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1 “He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

 Genesis 3:15

 This is the first of the amazing promises of God to provide a Saviour for the sin of the people of planet earth. He makes the promise to the enemy, Satan, that his head and life will be destroyed by the coming man, born to be our Saviour – the Messiah.

God makes the promise to humankind that they will not always be under the enemy but will be set free from the tyranny of Satan and sin.

 Through the work of the coming Saviour we are set free to have the victory over our sinful, selves and the sin that infests our nature.  God was going to send the person of His only beloved and begotten Son to be the sin-bearer and sovereign over the lives of His chosen people.

 God was not caught unawares by the fall of Adam and Eve, but had agreed a rescue plan with the other members of the Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that they would carry out a plan of redemption for the lost soul of humankind. There was no plan quite like this one and no covenant was its equal. God made the covenant with Himself and therefore it was binding and could never fail. This is the confidence that we can have with our God that he will bring us safely to heaven through the shed blood of the Redeemer. Satan is conquered and His head is destroyed on the cross, so that sinful people could find forgiveness and a new life in Christ.