It is a corruption of the human bloodline. The idea is this that God destroyed the earth because of their corruption and this was a corruption in the bloodline of man. If Satan could corrupt the human race then the promise could not come.
Gen. 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.,
Here God plainly says that there will be a seed of the serpent. How that happens God knew.
11 posted on 09/22/2008 10:11:29 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953
(Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)