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seed.”
The first Adam had lost the image in which he was created. He had surrendered
the dominion with which he had been endowed. He had sold himself and all the
myriad lives that had been breathed into his nostrils and that would proceed from his
loins into serfdom to the serpent. All of his natural seed automatically became the seed
of the serpent.
A new dynasty was started when the Holy Ghost “came upon” and
“overshadowed” the Virgin Mother. He, the incarnate Word, like the Written Word,
was produced not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible. A virgin with a sinful nature
was sanctified to become the mother of the Son of God by the supernatural
overshadowing of the Third Person of the Godhead. Otherwise fallible, sinful men
were breathed upon by the same divine Person to produce the written Word that
“liveth and abideth forever.”
The woman Mary then, through her divine Son, became the mother of a spiritual
seed. He had no natural seed but He had a spiritual seed produced by virtue of His
death. Note what Isaiah says in his great Psalm of the sufferings of Messiah: “When
thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong
His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the
Lord shall prosper in His hand” (Isa. 53:10). As the blessed Christ hung on Calvary
He envisioned all of His spiritual seed—all those in whom was wrought the divine
nature by the look of faith toward the Up-lifted One, whether of those before His
incarnation, the forward-lookers, or those of the dispensation of the grace of God, who
are both backward-lookers and forward-lookers—observing the Lord‟s death till He
come. God in Christ is the author of life and light. Satan is the author of death and
darkness, and conveys these elements through Adam to all of his seed.
Jehovah God, in Gen. 3:15, not only predicted the war between the seeds, the
carriers of death on the one hand and the possessors of life on the other, but Himself
declared it and ordained it. He not only enunciated the principle that these two
elements are mutually exclusive of and hostile to one another, but established the
antagonism. “I will put enmity”!! Not just “There will be enmity,” etc.
While tacitly admitting that Satan now had legal control of the cosmos that God
created because of the transfer of the deed of trust He had placed in the hands of His
representative (Adam), Jehovah God‟s purpose that all things would be gathered
together, one in Christ, though temporarily interrupted, would by no means be
abandoned. He remained the Sovereign, though he recognized the right of private
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