Day 2: Heel and Head

And now the grand news: verse 15 projects that serpent will strike the heel of Eve’s descendent or “seed” while that same seed will crush the serpent’s head. This prophecy finds complete and utter fulfillment in the very incarnation – the virgin birth – of Jesus Christ! One of the most interesting pieces of this Advent puzzle reveals that the prophecy issued in this verse spans not only the course of Eve’s lifetime but across the centuries to the day when Jesus would be born of Mary. Genesis 3:15 confirms this theory through the use of the masculine pronoun after the statement, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head.” That masculine pronoun, rendered as such in its original Hebrew language, indicates that the fulfillment of this promise would be a human of male gender, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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