of Christ’s resurrection. Yet appearances are not everything as Christians should know. God’s judgment on Satan as it appears in Genesis 3:15 still stands as true and has been confirmed by the work of Christ on the cross: ‘I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.’ The mortal wound shows that Satan has been defeated, and yet he is permitted by God to live on for a while. The curse of Satan in the Garden
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