Yes — Genesis 3:15 is God’s first prophetic promise of a Redeemer, the seed of the woman, Jesus Christ.
Immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, God spoke to the serpent and said He would put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between their seeds. Les Feldick teaches that the promised “seed of the woman” is Christ, the Redeemer who would defeat the serpent. Thus, Genesis 3:15 launches the promise of redemption that runs throughout Scripture.
Genesis 3:15 — This is the verse where God first declares that the seed of the woman will bruise the serpent’s head, pointing to the promised Redeemer.
Genesis 3:15 is part of God’s response to the fall. After the serpent is cursed, God says, “And 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 verse itself does not use the word Redeemer and does not name Jesus. It says there will be enmity between the serpent and the woman’s seed, and that one will bruise the head while the other bruises the heel. Later Scripture, especially Galatians 3:16, is needed to show who the seed is.
Les Feldick calls Genesis 3:15 “one of the primary verses of the book of Genesis” and identifies it as “the first prophecy… of the coming of the Redeemer.” He emphasizes that “just as soon as Adam sinned back there in Genesis chapter 3, what did God come right back and promise in Genesis 3, verse 15? … a Redeemer, who would be the seed of the woman, who of course is the Christ.” For Les, the promised seed is singular and personal: Christ. He connects the verse to Galatians 3:16, where Paul says the seed is Christ. Les also teaches that this verse begins what he calls the “scarlet thread of redemption” that runs through all of Scripture. The seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head, while the serpent would bruise the Redeemer’s heel — a victory and a suffering that Les places at the cross. He even says the promise was clear enough that Eve looked for the Redeemer when her first son was born.
Les Feldick teaches that the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15 is Christ. He connects this to Galatians 3:16, where Paul says the promises were made to Abraham’s seed, singular, “who is Christ.” In other words, the Redeemer promised in the garden is not many deliverers but one specific person, Jesus Christ.
According to Les, God did not delay. “Just as soon as Adam sinned,” God responded by promising a Redeemer. In fact, “the moment he sinned, the very next thing God does is puts in gear the whole plan of redemption where He is promising the coming of the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15.” The promise came directly after the fall, before any other covenant or plan was revealed.
Les teaches that the seed of the woman would “defeat the serpent at the cross,” but the serpent would “cause the suffering of the cross, and consequently bruise the heel of the Redeemer.” This makes Genesis 3:15, in Les’s words, the first promise concerning Christ in the flesh.
Les points to Eve’s response when Cain was born to show that the promise was understood. According to Les, “evidently the Lord had shared this much with Adam and Eve” that He would come back born of the woman and become their Redeemer. So when she said she had gotten a man from the LORD, she thought the promised seed had come.
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are totally ignorant of who Jesus Christ really is. And I've shared it with my other class, and I'll never forget years and years ago when I first started teaching in just a little home Bible class of people from various denominations, and I'll never forget when I made the statement that Jesus Christ was the creator of Genesis 1. And listen, mouths dropped all over the room.
Redeemer promised immediately after the fall
God came right back after Adam sinned and promised a Redeemer, the seed of the woman, who is Christ — and this includes deliverance of all creation from the curse.
First prophecy of the Redeemer
Genesis 3:15 is one of the primary verses of Genesis and the first prophecy of the coming Redeemer, spoken to Satan after the fall.
Seed is Christ
The promised seed of Genesis 3:15 is not many seeds but one seed; Galatians 3:16 identifies that seed as Christ.
Seed of the woman crushes the serpent
Genesis 3:15 begins the scarlet thread of redemption, and its promised seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
God put redemption in gear when Adam sinned
The moment Adam sinned, God set the whole plan of redemption in motion by promising the seed of the woman, beginning the scarlet cord of redemption through Scripture.
Eve expected the promise to be fulfilled in her first son
Eve understood the promise well enough that when Cain was born, she thought she had received the promised man of the LORD who would defeat Satan.
Victory and suffering at the cross
The seed of the woman would defeat the serpent at the cross, while the serpent would bruise the Redeemer’s heel — the first promise of Christ in the flesh.
Genesis 3:15: And 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.
This is the foundational promise of a coming seed who would defeat the serpent.
Galatians 3:16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Paul identifies the promised seed as Christ, which Les uses to explain the seed of the woman.
Genesis 4:1: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Eve’s response at Cain’s birth reflects her expectation of the promised seed.
Romans 8:21: Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Les connects this verse to Genesis 3:15 to show that redemption includes all creation, not just the human race.
Genesis 3:15 is God’s declaration to the serpent after the fall. It says there will be enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between their seeds, and that the woman’s seed will bruise the serpent’s head while the serpent bruises his heel.
Les Feldick teaches that the seed of the woman is Christ. He connects this to Galatians 3:16, where Paul says the promised seed is Christ, the Redeemer.
Yes, according to Les Feldick. He calls Genesis 3:15 “the first prophecy… of the coming of the Redeemer,” spoken immediately after Adam and Eve sinned.
Les teaches that the seed of the woman, Christ, would defeat the serpent at the cross. The bruising of the serpent’s head pictures that victory, while the bruising of the Redeemer’s heel pictures the suffering of the cross.
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