“I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. This will hurt your head and hurt your heel. Gén. 3. 15
In the book “Why Am I a Christian?”, John Stott introduces us to the “Hunting Dog of Heaven”. Quoting a poem by Francis Thompson (“The Dog of Heaven”), Stott says we could compare God to a hunting dog. Using the conversions of Paul, Augustine, and CS Lewis as an example, Stott shows how God sought these men for you. After all, do we love because he loved us first?(1Jn 4. 19). Salvation is based on the fact that we have been “hunted. “
- This is evident in the early chapters of the Bible.
- In Genesis 3.
- After Adam and Eve sinned against God.
- We read two astonishing verses:.
8When they heard the voice of the Lord God, who walked through the garden when the gentle wind of the afternoon blew, man and his wife hid from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 And the Lord God called man, and asked for him:Where are you?
God walked through the garden again. He had not abandoned the couple. God approached them and kindly asked Adam, “Where are you?” God was hunting? They! Later we learned that this divine hunt is not motivated by the quality of the prey, but by the character of the hunter. Is God rich in mercy? And do you have great love? (Ephesians 2. 4).
Realizing that man and woman would not repent and choose the definitive breakdown of the relationship, God then decided to take another step and promised that although they caused the problem, he would resolve the situation. This promise is in Gen 3:15 and we can summarize it in two points:
? There would be enmity in the descendants of the serpent and the woman. Since then, we have had two descendants in human history.
? The descendant of the (singular) woman would have a final and decisive victory over the snake, and although he was wounded (would the heel be injured?), he would crush the snake’s head.
Verse 15 of Genesis 3 is one of the most precious verses in the Bible, as the theologians in history have called it “proto-evangelical,” that is, it clearly shows the promise of Jesus crucified, with his feet wounded on the cross. , but at the same time defeating and subjugating Satan. The Apostle Paul says that when the fulness of times came, God sent his Son, born of woman?(Galatians 4. 4) and that the real one? It is Christ (Galatians 3:16).
Therefore, in the first verses of the Bible, God specified all those who would be the ones who could offer us salvation, who would be the one who would solve our problem of divine alienation, sin and its consequences. the heel one day on the cross, but he would certainly win. God has made it clear to us that He will lead us through His Son. In fact, one would think that Jesus was expelled? because the Romans were ‘surrounded by dogs? ‘(Ps 22:16), but is that exactly? Hunting? That we were saved.
On this first day of advent, let us be grateful for the ransom made by Christ Jesus at his first coming, meanwhile: the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior?(Titus 2. 13).