God’s Plan Through Israel and the Church – Part 2

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To understand God’s plan through Israel, we must start at the beginning—Genesis 1–11. These foundational chapters cover the first 2,000 years of human history and are essential to understanding why God called Abraham and formed a nation for Himself.

Before the law, before Israel, before Babel—God dealt directly with mankind. There was only one race of people, one language, no written law, no priesthood, no temple—only the conscience and a knowledge of right and wrong. When someone sinned, they were to bring a blood sacrifice in faith, trusting God’s word. It was simple, yet it didn’t take long for mankind to rebel.

The Fall of Man and the Curse of Sin

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.”
Romans 5:12

The Fall happened when Adam disobeyed God’s one command. With that disobedience came sin, death, and the curse. More than that, it introduced what Scripture calls the old man, or what we often refer to as the Adamic nature—a spiritual condition of rebellion that is passed on to every person born into the world. We are not sinners because we break God’s law—we sin because we are all born son’s and daughters of Adam.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:6

The result?

• Spiritual death: separation from God. 
• Physical death: decay and mortality. 
• Universal guilt: all are under sin (Romans 3:23). 

The First Prophetic Promise: Genesis 3:15

In the midst of judgment, God makes a promise:

“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

This is the first prophecy in Scripture—the promise of a Redeemer who would come through the “Seed of the woman” to crush the head of the serpent (Satan). Paul tells us this “Seed” is Christ (Galatians 3:16).

This verse becomes the foundation of the redemptive storyline. The rest of the Bible traces this promised Seed through specific people, families, and eventually, one nation—Israel.

From Bad to Worse

• Cain kills Abel, showing how quickly sin corrupts. 
• Genesis 6 describes a world filled with violence and evil. 
• The flood (Genesis 7–9) is God’s judgment, but also His mercy, preserving the Messianic line through Noah. 
• The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) is a unified rebellion where mankind refuses to scatter, so God divides them by language. 
• The nations are formed, and God disinherits them (Deuteronomy 32:8–9). 

Then something changes dramatically: God stops dealing with all of humanity directly and instead calls out one man—Abram—to form a new nation, a covenant people for Himself.

Why This Matters

Understanding the Adamic nature (sin) and the global decline of humanity helps us understand why God created Israel in the first place. God had already tried dealing with mankind as a whole, and they rejected Him every step of the way.

So, in His sovereignty, God did something new: He would create a nation from one man—a nation that would be separated from the rest of the world and through whom the Redeemer would come.