What promises will God fulfill through the family of Abraham?
Prophecy begins with a promise God made in the Garden of Eden. Immediately after “that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan” (Revelation 12:9) lured Adam and Eve into committing their first sin, God said to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). Here is one of the first and most far-reaching prophecies—the promise that God will rectify the problem of deception and sin brought on by Satan. He promised that from Eve, the first person to be deceived, would come a “Seed”—a descendant—who would “bruise” (crush) Satan’s position of rulership (his “head”) over humanity by which he deceives the world. God revealed that the “seed” of Satan—people under his influence —would be hostile toward the “Seed” God had promised through the woman. Satan would succeed in temporarily disabling (like a severe bruise on the heel) the Seed promised by God. Thousands of years later,
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