen. Look at that, huh? Well, I'll be. But if you notice, right under the, I'm glad I see that now. God is good. God is good, my eyes are bad. Amen. I ought to just start looking at this screen over. One day, matter of fact, soon you'll all actually see what I'm actually looking at. It's like, no one, no one of the old man's confused. You'll see in a little bit. But you see where I've got it highlighted? You see underneath, I mean, the very top, those little two little dots at the bottom of that, they, those are from the Maserites. They would give these little valve markings to help us understand. That is a Schwab. Now, if I go over to, let's see, okay, right here. You see this word for earth? This is the word for earth, it is Haaretz. The word for earth is Haaretz, okay? But this, hey, with this little letter, this will look like a little T. It looks like a little T is not really a T, but from your eyes, it looks like a little T. That little valve, that little marking underneath makes us, helps us know that it is the definite article. In the, I mean, this is the earth, Haaretz. Haaretz by itself means earth, but Haaretz. Just like Shama'im is heavens, but this Ha is the heavens. We don't see that when we go back to in beginning. It's not the definite article, which means it's not the very definite, the beginning. It's not the beginning, so it's at a certain space in time. Now, for us, it becomes, this is gonna become the demarcation of time for us. Now, why is all of that important? Let's go back to Genesis two, and what was it, verse seven or 17? I forgot. 17, I do believe, yeah, 17. So now let's look at it again. So he says, but in the day, the problem is, if we go over here to the word for day, which is the Hebrew word for yom, if we go to this bath, look underneath it, you see those two dots again, the schwa. So it's not, it should not be taken in, you can say it in the day, but it doesn't mean on that specific date. At that very, he never means at that very moment. So he's not trying to say on, like it wasn't an apple, it could have been a banana, it could have been, who knows what this fruit was, but it doesn't mean on that exact date, you'll die. That's one. It's not that exact date, the day. That's why he says in the day that you eat, okay? Are you with me? Matter of fact, so when or in that day that you eat of it. Now, the next question is gonna be, die how? I haven't earned this yet, which is part of the rules. I haven't earned it yet, but we're going to. The reason why I'm gonna alert you to this, because I want you to see it going forward. Why? Because when I tell you, you're getting ready to get a whole lot of stuff just dumped on you. And hopefully you say, okay, my mind is moving here. My mind is moving there. I'm moving all over the place. I want you to focus on this. Hello, Wanda, how are you? I want you to be able to focus, but I want you to notice something that's gonna happen with these men, with mankind here and with all of us. We're gonna notice three ways that we see something change, a death, if you will. Obviously we know that there's a spiritual death. Now, have we earned the right at this moment to know that there's a spiritual death? No, because we don't know anything about a spiritual life or a spiritual death thus far. But we'll go ahead and make an exception right now for that. Because the question is, wait a second, then did God lie? No, so we gotta figure out what he meant by dying. Secondly, we know that there's a spiritual death that's tied to this. We're gonna find this out later. Secondly, there is an actual physical death. We're gonna see that in just a little bit in terms of God's punishment because of what they just did. They're gonna start dying. So there's actually going to be a physical death. And then third, we're gonna see this moral death where guilt comes in. And we discount this. We don't talk about this enough. Guilt comes in. It doesn't take a Christian to understand what guilt is. As a matter of fact, everybody knows what guilt is. As a matter of fact, animals know what guilt is. When my dog, or I shouldn't say mine, I don't have a dog actually, but when my daughter's dog or dogs do something, they know it, they put their head down, their eyes up, put their tail between their legs, slump over because they know I'm guilty. Everybody knows guilt. Everybody, including our presidents, both of them. Donald and Bill. I mean, Donald and Joe, they know guilt too. I may not tell you, but they do. Now, how do we know that at least that first one that we don't talk about is there because we can actually earn that from the text? Hold on. He says, when we get to the passages, it seems to imply that they could have eaten from the tree of life but chose the tree of... Oh, no, no, no. They were eating from the tree of life. They were eating of all of those trees except for the tree of the knowledge of good. So they were eating from the tree of life. They were. That part we do know. As a matter of fact, we're gonna find out in a second that they were and then they won't be able to. We haven't earned that part yet, but we do know already that they have been eating. Of all the trees we can eat from except for this one, which is why we've been kind of looking at it. Typically we want what we can't have, even if it's horrible. That's why you can say, hey, listen, you want to snort this death. Death? I don't like the way that sound. I never had that though, but let me check it out. That's how we do it. It's just of the dumbest creatures ever created, we human beings are at the top. Tell us something that's bad or horrible for us or to kill us. Sign me up where I can't get there fast enough. That's just how we do as human beings. So now look what he says. Going back to the passage, he says in verse seven, when they ate of it, we'll deal with the fact that she gave it to her husband in a second. But when they ate it, verse seven, the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked. Now they've been naked all this time. They've been checking each other out all this time. Now, wait a second, wait a second, wait, whoa, whoa. Which is funny, when you think about it. It's actually funny when you think about it. In the beginning, when they sin, when sin comes in, we're naked. I can't see that, nowadays, let me see that. Let me check that. Now we can't get enough of looking at each other's nakedness. Back then, I don't wanna see that. There was some, but to the point that I was trying to make about this moral death, they knew they were naked and they sold fig leaves together and themselves a loin cover. They were naked and they became ashamed. Now, we know the word also ashamed is there as well because we're gonna see that. Let's go to verse eight. And I want y'all to think about something. By the way, by the way, by the way, let's not go too far before we forget some of the things that we already know. We already know of some characters. How do they know to so? I don't know, we don't know. Now, but Spider Monkey, I wouldn't assume that they were stupid. I wouldn't make the assumption that they were stupid. And so they may have just, you know what? I can figure this out. I can figure this out. So I wouldn't make the assumption that they were stupid. I'm pretty sure they, you know, how hard could it be? What are you asking? What is the Hebrew word for eyes? The Hebrew word for eyes is ayin. Is that it? Yeah, but I, yeah, ayin. Yeah, that's the