The Sacred Secret Revealed!

How these prophecies would be fulfilled remained a mystery until the Seed actually made his appearance. Galatians 4:4 says: "When the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son, who came to be out of a woman." In the year 2 B.C.E., an angel told a Jewish virgin name Mary: "Look! you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you are to call his name Jesus. This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High; and Jehovah God will give him the throne of David his father . . . Holy Spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason also what is born will be called holy, God's Son." - Luke 1:31, 32, 35.

Later, Jehovah transferred the life of his Son from heaven to Mary's womb, so that he came to be out of a woman. Mary was an imperfect woman. Yet, Jesus did not inherit imperfection from her, for he was "God's Son." At the same time, Jesus' human parents, as descendants of David provided Him with both the natural and the legal rights of an heir of David. (Acts 13:22, 23) At Jesus' baptism in 29 C.E., Jehovah anointed him with holy spirit and said: "This is my Son, the beloved." (Matthew 3:16, 17) At last, the Seed had arrived! (Galatians 3:16) It was time to reveal more about the sacred secret. -2 Timothy 1:10.

During his ministry, Jesus identified the serpent of Genesis 3:15 as Satan and the serpent's seed as Satan's followers. (Matthew 23:33; John 8:44) Later, it was revealed how all of these would be crushed forever. (Revelation 20:1-3, 10, 15) And the woman was identified as "the Jerusalem above," Jehovah's heavenly wifelike organization of spirit creatures. -Galatians 4:26; Revelation 12:1-6.

Next time: The New Covenant

Draw Close To Jehovah, 2002