The Virgin Shall Give Birth to a Son
What’s a remez? In Jewish hermeneutics (interpretation of Scripture), a remez is a hidden message, or a deeper meaning. It’s said to be a “treaure” found below the surface of, or behind, the words. Remez understands that meaning is sometimes provided both within and beyond the historical setting of a word or concept.
Prophets did not always clearly distinguish between events that will occur in the near future and eschatological events. According to God’s patterns prophecy repeat itself until finding a future and final fulfillment. An example of this is the desecration of the temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.This blasphemous king ascends the steps of the Temple in Jerusalem. He has conquered the nation of Israel and now wants to eradicate the Jews by eradicating Judaism. The king enters the Temple, declares himself to be God manifest on earth, and then sacrifices a pig upon the holy altar. He follows up this abominable act by requiring every Jew to present copies of the Bible for burning. A similar event will happen again at a greater scale when the Antichrist arises, stops the sacrifices in the Jewish temple and sets himself up in it, proclaiming himself to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:4 “and He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
Matthew 24:15-16 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
The same pattern can be used for many other prophecies in the bible. One of them relates to genesis 3:15, and the birth of the Messiah who will crush the head of the serpent.
Although this propephy found a fulfillment when Jesus was born, there is another final fulfillment at the end of times. Indeed a corporate woman shall go through the pains of childbirth and will give birth to the return of the Messiah.
Right from the beginning after Adam and Eve sinned in the garden and were driven away from it the Lord reveals his redemptive plan for the future. Even though the wages of sin drove man away from Eden, the Lord had a plan to redeem him and bring him back to his fullness in Him.
Romans 5:15-7 “For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!”
We all know that Eve’s disobedience brought the curse of childbirth pain, but we also know that it is through the seed she brings forth in pain that the serpent’s head will be crushed. Although her disobedience brought painful childbirth consequences, God will use her offspring to crush the very serpent that seduced her to disobey God.
Genesis 3:15-16 NIV 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
Sin entered the world initially through a woman that was deceived, but sin gets wiped away through her offspring!! Genesis 3:15-16 is a prophetic scripture that has multiple fulfillment. In the beginning there is a woman (Eve) that is driven away from Eden.
Genesis 3:23-24 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
But later there is a woman (Mary) that through pain brings forth a Son that crushes the spiritual effects of the wages of her sin.
Luke 1:31-33 Look! You will become pregnant, you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua. 32 He will be great, he will be called Son of Ha‘Elyon. Adonai, God, will give him the throne of his forefather David; 33 and he will rule the House of Ya‘akov forever — there will be no end to his Kingdom.”
And at the End of the age there is a corporate woman (Israel) that through pain (Tribulation) will give birth to the return of God’s Son.
Revaluation 12:2-5 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”
Israel will conceive the messiah and as she accepts Him as Lord through terrible childbirth pain. Through her acceptance of Jesus as her Messiah, she will physically bring forth the Son who will physically crush Satan and rule the earth. As Israel finally cries out in childbirth pain :”Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord '', she will bring him forth to deliver her from her oppressors and she will deliver the Ruler of the nations!!! Therefore it is Israel’s cry for Jesus that will give birth to his physical return.
Micah 5:1-4CJB But you, Beit-Lechem near Efrat, so small among the clans of Y’hudah, out of you will come forth to me the future ruler of Isra’el, whose origins are far in the past, back in ancient times. 2 Therefore he will give up [Isra’el] only until she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his kinsmen will return to the people of Isra’el. 3 He will stand and feed his flock in the strength of Adonai, in the majesty of the name of Adonai his God; and they will stay put, as he grows great to the very ends of the earth4 and this will be peace.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.4 These are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah: 5 “This is what the Lord says: “‘Cries of fear are heard— terror, not peace.6 Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? 7 How awful that day will be! No other will be like it. It will be a time of trouble(I) for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it. 8 “‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.9 Instead, they will serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Although this prophecy finds its fulfillment when Jesus was born, there is another final fulfillment at the end of times. Indeed a corporate woman shall go through the pains of childbirth and will give birth to the return of the Messiah. The one who will crush once and for all the head of the serpent by throwing the beast and the false prophet in the lake of fire and by chaining Satan for 1000 years. When the virgin Israel recognizes that he is Emmanuel and welcomes him as the blessed one who comes in the name of the Lord, she will give birth to his second coming. But this time he won’t come lowly in a stable as a little lamb that is slain for humanity, but he will appear in glory with the fury of the Lion of Judah to crush all who oppose him and his people. Therefore we can say that Genesis 3:15-16 prophetically predicts that Israel will bring forth the Son who will physically and spiritually crush Satan, but she will do it through the pain of the Tribulation because she was deceived once again by the serpent at the time of her first visitation. From the very beginning the Lord predicted that the woman will be deceived once again, and because of her sin, she will go to the wilderness into exile until painfully giving birth to the Son that will rule the earth.
Revelation 12:13-14 13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
I believe that in Genesis 3:15-16 lies the mystery of Israel’s salvation. In those few verses, we can see that Israel once again will be deceived, will reject the Messiah, and will have to go through childbirth pain in order to give birth to Him. Then we will see her coming back from the wilderness leaning on her beloved. She will come back to the promised land where she will once again tabernacle with her King in the cool of the day as her bride.