word. Ayin, yeah. Stop testing me. That's the Hebrew word for eyes. I think if you and I or anyone else were just sitting around and I wanted to tie something together and never having done it before, I could figure it out. Now, we don't know if it was a good way. They did it the right way, but they just, they cover themselves, okay? Now remember we had it, we talked about something. We said the third word, the third word, Hebrew word in the Bible. Bereshit Barah Elohim, the word Elohim. Elohim is the plural word for God. And we're trying to figure out why is he using this plural word? Then we notice this other word or this other confusing statement when it says let us make man in our image. Then, now we've only been told of Elohim and then there's us and the hour and then we also see the Lord God. We see Elohim, but then we're introduced to another term, another phrase, maybe another person, the Lord God. Now, we also spoke about the Holy Spirit or I'm sorry, the Spirit. Could have been the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. We can't say the Holy Spirit because the term Holy Spirit is not given just yet, but we do know it's gonna be the Holy Spirit. But the Spirit, we don't know presently right now if the Holy Spirit is a he or an it. We don't know because that's all we've gotten so far. Remy makes us a good point. He says they could have been there for 10,000 years. Now we know it wasn't 10,000 years because we're gonna get the ages of Adam in a little bit. But to your point, we don't know how long they were there before they sinned. We just don't know. So now the reason why I'm bringing this up is because when we go to, okay, let me deal with this also, even though guys, because I know this comes up often in Genesis that people refer to this, but we can't make that call because that's not the point. He says that Peter says that a thousand years are as a day with the Lord, no man lived without. But now the issue is, when we say that, I'm not saying that's essentially what you're saying or believe, but the point that he's saying is that it's like a thousand, a day in the Lord is like a thousand years, and vice versa. He's saying it's like, and I said that it is. To try to convey the point that with God, the short amount, the long amount of time to use is short to him, okay? Now, going back to this, we've been introduced to Elohim, God, the plural uses of the term God, and then we've been introduced to the Lord God, and then we were introduced to also the Holy Spirit. And let me see if you all remember. Who created man? Who formed and fashioned man? And then breathe into his nostrils. Who did that? Thank you, Jeff, I appreciate that. Wow, I do appreciate that. Matter of fact, guys, I invite more people. I do appreciate that. I really do, I really do. Thank you, thank you. But who did that? Okay, wait a minute, okay, there we go there. All right, cool, I like this. We see God, God, we see the Lord God, Jesus did, God the Father, Jesus, God the Father, the Lord God. Now, let me say this, all of you guys are right, but you haven't earned, some of you guys haven't earned it, we haven't earned it yet. Haven't earned it yet, because here's the problem though. Here's the problem. You say it's God. You say it's Jesus, here it is, here it is, here's the point, here's the point. Remy says, the triune God. And I don't disagree, and Sean says the Godhead, and I don't disagree. Joan says the Trinity, and I don't disagree. The problem is, the, Curtis says the Lagos, the problem, Mansur Queely says Jehovah God, I don't disagree. What's my problem, guys? What is my problem? What are we doing in this Bible study? Have we been told that yet? Avoid going to a future text to understand this text as possible. Did you earn that statement? That's my problem. We don't know about a Trinity, we don't know about a triune God, we don't know about a Godhead, and we certainly don't know about a Jesus. Jesus, who in the world is Jesus? We've never heard of Jesus. Now, does Jesus exist? Sure. In the garden, have they heard this name, this term, Jesus? Nope. Matter of fact, Moses is telling the story. Have the children of Israel, who's hearing it, have they ever heard the name Jesus? Do they know Jesus? No. Does Moses even know Jesus? No. Who is Jesus? Hadn't gotten there yet. The reason why this is important, guys, because when we get into the arguments, we will between the Trinitarians and the non-Trinitarians. And we don't have to have that fight because the non-Trinitarians who in the studies have gone through this, okay, I see it. All right, I get you. Because they come in with their hands on their hip, on the holster, with their hands on the hand of their gun, moving their finger over to that trigger, ready to start shooting, looking for any and every way to start shooting down the great Trinity heresy, the lie, right? And then the Trinitarians over there, with their hand on their, I don't know why I made the Trinitarians left-handed with their hands on their guns, getting ready to shoot. At the Unitarians, the one that's been cast as ready to shoot also. We don't even have to have that fight. All we're gonna do is go off of what the text says. So, who according to the Bible just far, by the way, you remember I said that we're gonna be in chapter three, four minutes. This is why. Who in chapter three, not chapter three, chapter two, does the Bible say formed man and breathe the breath of life into his nostrils? Who does the Bible? We've only got three characters so far. God, Elohim, the Spirit, and the Lord God. Who does the Bible say did that? Not our interpretation. That's right, Dutch, that's right. And that the Lord God, the Lord God, the Lord God. It's good enough. It's good enough for me. That is good enough for me. Good enough for me. Why is that good enough for me? Because this is true. It's all I need to know. It's all I need to know. And I want you all to do the same thing. It's all we know so far. We're gonna see the Lord God in a minute. We're gonna see the Lord God in a minute. Now, wait a second though. I hear you, Joan. I hear you. Let us make man in our image. Us and our means more than one. It absolutely does. But do we have a good understanding so far of what he means by that? Who's the us and the our? We, at this point in time, we just don't know. Now, is it possible that there is a differentiation between God and the Lord God? Sure. Very possible. Do we think? Let me ask you guys a question. How many of you all think so far that the spirit that's hovering over is God? How many of you all think that the spirit, we haven't seen a whole lot of him or it, him or it, not sure, haven't seen or heard a whole lot of this, this the spirit yet. But how many of you all believe that the spirit is God? Well, God, I believe the spirit is God. But how do I know, or can I know that the Holy Spirit is God? Now, I don't know that yet. Not thus far on this text. I don't know. I have not earned that yet. Are you with me? All I can go off of is what? Now, if what you believe is the truth, then guess what? If it is the truth, then everything that we're doing right now will come together and back it up. Everything. If it's not, then it won't fit. If what you believe and the truth don't fit, then what did the great prophet Johnny Cochran says? If it does not fit, you must acquit. The truth is the truth, no matter what, whether we get a little bit of it in Genesis, a little bit more in