Advent 2

The Seed

2. Seed of the Woman

While Jesus is often called the Son of Man in the latter parts of the Bible, He is first, from the beginning of creation, denoted as the Seed of the Woman. In this there is much of significance. It revealed that a Savior to solve the problem of sin would be human, would be born, would proceed from a woman. God, in speaking the first prophecy of the Savior to humanity, did not suggest a random happening from out of the blue, but that the salvation would be His own doing, and thus the redemption divine. Through the development of that prophecy in subsequent time, the message was further refined so that mankind knew that the Redeemer was God Himself, yet still the Seed of the woman. This is incomprehensible, marvelous, but wholly true and exactly what happened. God omnipotent and eternal became truly human, wrapped in time and space and the laws of nature. And thus – while conceived miraculously – He was born, all so normally, of His mother. And what a blessing this is for women. While she committed the first sin, she was most graciously given the honor of using the essence of womanhood to be a vessel of the Redemption. The name, The Seed of the Woman, is a way that God gives honor to all of His female creation and all of their toils and joys of motherhood.

Genesis 3:15