The "SEED"

There is one theme that weaves its way throughout the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation — it is the prophecy that one day all people will be involved in some kind of a “seed” process.
In nature, seeds are the most important part of a life-containing organism. Everything that exists in the organism comes back to the function of its seeds. Within the seed itself is all the DNA which is necessary to produce the complex and mature organism.
The Bible begins and ends with the idea of a “seed” being necessary for the proper development of the human race. This is certainly true of the egg and sperm “seed” development of the physical human. But Scripture puts forth the all importance of another “Seed” — a spiritual “Seed” which God will use to form a new human people, a new Spirit race of His children. This “Seed” is Jesus Christ.
The theme began with a vague promise to Eve that, through her seed, mankind would ultimately be recovered from the power of Satan — the author of sin and death. God, speaking to Satan, said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it [her seed] shall bruise your [Satan’s] head, and you [Satan] shall bruise his [the Seed’s] heel” (Gen. 3:15). Here is just a glimmer of hope that a promised seed, a Messiah would one day deal a fatal blow to the head of Satan, thereby ending the struggle between good and evil.
Adam and Eve may have expected that one of their sons would be that promised seed. Their son Abel was a faithful man of God, but when Cain killed his brother Abel, in jealous anger, the hopes of Adam and Eve surely waned. In one devastating act, they lost two of their sons — one in death and the other in spiritual wickedness. No, the prophecy was yet for an appointed time, as hinted at by the faithful Enoch: “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of this, saying, ‘Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints...” (Jude 14).
Time and generations passed and all those with faith waited expectantly for the realization of the promised seed. And as all of humankind became thoroughly corrupted, only the family of Noah survived the great Flood. But the prophetic promise of a seed continued through the line of Noah.
Noah’s son, Shem, was faithful to the Lord and became the line through which the seed of promise would pass. No doubt, Abraham learned of the prophecy through the patriarch Shem who lived contemporaneously with Abraham for 150 years.
Abraham was unique in his generation because of his strong faith in God. Because of this, God swore an oath to Abraham: “...I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. . . in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 22:17-18). This was a two-fold seed promise covering both a physical seed down through the nation of Israel to be blessed, but also a spiritual Seed, Jesus Christ, would be of the lineage of Abraham.
Inheritance of this seed and Seed passed to Isaac and then to Jacob. Upon Jacob’s deathbed, God pronounced them a nation of twelve tribes, indicating that, now, to them as a nation, descended the Abrahamic promise — “in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”
To protect the lineage from which the promised Seed would come, God specially protected Israel as His chosen people. “You only have I known of all the families of the earth...” (Amos 3:2). But in fact, during the period from Jacob’s death to the birth of Christ, only a remnant of Jews remained loyal and obedient to God and appreciated the privilege of the inheritance.
At the chosen time, God did send His son Jesus to be the Messiah — the physical seed of the lineage from Abraham, and the spiritual Seed to all the human race. And to many of the nation of Israel the prophecy to Abraham seemed to be fulfilled through this miracle worker from Nazareth! But Jesus was put to death as a common sinner upon the cross, and all seemed lost. Indeed, Satan thought he had broken the thread of the original prophecy, and that therefore the seed of the woman, Jesus, could no longer deal him that fatal blow.
But, contrary to Satan’s evil plan, within three days, Christ was raised from the grave “to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory and blessing” (Rev. 5:12). Yes, it was not until the sacrificial life and death of Christ that the scriptures began to open up more clearly on the plan of redemption which God has provided through His obedient Son — the Seed.
And how was this Seed to function in the lives of humanity? Basically it was to function in the same way that physical seed does in material organisms. The Seed was “planted in the ground” — Jesus died and was buried — but the Seed sprouted forth after three days — the Resurrection of Jesus. Jesus Christ was the Firstfruit of many forthcoming Seeded believers.
The nature of an organism is in the seed. Human beings after Adam were born and are being born with the seed or nature of Satan. Their spiritual DNA comprising their nature is that of Satan. They are seeded with Satan.
But the process of redemption by the death, burial and resurrection of Christ now allows for a new Seeding! Each individual who chooses to accept his redemption and make Jesus Christ the Lord of his life gets a new Seeding. The old basic DNA of Satan is removed from the core structure of the human spirit and the spirit is
reSeeded with the Godly DNA, the nature of Jesus Christ, the SEED.
Until all Christians come to the reality that this reSeeding has taken place in their lives — that they are totally new people inside, a newly seeded race, then the answer for the trials and frustrations of daily life will never be understood.
First, it must be understood that this new Godly Seeding is permanent. Romans 8:35-39 in the Message version makes that abundantly clear: “Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture...none of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely NOTHING can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.”
And how has He embraced us? Not just externally by a hug, but rather internally — by becoming the new Seed, the new nature within our human spirit.
The crowning feature of God’s marvelous plan is not only that of developing and blessing the seed of physical Israel, but that the Seed will extend this blessing to all the remainder of mankind.
We are now in the age of the Church, the composite Seed of Jesus Christ. All people, not just Israel, can be blessed. And it is so simple when you understand it. All that is required for reSeeding is to humbly accept the SEED “and you shall be changed!”

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