Genesis 3:11, ‘I (God) will put enmity between thee (the devil) and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; (He) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’
The woman’s seed undoubtedly referred to Jesus Christ. What was the Lord telling the devil and the prediction he was making about the future of man?
First, let me point out this one fact: the father’s blood alone flows through an unborn child’s veins. A mother’s blood never enters the bloodstream of the child. Jesus’ blood was that of God alone and not that of a man or woman. For this reason, the blood of Jesus Christ can take away the sins of the world.
The seed implanted in the virgin by the Holy Spirit was of the Creator himself. Mary’s contribution to that seed was flesh. The word seed in Greek is sperm; in Hebrew, it’s Zera: A metaphor for semen, virile, progeny, offspring, children, or descendants.
Galatians 3:16 for you, ‘Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.’ The seed in Genesis is limited to one principal descendant, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:19 tells us the Law was added because of transgressions, ‘Until the seed should come to whom the promise was made.’ The blood of animals held by the temple priests was only a type, Jesus being the anti-type.
Hebrews 2:16, ‘He (Jesus) took not on him the nature of angels; but He took on him the seed of Abraham.’
Reliable chronologists agree that the fall of man occurred on October 23, 4004 BC, between the fifteenth and thirtieth by the Julian calendar. Only the Lord knows the exact day and hour of his Sons conception and birth, but the month and year, October 4 B.C.
Nine months earlier, the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary; he cleansed her womb and then impregnated her with the life of the incarnate God. Within that seed was the blood, soul, and spirit of the Father’s only begotten Son. He was to take on the form of a child of the flesh. A son was given to be born of a virgin.
He would be the perfect sacrifice, a Lamb without spot or blemish, a gift from God for all time. Jesus gave his life to save those who believed in his finished work. His is the only acceptable sacrifice for the world’s sins.
Hebrews 9:22, ‘Without shedding of blood there is no (forgiveness).’
A few details concerning the promised seed are overlooked at times. This one miracle of conception accomplished the following. Joseph, Mary’s husband, was descended from King Solomon, Matthew 1:6-16. God promised to preserve David’s throne, representing royal authority forever, but not by Solomon’s seed; see Jeremiah 22:24-30. Joseph was Jesus’ legal Father, and through his genealogy, he was to pass David’s throne on to Jesus Christ. The requirement for the throne of Judah was to be a Davidic descendant and sanctioned by divine appointment. No man can ever sit as King of Israel unless he is a member of the House of David.
Isaiah 7:5-6 tells us of a conspiracy that rose among the enemies of God to do away with the house of David, but God warned that any such scheme was doomed to failure; Isaiah 8:9-15. The genealogy of Mary shows she descended from Nathan, another son of David. The Messianic bloodline bypassed Solomon, precisely as prophesied. For this reason, Christ’s birth had to be that of a virgin and not by Joseph, his stepfather by adoption.
Mary’s Father, Heli, was claimed to be the Father of Joseph in Luke 3:23. The problem was that using a woman’s genealogy was contrary to Jewish Law. When a family tree ended with a daughter, as in Mary’s case, Joseph’s name would have been inserted, not Mary’s. But this would cause a problem because of Joseph’s connection to Solomon.
Let me draw this out for you. If we have a straight line on the left of the line, we will write the name of David, followed by Solomon. Then Jeconiah, followed by Joseph. Here’s the problem. The ‘Jeconiah connection’ is significant in Matthew’s genealogy because of the curse the LORD pronounced on Jeconiah in B.C. 599.
Jeremiah 22:24-30. ‘As I live, said the LORD, even though Jeconiah the Son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence; … Is this man Jeconiah a despised, broken idol? Is he a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, are cast into a land which they know not? O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. Thus said the LORD, write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.’
Neither Jeconiah nor his descendants had the right to David’s throne. Until Jeremiah arrived, the first requirement for messianic lineage was to be of David’s house. With Jeremiah, not only did the descendent have to be of the house of David, but apart from Jeconiah.
According to Matthew’s genealogy, Joseph had the blood of Jeconiah in his veins, which automatically would have disqualified Jesus if he were Joseph’s son by blood. Genesis 3:15 tells us Christ would come after the ‘seed of a woman.’ And Isaiah 7:14 reveals, ‘Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,’ interpreted, ‘God with us.’
The Lord received his humanity from his mother and the blood, that of God; therefore, the ‘Only begotten Son of The Father.’ And only by the shedding of his precious blood are we saved.
Luke 1:35, ‘The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee (Mary) and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also that holy one which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.’
Matthew 1:20, ‘That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.’
This mystery of conception was kept secret from the beginning until the appointed time. 1 Corinthians 2:7-8-9, ‘We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of the world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.’
Every nation and its people have consistently fostered the idea of atonement for sins and that without the shedding of blood, there could be no remission. History gives evidence of this slaughter of man and beast in both the ancient and modern world, from the human sacrifices to the sun god of the Incas, ‘Inti,’ to the child sacrifices to the God of the Canaanites, Moloch. From Asia to the Americas and Europe to the Orient, human sacrifices were man’s way of satisfying their bloodthirsty gods. Blood flowed as rivers from the altars of pagan idol worshippers, but it was all in vain.
