Consider, for a moment, that what God revealed is really true. I could then easily contrast what happened to the angels to what happened to humans. Both were tested to see how willing they were to love and serve God. One third of the angels decided to go their own way. Their refusal to love and serve God would have disrupted the harmony in heaven and bring oppression and grief to angels given less power that those who rebelled. Apparently God would not permit this and expelled the rebellious angels out of heaven and down to the Earth, the future domain of human beings.
Then God created human beings. They were different than angels. They were made from the physical elements of the Earth and were destined to reproduce sexually giving rise to all human beings by passing their genes on to future generations. Angels, on the other hand, are all pure spirits. There is not one shred of physical matter in any of them. The two progenitors of the entire human race were then given a test to see how willing they were to love and serve God. Sadly, they failed.
God punished them and Satan as well. He told Satan: “I will put enmity between the woman and her seed and you and your seed. Her seed shall crush your head; your seed will strike his heel.” Satan’s seed, of course, are human beings who will follow Satan’s influenced and will join into his rebellion. The woman’s seed are humans who will prefer to love and serve God, but humans are very weak and are no match against those in rebellion. I think the woman’s seed really points to Jesus Christ. He is a human being descended from her, so he is her seed, but he is also the divine person who joins himself to that human being. And so the struggle between good an evil will become different. I think this is God’s remedy for the presence of evil: Jesus (the woman’s seed) will confront those who have chosen against God. They try to take for themselves what God has given to others. This cannot stand. All the woman’s seed will confront those who have chosen evil, even if this struggle causes the woman’s seed suffering and death. Actually, when Jesus will finally arrive and will allow himself to become involved with the woman’s seed, he too will suffer and die. I wonder why he will be willing to experience that. After all, he is divine. His divine nature cannot be defeated by anyone. He must have some reason for allowing evil to express itself so vehemently and for so long.
I think, in this struggle between good and evil, Jesus shares this mission with all the woman’s seed, with the entire human race. We all are involved in this monumental struggle between good and evil, between those who want to love and serve God and those who refuse. When the struggle is finished, I think everyone will realize that, if anything good came out of this struggle, it came through the blood, sweat, and tears of the woman’s seed with God working through all human beings.
If that is really the case, I won’t feel so compromised by all the hardships I endured in this life.
Maurice A. Williams
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