also signified God’s covenant promise that he would send forth a Messiah, a Redeemer—the seed of the woman, a child of Abraham, a descendent of David—to be born into this world. God reminded sinners, through their own personal corrupted flesh, that even though mankind was fallen, he had promised to save his own through One who would be born. Every Jewish male bore this sign in the flesh as a continual reminder of God’s covenantal promises that would come about through the seed of the woman. When