Let’s not forget this Christmas that the babe in the manger now sits on a throne, that the gentle child is a warrior king who commands vast armies, and that he fights that we may rest in him. The God who is incarnate is making and will make all things new. As he told the serpent in the garden:
“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.”
[Genesis 3:15, ESV]
May that Enmity indeed deliver us. Merry Christmas!
I think I see where you are going with this, but the wording, to make a long story short, scares me. For me, the serpent never lived, left no seed. We do all the bruising, head and heel. Our love, work, and study can get us to the other side. Merry Christmas!