God gave us the solution right in the middle of passing judgement.  Yes, God had to punish Adam and Eve, but He also showed them mercy by sharing the “good news” at the same time.  The good news, is that God has a plan to save us from the mess created by sin and the fall.  The word “gospel” means: good news!  This is the first place in the Bible the gospel was given. 

Genesis 3:15:  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. 

There is so much behind this one verse.  Without going too deep, and taking up a couple chapters of my book, I’ll give you this:  When God told Adam and Eve that He has a plan to bring them a Savior, He purposely left out most of the detail that we all have now.  God didn’t tell them who the Savior would be, and He didn’t tell them when He would come.  He didn’t tell them the Savior would have to die, or that He would rise again.  All God said is that the seed of woman, (seed is singular) would bring down the enemy (Satan) and restore all things back to perfect. 

Adam and Eve could choose to believe in this promise from God, or they could follow Satan and look to create their own paradise on earth.  The word “seed,” is the reproductive material men carry, so there has to be a reason God said “her” seed. Women don’t have seed, only men do. How could a woman have a child without a man involved in the conception process?  It would take a virgin birth.  There is only one human ever born who did not get Adam’s corrupt, sinful, and fallen nature passed down through the normal human conception process.  That was Jesus! 

The snake was also there when God gave the good news to Adam and Eve.  The promised Messiah was anything but good news to Satan though.  He took this Word from God and started working to stop it.  Since Satan is a created being, he is no match for the God who created him.  So, Satan uses man to try and stop the seed from ever being born, or by corrupting the seed line, so none were worthy to be a savior.  Eve thought her first born son Cain was going to be the Messiah, so Satan turned Cain into a murderer and he killed his brother Abel.   That shows you how fast sin moved, when the 1st kid born on earth, kills his only brother because he was jealous. 

This pattern of God keeping the seed promise alive, while Satan does all he can to stop it, happens over and over again throughout all of history.  Every God-fearing Jewish mother from the time of Eve to the time of Mary, prayed and hoped their child would be the promised Messiah.  This made the Jewish people Satan’s #1 target.  If he could corrupt the seed line, or kill any who might be in it, Satan figured he could disrupt God’s plan. 

The verse also tells us that Satan would bruise the future Savior on the heel.  In human terms, you can strike a fatal blow to the head, but no life-threatening damage comes from a strike on the heel.  This was God’s point in bringing up this comparison.  The deeper meaning behind it was revealed when Satan thought he won by helping get Jesus killed, only to later realize it was just a strike on the heel, because Jesus arose from the dead and is alive now.    

On the other hand, Jesus dealt a death blow to Satan’s head.  Satan could no longer hold the fear of death over us, because Jesus rising from the dead would give us life after death.  Even though the true end of Satan is not yet here, God is still in control, and Jesus is ruling from His throne in heaven. Make no mistake about it though, Satan is here on earth with a multitude of fallen angels, always looking to stop God’s next step.  The problem is, Satan is not all knowing like God is, and so He is always a step behind and too late.  In fact, God utilizes Satan and his minions to bring about Jesus’ return, so there is no doubt Satan can only go as far as God lets him.    

It was impossible for anyone born before Jesus to know all that verse 15 meant.  It didn’t become truly clear until Jesus came, died, and rose again.  God slowly revealed the full plan over time, until the day Jesus was born.  He did this to keep the plan secret enough that Satan would not know how it would play out.  God did give the nation of Israel plenty of clues that would help them recognize when the real Savior came, but as you may know, most still rejected Him when He showed up.    

The Bible tells us that until Jesus comes back again, this place will only get worse. Almost every scientist in the world thinks the earth is falling apart.  They believe mankind is causing it, and if we would just stop eating cows, stop having kids, and build more wind farms, we can stop the damage.  Others are drastically searching for life on other planets, trying to find a place to move to when this earth goes away.  It is no coincidence that most of humankind has a feeling that the earth is wearing out.  Before anyone ever thought about it, the Bible declared it over 2,000 years ago.  What are the odds? 

In Genesis 8:22 God says that all will remain predictable on the earth from the time after the flood, until the end.  Seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night, will never stop happening.  Climate change scientists say nothing will be predictable, because we are seeing weather events and ice melts, that are unparalleled in history.  They argue for the opposite of what the Bible says.  Climate change predictions see chaos, where summer becomes winter, or the opposite.  They are always looking for “never happened before” events to support their predictions.  God says everything in our environment will work as usual until the end of the earth. It’s part of a cycle that God created, and it won’t change or go away until the earth goes away.     

So, the nightmare scenarios that climatologists have thrown at us for years, is all just part of God’s plan.  Man isn’t speeding up or slowing down any of it.  God set the timing of it when He cursed the earth after Adam and Eve’s sin. From that day forward, earth was like a ticking timebomb, waiting to be destroyed.  For those of us that know this place is not home, there is no need for doom and gloom, because God replaces His creation with a new heavens and earth.  It’s the same place we read about in Revelation chapter 21.  If you know your Bible, then you will know when we are getting close to the end of earth.  I’ll save that discussion for later.

God wants us to be good stewards of this planet and respect His creation, but holding on to a lie that we can stop God’s plan by driving electric cars is willfully ignoring Bible truth.  Letting the fear they are selling you invade your life is wasted stress. The earth is passing away.  Everything in this world wears out and eventually stops working, just look around. Your car doesn’t start running better, it always runs down.  The same with every single thing on this earth.  Can you think of anything that gets better and more efficient the longer it is used?  Do you understand now why the world makes climate change such a priority?  Why do they want to scare you into believing that you are responsible for the earth’s decay, and not Genesis 3? 

