THE SEED
WAR
PART
2
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Last week we briefly examined “enmity” and found it to mean “to hate as an enemy; to
be of a hostile mindset.” In other words it means, “to consider each other to
be combatants at war.” Let’s begin today’s
post by looking more closely at a couple of other words in this verse.
Seed (zehrah)
– Literally, this word means “sowing” but refers to that which produces life
after its own kind. It is used of the seed found in fruit, of wheat, of
animals, and of people. It refers to one’s offspring (singular); or can refer
to descendants (plural).
Bruise
(shuwph)
– This word means “to bruise, to crush, to lie in wait for, to strike at, to
fall upon.” It is suggestive of a fatal
blow.
I think it is important to note that
this was the curse pronounced over the serpent.
It involved Eve; but Eve had her own curse pronounced upon her. This was not Eve’s curse. In that it is a curse, this pretty much means
that the Serpent is not going to benefit from it. He is not going to be the winner of the
implied combat.
If I told you that your offspring was
going to crush the heal of my offspring; but my offspring was going to crush the
head of your offspring; what do you suppose might be the first thing you would
do? You might work to terminate my
bloodline as quickly as possible.
Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with
Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain
rose up against Abel his brother, and
slew him.
This may have seemed like a successful
preventative measure; but then this followed.
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife
again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For Elohim, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead
of Abel, whom Cain slew.
So, the war was going to
continue. The serpent (the dragon, the
devil, Satan) must continue to work toward the demise of the woman’s seed. The seed of the woman, from the very moment
that Elohim decreed the curse upon the serpent in the Garden, became the number
one target of the serpent. Despite his
wisdom and cunning, Satan had no clue who it would be that would destroy his
own seed. He only knew it would be one who descended from the woman’s bloodline;
so that would be his objective---kill or destroy the bloodline.
Throughout the text of Scripture we
see repeated efforts of the enemy to wipe out the descendants of the woman with
the intended result being to cut off the lineage that would produce “THE” seed. We will examine that more closely,
later. Right now, I want to “reverse
engineer” this seed of the serpent to help us identify with some clarity just
who this enemy is.
We have the benefit of 6,000 years of
human history to be able to look backward and identify the seed of the woman.
The prophet Isaiah was the one who made it possible for us to understand how it
would be the seed of the “woman” (which is a physical impossibility).
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore
the Master himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel.
The offspring of a virgin could not be
attributed to the seed of man; hence he would be the seed of the woman; and it
would not be just an extraordinary child; but he would be the son of IAUE.
Luke 1:30 And the angel said unto
her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with Elohim.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a
son, and shalt call his name Yahushua.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and IAUE Elohim shall give unto him
the throne of his father David:
Nothing could be clearer to the devil
than such a pronouncement; so what was the first thing he did?
Matthew 2:1 Now when Yahushua was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we
have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
16 Then Herod…was exceeding wroth,
and sent forth, and slew all the
children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years
old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired
of the wise men.
Now that the woman’s seed is
identified, it is possible to zero in on the time when his heel might have been
crushed. When Yahushua was impaled, the
Romans nailed him to the tree. According
to research of the times, the Romans would have fastened his hands together
above his head; and they would have nailed his feet to the tree by running a
nail through each heel into the sides of the tree so it would appear he was
straddling the tree with his feet.
If this is the time when the seed of
the woman had his heals crushed by the seed of the serpent, where is the
serpent’s seed? To answer this question,
we must go back to the time of David.
1 Samuel 17:40 And he took his staff in
his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a
shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand:
and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man
that bare the shield went before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest
to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give
thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of IAUE of
hosts, the Elohim of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46 This day will IAUE deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the
host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild
beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is an Elohim in
Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that IAUE saveth not with
sword and spear: for the battle is the IAUE’s, and he will give you into
our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and
drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and
slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into
his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the
hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his
sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his
head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they
fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of
Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head
of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in
his tent.
David carried the huge head of the
Philistine nearly 20 miles back to Jerusalem. After being taken before King Saul where David
brought the head of Israel’s enemy to show the King, tradition says David
buried the head on a nearby hill. The
name of that hill became known as “the place of the skull.” In Latin, it was called “Calvary,” but in the
Hebrew, it was known as
“Golgotha.”
“Golgotha.”
John 19:17 And he
bearing his cross went forth into a
place called the place of a skull, which is called in
the Hebrew Golgotha:
That Philistine’s name was Goliath.
1 Samuel 17:4 And there went out a
champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose
height was six cubits and a span.
Goliath was a giant, nearly 10 feet
tall. He was not human. His bloodline and his DNA was not descended
from Adam. He was a descendant of the serpent; and he was the champion of
Israel’s enemy. At the impaling of
Yahushua, his heels were crushed as his feet stood upon the head of the serpent’s
seed. The sacrifice of Yahushua crushed
the power of Satan.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in
your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with
him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them
in it.
1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of Elohim in a
mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which Elohim ordained before the world unto
our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified
the Master of glory.
“THE” seed of the woman has made his
appearance. “THE” seed of the serpent is
yet to come. The scene at Golgotha was a
prophetic preview that reveals the nature of the descendents of the serpent and
the manifestation of the victory that is yet to be demonstrated.
We will enlarge upon this next week.
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