The issue being wisdom

What sets the stage for the strategic conflict goes back to Genesis 3. Satan was perfect until iniquity was found in him and then he took Adam and Eve and enticed Adam into sin. When he did that God made Adam a promise.

It's interesting He didn't make the angelic host a promise. Remember, there's no Redeemer for the angels. He made man out of dirt, a little lower than the angels. God says to the angelic world, 'I'm going to take something lower than you and use them to demonstrate my wisdom.'

He told Satan, 'That woman's going to have a seed and the seed of the woman is going to crush the head of the seed of the serpent.' Now, the seed of the serpent's going to bruise the heel of the seed of the woman, so there's going to be a conflict and it's going to be up close and personal.

Think about something. If I'm going to crush your head with my heel, where have you got to be? Get that? That's going to be where the strategic victory is won. And when the seed of the woman crushes the seed of the serpent's head, he strikes at her heel because there's a battle. And there's a wound that accomplishes the victory.

Satan has convinced some people he has a better plan than the Creator does and he's the one worthy to be possessor of heaven and earth and not the Godhead, with the issue being wisdom, thinking.

Satan's challenge wasn't that he was the most powerful. He said, 'I just got a better idea. And all of you creation can come and be like me and we can all be God. Instead of having God tell us what to do, we can tell ourselves what to do.'

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