(Old Testament)
Genesis 3:15 (New International Version)
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring [a] and hers;
he will crush [b] your head,
and you will strike his heel."
(New Testament)
Galatians 4:3-6
3So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. 4But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
As we now enter into the Christmas Season I thought it would be a nice change of pace for us to begin looking at some of the indicators from the prophets of old as to who the Messiah would be. The Old Testament is full of indicators, beginning in Genesis, that tell us things about the coming Lord.
Today, we will examine the verses from Genesis and Galatians that lay down a basic principle about Jesus. In Genesis, after the fall of Adam and Eve, God says that the defeat of the serpent, Satan, would come from the seed of a woman. He also foretold that while the serpent would be destroyed, he would also wound the seed of the woman.
Take this and parallel it with what we know of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus defeated death and sin by being resurrected. He crushed Satan's head (see the book of Revelation for more information on how that will play out) but not before Satan struck his heal.
This is only the first of many prophecies from the Old Testament that we will examine showing how Jesus fulfilled Messianic Prophecy. I hope you will join us again soon as we dig into the fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy.
