Like many of you know, I'm attending a summer camp for my church. Yeah, I'm here for work, but one of the biggest blessings of attending these each year is that I get to hear some amazing pastors preach some incredible sermons.
Tonight I experienced just that...
The pastor presented Genesis 3:15 in a way I had never seen before.
Yes, we know the story, if not...Here's the verse:
Now I've heard this called the first prophecy in Scripture, and I never really doubted it. However tonight we took a deep dive into it. And the pastor broke down 3 critical parts of this verse. I'm going to do my best to try to capture what he shared :)
First is the personal meaning to this verse....The woman, represents a church in bible prophecy but here it has a broader scope. This points to humanity as a whole. So the personal 'enmity' here is between Satan and humanity.
Actually, let's step back a second and clear some things up. This verse is right after the fall of man, when Eve ate the fruit and Adam followed suit. Here we see God laying out what will happen on His planet to make things right.
So the first step is to see who is speaking....God is directing this towards Satan or the medium of the serpent.
Then it breaks down further...."And between thy (your) seed and her seed."
There are two groups of people on earth...There's no grey area. Those who accept Christ and those that don't. Those that don't fall into the 'seed' of the serpent. 'Her' seed is the church which leads to Christ and that brings us to the climax of this powerful verse....
"I_t shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel_" - The death blow of Satan. Yes, Satan will think he's won when Christ is crucified, but our Lord and Savior defeats death and ultimately, defeats sin. It's done. Gone. Finished.
This just blew my mind when he broke this down by looking at each part of the verse. I always said, yup, Satan loses, God wins....But look at the entire biblical picture here. We fall, we are redeemed. God gets his glory and evil is defeated for eternity.
In fact, if you take the entire bible from Genesis to Revelation you see this theme of eternity lost, but eternity gained. The entire plan of redemption, is laid out to us right there at the fall of humanity. God knew this was the only way that He would be able to redeem His people and for us to spend eternity with Him.
It's crazy to think of all the theology that can go into just one verse in the bible. And there's tens of thousands of more that we can dive into. The best part is, the entire thing, points to Christ.
Amen and amen!
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