SHARE Magazine January 2016 | Page 27

he Serpent which he had determined from the wise men.” Here are examples of the historical enmity trail recorded in the Bible: Seed of Satan news of a coming deliverer or King. Somehow the devil knew that a child of God’s choosing, one destined to deliver God’s people was about to be born so he used his seed, the Egyptian Pharaoh, to pass a decree to kill all newly born male children. Exodus 1:22 “So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.’” In the story of Jesus’ birth, the Seed of the woman that the prophecy was truly about, and Herod, the seed of the serpent who attempted to kill Him is quite similar and very well known. Matthew 2:13-16 “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, ‘Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.’ … Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time God’s Elect Cain Able Esau Jacob Pharaoh Moses Saul David Jezebel Elijah Haman Mordicai Herod Jesus Jewish Leaders Jesus Judas Jesus SEEDS REVEALED The fact that Jesus, and we who are in Him, was the seed destined to crush the devil’s head is now common knowledge. But who are the serpent’s seed? If we take note of those Jesus and Stephen identified in their time we will be better able to identify those among us today. Listen as Jesus exposed them in John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil [the serpent], and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” Listen as Stephen exposed them in Acts 7:51-54 “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.” As they were back the