Exodus, or all of it from the entirety of the book, it's still the truth. So we're good. There's a reason why I'm going over this just right now. There's a point of that, because now we're in verse eight. Now we're in verse eight. And guys, when someone asked me what are my favorite books, I said probably John and Genesis, because this is the foundation, guys. This is, John is super theologically rich. It really is. John is a book that folks go to argue and to fight over. But so far, Genesis, we're just laying a foundation. Just laying a foundation. Verse eight, they heard the sound, which y'all follow me. They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden. They heard the sound of the Lord God walking. Now, the word that's used here is from the Greek word halach, which is to walk, to move, to go. They hear this. They hear footsteps, they hear some sounds. They hear the sound of somebody walking. Who's the somebody that's walking? The Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hit themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees in the garden. What do we make of that? What did, first of all, what did Adam and Eve do? What did Adam and Eve do? According to this passage. Just according to this passage. We can make this statement according to the passage. What did Adam and Eve do? That's right, Josh, what they hit. We know who, why, and even where. We know why they hit, because they heard them coming and we're gonna find that also they were ashamed because they were naked. We know who they're hiding from, whoever it is that they're walking from. And we even, they hit from the presence of the Lord God among the trees. They're ducking behind some trees. By the way, it's funny when you think about it. I can imagine both of them trying to hide. What were they hiding behind the same tree? You know, somebody's sticking out. So do you think he kind of pushed her out a little bit so he can kind of, you know, turn to the side and play skinny? Move, don't you move? Were they ducking behind, was it a big victory? I don't know. But they're hiding. Now, they're hiding from something, an object or something or someone that we know who it is, the Lord God. The Lord God. What was the Lord God doing? Walking. Don't know, but that seems to indicate he's got something to walk with and walk on, some feet. Did you see, why do we say that? Because he says that they heard the sound of the Lord God walking. Not that he was coming, that he was floating, that it was a spirit, because how do you hear the sound of a spirit walking in the garden? Which also tells us, guess what? I am talking from, yeah, I've done it. Which also tells us something else. They know the Lord God walking. They know of him. The Lord God is walking. Now, the question is, and I'll go ahead and open up for a second. Does, is there anyone that would disagree that they heard the literal sounds of the Lord God literally walking? Is there anyone that would disagree that they, Adam and Eve, literally heard the sound of a, literally of the Lord God, literally walking? Is there any, because if you do, my question's gonna be the same like what we're talking about here. How do you make that statement that he wasn't really walking? Well, it literally says literally walking. And they literally heard the sound. These aren't super spiritual, Holy Ghost-filled beings that deep. So there's no basis to even say that they did not hear a sound of someone walking. And the someone that was walking was the Lord God made a sound and they did what to indicate that it was a physical being? They hid from him. And all we're going out, and I don't care what you're, ultimately what your theological bent is, I don't care what your denomination is, I don't care if you are Trinitarian, I don't care what you are. What you do have are eyes and ears you can see and read the text. You can hear what's being stated. So this is where we're gonna start moving into some areas where I'm gonna say, listen, take your heart, set it over there, take your head, put it over there, just pay attention. Read and hear it like the child that we are, the child that you are, the child that I am. We are not as smart as we make ourselves out to be and God doesn't intend for us to think that we are that intelligent to where we can look deeper into the word. Where is the passage that says, let's put time out on the Bible study, where is the passage that says, look deep into the word? Dig deep, find the hidden, where is the passage in the Bible that tells us to find the hidden meaning? Where is that passage at? We do not have a passage that tells us to go and find the ulterior or the alternative meaning. We just don't have that. Exactly, there is none. Now, I said time out, time in. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Since it was a physical being, it was Jesus, right? A Christophany. Well, where's my paddle board? I said, I said, let's say we're going old school. Days with Elijah, I'm sorry, we got, listen, I'll tell you where I'm at. You're not getting the paddling today. You're not getting the paddling today. I'm not gonna put you in the corner. You remember back in the days, some, yeah, yeah, I remember this. I told you guys before, back in the day we had chalkboards. They were green or there were some black chalkboards, not dry erase boards, but green or black chalkboards. Carol and Lisa, you guys remember this. You guys are old enough. We listen to the old heads, even ladies, ladies do get old too. But y'all remember this. Some of you older folk, the teacher would take the chalk and draw a circle, a big circle and just put a whole lot of chalk in it and then make you go stand and put your nose on it. Right? And then once you get through, when you go sit down, you got chalk on your nose. Am I the only one? Let's make school great again. How about that? No, the reason why I said that, I'm just messing with you. The reason why I asked, I said it that way, Days of Elijah, not to mess with you, but you keep talking about this Jesus. Who in the world is Jesus? We don't know anything about a Jesus over here. Not yet. Why? Because we haven't earned it yet. Yes, truth be told, I will agree with you. I do agree with you that that is the point, that that we'll find that out to be the truth, but we haven't gotten there yet. So thus far, we don't know. You don't know his name. What we do know is the Lord God. But to your point, yes, we just haven't gotten it yet. All right, are you with me? So I'm curious, how many of y'all had that happen to you though? We didn't really do the dunce cap thing. I think I saw it one time because if it wasn't going to the corner or sitting out in the hallway, which wasn't good because with the principal, the vice principal or whatever walks through, at least vice principal nowadays walk through and they see you in the hallway. Oh, you are in trouble. You get in the paddling or you just get a paddling. You can get a paddling by the teacher, by the principal. I made the rounds one day. I did, I made the rounds one day. I got paddling by two teachers because we had two classes together. I got paddled by two teachers, sent down to the principal's office and got a paddling. Had a note to go home, didn't give the note to my mama. Nope, you lost your mind. I'm not gonna tell my mama, so what? So I can get a whooping. Have you lost, what's wrong with you people? But they had the mail. They mailed it to her also. You didn't tell them