World Histroy, Chapter 3: The Blessing, The Seed and The Blood

World Histroy, Chapter 3: Edited 12/7/23 

The Blessing, The Seed and The Blood:

From His throne, God spoke into existence the heaven and earth; an earth void of life; void of form; and void of the light and glory of God. And God said, “Let there be light; and there was light.”

2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Genesis 1:26, “God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness;”– “And out of the ground the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”– “So God created man in his own image — and God blessed them.”

God commanded the man, “Of every tree you may eat freely: But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat you shall surely die.”

“And the serpent said to the woman, you shall not surely die.” —- in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” And so she ate “and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.”

Genesis 3:14-15, The curse: “Because you (the serpent) have done this, you are cursed above (all creatures)” —- “and I will put enmity (irreconcilable hatred) between you and the woman, and between your seed (your offspring) and her seed; He (meaning the Messiah) shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Let’s take a look at a few recent discoveries made by science concerning male sperm and blood.

The scientific identification of the key components of sexual reproduction eggs and sperm took place during an amazing decade of discovery in the 1660s and 1670s. Despite this period of innovation, the respective roles of egg and sperm remained unclear for another 170 years.

The 17th century two letters were written some seven years apart, each by a remarkable man who are for the most part forgotten today. The first written in April 1665 by Melchisedec The ´venot, a French patron of the sciences wrote to his friend Christian Huygens, a Dutch mathematician and astronomer, this was the start of a process of discussion, dissection and experimentation that would soon lead two other men Swammerdam and Steno to the conclusion that all animals, including humans come from eggs.

The second letter was sent nine years later, in April 1674. It was written by Henry Oldenburg, the German secretary of the Royal Society and sent to a Delft Draper. In the letter, Oldenburg asked Leeuwenhoek to use his microscope to study semen, saliva, chyle, sweat and other bodily fluids. With this inspiration, in 1677, Leeuwenhoek would make one of the most stupendous discoveries in the history of science: the observation of spermatozoa.

Now the term ‘reproduction’ was first introduced by Buffon in 1749, up until then, people spoke about ‘generation’, and this was taken to include both how organisms grow apparently from nothing, and how male and female contributed to new life. Although the simple answer to the question “Where do babies come from?” It’s fairly obvious they come out of the female vagina and arriving at an explanation of how the baby got there in the first place proved quite difficult. Certain societies suggested that a man’s role in generation was uncertain.

One analogy, which echoes down to the present day, was that semen was like a seed which was sowed on fertile ground. Although the Roman physician Galen adopted Hippocrates’ view that there were two ‘semens’, one male, the other female. Acceptance of this theory was hampered by the fact that it was not possible to identify the female semen, and Aristotle’s view predominated. It was also echoed in the major monotheistic religions of the west (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), which all stated that the male semen was the primary component.

On the other side of the world, the Chinese focused on the ‘generative vitality’ of each sex. So it appears that on a world scale there was little agreement about how generation took place or about how each sex contributed. In the West (including the Arab world), the ideas of Aristotle and Hippocrates dominated thinking about generation for over 1500 years.

The first systematic attempt to explore the problem was made by William Harvey. Harvey was convinced that the ‘egg’ was fundamental to generation, although what exactly he meant by ‘egg’ is unclear. Harvey concluded that new life was produced in the uterus following coitus in the same way that imagination and appetite are produced in the brain and that the female’s ‘testicles’ played no role at all; so even one of the greatest minds of the age, steeped in the new scientific method that used experimentation rather than logic, could not crack the problem of generation.

Nevertheless, within 25 years of the publication of Harvey’s book, thinkers throughout Europe were convinced of the ‘egg theory’ and were certain that all female animals including women produced eggs.

Well anyway, science had to grow up! What I find amazing is; all these men of science had to do was open their Bible to find the answer to reproduction; the answer written thousands of years before.

The woman’s seed Spoken of in Genesis 3 without doubt referred to the future Messiah.

Seed in Hebrew is Zera in Greek it is sperma. In both cases, it’s a metaphor for semen, virile, progeny, offspring, children, descendants; as in the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Galatians 3:16, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.”

Seed in these verses is restricted to one principle descendant, Jesus Christ, He being the most excellent descendant of the woman.

Galatians 3:19, The law, “Was added because of transgressions, till the seed (Jesus) should come to whom the promise was made.”

Hebrews 2:16, “He (Jesus) took NOT on him the nature of angels; but He took on him the seed (offspring) of Abraham.”

Let’s talk about the blood: Most of sciences understanding of the blood has come in the past 100 years or so and as we have seen in the above, most of sciences understanding of the seed of a man in no more than 400 years old.

The blood that flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins does not come from the mother but is produced within the body of the fetus itself and only after the introduction of the male seed (Greek sperma). And since there is no life in the egg until the male seed unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male seed is the source of the blood, the seed of life.

So the mother provides the unborn developing infant with the nutritive elements for the building of its physical body in her womb, but all the blood which forms in the unborn child is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the father; therefore not one drop of blood ever passes from the mother to the child. And so goes the miracle of the conception of the virgin birth.

Luke 1:30-35, The angel came to Mary and said — “Behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus.” — “The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that Holy One which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.”

Conceived in the womb of a virgin by a supernatural insemination of the Holy Spirit, a child was born a son given; born without spot or blemish. He was not conceived with a sinful nature, nor was He subject to the curse and eternal death as all mortals are, that is until He as a man took your sins and mine upon himself, suffered our punishment and died for us. 

So while Jesus was of Adam’s race according to the flesh He did not inherit Adam’s nature. Without doubt this proves that sin is not transmitted through the flesh but through the blood, and though He was of the “Seed of David” through Mary according to the flesh” He was God manifest in the flesh, and as Matthew 1:23 states, “God with us.” That newborn child was born perfectly human in the flesh, and yet perfectly God.

And by the precious blood of our Savior those who believe by faith have victory over death and hell. 

Most of the above was written by Moses some 3500 years ago and by the writers of the New Testament some 1900 years ago. Yet science appears to only now be catching up with the word of God, written thousands of years before, and so the miracle of God!

Romans 5:9, “Justified by His (Jesus) blood we (those who receive Jesus Christ) shall be saved from wrath, through Him.” The phrase, to be “saved from wrath, through Him”

Titus 2:14, (Jesus) “Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

Hebrews 10:29, “Of how much sorer (worse) punishment, suppose ye, shall he (those who reject the sacrifice) be thought worthy, who hath trodden (trampled) underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, where with He was sanctified, an unholy thing (unworthy, blasphemous thing), and hath done despite (malice and hatred) unto the Spirit of grace?”

Phillip LaSpino   www.seekfirstwisdom.com