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.”
This enmity would reach its climax in one of Eve’s descendants, here identified only as “he.” God warned Satan: “He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
The prophecy culminates in the enmity between Satan and Christ. It was at this one descendant of Eve that Satan directed his most vicious enmity, realizing how much was at stake. “You will strike his heel.” We see the fulfillment of this promise early in the Savior’s life when
Herod tried to kill him. We see another fulfillment immediately after Christ’s public inauguration into his work when Satan tempted him to forget his Father’s plan. And
on that evil Friday that Christians call “Good,” Satan struck his enemy’s heel with a ferocity that cost the Savior his life. But Satan’s enmity against the woman’s offspring was futile, because “he will crush your head.” The serpent’s crushed head spells defeat. As it was through the woman that Satan brought sin and death into the world, so it was through the woman’s offspring that God would conquer sin, death, and Satan. “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:8).
Feb 27, 2022