Satan's deathblow

​Even as God dishes out the consequences to Adam and Eve’s sin, He unveils His redemptive plan. In Genesis 3:15 God says to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed.” The word seed can be singular or plural. Here it is singular because He now describes the seed with a masculine, singular pronoun. He is not speaking of a group of people. He is speaking of one individual person when He says, “He shall bruise you on the head, Satan, and you shall bruise Him on the heel.” Bruising the heel is a temporary wound. Bruising the head is a fatal wound. This is God predicting that the Messiah would come. And though Satan would temporarily wound the Messiah, He would deal Satan a fatal blow. You can take that prediction and draw a straight line right to the cross because that's when Genesis 3:15 was fulfilled. When Jesus the Messiah came to the earth, Satan bruised His heel. He was crucified. But that wasn't a fatal wound. It was only temporary. Three days later He came out of the grave. But in that wound, Jesus, through the cross, dealt Satan a deathblow when He died to pay the penalty in full for every sin that would ever be committed by every person.