The Seed Of The Woman Is Jesus!

INTRO

Over the course of 730 days, we’re going to give you a picture of what Christ looks like in all 66 books of the Bible. We’re not going to go over everything in the Scriptures . . . it’s too much. We’re going to focus on where we see the Messiah in these passages. It will be like a puzzle. What I’m after, is that you actually get the picture, one piece at a time, of who the Messiah really is. How does all the stuff in the Old Testament point to Christ in the New Testament? You’ve got the pre-incarnate Christ (when Jesus showed up in the Old Testament), the type and antitypes (such as when Jesus is compared to the light), and the foreshadowed Christ (such as Adam in Genesis, the first Adam, who was a foreshadow of the second Adam—Jesus).

We want to focus in on the image of Jesus throughout the Scriptures. For each book, we’re going to give you one word. And at the end of the study, you’re going to have 66 words that paint a picture of the Messiah throughout the entire Bible

TEACHING

For the entire book of Genesis, as we focus on Jesus, we’re going to see Him as the Seed. When the fall of man took place, God still had an answer. It is the Seed, Christ.

Genesis 1–3: In Genesis 1, the details of the seven days of creation are given. In Genesis 2, both man and woman are created. In Genesis 3, we’ll take the discussion a little deeper. After the woman had eaten from the fruit of the tree and given it to the man to eat, “So the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’” (v. 13). And she blamed the serpent (v. 14).

God cursed the serpent. Some people believe that before the curse, snakes had arms and legs. (An interesting discussion is found at https://answersingenesis.org/genesis/garden-of-eden/did-the-serpent-originally-have-legs/.) Whether God took away arms and legs or a voice or not, the serpent was forced to move on its belly and eat dust all the days of its life. Then God moved on to curse the others who followed the seed of the serpent (Genesis 3:15). God created enmity, which means a state of feeling actively opposed and hostile toward someone or something, between the woman and the serpent. There is always strife—it doesn’t stop!

Why? Why was there hostility?

• Because the woman and the man had taken a bite of the fruit that God told them not to.
• Because they disobeyed God, there’s going to be hostility.

Hostility would therefore exist between the serpent and the woman, and between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. The Seed of the woman will strike the serpent’s head, and the serpent will strike His heal. There’s going to be a battle between Satan and the Seed of the woman, who is Jesus. There’s always going to be a battle.

Ephesians 6:10-14: “Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength. Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil” (vv. 10-11). The whole goal of Satan was to deceive the woman and attack everything Jesus stands for. “For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. This is why you must take up the full armor of God …” (vv. 12–14). As we go through this school, when you understand that every day is a battle, you’ve already won half of it. So, what does this mean, the whole idea that the Seed of the woman will crush the serpent?

Hebrews 2:14: “Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil.” Jesus totally trumped Satan by dying on the cross. Even though the battle began with a bite of fruit in the garden, God had already put in the Seed, Christ, for His answer!

Romans 16:20a: “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” In this battle that is raging, eventually Jesus will defeat Satan and—boom—it will be over. But we’re not there yet. Even though Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, it isn’t until Jesus comes back again that Satan will be ultimately finished. Right now, he functions as god of this air. The question is, “Will we give in to the seed of the serpent, or will we function in the Seed, Christ?”

Galatians 3:19: This verse talks about the Seed. Why was the Law—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy—given? Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, we needed the Law. It’s the parameters that we need to function within. Pastor Tony Evans describes the Law as a football field. God sets the parameters. He creates the boundaries of the field. But we have the free will. The Law was given until the Seed would come. So, has the Seed come? Or are we still waiting? In Paul’s context, Jesus had already come, so we’re not under the Law anymore. Since He’s come, the Law is no longer our driving force. So how do we know the Seed was Jesus?

Galatians 3:16: The “Seed of the Woman” is Jesus! When we believe in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus, we have the Seed, Christ. I have to tell you, that’s the only way we get through life. When you have the Seed, Christ, you can overcome the seed of the serpent anytime. In fact, when you have the Seed, Christ, you’ve already won!

1 Corinthians 15:56-57: Paul explained how the seed of the serpent, death, no longer has a sting. Now the sting of death is sin, the power of sin is Law. But thanks be to God who gives the victory through Jesus Christ. He is our Seed!

CLOSING

The Seed that is deposited in Genesis 3:15 will become our thread all the way through Genesis. We want to talk about Christ in the Scriptures so that we can overcome the temptation and the sin that was set in place because of the seed of the serpent with Adam and Eve. John Walvoord, the late president of Dallas Theological Seminary, said: “A ray of light is provided in the Adamic Covenant because God promised a Redeemer that would come.” That Redeemer is the Seed, Christ, in Genesis 3:15.