about this, huh? When my mama does this, uh-huh. I'm dead, I'm dead. I might as well pack my stuff and get to running. And so I got it again, so. But again, you don't get to make a statement that we haven't earned yet. You might be right, you might be wrong, but this is gonna keep us from ice-a-jeeting a text. Even if you're right, don't ice-a-jeet the text. Even if you know this is what it means, don't read into it. Because what it says is adequate enough, it's good enough. That's it. You would've thought that I would've learned no growing up in the school. Okay. You would've thought, but hey, some of us learn the hard way. Back to the study. Here we go. Now we got a problem. Then the Lord God called to the man. By the way, let me deal with this Lord God also. There are some well-meaning pastors out there, time-out, who take this and make more of this. This is the Lord who has magnified in your life and so. No, don't make this out to be more than what it is, right? They'll take the terms, the adjectives that are ascribed to God, that he's a healer, he's this, he's that, and this is what these, no, let's not make it more spooky, more spiritual than it actually is. Let's just stay with the text. I believe the text is good enough as it is and is rich enough. But as Jesus goes on to say, he'll tell us later, I've told you earthly things. Yup, yup, you can even get that. How then can I tell you heavenly things? But we go look for the heavenly deep stuff. We can even get the regular surface stuff. So time in, back to it. He says, then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold up, flag on the play, wait a second. Why are you calling to the man? Just a question, just a question. Cause if you're like me, as petty as I am when I was a kid, well, she started it, but you came to me. Okay, I see what you have to Lord God. I see what you have to, you're not playing fair. I see what you have to Lord God. So he says, then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you? He said, well, what had happened was I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. So I hid myself. Well, wait, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wait a second, hold up, how come did she look? She says, she answers the question. She said, man is the head, where do you get that from? Where did you get that from, Ms. Mahon? Where do you get that from? All right, where's my paddle? Where's my paddle? You're right, you're right, but you're right too soon. You just, you're right too soon. You got to be right later when we get to the passage. Yeah, he, but okay, he gave Adam instructions first because he gave the command to Adam. Did he not give the command to Eve? Eve said, Eve said she did. He created Adam first. Huh, okay, my man, John. That's why I like the book of John. The Bible doesn't say that yet. And I hope you all understand why I'm doing this. I'm not, I'm really not being too nitpicky. I really am not, but you all were right. Adam was made first and so forth, created so forth. I get that, I get that, I get that, but we just haven't earned that statement yet. Now we're going to, and really it's a few verses, we're going to see something because we don't know the order of mankind just yet. We don't know if God did give them an order to do certain things we don't, we don't know. We don't know, we don't know. I'm going to point something out in just a second. I'm going to point something out in just a second. I understand, Sheila, you jumped a gun. Y'all have this thing. This is why you guys are smart Christians. You guys, you know what you guys are like? You are that, that a, have you ever met a student that I couldn't, I could not stand these students. I could, listen, I didn't hate people, but if I could, these are the ones that I would hate. These are the kids in school that would have like a 4.1 GPA, a 4.05, a 4.3 GPA. I could not stand them, you know why? Cause it's only a four point scale. How in the world do you have a 4.2? I got a 1.2, you got a 4.2. It's not fair, not fair. These guys taking extra credit stuff and all his hard classes could not stand them. These are the kids like Sheila and the rest of you guys. You want to jump the gun? Ooh, I know the answer. I know, let me, here we are in fourth grade math and you guys are going to trig. You guys are going to calculus. Stop it. You show off. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But this, this, this is why, this is where you kind of discipline yourself. Okay. I know what this text says, but we have this, let me tell you the worst, one of the worst terms that are out there. This is one of the worst terms that are out there. Have you all heard this term? Proof text. Wait a second, hold up. While you're thinking about that question, Brochliff said, the Bible doesn't say God told Eve not to eat from the tree. Eve literally says God told him not to eat from the tree. Eve does say so. So no, the Bible does say, at least according to Eve. Eve said so. And Eve, and when Eve said so, Eve hadn't lied. Eve hadn't been impugned to sin yet. Now, Brochliff says where? Don't go to Brochliff. If it wasn't for the fact that we hadn't gone very far today, we hadn't gone very far. Let's see, Genesis three, one, or three, two. From the fruit of the trees of the garden, I'm sorry, you shall not, verse one, I'm sorry. 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 as God said, you shall not eat from the tree of it, from the garden. Wait a minute, hold on. And, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Now, I'm gonna prove a point in just a second. He says you shall not eat from any tree of the garden. The woman said to the serpent, from the tree of the gardens we may eat of the trees in the garden, but from the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said you shall not touch or eat of it. Now, how do we know? Now, let me ask you a question, Brochliff. Do you think that's proof? Do you think that's God saying so? By the way, do you know the you that's used here is the plural? So he's not speaking to just, see, in Hebrew and Greek, one of the good parts about it is that, see, if I say you, I don't want you to touch it. I don't want you. You don't know if I'm saying you, that person specifically singular, or you all, or y'all of them, but in Hebrew and Greek, you can figure it out. In Hebrew and Greek, you can figure it out. And so in the Hebrew, it is to both of them. It's more than one, the you is. It's not a singular, you, are you with me? Y'all, y'all, neither y'all. That's it. All right, let's go back to it. That's a good question. That's fine. I don't mind being made to earn a statement that I make. You, you, that's right, Tyra. You, good movie though, by the way. Good movie, by the way. You, what'd you say? You, you, you, you. Where are we at? Verse nine. Then the Lord called the man. Again, called the man. You could have called them both. They were both, they like, God, it ain't like you didn't see both of them. They were both there. I see you hiding. He said, I heard the sound of you again because he hears them sounding. And that asked the question, is thou singular in Greek? It can be, it can be. There is a, there are, there's a singular form. There's a plural form. There's a masculine, feminine, neuter of the singular and of the plural. So yes, yes, it is. He said, I heard the sound again. Heard the sound of you walking. I heard the sound of you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. Why, I