The Seed: Battle for Christmas

The Serpent and the Seed: Week 2

4:1 she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Eve thought Cain was the promised seed.
4:4-5 And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. It is now clear that Cain is not the seed.
4:8 Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
1 John 3:12 "Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother." Despite God's warning, sin masters Cain, and he becomes the Seed of the evil one. The first attempt to nip the seed in bud seems to have succeeded.
4:25 She bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Matthew 13:24-16 "An enemy sowed tares among the wheat."
John 8:44 "Ye are of your father the Devil."

6:2 the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. Whether Rosemary's Baby incidents (see 6:4), or systematic breakdown of the family by unequally yoked marriages, Satan was successful in corrupting all of mankind. Surely that would kill the seed.
6:7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth. The second attempt to destroy the seed seems to have succeeded.
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God chooses one man to carry on the Seed, and once again, the serpent is thwarted.

Genesis 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. Aram was the father of the Arameans, and the language of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. And Abram. Jews before the Babylonian captivity used a script called "paleo-hebrew" that looked like Phoenician letters. (Which inspired the other is a debate.) During their captivity, the Jews adopted the Aramaic script, which evolved to the stylized squarish script used in the Persian empire, still used by Jews today.
10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." Job 1:1

11:4 "lest we be scattered abroad" as God commanded. If he can't wipe out the Seed, a totalitarian one world government might let Satan control the Seed.
11:7 God disbands the 1st New World Order and scatters the inhabitants.

11:10-27 The geneology of Abram. Again, God chooses one man, Abram, to carry on the Seed.
Acts 7:1-4 While living in Ur, God tells Abram to "get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee."
11:29 Abram gets married.
11:30 "But Sarah was barren." It's a little tenuous, but I think this was an attack as soon as it was clear Abram was to carry on the Seed.
11:31 "They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees" to Haran.

God intervenes for Sarah to have a child well past menopause, at age 90.

Isaac the heir of Abraham marries Rebeccah, but she is barren. What a cooincidence, right? Will that trick work this time?

25:21 "And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived."

27:42 Esau determines to kill Jacob.

41:57 severe famine
42:2 but Joseph, as a type of the Seed, had "died", and would appear again providing bread and wine. (See Chapter 40)

1:16 When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.