• If you don't understand Genesis 3:15, you are not going to understand your Bible. Called the protoevangelium, it was the first gospel by theologians.
• Revelation 20:1--3; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 13:4-7
• Genesis 21:13; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 48:19; 1 Kings 11:14; Jeremiah 22:28
• Latin Vulgate: I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. (origin of Mary worship)
• shall bruise is שׁוּף (šhûf) meaning *to crush or to bruise** *(Job 9:17; Psalm 139:11).
• We have this promise that the woman, not the man, is going to have offspring, who will press down upon the Devil's head with his heel until it is fatal, but the Devil will injure his heel.
• enmity is אֵיבָה (ʾêybâh) and means personal hostility between two parties (cf. 1 John 3:8-10).
• T“highway of the Seed" as Scofield calls it, or the Scarlet Thread of Redemption.
• Starting at Genesis 3:15, the key to knowing the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures are all about is answering the question: Who is the Promised Seed that will destroy the serpent?
• The genealogy of Genesis 5, and the other genealogies throughout the rest of Hebrew Scriptures are all looking for the seed of the woman.
• We see something unique in Daniel 11:37 about the Beast, the Antichrist.
• the desire of women...sounds like the Antichrist is going to be homosexual. But that would be eisegesis, by taking how we would use the word desire today and bring it into the Scripture.
• Here the word desire is a noun and not a verb. The same word is used in Haggai 2:7, so the desire of all nations (Haggai 2:7), which is referring to the coming Messiah.
• All Jewish women had the desire to give birth to the Messiah. So, the desire of women (Daniel 11:37) was the Messiah, and he (the beast) will have no regard for that which is the desire of every Jewish woman.
• Being childless and barren for a Jewish woman brought about great despair and shame (Genesis 16:1-2-Sarai; Genesis 25:21-Rebekah; Genesis 29:31-Rachel; Judges 13:2-Manoah's wife; 1 Samuel 1:3-Hannah; Luke 1:7-Elizabeth).
• This is why a widow who was childless was to have a child by her brother-in-law (Deuteronomy 25:5-6).
• This is also why the account of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38 is included in the Scriptures.
• Luke 1:48; Daniel 11:37; Galatians 4:4; Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:25; Genesis 5:29
****02. The Virgin Shall Conceive (Isaiah 7:14)
The virgin shall conceive; this virgin was identified by Gabriel to both Joseph (Matthew 1:20-23) and Mary (Luke 1:26-33) that she was the virgin.
She will give birth to a son (Isaiah 7:14)
• The Hebrew noun for virgin is עַלְמָה (ʿalmâh), the Greek is παρθένος (ĕnŏs) and means a virgin, maiden, and often used as a euphemism for a virgin daughter who is of marriageable age, but currently is not married (Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:26-38; quoted from Isaiah 7:14; cf. Genesis 24:16).
• To deny the virgin birth is to deny the Biblical proof that Jesus is both God (John 1:1; John 10:30; John 20:28; Romans 9:5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:6-9; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 1:8; 2 Peter 1:2; 1 John 5:20), and man (John 1:14; Romans 1:3; Galatians 4:4; Philippians 2:7-8; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 4:2; 2 John 7).
• If Jesus was not conceived by the Holy Ghost (Genesis 3:15; cf. Luke 1:35), then He was conceived by the seed of man.
• The Bible says that everyone born of Adam is born under the curse of Adam, inheriting Adam's sin nature (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21--22), thus we could not call Jesus sinless and the Son of God.
• If Jesus were born in the usual manner of mankind, the Messiah would be born in sin. This then would have made the Messiah unqualified to save mankind from their sins.
• Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost (Luke 1:31-35) and as the angel declared that he shall save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21), we know that is true because He was virgin born (cf. Galatians 4:4-5)!
• Matthew 1:23; Matthew 1:25; Luke 1:27; Luke 1:34-35
Mathematical Probabilities of Fulfilled Prophecies
01. Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem fulfilled in Matthew 2:1-7; John 7:42; Luke 2:4-7).
02. Messiah is to be preceded by a Messenger fulfilled in Matthew 3:1-3; Matthew 11:10; John 1:23; Luke 1:17).
03. Messiah is to enter Jerusalem on a donkey ( fulfilled in Luke 35-37; Matthew 21:6-11).
04. * *( fulfilled in Matthew 10:4; Matthew 26:49-50; John 13:2).
05. Messiah is to be sold for 30 pieces of silver ( fulfilled in Matthew 26:15; Matthew 27:3).
06. *“to the potter" in God's house* ( fulfilled in Matthew 27:5-7).
07. Messiah is to be silent before His accusers fulfilled in Matthew 27:12).
08. * *( fulfilled in John 19:28).
• Pasadena City College, Chairman of the Science Division at Westmont College, Professor Emeritus of Science, Westmont College;
• In his book, Science Speaks, Stoner says that by applying the modern science of probability to just 8 prophecies,*“… We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10**21**."*
• That would be one in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
• *“… we take 10**21** silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas * miles)*. They will cover *all of* the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come **“Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be. In such a case the prophets had just one chance in 10**21** of having them come true in any man, but they all came true in Christ. “This means that the fulfillment of these eight prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writing of those** [eight] *prophecies to a definiteness which lacks only one chance in 10*21** of being absolute."*
• *“… We find the chance that any one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10**181**“This is a really large *number* and it represents an extremely small chance. Let us try to visualize it. The silver dollar, which we have been using, is entirely too large. We must select a smaller object. The electron is about as small an object as we know of. It is so small that it will take 2.5 times 10**15*c inch of these electrons and we tried to count them it would take us, counting steadily 250 each minute, 19,000,000 times 19,000,000 times 19,000,000* [nineteen million times nineteen million times nineteen million]** or 6.9 times 10**21** years. “With that introduction, let us go back to our chance of 1 in 10**181** of a pile will this number of electrons make? They make an inconceivably large volume."*
• That would be one in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• The chances of finding the correct electron out of the pile of electrons that Stoner uses for this last illustration is something on the order of picking one single correct electron out of all the electrons in all the known mass of the entire known universe.
• Such is the chance of any one man fulfilling any of the 48 prophecies.
• Yet, Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled not just 48 prophecies, not just 61 prophecies, but more than 324 individual prophecies that the Hebrew Prophets wrote concerning the coming Messiah.
• When God says that something will happen, it will happen (cf. Psalm 33:11; Isaiah 46:8--10)!
