The Woman’s Seed

You were born in the midst of a war.

A spiritual war.

There are battles taking place in the heavenlies all around you.

Angels. Demons. Principalities. Powers. Spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

It's another dimension. A reality that is unseen.

Physicists conjecture about a fourth dimension…even multiple dimensions beyond our apprehension.

Scripture says that they are right…at least in concept.

Pull back the curtain of our senses and there is a dimension dominated by angelic warfare.

Darkness versus light.

But not the Star Wars type.

The battle began behind the scenes of time when a created angel of God decided to rebel, decided he wanted to rule, desired to be like the Most High.

But his plans were thwarted. The Lord of hosts has no rival.

Judged and defeated by God, the rebelling cherub set his sights on God's most unique creation, male and female, made in the image of God.

Unable to attack God, the antagonistic angel aimed his arrow at the heart of humanity.

Entering the world. Taking the form of a serpent. He deceived the woman. He led the man into rebellion.

Darkness invaded God's kingdom of light.

Cancer entered God's creation.

What would God do? Would He abandon His creation? Would He scrap everything and start again?

In the midst of His judgment on the serpent, God issued a promise.

The battle of history began.

Behind every conflict, every act of hatred, every murder, every war lies a greater war.

The serpent hates God. The serpent hates the image of God.

He hates us…deceives us…enslaves us…destroys us.

And our hope lies in the birth of a Child.

Not any Child.

The woman's Seed.

Scripture associates the "seed" with the male.

But not this time.

This Child would be born of a woman.

A virgin.

A Child born without a human father.

The ancient prophecies looked to the day when the woman's seed would crush the serpent's head.