The rendering of the curse of the Serpent, “Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life” from Genesis 3:14 is not crawling or moving in any manner, but perishing. Whereas John 3:16 says that “none should perish,” the Serpent should perish, and he certainly will perish. The reason that the Serpent, Lucifer, should perish is because “belief” is much more than knowing but trusting in God for the duration of time that is referred to as “faith,” or fidelity to God to the end.
Satan had no faith that he will perish because up to the crucifixion, he had not perished. With the death of Judas, Satan experienced death, and with that, he understands death and will fight death God to his death. The “crucifixion” of Judas along with Jesus demonstrated to Satan that he will indeed die and is already as dead!
Also, as had been pointed out, Genesis 3:14 has a hidden message in it — that Lucifer would die a grisly death — that the “Serpent” inside him would be spewed forth from his abdomen as his bowels would gush just as in Acts 1:18 when Judas hanged himself and would be cut down from the tree by the Good Carpenter.
But that is not all the provenance the Word was speaking about Judas way back in the beginning!
“It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel,” so says God to the Serpent. Whoever “it” would be, would have its head bruised by the Heel of someone; that “someone” turned out to be God in the flesh, called “Jesus” and the “it” is surely Judas with Satan in him (Luke 22:30; “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot.”
Now, consider the head and the heel of the Promise: Calvary in the Latin is “cranium” in English and Golgotha is the “place of the cranium.”
Although scripture is translated “skull” the skull is the bones of the entire head. It is specifically the cranium which is the bony structure that protects the brain. Thus, Calvary is the place of the protection of the mind from evil thoughts of the Wicked One. That is why conversion is persuasion to trust God for life. Born again is not what anyone feels but what he thinks about what happened on Calvary. For instance, the centurion was persuaded that Jesus was who He claimed to be when he remarked, “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39).
He and the other solders saw something that so many others failed to see because of their distance and spiritual blindness. What would that be? The centurion specifically saw Jesus give up the Ghost as is written in Mark 15:39.
Who did the Ghost of Jesus look like? Jesus, of course. Just as Luke wrote when John baptized Jesus, “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him” (Luke 3:22).
Next, consider the heel: The Word (Jesus) said what would happen so long before it happened: “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me” (Psalm 41:9).
Rather than Jesus lifting up His heel against Satan, Satan would be the aggressor, Lucifer, as Satan would consider himself to be God (Isa 14). It would be him that lifted his heel and figuratively stomp the head of Jesus and not the other way around.
Sacred writings (Book of Adam and Eve) reveal that the bones of Adam were placed on the Ark by Noah and taken by Shem and Melchizedek to what would become Calvary and buried him there. That location would be the “place of Adam’s cranium” as I wrote in my book, The Skull of Adam.
Paul wrote to the Romans, “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous” (Rom 5:19).
It would not be Judas whose head Jesus stepped on, but he would step on Adam, the one by whom all sin entered the world. It was not Lucifer (Satan) that sinned, but Adam, and Jesus made the perfect sacrifice for Adam and not for Lucifer. In fact, Jesus took all the sins of the world of all times, and placed them on Satan at Gehenna, according to Paul, “Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?” (Eph 4:9).
It seems that Jesus, before His ascension, descended to Hell. The only opportunity for that was during the portions of three days that His Body was asleep and His Ghost so busy with the trip to Paradise that first day with the repentant thief. Jesus was not resting but busy transporting Satan to Hell in another realm, as well as DIsmus, the thief, to an adjacent place of Paradise.
Most think of the Ascension of the Body of Jesus, but on the day of the crucifixion, the Holy Ghost both ascended to Paradise and descended to Hell where the entry was through the Potter’s Field in the valley of Gehenna.
Jesus took Satan who had gushed from the belly of Judas, put all the sins of the world onto him, and escorted the traitorous angel to his realm in Hell.
Finally, not at the crucifixion of Jesus, but the copycat “crucifixion” of Judas, the very substantive heel of Jesus would step on the head of the Serpent just as indicated way back in Genesis 3:15. Not only that but just as described in Genesis 3:14… And people do not believe in God? How foolish!
How could Jesus fake His own death, let alone get Judas to die to fake a crucifixion.
For those who do not understand, scripture in English are versions of the events of the Bible. All languages are ambiguous, and words are not even literal as written. The translators did a great job but not a perfect one, and it seem that the Hebrew is spot on to the events that happened.
The psalmist wrote that the familiar friend of Jesus would lift his heel against Him (Psalm 41:9).
In John 13:18, Jesus revealed, “He that eateth bread with Me hath lifted up his heel against Me.” Jesus pointed to fulfilling scripture when He said that. What scripture? Not Genesis 3:15 but the psalm. Judas lifted his heel against Jesus when he took the bread and sopped it in wine. He took the “Body” of Jesus and sopped it in the “Blood” of Jesus. He vicariously crucified Jesus, and for that, Jesus won the day by His Heel stamping out sin on the head of Adam at Calvary.
Who stepped on whose head with their heel depends on the specific event. In the end, it was Jesus whose heel did stomp the head of Satan and sin, to wit: “(Jesus) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Pet 2:24). Judas lifted his heel against Jesus, but it turned out that Satan in Judas was the solution to healing. He had to die with Jesus for sin to defeated.
Often, the Promise is seen as the crucifixion of Jesus, but Moses was holding up the “crucifixion” of “Judas” to demonstrate the Power that Jesus has over death, sin, and Satan.
Over the years, the Jews gave the Serpent’s pole, representing the death of Judas, the power of healing, so Hezekiah had that icon destroyed.
Judas killed himself, but Jesus was the perfect sacrifice. The pole that Moses displayed was not to show the self-sacrifice of Judas but the Father’s sacrifice of His only Son.
picture credit: Art Institute of Chicago; "The Hanging of Judas")
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