“¹⁹ ”Gad, a troop shall 

tramp upon him,

But he shall triumph at last.”

– Genesis 49:19 (NKJV)

“Gad □ , a troop (a legion of enemies, diverse in tactic to “harass and annoy” [‘Pulpit Commentary’] [also suggesting mental torment], large in number) shall tramp upon (for he has but “a little strength” [Rev 3:8]) him (causing it for all intents and purposes to seem that they have prospered against him and that he has been defeated), But (☝🏽little do these enemies know that they are but a tool in the hand of The Father, serving to prove Him Almighty and Strong on his Child’s behalf [2 Cor 12:9]; and therefore: he shall (a prophetic certainty for Thus  Sayeth. The. Lord.) triumph (be victorious, overcome In The Lord: 2 Sam 5:19) at last (in the end, ultimately, “when the final bell tolls”, “when the last trumpet is sounded”).” *

* Another interesting thing worth mentioning here is the reversing of the wickedness seen in the previous verses concerning Dan, proving in Gad what the humble submission to The Will of God and yielding to the calling according to His Purpose [Rom 8:28B] is able to accomplish, in stark juxtaposition to the offering oneself up as a vessel to further the purposes of the enemy. For in the Hebrew alliterative text which can be literally translated “Gad – a press presses him, but he presses the heel” [‘Pulpit Commentary’], we again recognise the peculiar reference to the Genesis 3 “biting at the heel”; only here, it is The Man Come In The Name Of God who turns around and attacks at the heel of the enemy in a glorious display of his enemies being made a spectacle of, “catching them at their own game” as it were, in a sense of Divine Irony, even Humour 😁 [also see Esther 7:10]. It is also rather delightful, all things considered – despite how bad things might’ve seemed for Gad at times – that he carries within himself, within his very identity, the harbinger of ultimate victory in that Leah saw it Good, under the leading of the Spirit, to name him Gad: literally “Good Fortune”.

□ In many respects Gad, once again a Christ-type in overcoming through suffering in submission to God The Father, then also becomes an answer to the cry for salvation exclaimed in the verse directly preceding it: that the threat of the one who yields to wickedness, namely Dan, ○ is disarmed through The One Perfectly Submitted To Good.

○ Finally, I cannot help but marvel at the natural progression of the Scriptures, for in the very verses preceding that we are awarded insight – by way of Issachar – into how one comes to be taken captive to do the will of the enemy in the first place. Is it not marvelous then to behold how the enemy – though often convinced that he has the upper hand at intervals – has been used by God through the same patterns of behaviour to glorify His True Son(s) right from the very beginning 😃 . . .