[Genesis 3:14-15] The LORD God said to the serpent, “because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise (overwhelm or overcome) you on the head (at the beginning), and you shall bruise (overwhelm or overcome) him on the heel (at the end).”
Words directed to the woman:
[Genesis 3:16] To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.”
There will be enmity between Nechash (the serpent in Eden) and the woman and between their seeds. And now here is a place that sounds confusing; who is he? It can be the offspring of Nechash or of Eve. The only way to explain it is to see Eve’s first child, Cain.
Words directed to the woman:
[Genesis 3:16] To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.”
There will be enmity between Nechash (the serpent in Eden) and the woman and between their seeds. And now here is a place that sounds confusing; who is he? It can be the offspring of Nechash or of Eve. The only way to explain it is to see Eve’s first child, Cain.
The ordeal of childbirth pain most likely influenced her treatment of Cain so the boy grew bitter and resentful. He was the seed of Nechash, the son of wrath, offspring of disobedience. Abel was the son of mercy. Cain killed him and in his stead Seth came to be. Through Seth, we have the seed God identifies with and these two seeds, the bad and the good, are evident till this very day, Isaac versus Ishmael, and Jacob versus Esau, the good seed and tares.
God through Nechash planted new seed-words and thought-desires in Eve and with them He overwhelmed or overpowered her; this seed produced the expected result. But then comes the question of the ‘head’ and the ‘heel.’ You can bruise someone’s head, but not overwhelm it, unless, in terms of ideas, one speaks of something shockingly provocative and extremely daring.
Also the idea of physically bruising someone’s heel makes no sense; the physical seed of the serpent is just another serpent. What does a human have to do with a serpent? These two make no sense, either. Therefore it must speak of the power of words, which carry ideas and desires that overwhelm. This overwhelming has already taken place, but the reverse overwhelming has not.
Borrowing from Judaism, in synagogues it is quite common practice to read the ROSH (head) of the Torah and then the AKEV (heel or the end).
Rosh Hashanah means ‘head of the year’; in other words, new year. For example YOM RISHON, Sunday in Hebrew, is literally translated as the first day of the week. This word ‘first’ is RISHON, which is derived from ROSH, something to start with, the beginning; while AKEV means something at the end, even the end of days or the end of time, the heel. If we put these meanings to work with the help of DL, then all of a sudden we have clarity.
God’s seed, which had passed through Nechash to Eve and through her to Adam, was the educational seed of disobedience. Since it was meant for their education, they had to learn how to handle it. They saw Nechash as their enemy for he caused them trouble with the Almighty; the seed of enmity and the blame-chain then had its beginning. But let wisdom have the upper hand in this.
The seed of education, as I call it, is termed as Nechash’s seed; this seed has a human carrier, Cain. The second offspring, Abel, replaced by Seth, is named as the seed of the woman. As already shown, the enmity between these two continues till this very day.
ROSH is the beginning of time and AKEV means the end of time. Today we are at the end of 6000 years since that day, we enter the seventh day, counted in thousands for one day to God is a one thousand years.
Finally
Was it in God's plan to keep Adam and Eve and their subsequent family in the Garden Eden? Din't He say that they supposed to replenish the earth and infuse it with their seed?
So what's this bemoaning all about that Adam and Eve supposedly blew it and now we carry the consequences?
Original sin, lost Paradise... regrets.
The time to reform our thinking has come.
Author: Joseph Luxum
