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1 | What does Genesis 3:24 mean? | Gen 3:24 | following him | 126754 | ||
Country Girl; When God gave prophecies to the OT, prophets it was in several different forms. Words were more common but there are many cases where a person’s action was the prophecy. In addition, the prophetic was given in symbolisms such as the sacrifices in the OT were prophetic symbols of Christ. Here in Gen we have the tree of life, which is a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, Him being our source of eternal life. It is through no other name that we be saved than His. How the angels guarding the way to the tree of life can be seen as prophetic is that the lineage of Jesus Christ has from the very beginning been the target of Satan to destroy the promise of redemption and his destruction. Here are a few examples: 1. Cain and Able – Cain as the firstborn should have had the messianic line through him yet because of his murder of his brother he forfeits all to Seth. Your can see the same principle in the sons of Jacob. Rueben, Simeon and Levi, forfeit their rights because of the sins they committed. The next one in line was Judah through which the messianic line came. I find it also interesting that Cain killed the one who was offering the blood sacrifice. 2. By the time of Noah, the world had become so corrupt that God destroyed all that had the breath of life all except Noah. The plan for redemption is still on. 3. When Israel went into Egypt, they became their slaves. At the time of Moses, the Pharaoh had decided to destroy all male children. This was an attempt at genocide. The seed was considered to come through males to kill all the males were to wipe out the race and the messianic line. This failed when God raised up Moses and delivered Israel. 4. The Ruler ship of Judah often went through times when much of the house was destroyed in an attempt to usurp the throne. 2 Chr. 22 tells of how all of the children of the king were murdered by an evil woman trying to take control. Unknown to her one of the children was hidden by the priests in the temple until he was about six or seven years old when they put him on the throne. This was king Joash. And so once again, the line is protected from being wiped out. 5. During the reign of Hezekiah, the king of Assyria came and laid siege to Jerusalem. Their intent was to destroy the city and the rulers in it. If they had succeeded, Hezekiah would have been killed and the messianic line ended. God sent one angel who killed 185,000 Assyrians. (If one angel could do that, why would God need to put two to guard the way to the tree of life?) 6. The genealogy of Jesus, as shown in Matt 1, records His ancestors back to Abraham. One man mentioned is Jehoiachin. He is interesting because he was the last king before Israel was taken to Babylon. It is also on him that God placed a blood (generational) curse in that no descendant of his would ever sit on the throne again see Jer. 22:24-30. This means that Joseph (of Joseph and Mary fame) had the legal right to the throne but could not rule because he was Jehoiachin descendant. So that ends the messianic line through the legal rulers of Israel because the messiah was to rule on David’s throne, or so it appears. Jesus is Joseph’s son but only by adoption. Jesus did not carry any of Joseph’s genes and could inherit the throne. This is why in Gen. it mentions the seed of the woman not the seed of the man. However, here we have another problem Jesus in order to sit on the throne of David, which the Messiah was to do; He had to be of David’s blood. Here we go to the genealogy in Luke. This genealogy follows Jesus ancestry back to Adam. Here it mentions Joseph son of Heli. Joseph was actually Heli’s son in law. This is actually Mary’s line and it goes back to David. Not through Solomon, but through another one of David’s sons, Nathan. Jesus had the legal right to the throne through Joseph and the blood right through Mary. Both of these conditions had to have been met in the savior of the world. Satan’s attempt to eliminate the Messianic line through the sins of his ancestors again fails. 7. Herod’s attempt to murder the King of the Jews is another attempt by Satan to destroy the way to the Tree of Life. All these are examples of how the way to the Tree (Jesus) was threatened by direct and indirect means to eliminate it. Yet when God placed the angels to guard the way to the Tree of Life in Gen. He promised and foretold that the way to the real Tree of Life (Jesus) would be protected. Blessings to you |
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2 | What does Genesis 3:24 mean? | Gen 3:24 | C.S.M. | 157213 | ||
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