November
27, 2017 Monday
13And the LORD God said to the woman, “What is
this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14So
the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed
more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you
shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15And I will put
enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall
bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:13-15 NKJV
Why would God offer His “only
begotten Son” for people such as us? I
believe the answer is found in the scripture above. God “put” a battle between the seed of the
serpent and the seed of the woman. In
the Bible seed comes from the male so here we have a unique seed of the
woman. Jesus came from the Virgin Mary
and so was the only person who was born of the seed of the woman. And Jesus was crucified to death by the seed
of the serpent but His resurrection broke the power of death and Jesus
recovered the keys to Hell! The serpent
did “bruise” Jesus but He “bruised” the head, the power, of the serpent!
And even today there is war between
those who follow Jesus and are of His seed and those who follow the serpent and
are of his seed. We see Christians being
persecuted and martyred but the seed who think to be a martyr is to die killing
others.
The question is, which seed are
you?
Spent the day with all the kids and
ate out at Snappy Tomato and had some very good pizza. It was good to spend time with all of us
together Bonnie, Sarah and Levi, Jonathan, Rebecca and I. Still as it said in a John Wayne movie I am “weary,
travel worn”.
Had a doo time of prayer and
listening to Matthew. Having read
through the Bible twice this year I am still treading my way through the Qur’an
and will read through the Gospels in preparation for Advent and Christmas.
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