Actually, this is a reenactment of the first Messianic prophecy.  I am taking this little teaching from the following website:

http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/old_testament_messiah.htm

Then God told the devil, who had taken on the appearance of a snake: "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise [destroy] thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel" (Gen. 3:15). With these words the Lord passed judgment on the devil and consoled our foreparents with the promise that at some time a Descendant of the Woman will strike the "head" itself of the snake-devil, who tempted them. But along with this, the woman's Descendant Himself will suffer from the snake, who will as if "bruise his heel," i.e., will cause Him physical suffering. Noteworthy also in this first prophecy is the nomenclature of the Messiah as the "Seed of the Woman," which points to His extraordinary birth of a Woman, Who will conceive without the participation of a man. Here the absence of a physical father is significant considering in old Testament times descendants were always identified paternally, not maternally.