by The Berean Call
God foretells a long conflict between the serpent and the Messiah and the latter’s ultimate triumph that would occur in a way Satan could never have imagined. An old hymn tells it beautifully:
In weakness like defeat,
He won the victor’s crown;
Trod all our foes beneath His feet
By being trodden down.
He Satan’s power laid low;
Made sin, He sin o’er threw;
Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so,
And death, by dying, slew.
God’s declaration to the three guilty parties is simple and to the point. To the serpent He said, “I will put enmity between thee [serpent] and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed [the Messiah]; it [the woman’s seed] shall bruise thy head [a death blow], and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gn 3:15).
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