Over the next couple of weeks, we will be looking at Old Testament prophesies concerning the coming of the Messiah and their New Testament fulfilment in Jesus.
MESSIANIC
PROPHECIES GIVEN TO
ADAM
& EVE AND ABRAHAM & SARAH
Prophecy:
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.
Susie: We
felt the Amplified made this verse a little clearer:
Genesis
3:15 (AMP) “And I will put enmity (open hostility) between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your
head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”
Susie: Yes, snakes (serpents) bite the heel and we
stomp their heads; but there is more to this prophecy.
Susan: Satan
would be jealous – he was thrown out of Heaven for desiring to “be like God”;
but Eve, who was made in the image of God and did not treasure that position,
but disobeyed Him, was shown grace. Therefore, Satan is the enemy of man,
constantly trying to prevent people from having a right relationship with their
Creator.
Susie: Crucifixion is one of the few forms of
execution that “bruises the heel” as the spike is driven through the feet and
the heels pushed hard against the cross. But as Jesus’ heels were bruised, He
was delivering the deathblow to Satan’s head. Satan is truly a “dead devil
walking.” Eve and Adam were the first humans to hear this promise that Satan
would ultimately be destroyed by Eve’s Seed (singular) which would be Jesus.
Usually “seed” denotes sperm, but it was by the woman’s seed that deliverance
would come. Mary conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit without the normally
necessary benefit of a human man’s sperm, so Jesus was Mary’s Seed and
ultimately that of Eve.
Romans
16:20 (KJV) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
1
Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive.
Fulfillment:
Galatians
4:4-5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman, made under the law, To
redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of
sons.
Susan: Let’s
take a look at these verses in another version:
Galatians
4:4-5 (J.B. Phillips) But when the proper time came God sent his son, born of a
human mother and born under the jurisdiction of the Law, that he might
redeem those who were under the authority of the Law and lead us into becoming,
by adoption, true sons of God.
Susan: Jesus
is God’s Son with no earthly father involved in His conception. Therefore, it
fulfills the requirement of Genesis 3:15, that the One who would destroy Satan
would be the woman’s Seed. And He,
Jesus, is the only One born of a woman’s seed, born of a virgin.
1
John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
Susie: Jesus,
the Son of God, was born to fulfill the purpose of crushing Satan’s head,
rendering him powerless. This, too, is a fulfillment of the promise made to Eve
and Adam when God pronounce the curse on the serpent (Satan in disguise),
prophesying that Eve’s Seed would stomp on his head.
Prophecy:
Genesis
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Susie: God
instructed Abraham to leave his country and travel to a destination yet to be
disclosed. He declared that He would make Abraham’s family into a great nation.
The Lord promised that ALL families of the earth would be blessed because of
Abraham. Abraham was the patriarch of the Jewish nation, the ancestor of the
Lord Jesus who was the ultimate fulfillment of this promise!
Fulfillment:
Matthew
1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.
Susan: Both
Matthew 1:1 and Luke 3:34 trace Jesus’s lineage back to Abraham.
Susie: As
Messiah, the anointed One, Jesus would be a blessing to Israel, but the New Testament
shows that He offered grace to all nations.
Acts
3:25-26 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made
with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds
of the earth be blessed. Unto
you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in
turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Susie: In
this passage, Peter was speaking to a crowd who was in awe of the fact that a
lame man was healed in the name of Jesus just outside the temple. These were
Jewish people who had come to the temple to worship, so he addressed them as
“children of the prophets.”
Susan: Peter
pointed out that God brought the message of the Gospel, salvation through His
Son Jesus, first to the Jews. Peter underscored that through Abraham’s
descendants all nations would be blessed.
Galatians
3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to
seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Susie: Paul
wrote this letter to the Galatians to combat certain heresies they were
accepting and to clarify the Gospel message.
Susan: In
this verse, Paul makes it clear that ultimate fulfillment of the Abrahamic
covenant is manifested in the One Seed, Jesus.
Susie: Through
Jesus, salvation would be made available to all people everywhere, not only to
the Jewish nation.
Prophecy:
Genesis
17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with
him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed
after him.
Genesis
21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of
the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed
be called.
Susan: God
made it clear that His covenant with Abraham would continue through Isaac, the
son of Sarah, alone. The promises were not given to Ishmael or any of Abraham’s
sons by the wife he married after Sarah’s death. Abraham was chosen to be the
father of God’s chosen people, but Sarah was equally chosen to be the mother of
the nation.
Fulfilment:
Matthew
1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his
brethren;
Luke
3:34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son
of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
Susie: Once
again both the genealogy given in Matthew’s gospel and that in Luke’s gospel
trace the lineage of God’s Son, Jesus, to Isaac.
Hebrews
11:17-19 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had
received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said,
That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence
also he received him in a figure.
Susan: The
book of Hebrews praises Abraham’s unwavering faith in being willing to
sacrifice the son of promise he had waited for so long. Abraham trusted that
God would raise Isaac from the dead because God had promised that Isaac would
become a great nation.
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