An Alphabetical Analysis
Volume 8 - Prophetic Truth - Page 286 of 304
INDEX
2:2,3 where it is recorded that God 'rested' on the sabbath day from all His
work.  This association of the six days' work followed by the seventh day
rest, foreshadows the true sabbath yet to be enjoyed (Heb. 4:9), namely the
Millennial kingdom when the Devil shall be 'stilled' and transgression
'restrained'; a sabbath before the day of God dawns.  See Millennial Studies9
for this element of restraint.
It is not without intentional parallel, that we find the same word
shabath translated 'cause to cease' in Daniel 9:27.  Here at the time of the
end, anticipating as it were the day fast approaching when God will 'still'
the enemy, we find the Antichrist causing 'sacrifice and oblation to cease'
(Dan. 9:27).  It is a far cry from Genesis 3 to Romans 16, but the apostle,
who declares that Adam was a figure of Him that was to come, associates the
redeemed with the ultimate triumph of the woman's seed, saying:
'The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly' (Rom.
16:20).
The word 'put' in the prophecy 'I will put enmity' is the Hebrew sheth,
which provided Eve with the name of her third son Seth.  'She called his name
Seth (Heb. sheth): For God, said she, hath appointed (Heb. sheth) me another
seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew' (Gen. 4:25).  Here we have both the
enmity exhibited between the two seeds, 'Abel, whom Cain slew', and the way
in which that enmity will be overcome, by the 'substitutionary' sacrifice of
the Son of God 'appointed instead'.  This stilling of the enemy gives point
and purpose to the whole series of 'sevens' that are found in the Old
Testament, from the initial six days with their sabbath of Genesis 1 and 2,
up to the 70 x 7 of Daniel 9, and also to the recurring sevens that
characterize the book of the Revelation.  As we trace the purpose of the ages
through the Scriptures, we find that two parallel and opposing lines of
prophecy flow out from this primeval prophecy of Genesis 3.15.  We must be
satisfied here with a mere list of these parallels, but under different
headings the reader will find a number of them are given exposition in the
various articles of this analysis.
A
Conspectus
Of
Prophetic
Truth
'I will put enmity'
The
True
The
False
Two Seeds
'Her seed'
(Gen. 3:15).
'Thy seed'
'Wheat'
(Matt. 13:25).
'Tares'
'Harvest ... gather
(Matt. 13:24 -30;
'Harvest ... gather
barn'
Rev. 14:15 -20).
burn'
Two Cities
'Salem'
(Gen. 10:8 -10; 14:18;
'Babel'
'Jerusalem'
Rev. 14:8; Isa. 52:1).
'Babylon'
Two Mysteries
'Godliness'
(1 Tim. 3:16;
'Iniquity'