Genesis 2:4-3:24

In the latter half of Genesis 2, God’s Word fills in the details of the creation of mankind including the commandment He gave to Adam – forbidding him to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Then Genesis 3 tells us that Adam and Eve disobeyed this commandment, bringing the curse of death and evil into the world through their sin. Yet even in the midst of this tragedy, we will find the first promise of the coming מָשִׁיחַ māšîaḥ, in the first Gospel message preached by God Himself to the serpent (in the hearing of Adam and Eve).