EIGHT BIBLICAL COVENANTS - Part 4

FRIDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2022.

Topic: EIGHT BIBLICAL COVENANTS – Part 4

MEMORIZE: “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”  Genesis 3:15.

SCRIPTURE READING: Genesis 3:14-21.

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. ¹⁵ And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel." ¹⁶ To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you." ¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. ¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return." ²⁰ And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. ²¹ Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.” 

2. ADAMIC - (Gen. 3:14-21)

The Adamic Covenant conditions the life of fallen man – conditions which must remain till, in the kingdom age, "the creation also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:21). 

The elements of the Adamic Covenant are:

(1) The serpent, Satan's tool, is cursed (Gen. 3:14), and becomes God's illustration in nature of the effects of sin – from the most beautiful and subtle of creatures to a loathsome reptile! The deepest mystery of the atonement is intimated here. Christ, "made sin for us," in bearing our judgment, is typified by the brazen serpent; (Num. 21:5-9; John 3:14; 2Cor. 5:21). Brass speaks of judgment – in the brazen altar, of God's judgment, and in the laver, of self-judgment.

(2) The first promise of a Redeemer (Gen. 3:15). Here begins the "Highway of the Seed," Abel, Seth, Noah (Gen. 6:8-10); Shem (Gen9:26-27); Abraham (Gen. 12:1-4; Isaac (Gen. 17:19-21); Jacob (Gen. 28:10-14); Judah (Gen. 49:10); David (2 Sam. 7:5-17); Immanuel – Christ; (Isa.7:9-14; Matt. 1:1, 20-23; 1 John 3:8; John 12:31.

(3) The changed state of the woman (Gen. 3:16). In three particulars:

(a) Multiplied sorrow in conception;

(b) motherhood linked with sorrow;

(c) the headship of the man (cf. Gen1:26-27). The entrance of sin, which is disorder, makes necessary a headship, and it is vested in man; (1 Tim. 2:11-14; Eph. 5:22-25;1Cor. 11:7-9).

(4) The earth cursed (Gen. 3:17) for man's sake. It is better for fallen man to battle with a reluctant earth than to live without toil.

(5) The inevitable sorrow of life (Gen. 3:17).

(6) The light occupation of Eden (Gen. 2:15) changed to burdensome labour (Gen3:18-19).

7). Physical death (Gen. 3:19; Rom. 5:12-21; Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Both Old and New Testaments centre on Jesus Christ. All covenants are types of Jesus. He is the fulfillment of them all. Celebrate Jesus now and always. 

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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Hosea 11-14.