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Introduction
Introduction
Creation
Gen 1 - Six days of creation and one day of rest
Gen 2 - God created Adam and Eve
God created Adam
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Not good for Adam to be alone.
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Woman is the suitable helper for Man.
The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Humans (Man and Woman) created in God’s image.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
One Command
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
The Fall (Gen 3:1-7)
The Characters
The Serpent (Satan)
“SATAN The Hebrew word שָׂטָן (satan) means to oppose, obstruct, or accuse. The Greek term (σατάν, satan) literally means “adversary.” In the New Testament, it refers to a title or a name—(the) Satan. “ (LBD)
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
Adam and Eve
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
The Encounter
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
Satan deceived Eve and both Adam and Eve sinned.
Results: Mankind is fallen and sinful
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,
“These first three chapters lay the canonical, historical, and theological foundation for what follows not only in Genesis and the Pentateuch, but also in the rest of Scripture.“ (Mangum, Douglas, ed. Lexham Context Commentary: Old Testament.)
What does God do?
The Declaration (Gen 3:15)
The Declaration (Gen 3:15)
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
The first declaration of God’s redemption is in a curse to Satan.
Enmity
hostility (state) n. — a state of deep-seated ill-will. (Sense)
Serpent will have hostility towards mankind
Offspring
“The latter, like the seed of Abraham, is both collective (cf. Rom. 16:20) and, in the crucial struggle, individual (cf. Gal. 3:16), since Jesus as the last Adam summed up mankind in himself. ) (Kidner, Derek. Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary)
Serpent will have Hostility for Humanity and the one to come.
Struggle between this Offspring of the Woman and the Serpent
“he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
There is going to be a conflict/battle between the serpent and the offspring of the Woman.
“In that her offspring will crush the snake’s head, the latter will come off worse in the long battle. Thus, though this was a judgment on the snake, it was at the same time a promise to man. It has, therefore, traditionally been seen by Jews and Christians, as the first hint of a saviour for mankind, and 3:15 is often called the ‘protevangelion’ the ‘first gospel’.” (Wenham, Gordon J. “Genesis.” New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition. Ed. D. A. Carson et al. 4th ed. Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994. 63. Print.)
In this incredible statement of God, we see that He will defeat the serpent and in the same time provide redemption through the seed of the woman.
The question the Jews were asking throughout the OT is, “Who is this redeemer?”
In The OT, God continues to point to this redeemer that is to come and crush the head of the serpent and free his people.
The Promise (Gen 12:1-3)
The Promise (Gen 12:1-3)
Calling out of a man named Abram.
God is going to call out Abram and establish a covenant relationship with Him. Not only Him, but with his descendants also.
This call/promise is repeated by God to Isaac and Jacob.
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
“Go to a land I will show you”
God will lead Abram to the land of the Canaanites and promised to give the land to his descendants.
“I will make of you a great nation”
They will become a great and powerful nation.
God will be with them and deal with other nation according to their actions against Israel.
“in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
The redeemer will come through the line of Abram.
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
The blessing will spread to all through Him
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
We see a continuation of God’s redemptive plan being unfolded.
The Seed of the woman that will crush the serpent will come from the line of Abram.
He will bring a blessing to the families of the earth.
The Lineage (Gen 49:8-12)
The Lineage (Gen 49:8-12)
Descendants of Abram
Isaac, Jacob are the chosen descendants of Abraham that the Jewish nation is to come and the seed of the woman.
Jacob has 12 sons who will become the 12 tribes of Israel in the future.
Nearing the end of Jacobs live, He blessed his sons. In his blessings God gave more insight into the seed of the Woman.
“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes. His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
Judah will be a kingly tribe
Lion
Lion is a symbol of King/Ruler/Authority
“Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
Scepter
“A scepter (Hebrew shebet; Greek skeptron) is simply a staff or rod that is a symbol of rule and authority, such as denoted in Isaiah 14:5—“The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.” The symbol of the scepter derived from the thought that a ruler was the shepherd of his people, and so at times a scepter was also used as a symbol for a ruler or shepherd.” (Freeman, James M., and Harold J. Chadwick. Manners & Customs of the Bible. North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1998. Print.)
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.
“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
"Until Shiloh comes”
“Shiloh is generally understood as being a prophetic title for the Messiah, “The peaceful one” as the word signifies. ... In each version interpreting Shiloh as a proper name and capitalizing it because of the divinity of Him whose name it is. This is much in keeping with the words in Isaiah 9:6—“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”” (Freeman, James M., and Harold J. Chadwick. Manners & Customs of the Bible. North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1998. Print.)
Text seems to be saying that of this tribe will come a king that will rule people. “until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.”
This Seed of the woman is going to be a ruler from the tribe of Judah
Takeaways
Takeaways
In Genesis 3:15
He is Seed of the Woman
He will Crush the head of the serpent and redeem mankind.
In Genesis 12:1-3
He is of the line of Abraham
He will bring a blessing to all families of the world.
In Genesis 49:8-12
He will be from the tribe of Judah.
He will be a ruler with authority.
