If I was to ask you to find the first prophecy relating to the Lord Jesus Christ where would you go to? Isaiah 53? Psalm 22? Genesis 22? Well how about Genesis 3?

For it is in Genesis 3v15 that we have the first prophecy. As God is laying out the punishment to the serpent for tricking Eve into eating the fruit, He tells him, "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." The interesting word is 'it'. Now you don't need to be a grammer expert to know that it is a singular word. Therefore God is not telling the serpent that the woman's seed, as in more than one, would bruise his head, if that was the case the word would be they, rather it is just one. This points forward to Christ who would be born of a woman but not of a man. While the serpent, Satan, did indeed bruise Christ on the way to the cross, Christ then defeated him there on the cross, bruising his head once and for all.

It is amazing when you think that way back when man first sinned against God, God already had a plan in place. The cross of Calvary was no last minute idea after the law had failed. God had planned it from the beginning. In fact if we were to turn to Ephesians 1 we would learn even before the foundation of the world, God had it planned out. He truly is an amazing God who before creating us, knew that we would sin against Him and that His own Son would be the only way to bring us back to Him.

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