Dr. Taylor Marshall

by expecting the Messiah, by expecting the Son of God.

So you see this already in the book of Genesis.

After Adam and Eve sin, in Genesis 3, verse 15, God promises what's called the Proto-Evangelion.

That's a Greek word.

It means the first gospel.

And he tells to Adam and Eve, in particular to Eve, that one day she will give birth to a child that will crush the head of Satan.

That's Genesis 3.15.

So Adam and Eve heard that from God.

Did they know the details of his name would be Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, suffered under Pontius Pilate?

They did not have those details.

But they did trust in the promise of God that one day a woman would give birth to a

son, the son of God, a Messiah figure who would indeed crush the serpent's head.

So they were trusting that.

And as time goes on in the Old Testament, you have the covenant with Adam and the covenant with Noah and the covenant with Abraham and then the covenant with Moses and then the covenant with David.

All of these are more and more revelations of the coming of the Messiah.

More and more information is given.

And those people who are living in accordance with God's law and they're having faith,

in the coming Messiah, those people are justified by faith in Christ.

Again, they don't have the details.

So a good way of understanding it is, you know, Abraham and King David and Esther, they were looking forward to Christ.