There is a single verse buried in the third chapter of the Bible that holds the seed of every promise to come, and once you see it you will find its echo on nearly every page after. Yahweh had just found the man and the woman hiding, and before He pronounced a single word of judgment on them, He turned to the serpent and spoke a sentence that theologians have called the protoevangelium, the first gospel. In it He declared a lasting enmity between two seeds, the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, and He promised that one day the woman's seed would crush the serpent's head, though...
There is a single verse buried in the third chapter of the Bible that holds the seed of every promise to come, and once you see it you will find its echo on nearly every page after. Yahweh had just found the man and the woman hiding, and before He pronounced a single word of judgment on them, He turned to the serpent and spoke a sentence that theologians have called the protoevangelium, the first gospel. In it He declared a lasting enmity between two seeds, the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, and He promised that one day the woman's seed would crush the serpent's head, though His own heel would be bruised in the doing. This lesson walks that war from Eden to the empty tomb and on to the lake of fire. We will read Genesis for the promise, watch it break open in Cain and Abel, hear Yahshua Himself name the two lineages, and follow the serpent as he becomes the dragon who makes war on the woman. But hear this at the outset, because it matters more than anything else in the study: the two seeds are never once defined by race, skin, or bloodline. They are defined by fruit, by faith, and by deeds. Guard your heart against every reading that would turn this holy war into...