It’s an attack against God, and Bible truth.  If there is no judge, there is no judgement.  If there is no fear, they you don’t need them for a solution.  The Bible makes clear in many places throughout, that the world is ending because of a judgement against sin.  I wrote about this earlier; unbelievers don’t want to believe in a creator God, because that implies that there is someone they need to be accountable to. Of course, they can’t believe the reason why the universe is wearing out, or they would be admitting there is a higher authority.   

Almost every fear that the world tries to get you believe is debunked in the Bible.  Again, I ask you to think about why they want you to be scared about this place ending?  Why do they want you to think that we can do anything about it? 

The next major historical event the world does everything they can to discredit, is the flood from Genesis 7.  The worldwide flood Noah and everyone alive at that time experienced changed everything.  It changed our topography and our ecosystem.  For the first time it rained, and millions of people, animals, and birds drown.  From this point in time forward, man would eat animals, and animals would eat each other.  Most animals were no longer tame, and God put the fear of man in them so they weren’t an easy target.

The flood was brought as judgement on the people of earth because they had become so wicked that every thought of theirs was to do evil.  After the fall, and before God brought the flood, Satan was working overtime to stop the seed line from moving forward.  He had his fallen angels indwell human men and impregnate the women of earth.  This was Satan’s way of trying to corrupt the lineage leading to Jesus.

 Now, think for a second about what it took for God to flood this earth and start over with only Noah and his family.  The place was nothing but evil, 24×7. Outside of one family, no one was worth saving.  That is how bad the world was then.  As a teaser for later in the book, Jesus told us in the New Testament that when He comes back again, the earth will be as wicked and evil as it was right before the flood.  I can tell you it is bad right now, and getting worse, but I don’t think we are quite as bad as the people who drowned in the flood were….at least not yet.  One could easily argue that we are definitely seeing an increase in the presence of spiritual darkness nowadays.   

So, the real reason why the world of unbelievers has to target the flood story is this: If we can prove there was a flood, then we prove there was a judgement. If there is proof of judgement, then they have to believe there is a judge. If they believe this, then they have to believe the judge is coming back.  Still seeing the pattern?  It’s not just the fact that the flood happened, it is the fact that a similar judgement is coming again.  That is why they deny it happened, and they tell us the story is just allegory.  A righteous God, brought judgment on an evil world.  This is exactly what the world doesn’t want to acknowledge.  Again, the book of Genesis has so many foundational truths, that Satan is be best served when people cause confusion and doubt about its authenticity or meaning.    

Someday, Lord willing, I will show you guys how the geological columns and the fossil records prove the flood, and opens up more questions about what scientists say happened.  You have to jump through hoops, make assumptions, and outright try to fool people into believing their eyes are deceiving them, to proclaim our earth supports the evolutionary model.  There are millions of animals that all died at the same time from the flood, and were buried instantly, creating fossils groupings that scientists can’t explain. What science tells us happened is more unbelievable than the belief of a worldwide flood.  The earth’s crust was opened up and mass amount of water shot out from the earth.  This should have left an impression we can see today, and it did.  Scientists just won’t show you, because they can’t believe in God.  It’s tough to hold onto something as truth, when all the physical evidence of a worldwide flood is everywhere.  But who is going to challenge the experts? 

One more thing I have to tell you about is in Genesis 10. This is where God documented the beginning of all the nations on earth. This chapter is unparalleled when you compare it to any other ancient writings about the origins of mankind.  There is no document in history that comes close to explaining the beginnings of modern nations and cultures like Genesis does.  Many of the names of Noah’s grandsons can be directly traced to nations of people still existing today.   Other names have lost their meaning and their people groups are a mystery today.   From this chapter in Genesis, we know that the world we see today, was settled by a few families moving outward from a place called Babel.  All of this took place about 4,500 years ago.  I have a map for you of where these descendants of Noah ended up. 

Babel is a city that most of the people settled in after the flood.  God told the people to be fruitful, multiply, spread out and fill the earth.  They didn’t listen, and instead congregated in big cities like Babel, and built a huge tower.  God forced their hand by changing their languages, which then caused them all to move away from each other.  Mistrust started to build with the people they couldn’t understand, so they spread out into groups and families by language.  They refused to listen to God, so He forced their hand.  Now you know why your Aunt Steph tells me I am babbling a times, and where that word came from.  Read the story of the Tower of Babel and check it out. 

I find it interesting that in today’s world, we are moving back to one universal language, English.  Hmmm, I wonder if that is a sign of something?   I guess to find out, you are going to have to read the end of the book.     

After sin came into this world from Adam and Eve disobeying God’s law, death also came.  If you notice, before the flood people lived to be several hundreds of years old.  The oldest person to ever live was Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old. There are some interesting theories about why people lived longer before the flood, and what the flood did to change our atmosphere and climate.  I’ll save that for a future study.

The rest of the book of Genesis is focused on the nation of Israel.  We learn how they were formed, and what they went through as they grew into a nation. Genesis takes us all the way until Jacob (Israel) and his family move into the land of Egypt, where they would later become slaves. 

In the background, throughout all Genesis, we have Satan trying to get in the way of God’s promise of a Savior, and God doing what He does to ensure the seed lines moves forward. We know who succeeded because the Savior did in fact come!