The Seed:
There are those who contend that Jesus Christ had a beginning? That He is a creature as are all men; and that his beginning was in the womb of His mother Mary, asserting that the Holy Spirit gave him life.
Jehovah Witnesses teach that Jesus was Michael the arch-angel. Others claim that He was fathered by Joseph, the husband of Mary, or a Roman soldier.
In order to squash these false conclusions, let’s clarify the position the Bible takes. A seed from God was prophesied centuries before Christ’s birth. His arrival was inevitable. So let’s give the Scriptures an opportunity to speak for themselves.
Revelation 1:8, Jesus said of himself, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, — which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Jesus is God, and declares it here.
Colossians 1:16, “For by Him (Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him.”
John 1:3-4, “All things were made by Him (Jesus;) and without him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
So did Jesus have a beginning? No. Was He an angel? No. Was He fathered by a man? No.
He is God; by Him were the angels created, and by Him, the living vessels of the earth were made. He is without beginning, and without end, He is the great, I Am.
Now with that out of the way, lets move on to the subject of the promised seed, a promise made by God in the garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:11, “I (God) will put enmity between thee (the Satin) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it = (He) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
The woman’s seed without doubt referred to the future Messiah.
The seed: In Greek its “sperma.” Its a metaphor for semen, virile, progeny, offspring, children, descendants; as in the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. In this case, the word seed is applied to one person, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:16, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
Seed in these verses is restricted to one principle descendant, Jesus Christ. He being the most excellent descendant of the woman.
Galatians 3:19, the law, “Was added because of transgressions, till the seed (Jesus) should come to whom the promise was made.” The blood sacrifices of the Mosaic law were temporal.
Hebrews 2:16, “He (Jesus) took NOT on him the nature of angels; but He took on him the seed of Abraham.”
Lets talk about the Son of God.
1 Timothy 3:16, K.J.V. “God (Jesus) was manifest in the flesh.”
Jesus Christ, the Word, the promised seed, a Son given, all by the will, the grace, and love of the Father in heaven.
John 3:16, “For God (the Father) so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus) should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
The promised seed inserted into the womb of a virgin by the Holy Spirit. Within that seed was the soul, and spirit of God’s only begotten Son. He was to take on the form of a child of flesh. Soon His heart would begin to beat, and his precious blood to flow, He would soon come forth as the Christ child, born of a virgin.
He came into this world to give himself for us. Soon his blood would have to be shed, and His life forfeited, He being the only acceptable sacrifice unto the Father for our sins.
How was it done? I don’t know, and neither does anyone else. If God can create all things from nothing; if He can command the winds to cease; the waters to be still, so what is it He cannot do?
The Holy Spirit took this seed, overshadowed Mary, cleansed her womb, and impregnated her with the life of the incarnate God. Lets call it spiritual insemination.
This one miracle of conception accomplished the following.
Joseph, Mary’s husband was descended from Solomon, Matt.1:6-16. Through Joseph, the royal throne of the Davidic dynasty would legally be passed to Jesus Christ. God promised to preserve Solomon’s throne, it representing royal authority forever, but not by Solomon’s seed, Jeremiah 22:24-30.
Mary’s genealogy shows that she descended from Nathan, another son of David. The Messianic bloodline bypassed Solomon, exactly as predicted. So through Joseph the royal authority passed to Jesus Christ. This is the reason the birth of Christ had be that of a virgin.
Romans 1:3, “Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.”
What was it the Holy Spirit did?
Luke 1:35, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee (Mary,) and the power of the Highest (the Father) shall overshadow thee.”
The Greek word “Come,” in Luke 1:35, is used only 3 times in the N.T. It speaks of the Holy Spirit as resting on, or coming upon Mary, overshadowing her.
Matthew 1:20, “That which is conceived in her (Mary) is of the Holy Ghost.”
Why was this not known, or understood by the Old Testament prophets? It was a mystery kept secret from the beginning until the appointed time.
1 Corinthians 2:7-8-9, “We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of the world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
Man has always fostered the idea of atonement for sins; and that without the shedding of blood there could be no remission. History gives evidence to this slaughter in both the ancient and modern world. From the worship of Moloch, to the sun god of the Incas; from Asia to the America, from Europe to the Orient, the practice of human sacrifices was man’s way of satisfying their blood thirsty gods. The blood flowed as rivers, from the altars of these pagan idol worshippers.
Now for the most important question of all; “Why did God have to come in the flesh?”
Even after thousands of years of idol worship, the Father in His loving kindness, presented mankind with the only sacrifice that would be acceptable to Him. God himself ordered sacrifices of bulls and goats for the temporary forgiveness of sin, this being a shadow of what was to come. But this did not satisfy Him. The final curtain would now be raised; the seed of promise would enter onto the stage of human history.
Hebrews 9:13-14, “If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God.”
Romans 6:10-11, “For in that He (Jesus) died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon (consider) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
A Son given, a Child born, a Lamb slain, and a promise kept, his agony; humiliation; suffering; and the shedding of His most precious blood. Only the life and blood of God himself would satisfy the Father’s wrath for man’s abominations, and the sins done against him.
In this miraculous finished work, that precious seed fulfilled both the Davidic, and Abrahamic covenant. He satisfied the whole law, the miracle of the virgin birth came to pass, the forgiveness of sin, and the promise of eternal life, as ordained, then delivered. Satan will soon be crushed; death and hell will soon be cast into the lake of fire, “where the worm dieth not, and the fire shall not be quenched.“
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com