Eve's Prophetic Words

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

Genesis 3:15

On the heels of the fall of man God gives the promise of a coming Savior.  Genesis 3:15 identifies this coming Savior as the Seed of the woman – not of a man.

Adam and Eve seemed to anticipate that God was planning to fulfill this promise right away and says of her first son Cain:

"I have acquired a man from the LORD.” Genesis 4:1

Our translation tradition includes adding a word NOT found in the inspired Hebrew text.

Eve’s statement is more literally translated:

“I have acquired a man: the LORD.”

The word translated LORD is the tetragrammaton – the covenant name of God. And it tells us something about Adam and Eve’s expectation as the original recipients of the Messianic promise.  They expected that the Savior was coming.  That he would be born of the woman.

And that He would be, in fact, God in the flesh.

Adam and Eve were mistaken in thinking Cain was the promised Savior…but they were exactly right about the nature of the Savior…fully human, fully divine, clearly seen from the very first chapters of the word of God.