The Announcement of Our Savior
Welcome back, friend. I hope after reading the last lesson, you have started to think about who you are, and that you can now make more sense out of some of the dark puzzle pieces that fit together to make you. Like you, I too, am a sinner, and have the same dark qualities as you. When I study and prepare to write my lessons, I feel the same way you do when you read them.
Before we move on, let’s go back and see what happened to Satan in the Garden of Eden. Satan had been forced out of Heaven for his prideful rebellion against God, and on Earth, he had separated God’s most cherished creations from Him through Adam and Eve’s fall into sin. God didn’t bother to ask Satan why he had done what he did. He had enough of Satan. In Genesis 3:14-15, God pronounces His judgment on Satan He has placed him under an eternal curse:
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. (NKJV)
Satan was once the most beautiful and smartest angel in Heaven. A Cherub, he wore clothing covered in jewels and trimmed in gold, and guarded the very throne of God. But now, in front of all, Satan is forced to eat humble pie. God humiliates him in his own earthly kingdom by making him lower than any other human being or animal on earth.
And then the final blow is dealt when Satan is told that his goal of separating man from God, our Father, will fail. God shares His eternal plan, which involves the redemption of men and women from the curse of sin and death. He is the first to announce the birth of our Redeemer and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
God has already given us hope of a Redeemer, (Genesis 3:15) which is sometimes referred to as the protoevangelium, the first announcement of Jesus in Scripture
What does between your offspring and hers mean? Aren’t all children born by woman? Yes, but all offspring of Satan are born by man’s seed because of the sin of Adam. There is only one person — Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior — who was not born by man’s seed, but by woman, a virgin, and the Holy Spirit. Jesus was born sinless because He was not conceived or corrupted by man’s seed.
