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Re: Do you think Revelations is enigmatic?
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Originally Posted by Aquila
The "seed of a woman" defeating the serpent was a prophecy of a virgin birth. This prophecy was fulfilled thousands of years after the time of its original recipients. Certainly every generation who understood the prophecy (to at least some degree) thought that it might be fulfilled in their day, though it wasn't. I don't see an issue.
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You aren't given any time specific language. No mention in Genesis that the time was near. Yet, you have that in the first chapter of the Revelation.
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