Gen 3:15 We Win!

"you will crush his head" Gen 3:15

Bob Mumford once said of the bible "I read the last chapter and we win". The first clear clue to the ending however is right here in the very first chapters. God tells the snake that the woman's seed or offspring will crush his head. I've just discovered that this verse has got a Latin name which you can drop into conversation at a dinner party. Its referred to as "protevangelium" or "the first good news".

With the words from Isaiah 53 fading away Mel Gibson's film "the passion" opens with Jesus in the misty moonlit garden of Gethsemane. Jesus falls to the ground in anguish as he contemplates the agony he is about the face. As the camera pans round him a horrid pale figure can be seen between the trees returning at this "opportune time" to tempt and discourage. A snake slithers out from under his cloak, glides silently over to Jesus and licks the air around his face. Suddenly, purposely, Jesus stands, a look of resolution in his eyes and he brings his food down hard on the snakes head. It's an awesome movement. A protevangelium moment. Then an ominous party approaches holding flaming touches.

Things are about to get very grim but we win in the end! One of my favourite passages of scripture is Rev 20:9

7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth-Gog and Magog-to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.
Rev 20:7-12

Satan and all his forces surround Gods people, his church, his bride. It looks like the end. Then whoosh fire comes down from heaven and consumes the lot of them. Its not quite the last chapter but we defiantly win in the end! Praise God.