SEED OF THE SERPENT

1. THY SEED in Genesis 3:15 is the shifting forms and abilities of SATAN, personified in SIN, “And he laid hold on the DRAGON, that OLD SERPENT, which is the DEVIL, and SATAN, … ” [Revelation 20:2] The SERPENT was decoy as was the DRAGON by which he engineered REBELLION in heaven and was banished, “And there was WAR IN HEAVEN: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the DRAGON FOUGHT and his angels” [Revelation 12:7] The same was the SERPENT in Eden, not a snake as some imagine but the DECEIVER transformed into a form compatible to plant himself in man, “But while MEN SLEPT, his ENEMY came and SOWED TARES among the wheat, and went his way” [Matthew 13:25] He is the DEVIL, Prince of this world, working in man to advance DISOBEDIENCE against God, “…  the PRINCE of the POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that now worketh in the children of DISOBEDIENCE” [Ephesians 2:2] Satan pulls the strings behind curtains of invisibility, drowning the world in inequity to raise an army of rebellious nations against God for the final showdown. Until then, the battle line is drawn as it is written: “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” [Genesis 3:15]
2. HER SEED in Genesis 3:15 is TRUTH, the PROMISE of God to REDEEM us from SIN by Himself in Jesus Christ, “To wit, that GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING the WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation” [2 Corinthians 5:19] Putting it in context, CAIN and ABEL, came from same womb, born in SIN and of the WILL of FLESH,  “For ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23] The precept of the PROMISE was laid in Genesis 3:21, where God slew a lamb and made “COVERING” for Adam and Eve; the blood symbolizing reconciliation [Genesis 3:21, Revelation 13:8] The boys knew what to do but CAIN obviously had his EYES on present realities and pleasures in the land of Nod [Genesis 4:16] ABEL delighted in the PROMISE though he could not SEE it and of FAITH became forerunner of HER SEED which was to come in due season, “By FAITH ABEL offered unto God a more EXCELLENT SACRIFICE than CAIN, by which he obtained witness that HE WAS RIGHTEOUS, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being DEAD YET SPEAKETH” [Hebrews 11:4] CAIN’S pitiable pretense of compliance, a form of godliness  sans OBEDIENCE, betrayed his pedigree as SEED OF THE SERPENT, “Not as CAIN, WHO WAS OF THAT WICKED ONE, and SLEW HIS BROTHER. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous” [1 John 3:12]
3. The character and ambitions of Satan, were personified in CAIN, “And CAIN knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he BUILDED A CITY, …” [Genesis 4:17] CAIN’S city is symptomatic of CONTROL, for there must of necessity be a RULER and, in this case, SERPENT in man. From here grew all empires and civilizations, propelled by three unseen armies of fallen angels and demons. The FIRST army rode out with IMMITATION to nurse FALSE RELIGION; CAIN was a farmer but his descendants suddenly became FATHERS of Shepherds and went all out impersonating the righteous, “And Adah bare Jabal: he was the FATHER of such as dwell in TENTS, and of such as have CATTLE” [Genesis 4:20] The SECOND, introduced HARPS and ORGANS, representing the allure and SEDUCTION of carnal pleasure, “And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the FATHER of all such as handle the HARP and ORGAN” [Genesis 4:21] The THIRD propagated TECHNOLOGY, science of good and evil for global dominion, “And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an INSTRUCTER of every ARTIFICE in BRASS and IRON: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah” [Genesis 4:22] By these trinity of evil forces, Satan manipulates affairs of this world to prepare the way of the WICKED ONE, “Who OPPOSETH and EXALTETH HIMSELF above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, SHEWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD” [2 Thessalonians 2:4]
4. If CAIN was SEED OF THE SERPENT, the WICKED ONE is the FRUIT; Satan, “Even him, WHOSE COMING IS AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN with all POWER and SIGNS and LYING WONDERS” [2 Thessalonians 2:9] The WICKED ONE is coming and is at the door, and for a while works behind the scene until he has emptied the harvest of his inglorious armies into one pot, “And then shall that WICKED BE REVEALED, whom the LORD SHALL CONSUME with the spirit of his mouth, and shall DESTROY with the brightness of his coming” [2 Thessalonians 2:8] For your sake and mine, God was manifest in Jesus Christ to fulfil His PROMISE as he did for ABEL, who though died in the flesh yet lived forever more in Spirit, “Being BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” [1 Peter 1:23] Let no man deceive you with false promises of a future man-made PEACE, SAFETY guaranteed by TECHNOLOGY or RELIGIOUS avenue out of present woes, “For when they shall say, PEACE and SAFETY; then SUDDEN DESTRUCTION cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” [1 Thessalonians 5:] The END is near, Satan shall be destroyed with all those who rejected God’s PROMISE of REDEMPTION in Jesus Christ. Friend, receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour God has something better for you,  “And I saw a NEW HEAVEN and a NEW EARTH: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea” [Revelation 21:1]