#Genesis 3:15
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Jesus Vs. Satan
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.’
— Genesis 3:15 | JPS Tanakh 1917 (JPST)
The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text; Jewish Publication Society 1917.
Cross References: Luke 24:27; Romans 16:20; Revelation 12:17
#Jesus#enmity#satan#spiritual warfare#Genesis 3:15#Book of Genesis#Old Testament#JPST#JPS Tanakh 1917#Jewish Publication Society 1917#The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text
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What’s striking [to notice] is that the hope of Genesis 3:15 isn’t just the coming of a King, but the coming of a King who will reverse death and the curse. Exactly how he’s going to do that is still very cloudy [during the time of the Patriarchs], but even this early in the story the good news proclaimed in Genesis is not just that a King is coming. It’s that the arrival of the King will mean salvation. It will mean an end to the curse, and a reversal of the death and separation from God that resulted from sin. That’s what the King does. He saves.
Greg Gilbert
#jesus christ#Jesus is king#the fulfillment of the old testament#Genesis 3:15#the plan of salvation#o death where is your sting#original sin#greg gilbert#i never thought about it like this before#reflect on this#salvation#jesus christ came into this world to save sinners#god desires that all should be saved#jesus is the messiah#the protoevangelium
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Is it cultural appropriation if a non catholic wears rosary beads (as an accessory)?
As you'd be using it as an accessory, it could be considered taking the Father's symbols in vain in certain circles, and therefore cultural appropriation. If you pray with it, it cancels out. You should give the rosary a few runs before you wear it. This definitely won't change anything inside your spirit.
#tradcath#pope francis#catholic#catholicism#tradwife#tradcore#traditional femininity#christian#christianity#traditional masculinity#traditional values#traditional gender roles#Genesis 3:15#Luke 1:28
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#stranger than fiction#genesis 3:15#the lord god#the serpent#the woman#adam and eve#daily bread#nightly bread#god is love#bible#tree of life
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Jesus said: "Two Seeds Populate This Earth." Matthew 13:24. Jesus said: Call No Man Your Father On Earth, For You Have One Father In Heaven.
God is revealing His secrets!
Woud you like to know what Jesus meant?
For this to be true God would have to be the actual Father of Man!
Adam, is not the father of man, God is!
This is a secret God has hidden until the time of the end to be revealed, my opinion.
I was led to understand this secret by a single piece of scripture that was brought to my attention, like many others, but this time was very different. It was if…
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The Good Curse
Adam and his wife have sinned against God by responding wrongly to the temptation of the serpent. Adam could not atone for his wife’s sin. Instead, he joined her. Both Adam and his wife blamed their sin on the serpent. Today, we see Christ’s response. We remember that it is the preincarnate Christ talking to them in the Garden, the person of God’s voice–whom they heard walking in the garden in…
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#Adams punishment#bible study#brood of vipers#commentary#curse#Eves punishment#exposition#expository sermon#Fall of Man#free#Garden of Eden#Genesis 3#Genesis 3:14#Genesis 3:15#Genesis 3:16#Genesis 3:17#Genesis 3:18#Genesis 3:19#Genesis 3:20#Genesis 3:21#Genesis 3:22#Genesis 3:23#Genesis 3:24#in the Bible#meaning#mother of the living#original sin#seed of the serpent#seed of the woman#Sermon
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Me: Why yes, I'm having a wonderful time playing Baldur's Gate 3! (:<
My character: Literally just Genesis Rhapsodos isekai'd into DnD
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#genesis rhapsodos#final fantasy vii#crisis core#final fantasy 7#genesis#I have zero shame#look at my boy he is perfect#how I cope having no new content of him bar CCR for 15 years#I MAKE MY OWN CONTENT BABY#also he is basically down to romance ANYONE so I'm having a tough choice over here#kind of gunning for Astarion#but TBH he'd be happy with Gale because yay magical/weird illnesses#and Karlach because she's amazing and literally on fire
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Christ is King. Adam was also king, but he failed to exercise dominion over the serpent. Jesus has conquered the serpent, and all authority on Heaven and on Earth has been given to Him. He is enthroned at the right hand of the Father and will reign until His last enemy, death, is subdued.
Hosanna!
