![]() Our transformed minds are by grace, not our own wisdom, so we have no place to boast. It is true that our new life in Christ can convict them, Paul gets at this in Ephesians 5:3-21, but we have no business parading a self-righteous attitude in our rejection of homosexuality, divorce, abortion, etc. They hate us because we testify to the truth of Christ and they do not believe (1 Tim 1:13). The world is not to hate us because we are offensive in and of ourselves the offense is in the gospel (1 Cor. There is a big difference between these two. The world will hate Christians because we believe in Christ (John 3:19-20 2 Cor. The world's hatred of the church is not to be because the church represents morality. This is not the origin of ‘culture wars' because the people of God are neither to create their own ‘culture' nor are they to defend a conservative agenda for American (or European or English) culture. God tells us here that he intends the wicked to hate the righteous. ![]() The animosity we experience from unbelievers is sin, but it is divinely ordained hatred. What is important to note is that the enmity does not merely arise, it is specifically said to be set or appointed by God himself. This Hebrew word for ‘enmity' is used just five times in the OT (see Ez 25:15, hostility 35:5 Num 35:21-22, hatred unto murder). Moses places ‘enmity' first for the sake of emphasizing it. The normal structure of a Hebrew sentence begins with the verb but here the noun comes first (enmity). These elements of this first prophecy can be put under three categories: two seeds in humanity, judgment on Satan, and the victory of the Savior. There are seven things we will look at in this verse: (1) enmity between the seeds, (2) the source of the enmity, (3) the identity of the serpent, (4) the meaning of ‘seed,' (5) the identity of the woman's seed, (6) the doom of the serpent's seed, and (7) the suffering of the woman's seed. The gospel is spoken in Scripture for the first time from the Creator and Redeemer himself. In the midst of uttering a curse upon the serpent, God also prophetically announces the first promise of the gospel. God is the first prophetic voice of Scripture.īut v.15 is even more than that. Before God addresses Adam and Eve to curse them for their rebellion against himself in the covenant of works (3:16-19), God curses Satan in what is a foretelling of what will be the history of humanity. God is speaking to the serpent (3:14) about the new order for the universe after Adam's fall into sin (3:1-7). "Enmity I will put between you and the woman, PROTOEVANGELIUM OF GENESIS 3:15 By Dante Spencer
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