The promise and its fulfillment.
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
The source traces the promise of redemption from the judgment upon the serpent—where the seed of the woman will bruise the serpent’s head though suffering in the conflict (Gen. 3:15)—through the covenantal promises to the patriarchs. It sees anticipations of Christ in Jacob’s blessing upon Judah (Gen. 49:10), Moses’ lifted serpent (Num. 21:8–9; John 3:14–15), Balaam’s star and scepter (Num. 24:17), and Job’s confession of a living Redeemer (Job 19:25–27). These passages vary in literary setting, but Christian interpretation reads them together within the one history of salvation.