“All people are united to one another both by their ancestry and by their responsibility to their Creator God. But at the same time all the world’s people are divided by geography and language and ethnicity and culture – and most of all by their fallenness and sin, which separates them both from God and each other. So, what is the answer for a people so united and yet profoundly divided? The answer is embedded deep in Genesis where Adam and Eve suffered division from God and each other through their sin, and God responded to Satan with an oracle that promised that one of her offspring would undo his work by crushing his head:
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
That was a divine prophesy of the cross, describing how Satan will strike the heel of Christ (the suffering of the cross) and how Christ will crush Satan’s head (through Christ’s death and glorious resurrection). The only hope for Adam and Eve, who were so sundered from God and each other (and from the whole world, which would be likewise divided), is through the offspring of Adam and Eve – and ultimately Jesus Christ.”
— R. Kent Hughes, Genesis: Beginning and Blessing (Preaching the Word)
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