gard to these prophecies is that the one who was to come was to be born a man, of the seed of Abraham and David.
To the serpent in the Garden of Eden the Lord said, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Gen. 3:15.) We understand, of course, that the serpent was a type or representative of the power of evil which was to be at enmity with the human race; that there should be a perpetual conflict between them; but that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, yet at great personal cost. It is the first apparent prophecy of the coming of a deliverer.
To Abraham the Lord said: "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." (Gen. 22:18.) The Lord repeated this promise at various times to Abraham and also to Isaac and to Jacob.
Another prophecy is contained in Jacob's blessing to Judah: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." (Gen. 49:10.)
