“I will put enmity between you [Satan] and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15
We don’t often look at Genesis on Christmas Eve. We’re doing so as we ask when Christmas began. An online search will give you several answers about it beginning in the third or fourth centuries, under various circumstances. Our answer to the question of when Christmas began—really of when Jesus had His beginning—is found on the very first pages of the Bible.
In Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Who is the “us” and the “our”? We see that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit already were present at the very creation of our world and of us. From time eternal, Jesus was! Two chapters later, God speaks of a woman’s offspring (whom we know to be Jesus and who would come at what we call Christmas) which would conquer Satan one day (in the greatest world-changing event on a cross at what we call Easter). It really is one big, wondrous rescue story which has forever had Jesus Christ at its center.
The baby in the Christmas manger is the Creator of trees whose wood made feeding troughs and crucifixes, and who became one of us.
In Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Who is the “us” and the “our”? We see that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit already were present at the very creation of our world and of us. From time eternal, Jesus was! Two chapters later, God speaks of a woman’s offspring (whom we know to be Jesus and who would come at what we call Christmas) which would conquer Satan one day (in the greatest world-changing event on a cross at what we call Easter). It really is one big, wondrous rescue story which has forever had Jesus Christ at its center.
The baby in the Christmas manger is the Creator of trees whose wood made feeding troughs and crucifixes, and who became one of us.
Scripture Focus
Genesis 1:26-31
Insight
“Mary, did you know that your baby boy/ Is Lord of all creation?/ Did you know that your baby boy/ Would one day rule the nations?” (Mark Lowry, 1984)
Bible In A Year
- Nahum 1-3
- Proverbs 24
- Revelation 3-5
