GREATER BLESSING THROUGH THE NEW COVENANT

AFTER Adam and Eve sinned, Jehovah pronounced judgment on Satan, and the one who deceived Eve, saying: "I shall put enmity  between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in head and you will bruise him in the heel." (Genesis 3:15) When Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River in 29 C.E., the Seed promised in Eden finally appeared. At his death on a torture stake in  33 C.E., a part of that ancient prophecy was fulfilled. Satan had 'bruised the heel' of the Seed.

Happily, that wound, while excruciatingly painful, was not permanent. Jesus was raised from the dead an immortal spirit and ascended to his Father in heaven, where he offered the value of his shed blood as "a ransom in exchange for many."  Thus, his own words came true: "The Son of man must be lifted up, that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.  For God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."  (Matthew  20:28; John 3:14-16; Hebrews 9:12-14) 

Next time: The New Covenant

From the Watchtower magazine, 1998