The greatest desire of man is and always has been to have life everlasting in happiness.

From the time of his expulsion from Eden man has been looking for something upon which to fasten a hope for life and happiness.

Satan was the cause of death, and when God pronounced the sentence in Eden he said that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head.

This statement was in the nature of a promise, but it could not then be understood.

Since Pentecost some have understood the meaning of these words to be an assurance that in God's due time the seed of promise, the seed of the woman, will destroy Satan, who has the power of death.