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Chapter 7

Messiah Expected to Return

Who, How & When?

Satan constantly looked for the man who would crush its ugly head, testing every man and woman blessed by God in a special way, because of the promise made. God revealed Satan’s destiny saying “And 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.” (Genesis 3: 15) Enmity is hostility, animosity or a feeling of disgust for Satan. Certainly Jesus was in opposition to Satan, but not hostile to any degree. Nor did Jesus resist what the Hebrews poured out on Him to evidence that enmity was in His nature. Enmity is a condition of the flesh, which is attributable to a mere man—not a Divine man. [A mere man, the messiah, and a man created an order below the angelic would complete that task and humiliate and defeat Satan.] Jesus perfectly fulfilled what He came to do on earth! He finished that part of the Father’s plan, and to suggest—or even to consider—He would need to do it again is blasphemy! However, at the end of the period called “end times” the second coming of Christ [anointed one] becomes a reality. A second coming of Christ must take place, and Satan then placed under the footstool of Jesus (the world is the footstool) by mere man and Satan’s head is crushed. Jesus will return again, a second coming, precisely as the book of Revelation states: “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” (Rev 22: 12-13)

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