The
Gospel’s First Proclamation MESSIAH’S COMING
GENESIS 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel.
WORD
WEALTH
3:15 head, the promise is that
the Seed of woman would someday crush the Serpent’s head, that woman in
particular would play a part in undoing the effects of the Fall. In its most
specific sense the Lord Jesus has trampled Satan at the Cross. In its wider
sense, the human race will eventually completely triumph over the Evil One (Roman
16:20).
KINGDOM DYNAMICS
3:15 The Gospel’s First Proclamation, MESSIAH’S
COMING. This verse contains the first proclamation of the gospel. All of the
richness, the mercy, the sorrow, and the glory of God’s redeeming work with man
is here in miniature. God promises to bring a Redeemer from the Seed of the
woman; He will be completely human yet divinely begotten. "That old
serpent, called the Devil," would war with the war with the Seed (see Rev.
12) and would smite Him.
But even as the Serpent struck at the Redeemer’s heel.
His foot would descend crushing the Serpent’s head. I Christ’s life and death
this scripture was fulfilled. Divinely begotten, yet fully human, by His death
and resurrection Christ has defeated and made a public spectacle of the power
of hell (Col. 2:15). This first messianic promise is one of the most succinct
statements of the gospel to be found anywhere.
In Christ,
Playwright Janet Irene
Thomas
Founder/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre
of
Fine & Performing
Arts
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