ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki Sanuali 14, 2023

The Seed of Promise זרע

Ko e Hako ‘o e Palomesi 

GENESIS 3:15

"I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR OFFSPRING AND HER OFFSPRING; HE SHALL BRUISE YOUR HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL."

GENESIS 3:15

te u ‘ai ke mo fetāufehi‘a‘aki, ‘a koe mo e fefine, pea ko ho hako mo hono hako; ‘e laiki ‘e ia ho ‘ulu, pea te ke laiki ‘e koe ‘a hono muiva‘e.

The Hebrew word for seed or offspring is zera. It can refer to the seed of a plant, the semen of a man, or the descendant(s) of people. It sounds strange to our ears, but zera is at the heart of the Old Testament's way of Gospel preaching. We first hear this "Seed Gospel" in Genesis 3:15. Eve's zera and the serpent's zera will be locked in a long and fierce war. Good and evil will never sign a peace treaty. Their warfare will wage until finally both a head and a heel are bruised."

Israel's entire history chronicles this coming seed. Each genealogy keeps track of its unfolding. It gradually narrows from Eve's seed, to Abraham's, to Judah's, to David's: "I will raise up your zera after you," God says to David, and "establish his kingdom" (2 Sam. 7:12). This regal seed of David has a peculiar throne, however. It is a cross. And on it, his heel crushes the head of the serpent even as the fangs of the serpent strike his heel. By death, this seed destroys death. And by him we are made the seed, the offspring, the children of our heavenly Father.

O Seed of David, our King, deliver us from evil and bring us into your kingdom of life.