Day 14 – Jesus is the Seed of the Woman, of Noah; Lust is the Seed of Satan
Noah longed for Christ, not for the fleeting lust that Ham chased!
Genesis 1:26-28 –
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 3:15 - 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
God created mankind, male and female, in His image to reflect Him in at least four distinct ways:
1) Morality,
2) Thinking and reasoning,
3) Relationships
4) Dominion over creation.
But mankind sinned against God, marring His image and mirroring the evil one through sin instead (Gen 3).
Yet, God showed mercy and grace to mankind, proclaiming the gospel in Genesis 3:15. After the serpent sinned in tempting Adam and Eve, and after they sinned by desiring and partaking of the forbidden tree, God said He would put hostility between the serpent’s offspring and the woman’s. From the Garden of Eden forward throughout human history, these seeds would war, but the woman’s Seed would crush the serpent’s head, though not without bruising His heel.
Genesis 6:5-8 –
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 9:1-7 –
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. 7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
From Adam to Noah, mankind increased in wickedness, to where his entire intent was evil continually, but Noah found grace in God’s sight. God judged mankind, flooding the entire earth, killing all but Noah, his wife, and their sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. Through a covenant (Gen 6:18), God commanded Noah to build an ark, sheltering pairs of every creature—animal, bird, and creeping thing—along with provisions for all.
Genesis 9:20-27,
20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” 26 He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”
God wiped out all of humanity except for Noah and his family, treating Noah as a new Adam. From Noah’s seed would come the One who would crush the serpent’s head (Gen 3:15), though the serpent’s seed slipped aboard through Ham, who sinned against his father, resulting in him and Canaan being cursed by Noah. Yet, Noah blessed his other sons, Shem and Japheth, because they demonstrated their faith in God, believing that Noah should be treated according to God’s favor of him as a new Adam. Shem was especially blessed as the firstborn, his lineage bearing Jesus Christ, the promised Seed of the woman (Luke 3:23-38).
Application
When you lust, you reflect the serpent not God, whose image you were designed to mirror. Because God designed you, you are too good to lust—a truth rooted in creation.
Yet, there’s an even greater reason why you shouldn’t lust: as a Christian, reborn in Christ (John 3:1-8), you have been born again in the likeness of the Seed of the woman and Noah—Jesus Himself. Noah longed for Him, not the fleeting lust that Ham chased!
United to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, how can you echo Satan and Ham? Twice claimed—by creation and rebirth—you belong to God, not the serpent!
Live today as who you are in Him!
Marching Orders: Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him
Receive, Believe, and live the truths you’ve read. Memorize and meditate on these truths today:
Memorize and Meditate on One Sentence to Shape Your Affections:
Jesus Christ came to crush the serpent’s head, fulfilling the types and shadows of Adam and Noah.
Memorize and Meditate on a Short Poem to Shape Your Affections:
In His image, God created man and wife,
To mirror His ways through mortal life—
Reflecting His morality, reason, love, and reign—
Yet sin stained all, spreading the serpent’s fame.
But God spoke hope in Eden’s dark shade,
The woman would give birth, the serpent would be slayed—
His heel pierced through, death would be His cost,
Legion would laugh, but redemption’s hope would not be lost.
Man’s evil swelled, till God’s flood swept through,
Yet grace upheld Noah, Shem, and Japheth—faithful and true—
A new Adam stood, his kin on the ark aboard,
But sin still lurked in Ham’s heart, he and the serpent in accord.
By God’s design, from Shem’s line, the Christ would spring,
The serpent’s doom laid bare at the feet of salvation’s King.
At Eden’s breach, a promise was given,
And from an angel we hear, “He is not here, for He has risen.”
Listen to This Song Often to Shape Your Affections:
Add this song to your playlist, “Deceived by Subtle Snares of Hell”
On YouTube,
Song by SSNGAI (Written by Isaac Watts)
Deceived by subtle snares of hell,
Adam, our head, our father, fell;
When Satan, in the serpent hid,
Proposed the fruit that God forbid.
Death was the threat'ning: death began
To take possession of the man
His unborn race received the wound,
And heavy curses smote the ground.
But Satan found a worse reward;
Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord
"Let everlasting hatred be
Betwixt the woman's seed and thee.
"The woman's seed shall be my Son;
He shall destroy what thou hast done;
Shall break thy head, and only feel
Thy malice raging at his heel."
He spake; and bid four thousand years
Roll on; at length his Son appears;
Angels with joy descend to earth,
And sing the young Redeemer's birth.
Lo, by the sons of hell he dies;
But as he hung 'twixt earth and skies,
He gave their prince a fatal blow,
And triumphed o'er the powers below.[1]
[1] https://hymnary.org/text/deceived_by_subtle_snares_of_hell.