From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 01 of 26 · Genesis 3:15

The seed of the woman

The first promise in the Bible is a war. A heel will be struck, a head will be crushed, and the promise names a He.

The text
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.

The word

זֶרַע

seed, offspring, a child in the line (zera)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01They hide

    Genesis 3:8

    They hear the Lord God walking in the garden. They sew leaves. They hide among the trees. Sin starts with a meal and a lie. It does not start with a code.

  2. 02A sentence on the snake

    Genesis 3:14

    God speaks to the serpent first. You are cursed. You will go on your belly, and you will eat dust. Then the next sentence names a war that is not over when the garden closes.

  3. 03Her seed. A He.

    Genesis 3:15

    There will be enmity between the snake and the woman, and between his seed and hers. He will crush your head. You will strike His heel. The Hebrew points at a person, not a slogan.

  4. 04Born of a woman

    Galatians 4:4

    When the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law. Paul is not decoding Genesis. He is naming who arrived.

  5. 05Flesh, then the one who holds death

    Hebrews 2:14

    He shared their humanity so that by His death He might break the one who holds the power of death. The heel is struck. The head does not win.

Read it this way

Adam and Eve have just eaten what God forbade. They hide. God finds them. Then He speaks to the snake. It is not a poem. It is a sentence with a He in it.

Zera (זֶרַע) is seed: a child, a family line. It is not an idea. Shuph (שׁוּף) is to crush, or to strike. The snake will hit that child’s heel. That child will crush the snake’s head. From the first sin, the Bible already has a war. It already has an ending.

Paul says the Son was born of a woman. Romans says God will crush Satan under your feet. Hebrews says Jesus shared our flesh so He could break the one who holds death. The first good news is a Person.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

Galatians 4:4Romans 16:20Hebrews 2:14

Some sayJesus is hidden in a code. Crack the Old Testament and you find Him.

The first good news is spoken out loud. This sentence was waiting for a Son.

Open Genesis 3

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.