Saturday, July 5 Look! Your house is abandoned to you.—Matt. 23:38. Rome played a key role in the fulfillment of the prophecy recorded at Genesis 3:15. Satan used Roman officials to deliver a blow that temporarily crippled the seed, bruising it “in the heel.” How so? They tried Jesus on the false charge of sedition and had him executed. (Matt. 27:26) But that wound soon healed because Jehovah resurrected Jesus. The religious leaders of Israel conspired with Rome against Jesus, and the majority of the nation also rejected him. (Acts 2:22, 23) Thus, Jehovah abandoned natural Israel as his people. He now chose a new nation, “the Israel of God.” (Gal. 3:26-29; 6:16) That nation was the congregation of anointed Christians made up of both Jews and Gentiles. (Eph. 2:11-18) After Jesus’ death and resurrection, the seed of the serpent continued to express animosity toward the seed of the woman by attempting to wipe out the Christian congregation, the secondary part of the seed. w12 6/15 1:17, 18
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