The Grand Design Of God From The Beginning.

Genesis 3:15

"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.”

• This is the first promise that Jesus would come to save us. That He Himself would be the One who would crush the head of the serpent. And He has accomplished this through the cross as the first part of that triumph (O death, where is your sting?) and will complete it at the end of the age when the antichrist, the false prophet and the adversary himself are thrown into the lake of fire.

Genesis 3:22/24

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

• God showed His first act of mercy by sending Adam and Eve out of the Garden so that they did not eat from the tree of life and then bring ALL of humanity into a forever state of sin without any hope. Much of the church misses this reality today, coming up with 'methods' to 'cover up' sin, instead of dealing with the source, coming to Jesus, repenting and believing.

• How does this tie in to Genesis 3:15? It is a reminder that God Himself has never once made a mistake. He has never failed. He has always had a GRAND DESIGN from the very beginning to save His people (the Jew first, and then the Gentile... Romans 11). He has already set the stage for all things to come according to that Design, for His glory and to bring Him the praise and honor due to His name. We can rest in knowing that salvation was promised from the beginning, and God never wanted to destroy His creation, but to save us and for us to walk with Him in relationship!