Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

1. The word seed can allude to your descendants who are not yet born. Throughout the Old Testament when God spoke of the future children of the patriarchs prior to their birth, He called them seed years in advance of their physical arrival. God promised Abraham a son when he was seventy-five years of age, and twenty-five years later Isaac was born. Before Isaac’s birth, God called the child Abraham’s “seed” (Gen. 12:7, KJV ; 17:7, 9, KJV ). In these and other Old Testament instances, the word seed alluded to the fact that the sperm of the man is considered seed. Therefore, all of Abraham’s descendants were in his loins long before they were born (Gal. 3:16). Thus, all of Abraham’s future descendants for generations to come are identified as the seed of Abraham . 2. The word seed can allude to a natural seed that produces a plant or tree. At Creation, God spoke of the “herb yielding seed” and fruit that would produce “after his kind, whose seed is in itself” (Gen. 1:11, KJV ). A second biblical meaning of the word seed alludes to a natural seed that produces after its own kind. An apple seed produces an apple tree, and a grain of corn produces a cornstalk. Wheat creates more wheat, and a fruit seed has potential to produce a fruitful tree of the same type. 3. The word seed is used when speaking about faith.