The Battle

  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)
After the Fall the effects were devastating: exile from the garden; stuggle in marriage; thorns in the ground; hostility in the world, and... death.  But even in the curses God points out, we find love and hope.  It's found in The Seed, the offspring - Someone in human history who will come and win the battle we have lost - the battle with sin and Satan.  If those from Adam forward could look forward in hope, can not we, who have the privilege of hindsight, have even greater hope because Christ has come? He has won the victory.