"I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed shall bruise your head, and thou strike his heel "(Genesis 3: 15).
In this paper, the Lord makes to address the literal serpent spoke to Eve, to pronounce judgments about the devil, that old serpent. This view, expressed in prophetic language has always been understood by the Christian church as a prediction of the coming of the Liberator.
This sentence, uttered in the presence of our first parents, was a promise for them. As predicted the struggle between man and Satan, declared that the power of the great adversary would finally be broken. Adam and Eve were like criminals before the righteous Judge, awaiting the sentence he deserved his transgression, but before hearing about the life of toil and sorrow would be his fate, or decree which determined that they would return to dust, they heard words could not but give them hope. Though they must suffer from the power of his great enemy, could expect a victory.
will put enmity. Although this interpretation is unquestionably correct, it may be noted that the prophecy is also literally true: there is mortal enmity between the serpent and man are everywhere both.
between thy seed and her seed. It refers to the secular struggle between the seed of Satan - his followers - and the seed of the woman,
"Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in truth, there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native he is a liar and the father of lies "(John 8: 44).
"O full of all subtlety and all mischief, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the ways straight from the Lord "(Acts 13: 10).
" Little children, no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. He who commits sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God, to destroy the works of the devil. Everyone who is born of God practices sin, because God's seed remains in him, and he can not sin, because he is born of God. This is how we the children of God, and the children of the devil: whoever does not do justice, and who does not love his brother is not of God "(1 John 3: 7-10).
Lord Jesus Christ is called the "seed" the quintessential :
"appeared in the sky a great sign: a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And being with child cried, labor pains, in the throes of childbirth. And another sign appeared in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on their heads, and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and threw them to the ground. And the dragon stood before the woman to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. She gave birth to a son, to govern with a rod of iron to all nations: and her child was caught up unto God and His throne " (Revelation 12: 1-5).
"Now to Abraham were the promises, and his seed. Saith not, And to seeds, as if speaking for many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ . This I say, the covenant previously ratified by God in Christ, the law which came four hundred thirty years later, not appealing, to invalidate the promise. For if the inheritance is of the law is no longer of promise: but God gave it to Abraham through promise. So, what is the law? was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator " (Gal. 3: 16-19).
was Jesus Christ who came "to destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3: 8).
"So then as the children have flesh and blood, he too shared the same, to destroy through death that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14 .)
This will crush your head. " hurt, Heb." SHUF. This word means "crush" or "be on the lookout for someone".
Clearly crush the head is much more serious than crush heel. In retaliation, the snake could only hurt the heel of the seed of the woman.
The "seed" is expressed in the singular, indicating that there is a multitude of offspring of women who, together, will address lacabeza crush the serpent, but rather that an individual will do that.
These observations clearly show that in this announcement is condensed the relation of the great controversy between Christ and Satan, a battle that began in heaven (Revelation 12: 7-9), continued on earth, where Christ other once defeated Satan (Heb. 2: 14), and finally ending with the destruction of the evil at the end of the thousand years (Revelation 20: 10).
Christ emerged unscathed from this battle. Signs of the nails in his hands and feet and the scar on his side will be remembered forever in the fierce struggle in which the snake struck the seed of the woman:
"I said, then, the other disciples, the Lord we have seen . He told them: If I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger where the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, did not believe "(John 20: 25)
" If someone asks, "What are these wounds in thine hands?" he responds: "The home I received from my friends" (Zechariah 13: 6 - RV 1995).
This announcement must have caused great comfort in the two offenders who were faltering ahead God, whose precepts had departed. Adam, God's viceroy on earth while staying loyal, had given his authority to Satan to transfer their allegiance from God to the serpent.
That Satan usurped fully understood their "rights" on this earth, obtained by winning submission from Adam, it is clear from his statement before Christ at the mount of temptation (Luke 4: 5, 6).
Adam began to understand the magnitude of his loss: the ruler of this world had become a slave to Satan. However, before we hear the pronouncement of his own sentence, was applied to the healing balm broken soul of hope.
From her, whom he blamed for his downfall, he had to wait for his release in the promised seed who would be able to defeat the archenemy of God and man.
How gracious was God! Divine justice required punishment for sin, but God's mercy and had found a way to redeem the fallen human race: by the voluntary sacrifice of the Son of God :
"He was destined before the foundation of the world, but manifest in these last times for your sake "(1 Peter 1: 20).
"as the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Ephesians 3: 11).
"who saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before time began" (2 Timothy 1: 9).
"worship the beast all the inhabitants of the earth whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13: 8).
God instituted the ritual of sacrifice to give the man a visual aid to enable him to understand something of the price we must pay to atone for his sin.
The innocent lamb had to give blood rather than that of men and your skin to cover the nakedness of the sinner, so that man might always remember and symbols through the Son of God who would give his life to atone for man's transgression and whose righteousness would be enough to cover all .
We do not know how clear was the understanding of Adam's plan of redemption, but we can be sure that it was revealed enough to ensure that sin will not last forever, that the seed of the woman born the Redeemer, would be lost and regained control to restore the happiness of Eden.
From beginning to end, the gospel of salvation is the theme of Scripture.
Those who are oppressed by a sense of sin, remember that there is hope for them. The salvation of the human race has always been the purpose of the councils of heaven.
The covenant of mercy was made before the foundation of the world. It has existed from all eternity, and is called the everlasting covenant.
As surely as ever was a time when God did not exist, neither can there never was a time when there was the eternal delight of the mind to manifest His grace to mankind
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