PART ONE

“Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, you may freely eat of every tree in the garden, but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Genesis 2:16-17)

“the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman...you shall not surely die,” (Genesis 3:1,4)

“when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.” (Genesis 3:6)

What was happening here?

God had told Adam and Eve that they would die if the ate from the tree. Satan said they wouldn't die. The humans believed Satan instead of God, and ate from the tree.

Who were those involved in this event?

Firstly, there was God. He had created the other beings.

Then there was the Serpent. Jesus would later describe the Serpent as a liar and a murderer:

“You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

The others involved in this incident in the garden were Adam, the first human being, and his wife Eve.

What were they all doing in the garden?

Well God had created the garden and was watching over the humans He had placed there.

The serpent - Satan - was there because he was in charge of the garden. He was, and still is, in charge of planet Earth.

Adam and Eve were there because of this:

“God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness...” (Genesis 1:26)

The Gods (plural, there were two) had decided to make beings just like themselves. That is, the Gods had decided to reproduce themselves. Adam and Eve were the first of the Gods' human offspring.

[From now on, for the sake of simplicity, we'll use God in the singular.]

Now, since God had created the Serpent and the humans, He had a perfect right to say what they could, and could not, do.

Satan, however, disputed God's authority, and seduced the humans into believing that they themselves could decide what they could and couldn't do. Or in other words, seduced them into thinking that humans themselves could decide what was right and wrong.

Consider the situation: the humans had only shortly before arrived on the planet.  They knew practically nothing about the place, but they had already decided that they knew more than God. They had demonstrated the very first example of a universal characteristic of human beings: “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 21:2)

Satan exploited that characteristic of God's human offspring in his (Satan's) first-ever attempt at destroying God's human offspring. It worked.

Or rather, it appeared to Satan to have worked. The reason it appeared to have worked is that Satan knew that God doesn't lie: God had said that humans would die if they ate of the tree. So if they ate, they would (eventually) die and Satan would have destroyed God's plan to recreate Himself.

But.

The But, however, is further down the road, and we will come to it in time.  For now, we'll examine the result of Satan's attack on the first humans.

One result was this:

“Jehovah God said to the serpent, because you have done this...I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:14,15)

The last part of that passage is misleading. It should be:
It (the seed) will bruise your head, and you shall bruise its (the seed's) heel.

Further misdirection is in the verbs. Firstly, the verbs should show a continuous action, not a single event. Secondly, the translations of the verbs are not correct.

It shall bruise your head should read: It shall be continually striking (with a weapon) your head.
You shall bruise his heel should read: It shall be continually stinging (as in a snake bite) your heel.
 
Correctly, the whole verse should read:
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; the seed of the woman shall be continually striking your head, and you shall be continually stinging the heel of the woman's seed."

Now we need to clarify the identity of the individuals in this verse.

Firstly, God is addressing the serpent, who is later revealed to be Satan:
“the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan...”  (Revelation 20:2)

The woman is Eve, Adam's wife. The seed of the woman is, in one sense, all people who descended from the woman, but as we shall see, the enmity of Satan's seed is focused against a Godly line of the Woman's descendants.

Who is the seed of Satan? Not the demons, because, while Satan is their ruler, he is not their father.

So who are Satan's children? Well in His own times, they were identified by Jesus Himself:

“your father is the devil...” (John 8:44) (The English translation inaccurately softens Jesus' statement into: “You are of your father the devil...”)

Who was Jesus referring to?  Reading the whole of chapter eight, we see that Jesus was talking to the Jews, Scribes and Pharisees. (The Scribes and Pharisees were not necessarily Jews.)

But to understand properly, we need to go on a long journey into history.