Easter

It is the hinge on which Christianity turns. The crucial point, the peak, the climax. From the day Adam took the fruit from his wife Eve, God pronounced his plan of restoration. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. God knew who was responsible for what and he in his divine power pronounced judgment and promise.

Genesis 3:14-19

So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“ Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
¹⁶ To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“ Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.

¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

Okay so this really does not seem to carry any good promise for any of them, especially since

they had been living in paradise. Lets start with the one with the worst promise, the serpent.

He really does not seem to have a promising future. He is cursed more than any animal, he is

going to have to crawl on his belly where ever he goes, and he is not going to get on very well in a

future fight with the seed of the woman. He is going to get his head cracked. So he starts his

planning, but unlike God he does not think long term. Just in case you are wondering, the

serpent is Satan, aka the Devil, aka bad dude.

What is for the Woman. She is punished in an unusual way, she is going to have pain in

child birth. Her future seed will come with the cost of pain for many women. She is also listed

follower to her husband. She might want to take charge, but he shall rule over her.

Adam (the husband) is punished with the struggle to provide for his family. He will have to sweat

and toil to stay alive himself, and to keep his family alive. Lastly, we shall all return to the dust

from which we were taken. Did you notice that the serpent will be consuming dust as a regular

part of his new low cal cursed diet?

We now have an excellent idea of what we should expect to see if these prophesies are to be fulfilled. All through the bible we see it, right up to the climax.

The serpent never forgets that curse, and he lives in constant terror of having his skull done in. He fights it by direct attacks at the woman's seed. Cain kills Able, Pharaoh orders the Hebrew males killed, and in between is a whole line of different people being attacked tempted and killed, all the way up until Christ is born and Herod orders another mass male baby killing.

"And he shall bruise your heel." The seed of the woman is wounded.

Now in a beautiful preview we also notice evil getting its head crunched many times. Evil men have tent pegs driven into their heads, evil men have millstones dropped on their head, and the classic, David hits Goliath with a stone in the head, and then chops his head off.

This all leads to the climax. Christ being betrayed, beaten, and hung. Now Satan thinks he has won. He has finally pinned the sins of the world on the only perfect man who ever lived, the seed, and he is the Son of God, and Satan has him pinned on a tree. What could be better for Satan? Now he can rule the way he wanted to from the beginning, and God's curse didn't work because somehow he outsmarted God.

Satan overlooked an interesting and crucial point. Christ was killed on a tree on Golgotha (the place of the skull.) Somebody is having his skull finally crushed.

On Easter Christ rose from the dead, dealing the final blow to Satan. Christ has overcome satan and his tools, death and despair. He has gone through hell for those he loves and has come out a strong and victorious savior and king. The new adam has redeemed us from our first father's fall. And we, the victorious church and body of Christ (aka the seed of the Woman) will limp victoriously into the future.

This is why we can scream Alleluias to our world. This is truly good news.

1 Corinthians 15:21

For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.

Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,⁴ to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, ⁵ who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.