This week on Things Unseen, we've been thinking together about the way Genesis 3,

verse 15 is like a tightly wound ball of thread that gradually unwinds throughout the whole

of the Old Testament until eventually it reaches the Lord Jesus.

It's already Thursday, and we've really just reached Genesis chapter 9, so there's a long way to go,

and we'll not get much further today, but I promise tomorrow we will get there.

We saw on Monday that the New Testament sees the promise of Genesis 315 being fulfilled in Jesus

Christ.

But when the New Testament talks explicitly about the story of a seed, it tends to focus on

the way this seed comes through Abraham.

There are several reasons for this.

One's polemical.

The opponents of both Jesus and Paul's ministry claim that physical connection to Abraham

was what really mattered.

Interestingly, John chapter 8 verses 31 to 59 tells us about this conflict story.

But Cain's connection to Adam and Eve should have been enough to teach anyone that physical connection is no substitute for living faith.

But there's another reason Abraham gets so much attention.

It's that when the story gets to him, God gives significant fuller revelation of how the promise

is going to be fulfilled. And here are two elements in that fuller revelation.

Number one is given on Mount Moriah, the scene of the binding of Isaac.

It's an event full of electric moments.

Abraham has been told to sacrifice his son Isaac, the son who carries the seed of promise.

And as he's about to plunge the knife into him, the angel of the Lord stops him.

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