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.

— Genesis 3:15

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

— Isaiah 7:14

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

— 1 Peter 2:24

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

— Hebrews 10:10

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit

— 1 Peter 3:18

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace and joy to you from Jesus Christ.

Christ is both divine and human. God foretold that the Christ would be a human being, the Seed of the woman. God also foretold that the Christ would be deity. He was Emmanuel, God with us. Christ suffered spiritual death for us on the cross in that He was separated from God the Father When He took all the sins of mankind on Himself. Matthew 27:46 says, “About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ That is,”My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?’”

Christ also suffered physical death on our behalf when His soul and Spirit were separated from His body. He Himself bore our sin in His body on the cross. And then they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb. Christ indeed suffered the implications of eternal death. Whether Christ was separated from His Father for one minute or one million years made no difference, since God lives outside the realm of time. Christ suffered the eternal death for accomplishing our eternal salvation and giving us eternal life.