The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
When Adam and Eve sinned they radically messed up mankind’s path to and with God. God immediately, however, gave man a promise that would be the golden thread that weaves through all the pages of Scripture. That promise is contained in the above verse. After man sins, God’s first attention was NOT to the woman or the man. It was in the order of where the falling started. First Satan, then the woman and then the man. Satan is addressed because he set out to deceive mankind. That is why God states that the woman (not Eve, but a prophetic woman ... Mary) would give brith to an offspring that will crush Satan’s head. Even though Satan will bruise the heal of the offspring of this woman, the offspring will crush the head of Satan. This is the promise of Christ coming as the conquering king that runs through out the Scriptures. Notice that the verse states that the “seed” of the woman would crush Satan’s head. As we know from our biology class, the woman does not have the seed. The woman has the egg. It is man that supplies the seed. This is the first and most important picture of the virgin birth of Jesus. God, the Holy Spirit, would provide the seed to impregnate Mary. This is the power of the virgin birth. Not only would Jesus NOT have the sin of mankind (the man passes on the sin of Adam through each seed), but He would be the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15. That is the power of this promise. Jesus would come as conquering King to conquer man’s sin and Satan’s grip on us.
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