Crushing the Serpent's Head

 Vision 14 - REVELATION  20:1-10

Subject: The abyssing of Satan, the Millennial Reign, mankind's final test, and Satan's destruction

Time of fulfillment:  From the great tribulation to the destruction of Satan

DO YOU recall the first Bible prophecy?  It was uttered by Jehovah God when he said to the Serpent: "I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise  you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel." (Genesis 3:15) Now the fulfillment of that prophecy comes to its climax!  We have traced the history of Satan's warring against Jehovah's heavenly womanlike organization. (Revelation 12:1, 9)  The Serpent's earthly seed,  with its religion, politics, big business, has heaped cruel persecution on the woman's seed, Jesus Christ and his 144,000 anointed followers, here on earth.  (John 8:37, 44; Galatians 3:16, 29)  Satan inflicted  an agonizing death on Jesus.  But this proved to be like a heel wound, for God resurrected his faithful Son on the third day. - ACTS 10:38-40. 

What about the Serpent and his seed?  About 56 B.C.E.  the apostle Paul wrote a long letter to the Christians in Rome.  In concluding it, he encouraged them by saying:  "For his part, the God who gives peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly." (Romans 16:20)  This is more than a superficial bruising. Satan is to be crushed!  Paul here used a Greek word, syn-tri'bo,  that means to bruise into a jellylike state, to trample down, to destroy utterly by crushing.  As for the human seed of the Serpent, this is due for a real plaguing in the Lord's day, climaxing at the great tribulation in the complete crushing of Babyon the Great and the political systems of the world, together with their finanicial and military henchmen.  (Revelation, chapters 18 and 19) Thus Jehovah brings to a climax the enmity between the two seeds.  The Seed of God's woman triumphs over the earthly seed of the Serpent, and that seed is no more!

Next time: Crushing the Serpent's Head - Satan Abyssed

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