0725. Satan's Strategies Against the Seed of the Woman

Satan’s Strategies Against the Seed of the Woman

We have before us some very striking scenes presenting satan’s strategies against the Seed of the woman.

After man had sinned, God entered the garden and pronounced the curse. While addressing the serpent, God gave His great prophecy of the coming Seed. He said: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel" (Gen_3:15).

Thus God foretold the Divine method of redemption, which He had purposed in Christ Jesus, before the world began. Satan might do much (he would bruise Christ’s heel); Christ would do much more (He would bruise the serpent’s head). Through the disobedience of one, sin might abound; but through the righteousness of One, bruised for us, grace would super-abound.

With the promise of the "coming Seed" hanging over him, satan at once began his conflict against the Almighty. Satan sought first of all, to keep the Seed from being born; and later when the Seed was born, he sought to overcome the Son.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR