And from that point forward, his entire existence became oriented toward one single goal, which is dragging as many souls as possible into the same rejection of God that he chose for himself.
That's why the next chapter of this war happens in a garden with two humans who were never supposed to be part of any battle at all.
Adam and Eve were created in a state of original innocence, in real friendship with God, and Satan's approach to them tells you everything about how he still operates today.
Did God really say? He planted doubt about God's goodness, suggested that God was withholding something out of jealousy and rather than love and offered Adam and Eve a version of divinity on their own terms instead of the real thing that God had already given to them freely.
They said yes to that offer and in doing so opened humanity to the same fundamental wound Satan inflicted on himself, a rupture in the relationship between creature and creator.
This is the part of the story that most of us already know, at least in the outline.
But what gets missed is what happens immediately after in Genesis itself, where God speaks directly to the serpent and makes a promise.
He says there will be enmity between the serpent and the woman, between his offspring and hers, and that her offspring will crush the serpent's head, while the serpent strikes only at his heel.
This is the very first promise of a Redeemer in all of Scripture, spoken in the same breath as humanity's fall, which tells you something important about how this whole war actually works.
And from that point forward, his entire existence became oriented toward one single goal, which is dragging as many souls as possible into the same rejection of God that he chose for himself.
That's why the next chapter of this war happens in a garden with two humans who were never supposed to be part of any battle at all.
Adam and Eve were created in a state of original innocence, in real friendship with God, and Satan's approach to them tells you everything about how he still operates today.
Did God really say? He planted doubt about God's goodness, suggested that God was withholding something out of jealousy and rather than love and offered Adam and Eve a version of divinity on their own terms instead of the real thing that God had already given to them freely.
They said yes to that offer and in doing so opened humanity to the same fundamental wound Satan inflicted on himself, a rupture in the relationship between creature and creator.
This is the part of the story that most of us already know, at least in the outline.
But what gets missed is what happens immediately after in Genesis itself, where God speaks directly to the serpent and makes a promise.
He says there will be enmity between the serpent and the woman, between his offspring and hers, and that her offspring will crush the serpent's head, while the serpent strikes only at his heel.
This is the very first promise of a Redeemer in all of Scripture, spoken in the same breath as humanity's fall, which tells you something important about how this whole war actually works.
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