1. The Serpent’s Deception and Man’s Fall (Genesis 3)

After sinning against God, Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden as a result of their disobedience to God and because they rather believed the lies of Satan.

“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” Genesis 3: 1

No longer free to stir up rebellion in heaven, Satan's enmity against God found a new field in plotting the ruin of the human race. In the happiness and peace of the holy pair in Eden he beheld a vision of the bliss that to him was forever lost. Moved by envy, he determined to incite them to disobedience, and bring upon them the guilt and penalty of sin. He would change their love to distrust and their songs of praise to reproaches against their Maker. Thus he would not only plunge these innocent beings into the same misery which he was himself enduring, but would cast dishonour upon God, and cause grief in heaven. Patriarchs and Prophets p. 52.1 EG White