Part 4

and Eve, that enmity between the children of the devil and the children of Adam and Eve would naturally spill over onto Christ at His first advent.

Yes, the children of the devil would even attempt to kill Him, as we saw in John chapter 8. Indeed, it will ultimately be the children of this wicked seed line that will have Christ delivered up to the Roman government and crucified.

Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

We can now see that all along the subject matter has been seed lines, conception and child bearing. Indeed, it’s a running theme throughout God’s Word.

Something happened during Eve’s little discussion with the serpent. She partook of the forbidden fruit, known to adults as fornication. It was not just a physical encounter with that old serpent the devil, but a sexual encounter.

The phrase “greatly multiply” in the above verse is quite interesting. It’s the same Hebrew word, repeated twice for emphasis. Kind of like muth muth in Genesis 2:17, meaning “die, die.” But here it’s rabah rabah (see Strong’s 7325) meaning “increase, increase” or “more, more.”

The word “sorrow” in the above verse is translated from the Hebrew word itstsabon (see Strong’s 6093), meaning labor pain.

And the word “conception” is translated from the Hebrew word herayon (see Strong’s 2032), meaning pregnancy.

In other words, Eve’s labor pain and pregnancy would be multiplied. Do you think she’s about to have two children at once? Of two different seed lines?

Again, from the very get-go the subject has been seed lines and conception. If God caught Adam and Eve eating apples off a fruit tree, why would they have covered their private parts with fig leaf aprons?

And why would He immediately begin speaking of conception and two different seed lines?

Let’s jump down to verse 1 of chapter 4 and see if we can learn a little bit more on this subject of conception, which God Himself brought up immediately upon finding that Adam and Eve had partaken of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:

Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

The word “knew” in the verse above is translated from the Hebrew word yada (see Strong’s 3045), meaning to know a thing, or to ascertain something by seeing it visually.

But like the word naga, translated “touch” in Genesis 3:3, yada is also frequently used in the Bible as a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

So Adam and Eve had sexual intercourse. And she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and said she’d gotten a man from the Lord.

That makes perfect sense because God had said in Genesis 3:16 that He was going to be in charge of bringing forth children through her, i.e., “I will greatly multiply thy sorrows [labor pains] and conception…” Cain was obviously her first-born son.

God is indeed in charge of bringing life into this world. There is no conception that can take place without His permission.

But properly translated and punctuated, the above verse should read, “And Adam knew Eve his wife.” Period. Then she conceived. Period. And then she bare Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the LORD.”

I make that distinction for an important reason. You see, Eve had already conceived Cain in her womb before she and Adam had sexual intercourse. In fact, she had just been seduced in the fig grove by that old serpent, the devil, who was also the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the midst of the garden.

So it’s important to understand that after having sexual intercourse with her husband Adam,