Bad and Sad News vs Good and Joyful News

UV3448/10000 Bad and Sad News Vs Good and Joyful News
And I will put enmity (open hostility) between you and the woman, and between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall (fatally) bruise your head, and you shall (only) bruise His heel.”

Genesis 3 v 15

This uni-verse holds the promise of good news after the bad news of the curse on mankind were pronounced by God. The serpent leader was cursed to crawl in the dust or to be consigned to ultimate defeat. The ground was cursed. The tree was cursed. Life became nothing but progressive death for man and woman- a journey to the grave, to be the dust from which man was first formed. Life was to be full of sorrow, pain and travail. Mankind and the serpent leader became open or sworn enemies but at a subtle level there was a hidden friendship, a secret association with the serpent leader. There would be a struggle between the serpent leader and the Servant Leader, both would be bruised but the bruise of the Servant Leader would be temporary while the bruise of the serpent leader would be final and fatal. In accordance with this prophetic word, Jesus was bruised for our sake, flogged, humiliated and crucified. But the resurrection turned His injuries and death into something as light in historical perspective as a bruise on His heel. His death, a sacrifice ordained by God redeemed man of his curse, replaced “hamartia” or shortfall with “hyperbole” or abundance, the Earth or ground of its curse, sorrow and pain with enduring joy, the tree of its curse.

Evil had spread in all directions after the fall of man but good news implies goodness is restored in the north, east, west and south, in all directions and dimensions of existence. God had restored justice and goodness without compromising on the payment for it. The Servant Leader poured His life out as a libation, an offering to make absolutely good what was relatively evil- namely , man, the crown, the zenith, the summit of all of God’s creation. He paid the blood price for our lives. Only the serpent leader who is absolutely evil, the cause and source of all sin and curses was defeated and he fell like lightning to the earth.

The Servant Leader embraced and absorbed our sins, our sorrows, our pains, our curses for He alone has strength to overcome these. He overcame the strong one, the serpent leader and set us free. Dust is no longer our destiny but heaven is our ultimate destination and while we live here, we live as if this Earth is but an extension of His Kingdom. Before we read the (bad,sad) newspaper every day, we need to read the (good, glad) Word for it reminds us daily of the victory the Servant Leader won for us on the cross and warns us not to have any truck with the serpent leader, our common defeated foe.