made you naked. What are you afraid of? I made you naked. So I hid myself. So what does God say? Who told you that you were naked? Don't you hate it when your parents ask you questions? Who told you you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat? Told you don't eat it. I told you don't eat it. He verifies it. Wait a second, hold up. Wait a second, hold up. Let me investigate something real quick. Let me just investigate something real quick. Let me, because I wonder, I don't, okay. I need to figure out if you smart Christians are smart Christians or you are house smart. All you people would raise your hands and jump in a gun. I wanna see if you saw something. I wanna see if you saw something because, where's it at? Okay, let me make sure before I jump the gun. I wanna back up for a second. I need to get me some soft music, some violin music because I'm a little bit disturbed by you guys. I'm disturbed by you guys and I want you all to hear my heart. By the way, I like the shirt as Apple Day, whatever God said. I'm bothered. I'm hurt. 300 something of you guys in here and the thousands that have watched it, I'm hurt. Tell you why I'm hurt. Tell you why I'm hurt. Let's go back to it. Let's go back to it. Let's go back to it. Because you guys didn't pick this up. Look what he said, verse 11. And when he said, who told you that you were naked, have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? Who told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree? And by the way, why are you guys not picking up on this stuff? Let's go back a little bit further. When I say who told them not to eat? Who told you not to eat? Let me ask you guys a question. Who told them not to eat of the fruit? Let's see if you guys got that. Spider monkey says God. All right. The Lord God, okay. The Lord God. I see God. I see God. I see God. I see God. The Lord God. Now, well, wait a second Broclef. We don't have to know if it came from Adam. God is telling the account to Moses. Moses is writing it for us. So we know for a fact that she said that God said, she said God, and remember God is telling to plural, the word that's used as a plural. So he's speaking. So God said this literally to both of them. Okay, so we do, we do. Now, who told them not to eat? We're going to figure out a mystery right now. And we're also going to go back and deal with, we're going to also go back and have to deal with Genesis 1.26. Here's what I mean. Let's go back to Genesis 3.1. Not very far back, but let's go to Genesis 3.1. Now, the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field, which the Lord God made. And he said, the woman indeed has, wait a second, who said, he said, God said, now we're talking about the different characters that we know so far. The Lord God, God, and the spirit of God. Has God said, has God said? The woman said it's serving from the tree, from the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, but the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of a garden, God has said, God has said. But now let's go to chapter two. In the day of the count when the heavens and the earth, they were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens and the earth. Well, wait a second. I thought that it said up here, then God blessed verse three, the seventh day, and sanctified it because it, in and he rest from all his work, which God had created. But then it says, the Lord God created it. But then if we drop a little further, when he speaks to about the garden, the Lord God planted a garden towards the east. And then what happens? He makes these trees that are good for food. Then we go down to verse 17, but from the, I'm sorry, verse 16, but the Lord God commanded. The Lord God commanded. So if I ask you this question, who told them not to eat of the tree? God did, the Lord God did. Do you all see this? God did, the Lord God did. So while we make a distinction, we also see that, wow, wait a second, huh? Something's happening here. The Lord God and God. Well, maybe just maybe this relates back to this. Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Then God said, let us make man up in our image according to our life. Then God said, who said God said and who actually made man the Lord God? It's something, you should be tingling your head should be something, I don't know. But, and we hadn't even gotten past very far in Genesis chapter three. So who told Adam and Eve, and he told both of them not to eat the Lord God, God. The Lord God and God. Matter of fact, matter of fact, who does the devil, who does Eve, who does Moses call God? They call him the Lord God. Now we still have both of them. I like that Dutch, both of them, both of them. And now we're still waiting to get some more clarity on the spirit of God. No, Daryl, don't go on it, Daryl. Look at you, you're 4.25 GPA student. Listen, you're too smart for us. You're right, but we, no, I can't even say you're right. I can't even say you're right, I agree with you. Listen, I will agree with you. But right now, you're messing up. You're messing up, Daryl, because we hadn't, we don't know who Jesus is. There is no Jesus yet. There is no Jesus. Who would think that God and the Lord God are two different gods? You're gonna find out. Becky, you're gonna find, you're going to find out. You are going to find out. You won't find out today. Matter of fact, you won't find out for a couple of weeks. You won't find out for a couple of weeks, but there are people that thought they were different. There are people that thought they were different. You're gonna find out. We're gonna cover the text that shows that. All we know so far, guys, all we know so far. And I wanted to go faster. Wait a second, let me see. Can we go faster? I don't know. I don't know. But all we know so far is the characters that have been introduced to us thus far. Thus far, God, Elohim, the Lord God, the Spirit of God. That's it. The term the Lord by itself hadn't been introduced. Certainly not Jesus. None of that. Matter of fact, El, which is part of the word Elohim hadn't even been introduced yet. And the only reason I'm saying this right now, guys, is I want to get us in a way of looking at the scriptures. We don't have to jump the gun. All we gotta do is just stay where we are and see what it says and take it for what it says. We literally just ran over a big, a couple of big gigantic nuggets there. And didn't even notice it. Didn't even notice it when he says, it's talking about who said don't do it, God or the Lord God. Is there a distinction? We're gonna find out that there is a distinction. Are they the same? We're gonna find out that they are. The same and distinct. How could, how in the world could that be? Well, we're gonna find out. We're gonna find out. We left off in verse, let's go back to verse 11. Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree in which I've commanded you not to eat? The man said, this guy, Adam, is an American. Adam is an American. He's woke without question. He's got a victim mentality already. Already. Adam says, Adam says. Adam says, can I give you a little something we do in prison? I shouldn't give this to y'all, but this came from prison. I've seen some people do this on the street, but this came from prison. But this came from prison. When there's a wait, there's a wait, because in prison, they don't like people to snitch. They don't like people to snitch in prison, but people snitch all the time. Guard comes in or somebody else can be like, hey, who did that? Gotta do it discreetly. You gotta push it, puck your lips out and push that way. That's what Adam did. Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, which I can imagine I did? The man said, Adam said, that's what Adam did. Adam, you're horrible. You had one job, he had two jobs. You had two jobs, Adam. You messed everything up. Now, not to say that if I were there, I wouldn't have messed up either, but it's on you. In the spirit of Adam is your fault. He says, the man said, the woman whom you, wait a second, hold up. So he's blaming her and him. The woman that you gave me, matter of fact, Jesus, I mean, Jesus, matter of fact, God, let's look at you. The woman that you gave us, Adam, listen, Adam is bold. Adam is bold. The woman whom you gave to be with me. I was cool with the animals. Me and the chickens and the bears and the peacocks and owls. We hang it and then you go mess up and bring her. Come on, God, what were you thinking? Adam is just searching for excuses. The woman that you gave me. Y'all forgive me. The woman that you gave me to be with, she gave me from the tree and I ate. God seems to have left it alone. I can see the Lord God doing what my mother did. Okay. All right, I'll be back. Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived me. What, huh? All right, I gotta pause. I have to pause. I have to pause. Did y'all hear what she said? I wonder if y'all caught that. Let me put it back on the screen. See if you caught that. This is a lot to catch, by the way. The Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done? I mean, she did something. And the woman said, the serpent deceived me. Did anybody catch that? Did anybody catch that? What Eve just said. I wonder if y'all caught that. Here is what she said. Yeah, deceived. Why is that an issue? I asked you guys earlier, why did God? Why did God go to Adam first? Y'all said because he was the man. And we get that. Time out for a second. Let's move forward for a second. We are going to know. We are going to know later on that Adam, not Adam, Paul is speaking about headship and rank and this and that and so forth, whatever. What does Paul say? About the man and the woman. What does Paul say about the woman? He says, Ms. Eve, since you want to use the word deceived, fine, we'll use that since she was deceived. Since she was deceived. It's almost like she condemned herself and all of women after that. All right, Ms. Being Deceived. All right, fine. I see you're deceived and raise you some more. So he says, the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I was tricked, I was hoodwinked, I was bamboo. Yeah, Lord, I didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on me. Anyway, the Lord God said to the serpent, poor serpent, nobody for him to turn to. The Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this and this is where we're getting ready to park. Cursed are you more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly, you will go. I guess apparently they were always, they did have feet. I don't know. Don't know, we can read into it, but there's not a lot to go into. It really isn't. Do we, okay, this is a good question. Uh-oh, hold on, push the wrong button, push the wrong button. Does she know what deception is prior? Again, why, I see what you're saying because they're new people and we don't know how long they live, but I wouldn't go into, we make the jump sometime that these were just basically cavemen and they were just dumb and stupid. I wouldn't make the leap that they didn't have any sort of intelligence. Remember how were they made? Remember how Adam and Eve were made in God's image according to his likeness. Okay, which necessarily means there's gonna be some sort of intelligence with him. Okay, so let's go back to what he says, on your belly you will go and the dust you will eat all the days of your life. What he says, and I will put in the tea between you and the woman and between your seed, let me move this up, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel. This passage is the beginning of us gaining our salvation. This is God making a promise. I will put in the tea between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. Now there is speculation as to what is meant by seed. What is, obviously the devil didn't have any children, but what seed, and oh by the way, the seed for the devil is singular. Now he could be referring to the entirety of the world. Don't know, we'll get there, we'll get there. And then we'll also get to what's meant by your seed, I mean her seed, and this word between your seed and her seed, the word for seed right here, this Hebrew word for seed, which is also word for descendant, or offspring is the word Zara, and then it's got the I in it, which means it's her seed, and this is singular. Paul does later talk about it being seed, singular, not plural, so the seed, no one knows at this time. Do you all think that Adam, or Eve, or the devil understood what in the world the Lord God was talking about? No, I don't think so. You know how I know I don't think they knew? If someone understood about Jesus in the future as great and mighty and magnificent as he is, and nobody speaks about it, we got a problem then. They didn't know. We're going to see this thing that we call progressive revelation. Progressive revelation is how God reveals things as we go forward. Yeah, you know about Jesus. They didn't, they had an understanding, they didn't know. Now, I said a second ago, and I don't think I fully covered this, but this word that we use called proof text. Okay, he said, yes, Eve knew. All right, I tell you what, I will give you, I will cash app you, this is my buddy, I will cash app you $100 if you can tell me how Eve knew about Jesus. I will cash app, I will cash app you $100 right now. If you could, I don't have to worry about it. I could, listen, I could be broke. My account can be negative 300. I would have to pay that, because, and I can pick on him, this is my buddy, this is my buddy, but no, she didn't know. There's no text to say. As a matter of fact, not only are there texts that we're dealing with right now, there are no future texts. But this thing though, let me go back. She did not think that her son, that Seth was the promised one. No, she did not. She simply says, I've got one to replace the one that was gone, that's all she said. No, I see what it is. I figured out that all my efforts with you have gone for not. I'm upset with my, I'm not upset with you. I'm upset with me. I'm kidding, y'all, I'm kidding. I wanna have a little fun, I wanna have a little fun. But this word that we use, proof text. Stop, stop using that word, stop using that word. You can't build anything off of one singular text. We can't, first of all, everything that you build off of better have at least one singular text. Number one, number two, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Where is that found? One singular text. Now there's some other texts that speak about it, that all things that were made were made by him or in the beginning God created in the beginning was it? No, that didn't speak about it in John 1-1. So we do have proof texts that we all agree with. Well, you can't just use off one text. Well, every one text is true. Now, keeping that one text in context is the key, which is what we're saying. Keeping one text in context is the