Jesus Christ, born of a woman, is the nemesis of Satan.

Genesis 3:15

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“And 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 3:15

The Lord said that He would put opposition between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpent’s offspring and her offspring. The opposition is Jesus Christ who comes between the global culture of the beast (the serpent’s seed) and Christianity (the woman’s seed, like the virgin Mary, and all who are born of the Spirit).

Jesus Christ inevitably destroys Satan. Satan, who has no more power to resist God, has had his head bruised by Jesus. Our Lord Jesus conquered sin and death on the Cross, where He made a sacrifice for sin. The sin that plagues the world wounded the heel of Jesus Christ, which is a symbol of His suffering soul.

Satan dreaded seeing the virgin birth that brought Jesus Christ into the world as the Son of God. Jesus would be the pure Lamb of God who would offer the ultimate sacrifice for sin. “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 1:18 Satan harbors hatred for the woman who bore his adversary and the world’s Savior. Satan hates the womb that gives life to Christian births. Satan also despises Jesus Christ, who overcame his outpouring of sin and death.

These verses show the hatred Satan has for the woman’s seed and Jesus Christ, as he tries to destroy Jesus at his birth. “Then Herod…sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under…” Matthew 2:16-17

The global culture reflects Satan’s hostility towards Jesus Christ. Instead of following God, people are influenced by an entity that usurps God’s role and gives them their feelings, thoughts, actions, and words. People no longer bear the image of Christ, but rather the image of the beast that speaks and acts through them. Satan uses deception, false doctrines, and false impressions to make people conform to the anti-Christian global culture and groom them to the mark of the beast by their words and deeds.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are His seed, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (Matthew 15:18-19 1 Corinthians 15:57-58)

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1