Promise of the Redeemer
PROMISES OF THE REDEEMER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
Universal Savior Redeemer
The first promise of the Redeemer is in Genesis 3:8-15.
After Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden their eyes were opened, they saw they were naked and they hid from God. God came looking for them and called “Adam where art thou?” Eve had been deceived by Satan in the form of a serpent, she ate the forbidden fruit and gave it to Adam who ate it also. The consequences of their disobedience is detailed to Eve and Adam.
The rebuke of Satan is detailed in vs.15:“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
The woman’s seed refers to Jesus who will defeat Satan and provide redemption for humanity. Satan will bruise his heel is a reference to the crucifixion of Jesus who must pay the price for man’s sin.
God created man in His image. By breathing into his nostrils He instilled an element of His being and Adam became a living soul-a creature with intellect and will. This was also passed on to Eve.
God wanted humans to love, obey and worship Him of their own will not as robots.
Inanimate creation responds to natural forces such as wind, rain, earthquakes, etc.
Animate creatures respond to their animal instincts.
Humans are living souls made in the image of God motivated by intellect and will.
God knew before creation that Adam’s race would sin. “Christ is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8.
Enoch walked with God and Enoch was not for God took him. Genesis 5:24.
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:8. God spared him & family in the flood.
Job survived Satan’s attacks and said “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall shall I see God” Job 19:25-26. It is amazing he believed in bodily resurrection.
Second promise of the Redeemer was to Abraham. Genesis 12:1-3. “…in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”.
Deuteronomy 7:8 “…because the Lord loved you and kept the oath He swore to your forefathers…He redeemed you from the house of slavery” God preserved his people in preparation for the coming of the Redeemer Jesus Christ.
There are more than 50 promises of the redeemer in the Old Testament.
The Redeemer Jesus Christ came “in the FULLNESS OF TIME made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” Galatians 4:4-7. Sin separated man from God. Jesus restored man to fellowship with God.
His coming fulfilled all the Old Testament promises from Garden of Eden to Abraham, to King David and all the prophets.
The announcement of His coming was made to The Virgin Mary, to Joseph, to Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist, the shepherds of Bethlehem, Simeon the righteous man who was promised by the Holy Ghost that he would not die till he “…sees the Lord’s Christ”
Announcement also made to the pagan Gentile Magi from the east. This was unexpected. It signaled the fact the Redeemer would redeem Jews and Gentiles becoming the universal Savior-all the seed of Adam & Eve.
FULLNESS OF TIME included the Jews being under Roman rule. Jewish religious rulers would have stoned Jesus but Jesus must be crucified to fulfill prophecy and to die at the hands of Jews and Gentiles in order to redeem Jews and Gentiles becoming the Universal Savior of Adam’s race.