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The Woman and the Fiery Red Dragon
Belated commentary Saturday, August 13 I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.—Gen. 3:15. How intense would this enmity be? “He (the offspring of the woman) will crush your (Satan’s) head, and you will strike him in
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Saturday, August 13 2016
I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.—Gen. 3:15.COMMENTARY
When Jehovah spoke to the serpent in Eden immediately after it had seduced Eve and her husband into eating the forbidden fruit, he laid out in a few words the absolute solution to the rebellion that had just taken place.At the time it was not possible for any human to understand what was meant. Who was the serpent? The woman? Their respective offspring? There was simply no way of knowing. It was a sacred mystery.
Some time after the great flood Satan set about fabricating a fake woman and offspring in the persons of Nimrod and his wife/mother, Semiramis —the original goddess. Although shrouded in mystery the satanic religion that originated with Nimrod and Semiramis developed from the violent death and mythical rebirth of Nimrod as the offspring of the woman whose heel was wounded. As an indication of the insidious influence of the demon-inspired myth, the prophet Ezekiel saw in a vision an Israelite woman in God’s temple performing the ritual of “weeping over Tammuz” —Tammuz being a permutation of Nimrod.
But when Jesus appeared on earth one aspect of the mystery came to light. Jesus was the seed of the woman whose heel was struck by the serpent —the serpent being identified as Satan the Devil, whom Jesus revealed to be the original liar and manslayer —an obvious reference to the lie the serpent uttered in Eden that brought death upon mankind.
Jesus was struck on the heel when he was executed by Satan’s offspring —the unbelieving Jews, whom Jesus had already identified as children of the Devil who desired to do the will of their wicked spiritual father. It was a heel wound in the sense that it was not fatal, in that, Jesus quickly recovered from it when he was resurrected from death. The heel wound is in contrast to the crushing of the head of the serpent, which signifies annihilation!
Shortly after Jesus was born as a human Satan tried to have him killed in the cradle. Jehovah’s angel intervened, however, and instructed Joseph to move his family to Egypt. On many other occasions during his ministry, the demons tried to maneuver the Jews to kill Jesus. They were never successful because it was not Jehovah’s time.
But, it is noteworthy that although the demons sought to deceive the Jews as to who he was, they themselves were quite aware that Jesus was the foretold Messiah, that he was the one destined to crush the serpent’s head, along with all of his evil brood. That is why the demons taunted Christ on one occasion in a synagogue of the Jews, saying to him through the mouth of a human they possessed: “What have we to do with you, Jesus you Nazarene? Did you come to destroy us? I know exactly who you are, the Holy One of God.”Toward the close of the first century the apostle John received the revelation of the things shortly to take place. In the 12th chapter are revealed the same symbolic entities with whom we were introduced in Genesis; namely, the serpent, the woman and the seed. The mystery is now solvable.
The enmity between the serpent and the woman and her seed reaches a new level of hostility when Michael and his angels force the Devil and his angels out of the heavens, confining them to the earth. That singular event will be earth shaking, marking the birth of God’s Kingdom and the beginning of the last days of Satan and his offspring. Revelation 12:17 relates what occurs next: “So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went off to wage war with the remaining ones of her offspring, who observe the commandments of God and have the work of bearing witness concerning Jesus.”
Just as the demons knew who Jesus was, obviously they are well aware of the identity of individuals who are “the remaining ones of her offspring” —otherwise, how could the dragon wage war against them?
But there is a twist. While Satan and Jehovah’s offspring have always been at enmity, prior to the final war the deceiver has been allowed to wield a deluding influence over them through a so-called man of lawlessness.
By means of his influential agents within Christ’s congregation, Satan has counterfeited another messiah who came to power in 1914 and ejected the original serpent from the highest heaven. The prophetic period of 1,260 days, which in reality is the duration of the final days, has been explained into nihility.
The purpose of the deception is intended to create maximum terror and confusion among God’s offspring when the war in heaven actually erupts and Satan is cast down to make his last stand.
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