Was Jesus Some Last-Minute Solution?

~ Genesis 12:1-3

¹ The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.  ² "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 
 ³ I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."   

 

~ Galatians 3:6-14 

⁶Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." ⁷Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. ⁸The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." ⁹So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

¹⁰ All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." ¹¹Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, "The righteous will live by faith." ¹²The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them." ¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree." ¹⁴He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

(New International Version)