The enemy hates the Word of God throughout, but certain portions in particular. Any Scripture
which he singles out for special attack is thus identified as very precious for the saints. Genesis
3 is such a chapter. Why should he hate it so?

1. Because it accounts for conditions in human society and in creation, thus distinguishing between
that which the wise and beneficent Creator produced and that which sin wrought. Any soul,
exercised as to the present unhappy state of creation, and of man in particular, finding and
accepting this divinely given explanation of the cause, thus will be turned to Him in whom alone
is the remedy, and away from all the theories of men which leave their adherents still under the
power of Satan.

2. Because this chapter exposes the enemy in the very midst of his destructive activities. It shows
us his motives, his methods, his helplessness and silence in the presence of God the Judge, and
his ultimate overthrow in the conflict with the Seed.

Satan wishes to work undetected, but this inspired record will not permit it. He does not desire
to be known his wicked ways, the sad results to which they lead for his deluded followers, and
especially his sure defeat at the hands of the Lord.

3. Because here our God is seen in His sufficiency, working deliverance where sin has wrought
ruin; as the Investigator of sin, bringing everything to light; as the Judge of sin, pronouncing with
finality as to its consequences on earth, even as He will at the great white throne concerning its
eternal outcome; and as the Savior of sinners, clothing the guilty pair with the garment of His own
providing and fixing the believing heart upon Him who was to die (and has died) upon the cross.

For these, and many other precious things in the chapter, we should be profoundly thankful. Let
us not neglect this important portion. As it is much hated, let it also be much loved.

EXTRACT
The devil does not select an ignorant or immoral man to make his grand and special attack upon
the Bible, for he knows full well that the former could not speak, and the latter would not get a
hearing; but he craftily takes up some amiable, benevolent, and popular person _ some one of
blameless morals _ a laborious student, a profound scholar, a deep and original thinker. Thus he
throws dust in the eyes of the simple, the unlearned and the unwary.