issue. Did I misspeak? Did I misspeak? First of all, if I misspoke and you proved me wrong, I'm gonna ban you. If I misspoke, oh, no, I didn't. Okay, I said the right, I see what you, but listen, I appreciate your passion. Terence Terence said that Genesis 2-1 says the same thing. No, it doesn't. It does say close, there are some passages that are close to Genesis 1-1. Genesis 2-1, thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their hosts. Does it say in the beginning? That's my only point. We know that in the beginning, that's all I'm saying. And so there are other texts that kind of go along with that, but the point, my point is, if the text is true, then every other text that you might think that might support it will only support the truth that we already knew. We didn't need those other texts to make this text be true. Now, we may have used those texts to make those texts that the so-called proof texts to stick out to be more illuminated, but even if we don't get Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, or anything else, what it says in Genesis 1, 2, or 3 are true. Whether there is another writing to come, are you with me? What he says is true, whether he doesn't add anything else to it. And what happens is, we got these little cute sayings. A text, what did you say? A text without a text, here it is. A text without a text is a pretext for making the Bible say what you wanna say, or you wanna say the other way. Well, as long as you have it in context, as long as you have it in context. By the way, by the way, because what I want you all to also move away from is we look at these texts as though that they're actually texts, they're part of a writing. It's part of, because how do we know what's the text, Genesis 1, 1? Well, Genesis 1, 1 wasn't written as Genesis 1, 1. Where do we know to stop it? Because our verses don't stop at periods. In the Bible, we don't just stop at a period. And so that's that verse. The next verse will end at the next period. We don't do that. We don't do that at all, throughout the scriptures. There are a lot of passages where the verse, there's two or three periods, and then that's one verse. Are you with me? So my point is, even though we use the numbers as guides, don't make that to be how they understood and read it. That was not the actual originality, okay? All we're trying to do is make it out of, keep it in context. But what's happening is we've turned this word proof text and say that anybody that says anything using one passage, that's a proof text. But what if the passage is, what if I set it in context and I use one text? Am I still right? But yeah, I'm right. Who do I believe Satan's seed is? He might be speaking holistically of the world. We don't know. The Bible doesn't really go a lot into it. It really doesn't. The Bible really doesn't say a whole lot about who his seed is. It might be his plan. I don't know. Now, could it also be, could it refer to the beast, the antichrist? Could. I've heard that speculation as well. However, we hadn't gotten it yet. So maybe we'll come across passages that will tell us, but we don't have it right now. We sure don't have it right now. Can't God make known himself, make himself known and what he is communicating to a person? He can, but principally he's gonna do so with his word. And he wants us to stay with his word. Because think about it. He wouldn't go through all this trouble to give us the word, to protect his word, preserve his word, and then say, you know what? Forget about my word. I'll tell it to you personally. No, he's not gonna do that. He's not gonna do that. What is proto-Evangelian? That is a word that's brought up to say, this is kind of the first evangelistic or forward-looking evangelistic text that speaks about our salvation. Now, on that, let's go back to it. Let's go back to Genesis 3, 15. Some of you guys like tattoos. This is the tattoo. You wanna tattoo this, tattoo that. Tattoo, Genesis 3, 15. Tattoo this, why? Because he says, I will put anything between, I'm sorry, my wife has just texted me like crazy. And I've got it going across this screen, that screen, and there. She's had a meeting all day, so anyway. But he says, verse 15. And between your seed and her seed, and he shall bruise you on the head. We don't know what in the world God is talking about, but I can promise you this, obviously because we have the rest of the Bible. Go back and focus on this. Know this passage. This is where the beginning starts taking shape. We've learned a couple of things though, and we'll cover the things that we've learned about that on next week, about some of God, even, even about Satan. Because we're gonna find out that we're only gonna hear from Satan two more times. So only two more times, is it two more times? Yeah, two more times we're gonna hear from Satan. We're gonna hear from him in Job, and we're gonna hear from him in the Gospels. That's it. Now you might say that when he says, I will be like the most high and I will sin and so forth, whatever. Is that verbally coming from his mouth? Nobody's saying that I will say this, but if you wanna say that also, that's fine. That would be three more times. We don't hear a lot from him. We don't hear a lot from him, but we see his plan already. He has not deviated from his strategy, so we learned that already. We also learned about man. We'll talk about that on next week. We also learned a lot about God. Matter of fact, we're gonna learn something even awesome, super awesome, more awesome earth than we have learned so far. Yeah, I will. Yes, I will. I will be, shall I young cat? I will be, I'm sorry, I'm calling you CYK, it's just easier. But we are, there really isn't a need thus far to bring in the Septuagint for you guys. The Greek Septuagint is the translation, the Hebrew text translated into Greek when the Jews were taking captivity. They began losing their understanding of Hebrew, and so these 70 or 72 Jewish scholars, depending on what you ask, these 70 Jewish scholars go back and translate it from Hebrew to Greek so that they can have it for the library in Alexandria, as well as other Jews who are now Greek-speaking Jews, if they can have it. So, I got a La Mech, that's cute. I like that La Mech. Anyway, there are, what was I gonna say? Nevermind, my mind just went over there and over there. But we're gonna learn some things about them. We're gonna see something awesome, super awesome, awesome-er about what God is doing. Well, okay, let me just address this. The minds are doing their job. This isn't your typical YouTube channel Bible setting, nope, yeah, this isn't that place. Let's say you said that kind of party. We can port ourselves appropriately. And if you didn't know, now you know. God bless my minds. The best moderators on the planet. Amen, amen, close second. I can take the minds and divide them up in the three teams, 14, and each team would be the top four teams, top four group of minds in YouTube. Without question, without question. But that makes sense because I've got, it's the best chat in all of YouTube history and all of YouTube, YouTube them. But we're getting ready to see on next week something awesome. We're gonna see something amazing. We're gonna find out more about this tree of life and what was sustaining them. We're gonna find out more about death and life. We're gonna find out more about how did they die? You said in that day, they will die. So I would say read obviously the