“…One
of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.” Genesis 3:14 (Message)
Paradise was lost.
Guilt and shame were freshly discovered. The culpable couple cowered, fearful
of the fate that awaited them. But before punishment came promise as the
Creator declared war on the Perpetrator of deceit – enmity between the children
of Eve and the minions of the Serpent, epic battles to be fought, the painful horror
wounding even the Promised One. But victory would be His, this Child of Eve –
the Son of God.
How does God turn
the Great Disappointment into Glorious Destiny? That is the mystery of
salvation. God Almighty, Creator and Ruler of all things animate and inanimate –
endless Power, infinite Light, Wisdom of the ages – and He chooses to use Love
as His weapon. Love will crush the serpent's head, Love will save the lost race,
Love will carry the Son of God through the bowels of hell itself. Love will
come as a Child of the woman, a Warrior of compassion, a Lamb of sacrifice, a
Victor over eternal death. No wonder the hopes of humanity hung on the advent
of the Promised One for millennia. No wonder the wonder of angels eagerly
anticipated the Event. No wonder that the story is even now told and retold because
our destinies too are wrapped up in the swaddling clothes of the One God sent to
crush the head of the serpent.
T.B.
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