Now I’m not sure how people are going to react to this
particular post, but as I hear about what’s on TV today, I can truly say there’s
an attack on women. But I’d like to take it from this point: there has been an
attack on women since the times of Adam & Eve and yes, the devil will be
the focal point (now I’m not glorifying him, just making that clear) and why he
is so mad at women (he’s mad at men too, but I believe not to the extent of him
being mad at women).
When the devil used the serpent to talk to Eve, she ate and
gave to Adam. Let me move to the place where God was questioning Adam &
Eve. Eve stated that the serpent made me eat. The immediate judgment that came
from God was on the serpent.
As I’m reading Matthew Henry’s commentary on Genesis 3, he
said this and I think this is very important (here's the first excerpt): God immediately proceeds to pass
sentence; and, in these verses, he begins (where the sin began) with the
serpent. God did not examine the serpent, nor ask him what he had done nor why
he did it; but immediately sentenced him, 1. Because he was already convicted
of rebellion against God, and his malice and wickedness were notorious, not
found by secret search, but openly avowed and declared as Sodom’s. 2. Because he was to be for ever
excluded from all hope of pardon; and why should any thing be said to convince
and humble him who was to find no place for repentance? His wound was not
searched, because it was not to be cured.
Dropping down (for this is a lengthy commentary, but I want to
focus on the part where God said that he will put enmity between the devil and
the woman). Excerpt #2:
He is to be for ever looked upon as a venomous noxious creature,
and a proper object of hatred and detestation:
I will put enmity between
thee and the woman. The inferior creatures being made for man, it was a
curse upon any of them to be turned against man and man against them; and this
is part of the serpent’s curse. The serpent is hurtful to man, and often
bruises his heel, because it can reach no higher; nay, notice is taken of his
biting the horses’ heels,
ch. 49:17
. But man is victorious over the serpent, and bruises his head, that is, gives
him a mortal wound, aiming to destroy the whole generation of vipers. It is the
effect of this curse upon the serpent that, though that creature is subtle and
very dangerous, yet it prevails not (as it would if God gave it commission) to
the destruction of mankind.
Excerpt #3:
Here are three things concerning Christ:—(1.) His
incarnation, that he should be
the seed of the woman, the seed of
that
woman; therefore his genealogy (
Lu. 3, ) goes so
high as to show him to be the son of Adam, but God does the woman the honour to
call him rather her seed, because she it was whom the devil had beguiled, and
on whom Adam had laid the blame; herein God magnifies his grace, in that,
though the woman was first in the transgression, yet she shall be saved
by
child-bearing (as some read it), that is, by the promised seed who shall
descend from her,
1 Tim. 2:15
. He was likewise to be the seed of a woman only, of a virgin, that he might
not be tainted with the corruption of our nature; he was sent forth,
made of
a woman (
Gal. 4:4
), that this promise might be fulfilled. It is a great encouragement to sinners
that their Saviour
is the seed of the woman, bone of our bone, Heb. 2:11,
Heb. 2:14
. Man is therefore sinful and unclean, because he is
born of a woman (
Job. 25:4 ),
and therefore
his days are full of trouble, Job. 14:1 .
But the seed of the woman was made sin and a curse for us, so saving us from
both. (2.) His sufferings and death, pointed at in Satan’s
bruising his
heel, that is, his human nature. Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness, to
draw him into sin; and some think it was Satan that terrified Christ in his
agony, to drive him to despair. It was the devil that put it into the heart of
Judas to betray Christ, of Peter to deny him, of the chief priests to prosecute
him, of the false witnesses to accuse him, and of Pilate to condemn him, aiming
in all this, by destroying the Saviour, to ruin the salvation; but, on the
contrary, it was by death that Christ
destroyed him that had the power of
death, Heb. 2:14
. Christ’s heel was bruised when his feet were pierced and nailed to the cross,
and Christ’s sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for his
name. The devil tempts them, casts them into prison, persecutes and slays them,
and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. But,
while the heel is bruised on earth, it is well that the head is safe in heaven.
(3.) His victory over Satan thereby. Satan had now trampled upon the woman, and
insulted over her; but the seed of the woman should be raised up in the fulness
of time to avenge her quarrel, and to trample upon him, to spoil him, to lead
him captive, and to
triumph over him, Col. 2:15
.
He shall bruise his head, that is, he shall destroy all his politics
and all his powers, and give a total overthrow to his kingdom and interest.
Christ baffled Satan’s temptations, rescued souls out of his hands, cast him
out of the bodies of people, dispossessed the strong man armed, and divided his
spoil: by his death, he gave a fatal and incurable blow to the devil’s kingdom,
a wound to the head of this beast, that can never be healed. As his gospel gets
ground,
Satan falls (
Lu. 10:18 )
and is
bound, Rev. 20:2
. By his grace, he treads Satan under his people’s feet (
Rom. 16:20
) and will shortly cast him into the lake of fire,
Rev. 20:10
. And the devil’s perpetual overthrow will be the complete and everlasting joy
and glory of the chosen remnant.
Anyway, back to the lesson, so what is the devil trying to
do (to both men and women)? He’s trying to strip everything that God views as
holy. As a result of the fall, blood had to be shed. When a man and woman enter
to a marriage, a blood covenant is to be formed. Let me stay on this for a
second. What’s the devil’s operation? To get blood to be unholy and to throw
people outside of the will of God. As Matthew Henry stated earlier, God didn’t question
Satan as to why he did what he did to Eve. But praise be to God for the
cleansing blood of Christ! So, we as men of God, need to cover our women in
prayer, and be able to intercede for our sisters in Christ. Satan’s plan to
break down the marriage structure is increasing the more (marriage covenants are
important to God). We can’t go on business as usual and calling what’s unholy
as being holy.
Single parenthood was never the order of God (and I applaud
every single mother out there). Satan is attacking women in this arena by
breaking the backs of men to show that men aren’t stronger than women. As a
result, they’re left with the burden of caring for the children. But praise be
to God for the blood of Jesus.
So what’s the point of this post? Understand that we as
humans are under attack by the devil. We need to cover each other in prayer and
intercession, understand our roles as men & women and not give further
access to the devil in our lives. For we can overcome these attacks if we are
one accord.
Blessings:
The Mayne Man
