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“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4).
We know that the serpent was Satan, and right at the end of the Bible, he is still called “that old serpent, which is the Devil” (Revelation 20:2). As we see in our verse today, he directly contradicted the Lord in his conversation with Eve, and Eve chose to believe him instead of what God had said.
There seemed to be some truth in what Satan said, for we know that Adam and Eve did not die the instant they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Rather, as we explained yesterday, their minds and bodies gradually lost their strength and vitality over a period of years, until they finally died. We know that Adam lived a long time, to the age of 930 years, but then he died. A few others lived even longer, but they died too. Tomorrow we will see how God dealt with all this. Although He pronounced consequences upon both the man and the woman, He told them about some wonderful blessing as well.
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