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And so, the sentence was passed. After Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Good and Evil, something which God forbid them to do and which Satan through the serpent tempted them to do anyway, God in Genesis 3:15 sentenced Satan to be stomped on his head by men, and He sentenced man to be nipped in the foot by Satan. Man gets off easy, compared to Satan. Why?
Perhaps in earthly terms, God’s creation of man was His special project. He commanded man to have dominion over the earth, and to be fruitful and multiply. How hard would God be upon man? If He is too hard, it jeopardizes His special project. Satan, on the other hand, God can do without.
So, since the creation of Adam and Eve, man throughout history has been nipped in the foot by Satan, since that’s all Satan is allowed to do. There may have been times through war, pestilence, famine and disease, whole groups of people were lopped off the face of the earth, but man’s dominance on earth continues. All the devil can do is to tempt man into doing evil and nip at his heals from time to time, but it is hard for the devil to do these things to a person who is committed to God. And from time to time we may find ourselves in moral conflict in what God would consider to be good and what would be evil.
How much thinking was done by those who lived in a nation under God, when the decision in World War II was made to bomb two cities in Japan which killed hundreds of thousands of people, in order to save hundreds of thousands more from dying in that same war, while in the act of fighting?
But issues like this have gone through the heads of thinking people throughout the ages, and despite the things that brought death to people, there are still people to this day that walk on earth. Anyone see Satan walking on earth lately? He may be doing so in a figurative sense, but nobody has seen Satan himself, enough to say ‘There he is! Get him!’ Arguably you wouldn’t see Satan any more than you could easily see a snake, perhaps because like a snake, Satan is sentenced to crawling on the ground, nipping at people’s feet when the opportunity presents itself. And while he nips at one foot, there are millions more people walking the earth. Satan’s influence may be felt among those who are vulnerable to evil, and perhaps symbolically their foot may be nipped, but Satan’s immoral minions have their limits when people of God walk the earth.
Perhaps in earthly terms, God’s creation of man was His special project. He commanded man to have dominion over the earth, and to be fruitful and multiply. How hard would God be upon man? If He is too hard, it jeopardizes His special project. Satan, on the other hand, God can do without.
So, since the creation of Adam and Eve, man throughout history has been nipped in the foot by Satan, since that’s all Satan is allowed to do. There may have been times through war, pestilence, famine and disease, whole groups of people were lopped off the face of the earth, but man’s dominance on earth continues. All the devil can do is to tempt man into doing evil and nip at his heals from time to time, but it is hard for the devil to do these things to a person who is committed to God. And from time to time we may find ourselves in moral conflict in what God would consider to be good and what would be evil.
How much thinking was done by those who lived in a nation under God, when the decision in World War II was made to bomb two cities in Japan which killed hundreds of thousands of people, in order to save hundreds of thousands more from dying in that same war, while in the act of fighting?
But issues like this have gone through the heads of thinking people throughout the ages, and despite the things that brought death to people, there are still people to this day that walk on earth. Anyone see Satan walking on earth lately? He may be doing so in a figurative sense, but nobody has seen Satan himself, enough to say ‘There he is! Get him!’ Arguably you wouldn’t see Satan any more than you could easily see a snake, perhaps because like a snake, Satan is sentenced to crawling on the ground, nipping at people’s feet when the opportunity presents itself. And while he nips at one foot, there are millions more people walking the earth. Satan’s influence may be felt among those who are vulnerable to evil, and perhaps symbolically their foot may be nipped, but Satan’s immoral minions have their limits when people of God walk the earth.