Why Promises and Covenants: A Prophetic Legacy

  Prophecy begins with a promise God made in the Garden of Eden. Immediately after “that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan” (Revelation 12:9) lured Adam and Eve into committing their first sin, God said to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). Here is one of the first and most far-reaching prophecies—the promise that God will rectify the problem of deception and sin brought on by Satan. He promised that from Eve, the first person to be deceived, would come a “Seed”—a descendant—who would “bruise”