A great deal has happened since I last wrote in the blog. But the most traumatic was the death of my brother, John who died of cancer on the 25th of May 2010.

So it might be for John that I'm writing this and then again I might just think it's for John. How would I know?

So what am I writing about today?

I'm writing about the following:

a. Why did God create a people for himself? What was the purpose?

b. Prophesying a finished product.

Gen 3:14,15

14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life."

15 "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring ^{a]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">}and hers; he will crush ^{b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">}your head, and you will strike his heel."

Here's the reason that I think this is a messianic passage and what it means:

I think first of all that God is talking to a real serpent. Why? because he is going to crawl on his belly all the rest of his days. I don't know any passage of scripture that tells me that Satan crawled on his belly and ate dust all his life. So he must have been talking to the snake. I think God's focus changes now onto the one who caused all this to happen, Satan, because He says I will put enmity between you and the woman. Note here that he doesn't say " i will put enmity between you and women." He also doesn't use a phrase which I would have used "I will put enmity between your species and mankind or the human race." No he says "I will put enmity between you (The devil or Satan) and the woman."

Which woman was this? It was Eve. So this womans offspring and Satan's offspring were to be at war with each other and their offspring were going to be at war also. But, you might interject here and say but Eve was the mother of all. You might say, she was the first woman so it stands to reason that her off spring would be at war with Satan. That's a good point but it doesn't make sense.

Read again verse

¹⁵ And I will put enmity

between you and the woman,
and between your offspring ^{a]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">}and hers;
he will crush ^{b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">}your head,
and you will strike his heel."

Surely the 4th line should read. The women will crush your off springs head

and you will strike her heel?

I'm not going to get into the offspring of Satan because it would take too long to explain but suffice it to say that it does mention the offspring of Satan. Or the decedents of Satan.

I believe the latter part of this passage is referring to two particular individuals one being Mary and the other being Jesus.

Read Revelation 12:3-9

³Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.⁴His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. ⁵She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. ⁶The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

⁷And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.⁸But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

I have read some of the best commentaries on this passage and they say it refers to the church. that the child who is born is the Church. But how do they make the child represent the Church? I don't know. It seems quite clear to me that the woman is Mary and the child is Jesus. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. Of course if you believe that the book of Revelation is still to be fulfilled then you will have a problem with that passage but if you believe as I do that the book of Revelation was written before the destruction of Jerusalem and was written about the period prior to and up to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 then it isn't a problem.

So Satan was going to meet his match somewhere in the future and his adversary was going to be a male.

Moving on.

God had some kind of plan in his head. He had to to fix this problem of sin in the lives of these people. How to do it Mmmm. Oh yes I will, in the future, bring to the earth some one who will deliver them from sin. But, he thinks, it can't be just anyone, it must be some one who can show these beings that I have created what I expect from them. Oh wait he thinks to himself, they all ready know what I expect and they couldn't live up to my expectations.

I know I'll come down to the earth when the time is right and I will personally deliver them from this bind that they have got themselves into.

So God chooses a group of people to be "His" people a people through whom the messiah would be delivered, ready to come to earth, as a human being and deliver them from their sin.

Well to make a long story even longer the people just stuff it up all the time they can't keep their hands off of the treasures around them. They can't even do the simplest things without getting something wrong and what's worse is they think that they are special people. They have become arrogant and think that God owes them for all the things they have done for him.

Then about BC400 Malachi is out shopping and he gets a message on his mobile

Malachi 4:1-5

"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. ² But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. ³ Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty.

⁴ "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

⁵ "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. ⁶ He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

Matt 11:13 -15

John was Elijah. Jesus said John the baptizer is Elijah. Don't take my word for it. Read it.

¹³For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. ¹⁴And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. ¹⁵He who has ears, let him hear.

Now while you were reading that passage did you happen to notice this bit: For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. All, All, All the Prophets and the law. Let me just rewrite that. All, All, All the Prophets and the law. prophesied UNTIL John. I don't know how to make it any clearer. After John there were no more prophets.

And one more thing in Luke 21:22 Jesus says:

²²For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.

Did you read that bit in there that said " in fulfillment of all that has been written."

Jerusalem (destroyed and never rebuilt) in AD70 was the fulfillment of all that was written. There was and never will be any prophesy fulfilled after AD 70

Matt 11:10 - 17

'I will send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.'^{c]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">} ¹¹I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹²From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. ¹³For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. ¹⁴And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. ¹⁵He who has ears, let him hear.

¹⁶"To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
¹⁷" 'We played the flute for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge
and you did not mourn

I can't write it any clearer

God said in Malachi to the chosen people get your sinning over with because I'm coming. This is your last chance the Messiah is coming in judgement on you or he's coming to reward you.

Luke writes ²²For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.