"Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do."
All Praise Glory and Honor to YHVH ALONE!
This guy is clearly preaching to the choir, the wall of text is impossible to reply to here.
So I did so here, debunking every point.
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❖ Did God Hide the Messiah in Eden?
Before Sinai thundered.
Before David sang.
Before Isaiah saw the suffering Servant.
Before Bethlehem, Calvary, and the empty tomb, God planted the first promise of redemption in the ruins of Eden.
Genesis 3:15:
“And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
This verse is often called the Protoevangelium, the first gospel. Not because every detail is unfolded yet, but because the seed of the entire redemptive story is planted here.
Humanity has fallen. Sin has entered the world. Death now reigns.
Yet immediately after the fall, God speaks not only judgment.
He speaks hope.
Not man reaching toward God.
God reaching toward man.
❖ “I will put enmity…”
Notice who acts.
God does not merely predict hostility. He says:
“I will put…”
Salvation begins with divine initiative.
God Himself establishes a war between two kingdoms, two allegiances, two seeds.
This battle unfolds through the entire Tanakh.
Cain against Abel.
Pharaoh against Israel.
Haman against the Jews.
Herod against Messiah.
The dragon against the woman.
History is not random.
A spiritual war is moving beneath the surface.
❖ “Between your offspring and hers…”
The conflict widens from individuals to lines.
Not physical descendants of Satan, but spiritual allegiance.
Jesus later said:
“You belong to your father, the devil...”
John 8:44
John wrote:
“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.”
1 John 3:8
But Genesis also begins narrowing a specific line.
Eve.
Seth.
Noah.
Shem.
Abraham.
Isaac.
Jacob.
Judah.
David.
The text continually asks:
Why this family?
Why this tribe?
Why this house?
Because God is preserving a promise.
❖ “Her offspring…”
This wording is unusual.
Genealogies normally emphasize the man's line, yet here Scripture says her seed.
Hebrew:
זַרְעָהּ (zar'ah)
Why the unexpected wording?
At minimum, the Deliverer would truly enter humanity. He would come through the human family.
But many see a mystery beginning to emerge.
Isaiah later writes:
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son...”
Isaiah 7:14
Paul writes:
“God sent his Son, born of a woman...”
Galatians 4:4
The promised seed comes.
Not merely as a teacher.
Not merely as a reformer.
But as the serpent-crusher.
❖ Eden may be more than a garden
Many Jewish scholars have noticed Eden contains sanctuary imagery.
• cherubim guarding sacred space
• an eastward entrance
• Adam commissioned to "work and keep" the garden, language later used for priestly service
Humanity was expelled from God's presence.
Then Scripture begins a movement back.
Eden.
Tabernacle.
Temple.
Messiah.
Kingdom.
The Bible is not merely about escaping earth.
It is about restoration.
The return of God's presence among His people.
❖ “He will crush your head...”
This is decisive victory language.
A strike to the heel wounds.
A crushed head destroys.
The serpent would wound the Deliverer.
The Deliverer would destroy the serpent.
At Calvary, Satan may have thought victory had arrived.
Messiah was betrayed.
Mocked.
Crucified.
Buried.
But the cross was not Satan's triumph.
It was his defeat.
Hebrews says:
"...by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil.”
Hebrews 2:14
Colossians says:
“...he disarmed the powers and authorities...”
Colossians 2:15
The heel was struck.
The head was crushed.
❖ One Messiah or two?
Jewish thought wrestled with a tension.
How can Messiah suffer and reign?
How can He be pierced and yet rule forever?
This led some Jewish traditions to distinguish:
• Messiah ben Yosef, the suffering one
• Messiah ben David, the reigning King
But perhaps the Tanakh was not pointing to two Messiahs.
Perhaps it was pointing to two comings.
First suffering.
Then glory.
First wounds.
Then the crown.
Arnold Fruchtenbaum observed:
“The rabbis struggled with two pictures of Messiah: one suffering and one reigning. The New Testament resolves the tension through two comings of one Messiah.”
Isaiah saw suffering:
“He was pierced for our transgressions...”
Isaiah 53:5
Daniel saw glory:
“One like a son of man... was given authority, glory and sovereign power.”
Daniel 7:13-14
❖ Revelation completes Genesis
The serpent of Eden becomes:
“That ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan...”
Revelation 12:9
The Bible opens with a serpent deceiving in a garden.
It closes with the serpent defeated, the curse removed, and the King reigning.
“No longer will there be any curse.”
Revelation 22:3
Genesis 3 explains why the world is broken.
Genesis 3:15 explains why it is not hopeless.
Before Adam and Eve even left Eden, God had already announced that grace was on the way.
A wounded Redeemer.
A victorious King.
A promise planted in Eden that would one day shake the world.
McDonald’s is rolling out an AI model named Archy who will replace human drive-thru attendants.
I wonder how many jobs Archy will take from human beings.
This job displacement is happening much quicker than most people expected.
@Christians_era Did you read the ten commandments?
God commands to make no image of him.
Then says, "God is not a man"
Then says, "I appeared without form to keep you from idolatry"