The Woman’s Seed and Satan’s Seed

The Woman’s Seed and Satan’s Seed

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed . . . .” Gen. 3:15.

Here the Word points to Jesus as the woman’s offspring, and from this we understand that all God-fearing people who have ever lived also belong to this line of descendants.

Everyone has to belong to one of these two families of descendants, whether they know it or not.

Jesus says to the Jews who had come to faith in Him: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do . . . .” John 8:31-47. It sounds strange that they had come to faith in Jesus and yet the devil was their father. However, this tells us that Jesus judged them according to their works and that His judgment was correct. Our works testify of our faith, and faith by itself is nothing; it if does not have works it is dead by itself. Jas. 2:17.

As long as religious persons—a preacher or a pastor—do not realize what Jesus is talking about here, namely, that their works speak of who their father is, it is not possible for them to have God as their Father. They need God’s light, and Jesus wants to give it to everyone, but they do not receive it.

“He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” They were of the devil’s seed. They did not listen to Jesus’ words because of their pride and their desire to argue; they did not hear Jesus’ words. They did not want to acknowledge the truth He proclaimed to them; they were bewitched because of their self-importance. It is the same today because the harlot has bewitched religious and other people to the extent that they directly contradict God’s words and will. They belong to the devil’s family, and what can we possibly expect from that corner except the works of the devil. We have also seen it; they write books against God’s Word and against godliness and God-fearing people, denying that Jesus was manifested in flesh.

Jesus spoke to the Jews in order to bring about their repentance; He wanted to liberate them from the devil’s family, but they had no desire to be freed, preferring to defend themselves in their darkness.

God is angry with such stubborn people, and He resists them. Moreover, they have committed themselves to doing evil, for the bewitched power of evil darkens the good, and the restlessness of desire transforms the mind in which there was no evil. Consequently, they become servants of the one whom they have chosen to be their father; they resist God and His servants; they belong to the family of the devil.

“If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.” If you are a child of God, you do the works of God. You act according to God’s Word and are careful to keep it. Has God not given us His Word, to be kept? It is not difficult to understand that, if you want to. The difficulty is in doing it because it is written, “If the righteous one is scarcely saved . . . .” 1 Pet. 4:18. However, all difficulties are overcome in the faith of Jesus Christ.

When Joseph was thrown into the pit and then pulled out again and sold, it seemed as if God had forsaken him. But God forsakes no one who is faithful to Him and who humbles himself under His hand; for He always wants the good for each person, and He accomplishes His work in the one who believes. These are of the family of the woman, or of the family of Jesus Christ, and they will always feel the enmity from the family of Satan, as God said. But Jesus has conquered the serpent, the devil, and has given us power to be God’s children by overcoming the evil one, and the evil and becoming good, filled with the goodness of God and of Jesus Christ.