Covenant-02 Patriarchal
02 Patriarchal
Participants | Promises | Conditions | Scripture Reference |
God and all of mankind (at that time only Adam and Eve) | Woman would experience great pain in childbirth. The entire Earth would be cursed. Man would die. God would still provide for man. God expected man to abide by his new knowledge of good and evil (see Genesis 4) | None. Sealed by casting man out of the Garden and the act of cursing creation. | Promises: Genesis 3:15-19, Genesis 3:21 Conditions: None |
Status: Unconditional |
The serpent (the fallen angel, the devil) has his destiny already laid out here. Genesis 3:15 says that Eve’s son (not Adam’s - Christ was born of a virgin) will crush the head of the serpent (lethal), while the serpent will bruise His heal (painful).