The Bible first mentions the salvation plan in Genesis 3:15 Looking carefully, we find that the judgement against the serpent was to be emnity through the concept of seed or offspring. What we might call progeny or lineage is now in play. Subsequently, GOD would select a human family to accomplish HIS saving work. This, of course, has been studied many times. Seth, Noah, Shem, Abram, Isaac, Jacob, Judah are all part of the list but GOD chose a young, Hebrew girl named Miriam Bat Nathan (Mary) to bring about the "seed of the woman" promised so long before. We recount this because many today forget the Jew in missions and in prayer. In our small way we hope to encourage our church brothers and sisters to rethink their role in this area
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