The First Gospel!
"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."
Genesis 3: 15
Theologians and Bible interpreters have long
referred to Genesis 3:15 as
the protoevangelium,
Latin for “first proto Gospel [evangelium].” The
famous English preacher Charles Simeon called
Genesis 3:15 “the sum and summary of the whole
Bible.”
Why?
Because it contains the Good News
that Christ, the Seed of the woman,
will defeat God’s enemy,
Satan.
The entire Bible is the story of Christ, who would
come into the world to pay the price for the sin of
Adam and all mankind—to redeem all who would
put their trust in Him.
Over and over, the
early Christian leaders
testified that the Old Testament foretold the
coming of Christ (Acts 3:18, 21, 24; 7:52;
10:43; 28:23).
From ages past, God put in place a plan
to forgive and save you. Thank Him today
for His Savior and the Book that reveals
His plan.
"The New Testament is in
the
Old Testament concealed; the
Old is by the New revealed."
Augustine