As Isaac was the son of promise, so the church was typified by Isaac.

(Galatians 4:25-29) The seed of promise is therefore the new creation.

The seed of the serpent consists of those agencies visible and invisible which are his offspring, and which are used by him for his wicked work.

In Jesus' day the scribes and Pharisees and doctors of the law were classed as the offspring of Satan, his seed (John 8:44); and it has been true at all times that many who have pretended to be Christians are really the seed of Satan and engage in persecuting others who love the Lord.
[471]Immediately after the baptism of Jesus he went up into a mountain in the wilderness to study God's plan and to meditate upon it, that he might be instructed in the way that Jehovah would have him go; and when this season of forty days was ended and he came forth, he was subjected to a great temptation by the devil.

Jesus resisted all of these efforts of Satan.