rest of Genesis three and you may wanna get a jump and read Genesis four and Genesis five. Because we will make ourselves through even though we've been taking a long time. It's gonna, I promise you guys, it's getting ready to start picking up and we're gonna move. And we will be at least, at the very least, Genesis five, possibly six, but at least Genesis five. There is a lot to go through. And so I think it's very important that if you wanna get a jump and again, all you can go off of when we talk next week is Genesis one, two, three, four and five. Pretty soon we're gonna go over Job. Pretty soon. We may do Job before we end Genesis. And here's the reason why I remind, I told you guys about the timeline. The timeline, we have the chronological books. If you have not done a screen copy, a screenshot, screen copy, I'm so old, a screenshot, then do a screenshot. We've got the chronological books. The chronological books, Genesis, Exis, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, First, Second, Samuel, Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah. Then we have the complimentary books. These are the books that were written to go either along with or written at the same time. Well, Job was written either before at the same time or slightly after Genesis. And so when I say, you could only use what we've covered so far, well, it'd be almost unfair to say, we should not be able to use Job since what if Job was actually written before Genesis? So we're gonna go ahead and use Job. You could read Genesis and Job at the same time. They don't, again, Job was a complimentary book. And what happens with the complimentary books, we get added information about what's happening. For example, let me put this back on the screen so you guys can see this. I think this helps. This is why you ought to use this timeline. When we get to Exodus, one of the things that we're going to see, okay, well, that's weird. Okay, it's not, my little cursor doesn't show on this, but one of the things that we're gonna see when we get to Exodus. And we hear about the giving of the law. When we hear the giving of the law, well, we don't get a lot of detail about the law. When do we get more detail about the law? We'll get it as we read the book of Leviticus and the book of Deuteronomy. And so as we go forward and throughout scripture and we're hearing about the law, you better go back and look at Leviticus and Deuteronomy. When we get to Hebrews and they're speaking about salvation with these Jews and speaking about the Old Covenant and New Covenant, you better have read and understood Leviticus and Deuteronomy, okay? So if you haven't done so yet, go ahead and, where's it at? Screen copy this thing. Use it as you're going. This, where is it at? What's interesting, what's actually kind of cool is when you guys go over, look on the screen, look at the prophets. You've got the prophets, those two that are prophesied to the Northern Kingdom, those prophets that are prophesied to the Southern Kingdom, those that are prophesied during the exile, those that are prophesied during the restoration. What you will find out is that in each one of those, they all give, like for the Northern Kingdom, Hosea is prophesying and Hosea gives them end time prophecies, gives something, not a lot, but something. In the Southern Kingdom, Jeremiah and Isaiah, by the way, give end time prophecies. Ezekiel and Daniel gives them end time prophecies. In the Restoration, Zechariah. And so we're going to find out, because this is belief on the floor, that eschatology doesn't matter and it doesn't matter towards salvation. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. If you don't believe so, go watch the video that I did on misunderstanding, is it misunderstanding or understanding covenants? Watch that, how they go together and there's a point to them. It's not like God just, you know what? I got some extra ink, some extra paper. Let me just put some words on paper and put that in the Bible too. That's not what God did. What he said, he meant to say it because there's a reason for him to say so. So we'll start back up on Genesis 315 and work our way on the next session. You guys have done a wonderful job, kind of get adapted, it's hard. It's hard not to jump forward. It's hard not to, yeah, you're right. Edward, it does, the word you're odd means seed or offspring or descendant. And because of this one, it's a singular seed, a singular descendant, a singular offspring. So it's hard not to just jump forward. Oh, I know this, I know this, okay. But what it's gonna also help you do is to stick to the text. What does that text actually say? It didn't actually say that. All right, a couple of things. One, let me say this. Guys, I do so, guys, I appreciate you all, the super chats, Jake, Skilly, I didn't say during the actual study because these parts get cut off because this is gonna be on the site as well for just the Bible studies. But I do thank you guys, I just couldn't say it at the time, but Jake, Skilly Child, Jake Hamm, Jeff, Michael LeMay, Sean, Just Mean, the real Chris Bailey, A. Renee, Nathan, I said that right, Nathan Smith, Mike, or Mike, I'm sorry, Mike Fletcher. I like that. Lamar Jones, your guy, Ty, Chow Yuncat, thank you guys so much for the super chat. I really do appreciate that. Thank the rest of you guys for your participation in the chats. Guys, you are awesome, you really are. Which is why people say, hey Cory, why do you engage the chat so much? Why? Because people matter. I know it's out there that I don't care about people, but people matter. People matter. And so the only reason for me doing this is this is what I enjoy doing this. And I like seeing where people are going with stuff because I was doing the exact same thing. So that being said, also something else. This website, we had a couple of hiccups with the website, it's Smart Christians. I'll just say something, in a matter of days, in a matter of days. Now, that being stated also, this evening, three o'clock my time, four o'clock Eastern time, there's a gentleman who wanted to challenge me on my view of, what's the word, total depravity and my view of limited atonement. Had this discussion before, but he happens to be, he's a Facebook friend. And so I said, you know what, at first I wasn't gonna say, you know what, yeah, let's go ahead. Because I wanted to settle a couple of things, I wanted to do a couple of things and address it. And so why not? Why not? Why not go ahead and deal with it? Yeah, Dianna, we'll always have these issues. But yeah, so I wanna cover this. I was actually going to do a video on something else. You would think, Dianna, you would think so, you would think so, you would think so. But I actually was gonna do a video covering a portion of this. I said, you know what, rather than doing that, let me just go ahead and do that. Let's bring out the scriptures again, let someone challenge me as to whether I've got it right or wrong could be, am I not so smart as I was told? We'll see. That'll be three o'clock, central time, four o'clock Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific time, two o'clock mountain time, why are you living in the mountains? I'm just kidding. What time, Hawaiian time, don't know. What time, Canadian time? How many times in Canada, don't know. But anyway, thank you guys. I look forward to seeing you guys again. God bless you, have a wonderful Saturday. And until next time, be smart.