Serpent, The Eight-fold Prophecy to the

Eight-fold Prophecy to the Serpent

1.     You are cursed above all cattle (Genesis 3:14).

2.     You are cursed above all beasts (Genesis 3:14).

3.     Upon your belly you shall go all the days of your life (Genesis 3:14).

4.     Dust you shall eat all the days of your life (Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 65:25).

5.     I will put enmity between you and the woman (Genesis 3:15).

6.     I will put enmity between your seed and her seed (Genesis 3:15)

7.     The seed of the woman shall bruise your head (Genesis 3:15; Romans 16:20; Rev. 20:1-10).

8.     You shall bruise His heel (Genesis 3:15; Rev. 1:18).

Points 1 through 6 are will continue being fulfilled into eternity.  Point 7 was partially fulfilled when Satan was defeated at the cross (Col. 2:14-17), but the final fulfillment will be at Armageddon (Rev. 19:11-20:3) and at the end of the Millennium (Rev. 20:7-11).  Point 8 was fulfilled completely when Christ was crucified.  He was not crushed by seeming defeat in being killed, because it was impossible that He should be held in death (John 10:18; Acts 2:23-36).  He was merely wounded as a heel is bruised, but Satan is to be completely defeated and his power destroyed as when a serpent's head is crushed (Genesis 3:15; Col. 2:14-17; Romans 16:20; Rev. 20:7-10).

Question 1. Next, Genesis 3:9.

Misquoted from Genesis 2:16-17.

 

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