Monday, April 05, 2004

My Claimed Promise

It is sad that Romans 16:20 ("The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet") is a promise never claimed by most of our Protestant brothers and sisters, and I say this with all due respect to all of our Protestant brothers and sisters from various denominations. "Why is that so?" you ask

Well, in order for one to claim Romans 16:20, one must recognize the Blessed Virgin as his/her spiritual mother. In Genesis 3:15, God says; "...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." It is a well known fact that the "he" in Genesis 3:15 refers to Jesus, and if that is so, what can we say about the "woman" mentioned? Yup, it is refering to the Blessed Virgin.

Because we are IN Christ we are able to have this priviledge to crush satan's head (or in other words "defeat satan" ;) ) BUT there is a catch, in order to claim this promise we have to recognize ourselves as the spiritual offsprings of the Blessed Virgin. If we don't? We fail to claim this promise.

God's plan for our salvation has been eternally in His mind and we can see as early as in the book of Genesis, God has already planned to save us through His Son Jesus Christ, who is to be born of the Virgin Mary and become man, to suffer and die in order to atone for the sin of the world. Now all of that is fulfilled and Jesus is risen, we have to do our part and recognize Jesus as our Lord & Savior to attain salvation. With Mary the mother of our Lord (and our mother as well), let us claim this promise in Romans 16:20 and defeat satan as one body in Christ. Amen.

Peace <><

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