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originally posted by: randomuser2034
Greets on this fine night fellow ATSers. I imagine most where we live on this side of the earth are asleep or getting ready to sleep. So here's wishing you a pleasant sleep.
I just wanted to leave this for the observant reader and those keen and understanding spiritual truths revealed in God's word. This has to do with what the whole theme of the Bible is. The enmity or war between the serpent and the woman and their offspring.
Here is a video where I explain these marvelous truths, and how they reveal the supernatural nature of God's word found in the Bible. And that is the unity among all the 40 different Bible writers of a period of over 1,600 years as a the sacred secret of the offspring is slowly revealed. And how every one of the 66 books in the Bible have to do with the revealing of the offspring, and the progression of God's purpose of the offspring and how it will bring blessings to all mankind. And the war that Satan has put up against it. enmity
The figure of the serpent does not merely represent an individual snake or even all snakes, but the actual Devil himself (cf. Rev. 20:2). Similarly, the other two figures in the passage—the Woman and “her Seed”—do not merely refer to Eve and one of her righteous sons (Abel or Seth), or even to all mothers and sons, but to specific individuals that are key to redemptive history—Mary and Christ.
It was she, not someone else, who was the person that agreed to become the human channel through which Christ would enter the world in order to crush the serpent’s head (cf. Luke 1:38). And she was wounded when the serpent struck Jesus. Simeon had prophesied to her that “a sword will pierce through your own soul also,” a prophecy that was fulfilled when Mary saw her Son hanging from the cross (John 19:25–27). Thus Jesus directly crushed the serpent and was directly struck by the serpent, while Mary indirectly crushed it and was indirectly struck by it due to her cooperation in becoming the mother of Christ.
In Genesis 3:15 it seems that there are several non-exclusive interpretations, at least three of which may be intended by the text itself: (a) a natural conflict between snakes and the human race, (b) a spiritual conflict between (righteous) humans and the devil, (c) the conflict between Messiah and the devil, and (d) the conflict between Mary and the devil. This is an example of a prophecy that has multiple fulfillments based on the different levels on which the text may be read—literal, moral, Christological, and Mariological.
Prophecies with multiple fulfillments are common in Scripture. Another such prophecy is a direct echo of Genesis 3:15 which appears in Revelation 12:
“And a great portent appeared in heaven, a Woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. . . . . [S]he brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne… Then the dragon was angry with the Woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus” (Rev. 12:1–2, 5, 17).
originally posted by: randomuser2034
The primary offspring is Jesus Christ, and the secondary offspring are the anointed, 144,000 who are called to heavenly life to rule with him. These have the work of bearing witness to Jesus and preaching the good news of God's kingdom in all the earth.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: randomuser2034
The primary offspring is Jesus Christ, and the secondary offspring are the anointed, 144,000 who are called to heavenly life to rule with him. These have the work of bearing witness to Jesus and preaching the good news of God's kingdom in all the earth.
I knew that was what you were going to claim.
And I fully disagree.
The offspring in Revelation are not the Jehovahs Witnesss.