Awake Christians!

Chapter 1
The Fulfillment of the Seed


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


Today, there are billions of people who profess to be Christian. Christianity has its history, and to understand Christianity, you have to understand its origins. God created the universe and everything in it. God also created Lucifer, a splendid creature who brought light to the glory of God. Lucifer was once known as the son of the morning. His pride and desire to take the place of God caused God to throw him out of heaven along with one-third of the angels. Lucifer, now is Satan, ruler of the darkness. The one-third of the angels which were kicked out with Lucifer became fallen angels, principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts, or demons.
God created Adam and Eve for fellowship with Him and gave them rulership over all the kingdoms of the earth. Adam and Eve's disobedience to God’s instructions resulted in mankind's fall from God’s grace. As a result of mankind’s fall, God cursed the serpent.
After the fall, God confronted Adam, Eve, and the serpent. Each of them received a sentence for their actions. God told the serpent that there would be enmity between the seed of the woman and his seed. As a result, Adam would experience hardship while working the land. And Eve would experience difficulty giving birth.
In Genesis 3:15, God declared these powerful words, “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.” These words would prepare the way for His Word (Jesus), would become flesh. Thus, “There is good New Testament authority for seeing here the protevangelium, the first glimmer of the gospel.”
Even more, “the New Testament will unmask the figure of Satan behind the serpent (Romans 16:20; Revelation 12:9; 20:2) and show the significance of the passing over of Adam for the woman and her seed (Matthew 1:23; Galatians 4:4; and 1 Timothy 2:15).”
God, in His mercy and love, did not allow the serpent to think he had damaged everything good God created; instead, God demonstrated that new things were taking place. I love when God tells Isaiah, “Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them” (Isaiah 42:9). God gave the sentence, but the fall did not stop God from demonstrating that He is loving and merciful. The fall of man did not hinder God from declaring new things because He is a good God.
As time passed, God saw that the hearts of humans were inclined to evil. Yet God was determined to keep His plan to make peace with humans. In the background, the genealogy of Jesus was in full motion. From Adam to the Second Adam, God was already working His divine plan to offer salvation to humanity. That is why God revealed Himself to Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham.
When all the nations of the earth were pagan, God made a nation that would only serve Him. Abraham, known as the father of faith, changed the history of his life, his descendants, and his adoptive children of faith by his obedience. Because of his faith, Abraham is the father of our faith (Romans 4:16).
From Abraham to Joseph, a nation was born known as the Hebrews; they were in bondage in Egypt until God raised Moses to free them from slavery. The word Hebrew is found first in Genesis 14:13:

Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.

Hebrew means “I am a foreigner or a wanderer.”
When God called Abraham, God pulled Abraham from his known territory to wander to an unknown territory that had been given to him by faith. God told Abraham that his descendants would be strangers in a land that was not theirs. Instead, they would serve the Egyptians, who would afflict them for four hundred years.
Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, acknowledged that he dwelled in the land of Hebrews as a stranger, as his father Isaac dwelled in Canaan’s land (Genesis 37:1). Even Joseph, Jacob’s son, understood the concept that he was a foreigner in Egypt. Joseph knew that his origin was in the land of the Hebrews.

Jacob replied to Pharaoh,

The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. (Genesis 47:9)

The truth is that we are pilgrims here on earth. Primitive Christians grasped the kingdom's mindset and looked to God because they understood that we are here temporarily, yet looking forward to the spiritual things. 2 Corinthians 4:18 says, “while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”