Hey everyone!
I'm Rachel and if you've seen The Passion of the Christ, you've probably seen the opening
scene where Satan sends out this weird snake and Jesus steps on its head and we know that
scene didn't actuallly take place in the Bible so what was it referencing?
We are going to get into that right now.
We are going to be talking about the curses that God just threw down on Satan, Adam and
Eve.
And we're just going to be talking about specifically the curse that was thrown down on Satan.
Let's just jump right in!
Now if you haven't watched my other videos on Gensis 3 because this is like such a full
chapter this is being spread out over multiple videos but I'm going to link up here for my
last video on Genesis 3.
You 'll need to watch that first because it will tell you about how we got to the point
that Adam, Eve and Satan all have curses thrown down on them.
If you remember from the last video, Adam and Eve and Satan had just had this conversation
and Adam and Eve were asked by God, "Why did you eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil?"
And Adam threw Eve right under the bus, and Eve said, "hey, Satan deceived me!"
Which was true.
And then God asked no questions of Satan because God knows Satan is a liar, and there is no
plan for redemption for Satan.
So, what happened?
The first curse that comes down is for Satan.
Remember, that Satan is posessing the body of a serpent.
And the serpent at the time had little legs.
So, the very first thing that God says is that, "you are going to be crawling on your
belly, under the foot of all of the animals.
You're cursed more than all of the cattle.
And his little legs, Poof!
Gone away.
Now, if you know anything about animal anatomy, snakes do have vestigeal legs, that means
that they have the bones for little, tiny feet in their body but they haven't actually
come out.
So, snakes as you know, have no apendeages.
like arms or legs.
but, in their skeleton they actually do have these little leftover legs that uhhh have
no purpose.
Legs!
And that is because the Bible is backed up by Science!
So just imagine, what Adam and Eve are thinking.
Like, they see this creature and they realize they've eaten this fruit and they're sitting
there naked, with their little fig leaf bikinis on.
And God, God is not playing at this point.
He's like, "you're going to crawl on your belly for you know, the rest of your days."
And his legs like, disappear.
So you can only imagine what Adam and Eve are sitting there thinking.
Like, "What, What, What is going to happen to us?!"
Like, this is some crazy stuff.
But then, God also says, that Satan to you know, crawling on his belly eating dust.
So when you tell somebody, "Oh eat dust" you're basically saying like, you're going to be
defeated.
I'm going to like, smash you into the ground.
And this is what God was saying to Satan, like, "you will eat dust.
You will be defeated."
Utter, utterly defeated.
Again, you can only imagine what Adam and Eve are sitting there thinking, like, I would
probably be peeing my pants.
Like if you've ever seen Gladiator.
That scene where the new gladiators are going to go out and they're like chained together
and one of the slaves is like, peeing himself right there because he's like freaking out.
So, I would assume that is what Adam and Eve are like.
God is not finished with Satan there.
He says, "I'm going to put enmity between you and the woman, your seed and her seed.
And He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.
So, let's just unpack that real quick.
So, Eve and the snake, Satan, were talking in the garden.
She obviously wasn't afraid of him, otherwise, she wouldn't have sat there and had a conversation
with him.
So, God is going to you know, she wants to see what good and evil is, well, now, she
can see the evil of Satan.
People are naturally afraid of Satan, things that are scary.
The dark side, that kind of stuff.
Because, that's part of this curse.
There's going to be a natural aversion to Satan.
And you're going to have to be a hardened person you're going to have to harden your
heart towards God if you choose to not just serve yourself, but to actually willingly,
serve Satan.
It's one thing to just serve yourself and you don't realize that you're serving Satan.
It's another to conciously decide to serve Satan.
So, what is the last past?
Your seed and her seed.
So, we have the children of the devil basically, the offspring of the devil.
Now remember, when Adam sinned, he put us all under the authority of Satan.
So we all are automatically born with this sin nature.
And I'm going to link that video right up here.
So, Adam ruined our lives.
But, that's how it is.
Like, we are no longer God's children automatically.
Because Adam and Eve sinned, Adam sinned.
So, he's our father and now that headship is transfered to Satan, unless we conciously
make the decision to say "I want to be under your authority God."
So we have the seed of Satan but then, you have the seed of woman.
And if you've hit puberty, you probably know that men are the one with "seed."
"Sperm."
And women have eggs.
So, what is this seed of woman?
Well, what God is saying here is He's saying that, "there's going to be a child born of
woman but, not from man."
Because we know that man is already under Satan.
That line is through Satan.
But, woman over here, there's going to be a child born but the other parent is not going
to be man.
And when we get into Genesis 6, and also Genesis 4, this is going to be a big thing, because
women start trying to have this seed, that is promised in Genesis 3:15.
Because they know it's going to come from a woman, but not from a human man.
Now, we know that Jesus was born from Mary.
And we know that Joseph was not his father.
We know that the Holy Spirit came upon Mary, and that is how Jesus entered the world.
So, He was fully human because He came from Mary.
So, He could have the struggles that humans have today.
Struggles with sin.
But, He's also God.
So He's perfect and He's able to overcome sin.
Now, in this promise, it says that, "the seed of woman, He will bruise, or He will strike
your head."
So we know it's going to be a male child.
And we know that Satan is still going to exist.
So we know that He is not talking to the physical serepent at this point, He's talking to Satan.
Because Satan will be alive at the same time as the seed of woman is alive, for them to
have this battle.
Obviously snakes don't live thousands of years from Eve, to when Jesus came to this earth.
But Satan is here.
He is this immortal creature.
So, we know that this male child , who is going to come from woman, and not from man,
He is going to be in a battle with Satan and Satan is going to strike this person's heel.
And the person is going to retaliate by striking his head.
Now if you get hit on your heel, it might hurt, you might limp around even, but it is
definitely not some life altering wound.
Now, if you have brusing on your brain or your head is crushed, or you get struck in
the head, that is a fatal blow.
And that is what God is saying here.
"You are going to do things to Him, you're going to tempt Him," or we have the Body of
Christ, which is made up of believers.
You can kill them.
You can persecute them.
But it's not going to be a striking, life-ending blow to the Body of Christ.
Those things might damage it, but it's not going to take down the church.
But, Jesus, this seed of woman, is going to strike your head.
And that is going to be the death blow for Satan.
These are the things that God had for Satan for leading Adam and Eve astray.
Yes, Adam did have a fence law, yes, he did lie to Eve, but if Satan didn't have that
conversation with Eve, the ball never would have began rolling for both of them to partake
of this fruit.
Any time that we sin and that sin is aided by Satan, because you can sin just on your
own.
Satan didn't make Adam create this fence law.
But, Satan did have a part in both of them eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil.
Just know, that whenever Satan is trying to push you down, you might fall into his trap
, and you might have to live with the consequences of your decisions, but God also is a loving,
merciful God and He always makes a way for redemption.
So, I just want you to remember that, when you're going though hard times, like, even
if it's your own fault.
Even if Satan has led you astray, God is still making a way for you to be reconciled to Him.
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Bye!