God’s hand in our redemption was revealed right after the devil succeeded in tempting Eve.

The LORD God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:14-15

Kretzmann wrote the following quote about God’s hand back in 1922. Read it he writes it a lot better than I can.

“There would be everlasting and uncompromising enmity between the descendants of the woman, on the one hand, and the devil and all satanic powers, on the other. And this enmity, which would show itself in continual warfare, would finally have its culmination in the event that the one great Seed of the Woman, He to whom the entire Old Testament looks forward, would utterly crush the head of the serpent, of Satan, while the latter, in turn, would not be able to do more than crush the heel of the Victor. To overcome the devil, to annihilate his power, that is a feat beyond the ability of any mere man; only God is able to do this. Christ, the promised Seed of the woman, born of the descendants of Eve, and yet the almighty God, is the strong Champion of mankind, who has delivered all men from the power of Satan and all his mighty allies. True, indeed, in doing so His heel was bruised, He was obliged to die, according to His human nature. But deliverance was effected, salvation was gained by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, as the representative of all mankind.” Kretzmann

God’s hand in bringing His only begotten Son into the world through the woman Mary.

Messiah Jesus humbled himself as a man born of a woman, born under the law. Galatians 4:1-7 (Galatians 3:23-29; Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 2:1-7)

Mary was was made pregnant by the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18-25)

Thus Messiah Jesus was born of the flesh and of the Spirit. (John 3:1-26) In that chapter, Jesus explained God’s plan would come to fruition.

“Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans.” John 3:1.

Nicodemus came to Jesus with a series of questions and Messiah Jesus answered them, but he couldn’t understand heavenly things.

“Yeshua answered him,
“Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” John 3:10-21 emphasis added.

All Scripture quoted is from the World Messianic Bible.

~ Bill Bremer

Bill Bremer is Founder and Managing Director at Kingdom Relationships Colorado.

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