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God’s first The Lord God said
promise came when to the serpent:
he spoke to Adam
and Eve after “I will put enmity
their sin: between you and the
woman, and between
your offspring and
hers!”
“He will crush your
head, and you will
strike his heel!”
Genesis 3:14-15 (NIV)
Moses prophesied
a leader who
would be
di erent than
other prophets:
The Lord your God wi raise
up for you a prophet like me
from among you, from your
feow Israelites. You must
listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18:15 (NIV)
God gave the
prophet Isaiah
many details about
the Me iah.
“Here is my servant,
whom I uphold, my
chosen one in whom I
delight; I wi put my
Spirit on him, and he
wi bring justice to
the nations.”
4 4 Isaiah 42:1 (NIV)
God’s promise
to Abraham:
“I will make you into a
great nation, and I will
bless you…and all
peoples on earth will be
blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:2-3 (NIV)
The prophet
Micah told us
where the
Me iah would
be born.
“But you, Bethlehem, though you
are sma among the clans of
Judah, out of you wi come for
me one who wi be ruler over
Israel, whose origins are from
of old, from ancient times.”
Micah 5:2 (NIV)
In a of these
prophecies, we
s„ glimpses of
God’s plan.
“I wi send my
me enger, who wi
prepare the way
before me.”
“Then su‰enly the
Lord you are s„king
wi come to his
temple; the me enger
of the covenant, whom
you desire, wi come,”
says the Lord
Almighty.
Malachi 3:1 (NIV)