The world that God had made was blighted with the curse of sin and inhabited by beings doomed to misery and death.
There appeared no escape for those who had transgressed the law.
But divine love had conceived a plan whereby man might be redeemed.
But divine love had conceived a plan whereby man might be redeemed.
---The broken law of God demanded the life of the sinner. 
---In all the universe there was but one who could, in behalf of man, satisfy its claims.
---Since the divine law is as sacred as God Himself, only one equal with God could make atonement for its transgression.
To man the first intimation of redemption was communicated in the sentence pronounced upon Satan in the garden. The Lord declared, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15.
To man the first intimation of redemption was communicated in the sentence pronounced upon Satan in the garden. The Lord declared, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15.
This sentence, uttered in the hearing of our first parents, was to them a promise. While it foretold war between man and Satan, it declared that the power of the great adversary would finally be broken." E.G.W.
