When God became man: Day 1

The promises of His coming: The first promise

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel (Gen. 3:15).

When the first man and woman sinned, there was no disarray in Heaven. Instead, God unveiled a promise that would be fulfilled thousands of years later when He would come to earth as a man. Satan, speaking through the serpent, had tempted the woman in the garden, and the man and she rebelled against their Creator by eating of the forbidden fruit. God pronounced judgment upon the evil one in the guise of the serpent. He promised Satan the seed of the woman would inflict upon him a crushing blow, though this conqueror would not go unharmed. This is called the “proto-evangelium,” the first gospel. We know this seed of the woman was God the Son. Even in mankind’s darkest hour, God provided hope for a fallen race – a hope that would be fulfilled through an unborn child in a young woman’s womb, through a baby born in Bethlehem, through a man who lived a perfect life and through a suffering servant who vanquished the evil one through His crucifixion and resurrection.

Song: “Angels From the Realms of Glory”