To begin we need to categorize the American economy of the last twenty years. By way of speaking in generalities that economy presented all that one needed to thrive. All that was needed was the willingness to pick the fruit of prosperity from any of the many bearing trees that made up our Gross Domestic Product. I will go as far as to say it was a near facsimile of the Garden of Eden. Then we started to get greedy. Individuals, in mass, traded what was good for sustenance for the fruit that was just out of our reach (sub-prime mortgages on over priced properties). Next thing you know, much like Adam and Eve, the American homeowner faces the impending doom of eviction. Now we need a bailout from a wise and sovereign governing authority….. Jesus Christ. If you just said, “Jesus didn’t have anything to do with the Garden of Eden,” or, “By Jesus he means our elected officials,” you are sadly mistaken.
Let us look at the bailout as it is recorded in Genesis Chapter 3 verses 14 and 15.
The LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
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."
(NASB, Copyright 1995, The Lockman Foundation)
To some, this looks like a curse. And, to some extent it is. However, it is in fact the first recorded bailout. In the next few verses God is going to hand Adam and Eve their eviction notice. This eviction notice is ultimately a very real and literal death sentence. You see, had they obeyed God and not been banished from the garden, they would have never died. However, here in verses 14 and 15 God shows them his plan for their future before he kicks them out of the garden to die. Look closely at what God says to the serpent in verse 15. “And I will put enmity … between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”
- The seed of the serpent (what he created ): sin in the lives of Adam and Eve and their subsequent separation from God
- The seed of the woman (the only child ever born having no earthly father): our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus
- You shall bruise him on the heel (a painful but non-fatal wound): Christ’s suffering and death on the cross followed by his eternal resurrection
- He shall bruise you on the head (a fatal wound): Christ forever defeated Satan’s accusations against us when he bore our sins and punishment of death on the cross
You see, the first housing crisis had a bailout already in place before the first eviction notice was ever delivered. If God already provided for your greatest need (forgiveness of sin) will He not provide for these other matters you face during the current “crisis”? His bailout is the only one in recorded history that has completely provided for those who were in need. So many people are willing to turn to our government for help in these times of need. I urge you to turn to the Lord. He saves. He provides.
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
- From Matthew’s eyewitness account concerning Jesus of Nazareth chapter 6 verse 33 (NASB, Copyright 1995; The Lockman Foundation)
