14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 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 (Genesis 3:14-15).
Amazingly even at the apex of the ‘Fall of Man’ the plan or redemption of Man by God was already planned and foretold. Genesis 3:15 is therefore the first messianic prophecy. It prophesies that one day Christ would defeat (bruise thy head) Satan. We learn a lot about Christ’s coming in this verse as well. We learn that Christ would come as a man born of a woman. Christ would be from the seed of the women (virgin birth) and would oppose the seed of Satan (children of disobedience-or all persons that are against God). This level of detail in a single verse is truly remarkable and among other things shows that God is all knowing.
Amazingly even at the apex of the ‘Fall of Man’ the plan or redemption of Man by God was already planned and foretold. Genesis 3:15 is therefore the first messianic prophecy. It prophesies that one day Christ would defeat (bruise thy head) Satan. We learn a lot about Christ’s coming in this verse as well. We learn that Christ would come as a man born of a woman. Christ would be from the seed of the women (virgin birth) and would oppose the seed of Satan (children of disobedience-or all persons that are against God). This level of detail in a single verse is truly remarkable and among other things shows that God is all knowing.
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