Saturday, October 8, 2016

THE SEED OF WOMAN


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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