Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
The word “enmity” means “war” therefore God said, “And I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed” The fall was not something that just happened, it was God’s created creatures obeying Satan’s sly temptation against God. I believe this hatred is between God and Satan, not mankind and Satan. Her seed, I believe is referring to Jesus Christ and not mankind in general. Mankind does not have a battle with Satan, God does and because God does Christians and churches do. This battle is good versus evil, and mankind has been conquered by Satan at the fall. The fall in its entirety was a war against God, a war against holiness, and a war against right and wrong. The world is pitted against each other, the saved verse the evil, because every lost soul is evil in their heart. If you will remember back to the flood God explains why He flooded the earth, “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Genesis 6:5 – 6 God punished mankind for their evil and defeated the sin that was ruling the earth. God hates sin and God hates the people that sin against Him because sin is a human war against God that started with Satan, Adam, and Eve. Satan is at war with God and Satan uses God’s people to battle God. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” 1 Peter 5:8 Satan is not the lost persons adversary, he is the believer’s adversary, he is the churches adversary. Satan is an enemy against Christians because he hates us, he wants us to sin so that he can accuse God’s children before God. This is the same reason Satan challenged Job, in an attempt to defeat God, but he failed. Satan will do anything in an attempt to get even the slightest thought of a victory against God. However, God cannot be defeated, Satan did not defeat God in the fall, he did not defeat God in the account with Job, nor with the temptation of Jesus, and not even at Calvary was God defeated. Evil never understands God, He will always be victorious. Someday after the coming of Jesus Christ again through the workings of the Anti-Christ, the false prophet, the great Dragon himself all will fail to defeat God. God will cast them into hell’s eternal flames in the hottest parts and Victory will be God’s. God cannot be defeated; He will forever be victorious because a created creature will never defeat the Creator. And in the end, God will only defeat Satan He will also defeat sin and those that are at war with Him on this earth. “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Revelation 20:8 – 10 So Satan battles with us, the believer, and God tells us to “Be sober, be vigilant…” because Satan is after us because we are the soldiers of the Lords army, therefore we are supposed to be fighting the “good fight” and if we are not clear minded and watchful, we will lose the battle and become a tool of Satan in the fight against our own Lord. The battle is ours also, let us be good servants of God and fight the “good fight”. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:11 - 13 Fight The Good Fight, Never Surrender To Evil!
