Her Seed

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, 

and between your seed and her seed;

He shall bruise you on the head, 

and you shall bruise him on the heel."

Genesis 3:15

JESUS' ENTRANCE INTO HUMANITY was planned from before the beginning of time.  God softened the punishment of the curse that resulted from the sin of Adam and Eve by offering a promise that someday a Seed would rise up and crush the serpent.  Even though death came through Adam, Christ's coming brought life to humankind (Romans 5:12-21).

The Hebrew word for seed can literally mean a plant's seed, or can figuratively mean one's descendants. In Genesis, it refers specifically to the coming Messiah, in God's promise that the woman's Seed would crush the serpent.  As such, the term takes on great importance in the Bible:  Through Abraham's seed, both collectively in Israel and singularly in Christ, God would reach out to save His people.

John MacArthur