Genesis 3:15 Speaking to the serpent, God says: “And 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.” (NKJV)
The first Messianic prophecy Protoevangelium, speaks of the curse God pronounced on the serpent some 4,000 years before Jesus was born and declares that the struggle between Satan and Jesus, along with His people, has begun. It ends with Satan’s defeat through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. (see the gospel accounts of the crucifixion).
Genesis 12: 1-3 God’s promises to Abram include the announcement that all the world would be blessed through Abram’s family (Jesus)
Deuteronomy 18:15-19 “A Prophet like Moses,” remember that God spoke to Moses face to face. There would be many Prophets to come before Jesus but God would not speak to them as He had Moses and would Jesus. This Prophecy was declared fulfilled by Peter in Acts 3.
Isaiah 7: 14 700 years before the fact God reveals to Isaiah the coming Messiah.
Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7 Still more prophecy, irrefutably clear, further evidence that God wanted it known that Christ was to be born into the world through mankind.
Isaiah 11: 1-2 Again, God tells us that Jesus is coming from David’s family
Isaiah 42: 1-4 More description of the kind of gentle yet authoritative person that the coming Messiah will be.
Isaiah 60: 1-3 Micah 5: 2
The point of all these verses and the two dozen other Messianic Prophecies, is to let all who studied the Scriptures know that Jesus the Messiah was coming.
“The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”, was coming, He was always coming, from the very beginning in Genesis God promised Him, He was always the plan of Salvation, and He was never plan B.
Some 6,000 years after the Garden, as we celebrate His birth, we must not forget His coming sacrifice on our behalf, we can rest assured that this was also part of God’s plan of Salvation before the World was created.
As difficult as it is for us to accept, the entire life of Jesus on this Earth served to give each one of us the opportunity to know Him as Lord and Savior and live with Him in heaven.
This is the will of the Father.
