Cheryl

Greg,
Thanks for your comments!

I always thought it was ironic that the one whom the deceiver deceived would be the very one through whom the Messiah would come.  So the deceiver will be destroyed by the seed of deceived.  God has a way to turn everything around and bring good out of bad.

There really is so much more underneath the tradition that we have been taught.  We are corrected by the text itself.