Genesis and the Messiah

Genesis 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."

Genesis 4:1
"Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”

Genesis 4:25
"And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

Genesis 5:29
"and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”


In the midst of a curse God gives a promise. He promises that the seed of the woman will crush the serpents head. The rest of the Bible hinges on this promise. Genesis 3:15 is the first sign of God's mercy towards his people, and the rest of Genesis, the entirety of the Old Testament, and even the New Testament show the fulfillment of this promise. This is the promise of the Messiah. I essentially put all of those verses up above so that could see that this is the theme of the beginning portion of the book of Genesis. Every parent thinks that their child will fulfill this promise. Eve thinking its her children, and Lamech thinking its Noah that will bring rest and make it so they do not have to work so hard.

In truth the whole Bible leads up to one thing: The Messiah. The Bible is about Jesus Christ, from the very beginning to the very end. This is the context with which we need to read Genesis or any other book. Jesus is what its all about. This also displays the amazing unity of the both Genesis and the Bible. The theme is the same throughout it all, Man messed up, but a savior, a redeemer, the one who will fix it all is coming, and has come. Jesus Christ has conquered our sin, and will heal the curse.
Amen.