The woman’s seed undoubtedly referred to Jesus Christ. What was the Lord telling the devil and the prediction he was making about the future of man?
First, let me point out this one fact: the father’s blood alone flows through an unborn child’s veins. A mother’s blood never enters the bloodstream of the child. Jesus’ blood was that of God alone and not that of a man or woman. For this reason, the blood of Jesus Christ can take away the sins of the world.
The seed implanted in the virgin by the Holy Spirit was of the Creator himself. Mary’s contribution to that seed was flesh. The word seed in Greek is sperm; in Hebrew, it’s Zera: A metaphor for semen, virile, progeny, offspring, children, or descendants.
Galatians 3:16 for you, ‘Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.’ The seed in Genesis is limited to one principal descendant, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:19 tells us the Law was added because of transgressions, ‘Until the seed should come to whom the promise was made.’ The blood of animals held by the temple priests was only a type, Jesus being the anti-type.
Hebrews 2:16, ‘He (Jesus) took not on him the nature of angels; but He took on him the seed of Abraham.’
Reliable chronologists agree that the fall of man occurred on October 23, 4004 BC, between the fifteenth and thirtieth by the Julian calendar. Only the Lord knows the exact day and hour of his Sons conception and birth, but the month and year, October 4 B.C.
Nine months earlier, the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary; he cleansed her womb and then impregnated her with the life of the incarnate God. Within that seed was the blood, soul, and spirit of the Father’s only begotten Son. He was to take on the form of a child of the flesh. A son was given to be born of a virgin.
He would be the perfect sacrifice, a Lamb without spot or blemish, a gift from God for all time. Jesus gave his life to save those who believed in his finished work. His is the only acceptable sacrifice for the world’s sins.
Hebrews 9:22, ‘Without shedding of blood there is no (forgiveness).’
A few details concerning the promised seed are overlooked at times. This one miracle of conception accomplished the following. Joseph, Mary’s husband, was descended from King Solomon, Matthew 1:6-16. God promised to preserve David’s throne, representing royal authority forever, but not by Solomon’s seed; see Jeremiah 22:24-30. Joseph was Jesus’ legal Father, and through his genealogy, he was to pass David’s throne on to Jesus Christ. The requirement for the throne of Judah was to be a Davidic descendant and sanctioned by divine appointment. No man can ever sit as King of Israel unless he is a member of the House of David.
Isaiah 7:5-6 tells us of a conspiracy that rose among the enemies of God to do away with the house of David, but God warned that any such scheme was doomed to failure; Isaiah 8:9-15. The genealogy of Mary shows she descended from Nathan, another son of David. The Messianic bloodline bypassed Solomon, precisely as prophesied. For this reason, Christ’s birth had to be that of a virgin and not by Joseph, his stepfather by adoption.
Mary’s Father, Heli, was claimed to be the Father of Joseph in Luke 3:23. The problem was that using a woman’s genealogy was contrary to Jewish Law. When a family tree ended with a daughter, as in Mary’s case, Joseph’s name would have been inserted, not Mary’s. But this would cause a problem because of Joseph’s connection to Solomon.
Let me draw this out for you. If we have a straight line on the left of the line, we will write the name of David, followed by Solomon. Then Jeconiah, followed by Joseph. Here’s the problem. The ‘Jeconiah connection’ is significant in Matthew’s genealogy because of the curse the LORD pronounced on Jeconiah in B.C. 599.
Jeremiah 22:24-30. ‘As I live, said the LORD, even though Jeconiah the Son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence; … Is this man Jeconiah a despised, broken idol? Is he a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, are cast into a land which they know not? O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. Thus said the LORD, write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.’
Neither Jeconiah nor his descendants had the right to David’s throne. Until Jeremiah arrived, the first requirement for messianic lineage was to be of David’s house. With Jeremiah, not only did the descendent have to be of the house of David, but apart from Jeconiah.
According to Matthew’s genealogy, Joseph had the blood of Jeconiah in his veins, which automatically would have disqualified Jesus if he were Joseph’s son by blood. Genesis 3:15 tells us Christ would come after the ‘seed of a woman.’ And Isaiah 7:14 reveals, ‘Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,’ interpreted, ‘God with us.’
The Lord received his humanity from his mother and the blood, that of God; therefore, the ‘Only begotten Son of The Father.’ And only by the shedding of his precious blood are we saved.
Luke 1:35, ‘The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee (Mary) and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also that holy one which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.’
Matthew 1:20, ‘That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.’
This mystery of conception was kept secret from the beginning until the appointed time. 1 Corinthians 2:7-8-9, ‘We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of the world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.’
Every nation and its people have consistently fostered the idea of atonement for sins and that without the shedding of blood, there could be no remission. History gives evidence of this slaughter of man and beast in both the ancient and modern world, from the human sacrifices to the sun god of the Incas, ‘Inti,’ to the child sacrifices to the God of the Canaanites, Moloch. From Asia to the Americas and Europe to the Orient, human sacrifices were man’s way of satisfying their bloodthirsty gods. Blood flowed as rivers from the altars of pagan idol worshippers, but it was all in vain.
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