The SERPENT's WAR on the SEED of the WOMAN | The First Christmas, Pt. 1/5

Christmas actually does not begin in Bethlehem. Nor does it start in a stable. There was no special start, shepherds, or wise men. There wasn’t even a Joseph and Mary - yet.

The importance of Christmas actually begins in Genesis chapter 3. In Genesis 3 we see Adam and Eve, not Joseph and Mary. Adam and Eve are enjoying the Garden that God had created for them. God gave Adam management authority over all His new creation. There was only one stipulation. They were not to eat from a specific tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They had one commandment and they broke it. The consequence of this decision to disobey God was what we now call “the fall.” Adam, acting as a representative of all mankind, by his sin had sent us all into separation from God resulting in eternal and physical death. Mankind’s future was as dark as it could possibly be.

God began to pronounce profound and painful curses on man, the woman, the serpent, and even the creation. Like a pandemic or plague, the effects of sin’s entrance had spread to all points of God’s brand-new creation. But in the middle of this judgment, God did a very strange thing. He gave a promise to Adam and Eve; actually, He gave the promise to the Serpent but God’s people would be the ones blessed by this promise. He didn’t have to do this. They weren’t expecting it. The serpent certainly wasn’t expecting it because he thought that he had just successfully stopped God’s plan for mankind. What was this promise? 

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (ESV)

Thus began Satan’s long war against the seed of the woman, the messiah, the savior, God’s anointed one. Observe with, me this morning, in the first half of Matthew chapter 1 how this war raged generation after generation for the souls of men, women, boys, and girls.