#Christ is King#Last Adam#Prophet Priest and King#Session of Christ#Revelation 12#Preterism#Christology#Genesis 3#Psalm 110#Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool#1 Corinthians 15#Hosanna
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Men and Women in Creation
14 Points from Genesis that emphasize male-female differentiation
What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a woman?
While it seems that this discussion is a fruitless endeavor that results in people only stating their personal preferences, we do find an objective perspective given to us in the first three chapters of Genesis that demonstrate the essential equality of men and…
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#1 Corinthians 11:3-11#1 Timothy 2:12-15#complementarianism#Ephesians 5:22-33#feminism#Genesis 1-3#headship and submission#masculinity
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if i start writing for ffvii soon yk what’s up
#✩⤻; rambles !#HAFBDHFBHSBDFJFBADJHF MAINLY FOR ZACK BCS :((#tho aerith/reno/zack/cloud/genesis r my faves (i love em all tho)#FBHBFHBDHBFA also i write for xiv too#and possible xv bcs it's my 1st ff after all >.> but my fav is xiv <3#i like all the other final fantasies too hehe but i've only managed to play og 7 and remake 7 & 15 & all of 14 (not 100% but yes endgame)#and then 10 & a bit of 9 & we have 12 & 8 (not yet played either) but i'm interested in uh ... all of them /srs#haven't finished og 7 and 10 but almost w 10 and i'm going to gongaga !! (sobs)#ik what happens in both games alrdy tho so yes#and we have 13 on ps3 but it's broken so :( rip </3#FHSBDFJHBSDBF I AM (NOT) SORRY ......... final fantasy means a lot to me yes (esp 14)
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Enforcing Christ's Victory (242) – April 20 2024
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This program reminds us of the defeat of sickness and disease, as a result of God defeating the devil and his powers of darkness by him being disarmed (Col 2:15). The devil may still have the ability to inflict sickness and disease and other oppressive evil measures against humanity, but he has no authority to do so because of being disarmed by God in Christ, at the…
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#Acts 10:38#blood#chains#christ#christ is risen#Colossians 2:15#deliverance#easter#father#free#Genesis 3:6#god#Hebrews 1:3#Jesus#John 10:10#Matthew 25:41#Romans 5:12#set free#set you free#sin
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Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:
This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...
It. It kind of fucks. Severely.
And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.
I'll explain:
As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.
Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.
(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)
Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:
"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
--Genesis 3:24, KJV
Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.
(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.
...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)
So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.
But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:
The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.
Do you understand?
The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.
The flaming sword was given to be used against them.
So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.
That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.
...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.
They're Crowley and Aziraphale.
(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)
In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.
It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.
...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.
And the Serpent--
(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)
--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.
As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:
"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
The first to ask questions.
Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).
And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.
And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--
(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)
--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.
To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.
Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.
It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.
And then you keep writing.
And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.
(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).
It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)
...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:
I love this shot so much.
Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.
You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.
"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.
But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.
Godfathers. Sort of.
#good omens#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#good omens 2#crowley#aziraphale#good omens meta#I have no idea if I've made a coherent point here but I'm tired of this being in my drafts; RAW FEELINGS IT IS#it's about being sent to destroy and instead staying to love and protect and nurture I'M CRAZY I'M CRAZY RAAAAAAAGGHHHH#gnu terry pratchett
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Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward
Daily Verse First Reading – Genesis 15: 1-6; 21: 1-3
Genesis 15:1-6
The Lord’s Covenant With Abram15 After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.I am your shield,[a]your very great reward.[b]”
2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[c] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram…
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The Morning Devotional: WCF 32.1-2
The Morning Devotional for October 12, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 32.1-2
I. The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption;a but their souls (which neither die nor sleep), having an immortal subsistence,b immediately return to God who gave them. The souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they…
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#1 Corinthians 15#1 Thessalonians 4#death#devotional#Ecclesiastes 12#Genesis 3#Luke 16#Luke 23#Philippians 1#resurrection#Westminster Confession of Faith
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An Answer to a Friend!
God Reveals His Secrets before the time of the end.
An answer to a friend!
Christopher Anthony
The Rapture I speak of are the multitudes that are taken off earth after the sixth seal is opened and before the seventh seal is opened.
The man of sin must first stand in the Holy Place and show himself to be God. Then, Jesus will return giving the deadly wound to the beast head that the dragon gave his power to in Revelation 13:2.
The dragon is…
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