Tracing the Line of the Messiah: A Bible Study

By Laura Noel

In a moment, all eternity changed.

In this seven-week Bible study, you will journey through time studying various individuals God worked through to usher His Son into the world and the various individuals Satan worked through in a desperate but futile attempt to thwart God's plan for redemption. From Pharaoh to Haman to Herod, Satan's ugly

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Aug 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781637692974

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Tracing

the Line of the

Messiah

Laura Noel

Tracing the Line of the Messiah

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Copyright © 2021 by Laura Noel

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Introduction

In the book of Genesis, we are told God created man and woman in His image (Genesis 1:27). This means we are related to God in a special way. We can think. We can reason. We have free will, and we can make our own choices. We can choose to do what is good, or we can choose to do what is bad. In Chapter three of Genesis, we see where Eve was deceived by Satan, in the form of a serpent, and both she and Adam ate fruit from a tree God had commanded them not to eat from. They made their choice, and there would be consequences. As soon as they took their first bite, sin entered the world and separated humanity from God (Isaiah 59:2). Now, you might be asking yourself: why would God make people with the ability to sin? Remember, people are made in the image of God, and as such, they can make choices. As theologian Henry Halley explains: Could there be a moral creature without the power to choose? Freedom is God’s gift to humanity: freedom to think, freedom of conscience—even freedom to disobey God…What virtue is there in obeying God if in our nature there is no inclination to do otherwise?¹ Take a moment to think about those words. Without the freedom to choose, we would simply be puppets and God the puppeteer. But we are not puppets, and God is not our puppeteer. We have freedoms, and we have choices, for we were created in the very image of God.

God confronted Adam, Eve, and Satan for their behavior. In addressing Satan, God said: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel (Genesis 3:15). You might be wondering just who is the he that God is referring to in this passage? This would be none other than God’s own Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus would crush Satan’s head; in other words, Jesus would deliver the fatal blow (Romans 16:20). The disciple John stated: The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work (1 John 3:8). Notice, too, God did not say Eve’s offspring but the woman’s offspring. God was looking ahead to the descendants of the woman. In the future, another woman would come along, Mary, and she would give birth to the Messiah. You see, God already had a plan to restore the relationship between himself and humanity. God would send His Son to defeat sin once and for all. As a guest pastor at a church I attended explained: Any civil society requires atonement; any moral civilization requires atonement for sins.² Jesus would provide that atonement. From the moment Adam and Eve took their first bite, God’s plan was set