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Snake Stompers

Oh, Eve . . .

Have you ever asked, “Why Eve? Why did the serpent single out Eve?”

Sometimes, I think the serpent pinpoints our strengths and tries to convince us that they’re weaknesses. We all know his snake-like character is to twist and distort, but I see it as a clue.

After unpacking what Helper means (warrior) and what Woman’s essence is (strength, fire, and revelation), I can understand why the ancient serpent hates her.

Eve, being created in the image of God carries His unique likeness and His glory. Furthermore, Eve multiplies the image of God—her name meaning “to breathe, to give life,” and she was the mother of all living things.

One way the enemy spoke to her was to have her question what God really said. “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” (Genesis 3:1).

With the serpent’s prompting, Eve began to believe that God was somehow withholding something from her, so she quite literally took the situation into her own hands.

Have you ever been there? It sounds familiar. At certain times in our lives, we question the full Word of God and His direction.

I know this passage has been weaponized against women since the beginning of time, but get ready for the Jesus glory showdown. “So the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 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 3:14-15).

At the very moment of the fall of humanity and the disobedience of Eve—right here, right at the fall—is the first Messianic prophecy of Jesus. They call it Protoevangelium (“first gospel”) when it says, “he will crush your head and you will strike his heel” (v. 15b). Through Mary, the seed of a woman, Jesus our Savior is born to crush the head of the serpent for all time and break the power of the curse and death—redeeming all things.

When I saw this in Scripture it made me cry, seeing how God’s triumphant redemption plan was always there from the moment of the fall. Yes, one woman disobeyed but then obeyed after that so that, one day, a girl named Mary could—in complete and utter surrender—say yes to carrying the Savior of the world. Now, if that isn’t a divine full circle, then I don’t know what is.

“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship” (Galatians 4:4-5).

Oh, the longing of God’s heart to be so close with His kids again—finally being fulfilled.

The word enmity has always popped out to me, too, in this passage. Simply put, it means deep-rooted hatred between Eve’s seed and the serpent. Now, I have gotten mad and run over snakes with my car and sometimes with a lawn mower a time or two, but this goes much deeper.

The serpent still hates women and still hates her seed—from time past until present day. In fact, the enemy of our souls hates the image of God that women carry, including how we carry things in the Spirit like a womb and how we birth promises of God. He wants to do anything and everything to destroy and distort Woman’s image and muddy her reflection of God.

The story of Eve has even been misinterpreted in some religious circles to the tune of: Eve was deceived, so all women are deceived. Let me tell you that isn’t the heart and voice of God condemning women. It is a brood of vipers. I love when Jesus called the Pharisee religious leaders a brood of vipers. The religious spirit has always spoken with a tongue of condemnation, shame, and a hiss of pride.

Here’s a way to test what’s behind this and other similar ways of thinking: Anything that is not magnifying the finished work on the Cross is a faulty foundation to build any case on. Jesus reversed and redeemed everything by sacrificially dying on the Cross—every curse and every sin.

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:19-20).

When you know your authority in Christ, you walk differently.

You know every other name and power has to bow to the ONE NAME.

“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).

Ladies, Jesus crushed the head of the serpent so that we could raise our boots and do the same.

So, start stomping!

You are a snake stomper.

I pray anything that is not magnifying the finished work of Jesus and any faulty foundation of belief is broken over your life.

I pray you walk in your snake-stomping authority.

I pray you embrace every beautiful and powerful aspect of your femininity.