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3. The serpent would wound the heel of the woman’s seed.

E. The implications

1. God would provide through humanity’s lineage a Savior who would crush the head of the devil.

2. This crushing would result in the wounding of the heel of the seed.

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3. This righteous seed is renewed in Seth and protected through Noah and his kin.

4. From the beginning of the Bible’s story, we see the story of a righteous seed unfolding through history as one who would destroy the devil.

5. Jesus of Nazareth is this destroyer of the devil.

a. 1 John 3.8

b. Col. 2.15

c. Heb. 2.14

d. Rom. 16.20