Apr 25 2008
Earliest Reference to the Divinity of the Messiah
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Gen 4
25 Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of YHVH.
Abel was looked at by Eve to be the “promised seed” - the Messiah! Cain murdered Abel, but Abel’s blood was not righteous enough (Matt 23:35, Heb 12:24).
So when Seth was born, she believed Seth to be the Messiah!
But when Seth had a son, it was realized that the promised seed may not come right away, and thus it is immediately written:
“at that time (the time of Enosh’s birth) men began to call on the name of YHVH” - the Tetragrammaton! Mankind saw that the Promise Seed wasn’t coming yet with Seth giving birth to a son (a belief that the Messiah was to be cut off from the land of the living before having offspring, which is where the prophets get their justification for this). It was only when they realized this that they “began to call upon the name of YHVH.” Which means it was understood that the Messiah, the Promised Seed, was YHVH! This proves that the Promised Seed is divine.
Even the rabbinic midrash says that this proves that the Messiah is YHVH, that the Promised Seed is speaking of HaShem. I will post references shortly.
from: http://jerusalemcouncil.org/midrash/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=393