![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout this year we may have to learn the first part of this promise by experience, through the temptations of the devil and the unkindness of the ungodly, who are his seed. To us the promise stands as a prophecy that we shall be afflicted by the powers of evil in our lower nature, and thus bruised in our heel but we shall triumph in Christ, who sets His foot on the old serpent's head. How terrible will be the final bruising of the serpent's head! This was virtually done when Jesus took away sin, vanquished death, and broke the power of Satan but it awaits a still fuller accomplishment at our Lord's second advent and in the Day of Judgment. The seed of the woman, even our Lord Jesus, was bruised in His heel, and a terrible bruising it was. It contains the whole gospel and the essence of the covenant of grace. Spurgeon January 1 The Bible's First PromiseĪnd I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. ![]()
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