The Lord's Gospel - Part 17

In this part, we begin our analysis on the question of why God made these Abrahamic promises and why make these promises to Abraham, rather than Enoch, Noah, Job, or another person of God. Our analysis begins at the beginning, when Adam and Eve was instructed to rule over the earth. Genesis 1:26-31. Then, Satan deceived Eve and Adam joined Eve in her sin and man fell to the dominion of Satan. Accordingly, Satan, having conquered man, became the ruler over the earth. It was at this time God foretold to Satan of a time when a man of the seed of “the woman” would be victorious over Satan, essentially, retaking the dominion of the earth.
To discover the identity of this “woman”, we inspect the surrounding text to obtain clues and then refer to Revelation 12, Romans 11:26, Hebrews 12:22, and Galatians 4:26-31. After a thorough investigation, we discover the identity of the “woman” is the heavenly Jerusalem, or Zion. We link the woman and her seed with Christ and his seed and discuss why the woman was barren until it was time for Christ to appear. We discuss how the children of the woman, or the free Jerusalem, belong as a member of a New Covenant people of God joined together as an ekklesia of God, and who are destined to retake dominion of the earth.
In the next part we will continue our analysis of the aforementioned question to make some observations using the discoveries in this part as the context on which all else relies.