Gen 3:15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel. ASV
Gen 3:15 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. KJV
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall
bruise His heel. LITV; MKJV
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COMMENTARY
Origin; Dawn; Commencement; Inauguration;
Launching the Cross in the Seed; Heart; Nucleus of the History of the World.
How is it that God can make such a statement of absolute assurance of
what He is going to do in the future? What if things do not work
out or arrange themselves in such a fashion as to 'allow' God to place
enmity where He intends to? Further how is it that God can be so
absolutely sure that His intended effect will infallibly come to pass?
The answer to these questions lies in the doctrines of the Decree;
Prophecy; and Providence.
This verse is a prophecy in which God is informing us as to what will
come to pass at some future date. This is what is known as
predictive prophecy as it foretells the future.
Observation;
All forms of fortune telling, crystal ball
gazing, horoscopes, palm reading, tarot cards, or anything
else
that claims it can predict the future are Satanic and a direct
attack on God Himself. It is a claim to actually BE God.
This is so because foretelling of future events is a charactistic of
God and He holds a monopoly on it. Anyone claiming to be
able to predict the future in any fashion is in effect claiming to be
God. All prophecy finds its origin in the decree of God. God knows what
will be because He has decreed all things whatsoever come to pass in
all time and eternity. Romans 11:36. Therefore he who claims to know
the future is
claiming omniscience. But only God is omniscient so such claims are an
attack on God as well as demonic. This includes all attempts to know
when the 2nd Advent will occur. People who try to set dates and/or tell
us when the Lord will return are -heretics- folks because Messiah
Himself tells us that ~NO~ one has access to that information, not even
He Himself. Yet there are people who think they are wiser than the Son
of God and can know that which He said is unknown. One such man is
Harold Camping.
Harold Camping is a -Heretic-! His book "1994?" was a heretical
attempt to out-guess the Son of God and contradict Him by telling us
that He would return sometime in Sept. of 1994. Of course that date
came & went but Camping refuses to acknowledge his blasphemy
against the Son of God and repent.
Every thing that comes to pass comes to
pass because God ordained or decreed that it -should- come to pass and
nothing is outside of the eternal decree of the Living God including
the greatest sin in the universe, the crucifixion of the Son of
God. The second thing we note about this verse is that not only
can God make such positively sure statements because He has
decreed everything and He knows what He has decreed shall come to pass
but also God controls all things as well. Mat 10:29,30. This is the doctrine of
Divine Providence which says that God is in absolute control of every
last atomic particle in the universe in all time and nothing happens
but what God controls causes and makes sure happens. So if God
from all eternity decreed that His Son should suffer at the hands of
sinners then it shall infallibly happen and we know it did.
Anything that happens happens because God absolutely
wants it to happen and He makes sure that it will happen. Further
whatever happens is according to His eternal purpose which is that He
shall be glorified in the entire creation. So God Decreed the
crucifixion. He then prophesied of it
here in Genesis 3:15 and providentially ordered and controlled all things
including the actions and decisions of wicked men so that the
crucifixion would infallibly come to pass, which it did and that for good purposes and His glory.
Genesis
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