In Second Chronicles, chapter eight, verse eleven, Solomon’s marriage to Pharoah’s daughter was contrary to God’s law, as in Deuteronomy seventeen, verse seventeen, and Exodus thirty-four, verse sixteen, respectively. Though Solomon dedicated himself to building the temple and keeping many of God’s statues, this marriage shows that he failed to submit to every area of his life to God’s rule.
Failure to resist his strongest temptation eventually resulted in his ruin and left a vital part of his life open to Satan. Satan needs only one uncommitted or unresolved area of the believer’s life to gain a foothold and lead that person away from God. There are many examples in the Bible, starting with the Old Testament.
In Genesis three describes the fall of man with Adam and Eve. The Garden of Eden from chapter two, verse eight, the tree of lfe and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in the following verse to test Adam’s faith and obedience to God and His Word. God created humans as moral beings with the ability to choose freely to love and obey their Creator, or to disobey and rebel against His will. Adam’s test was to take or not accept the fruit from the forbidden tree. His wife, Eve, offering this to him is tempting and not an easy test to overcome, which he chose to eat.
Cain and Abel, in chapter four of Genesis, where they were offering to the Lord their portion to Him. However, the place where the contribution happened does not specify in detail. Still, Cain must have seen Abel’s thanksgiving to God while it did not sit well with Him for his actions against his brother, which he could have refrained from committing. Satan tempts people to react to something he knows that will irritate based on what he see us doing and what we desire and discuss when talking to others.