I would retort that Leviticus is about as indicative in conveying the will of god as is Moroni is to non-mormons. By Leviticus, Moses is already forming laws that directly reflect the behaviours of man rather than a will of god similar to the entire reason for the ten commandments. From this angle, Moses is nothing more than a jewish Jo Smith. I'm not asking for what MOSES claimes that god thinks.
God did the 7 days. In that time he made man Gen 1. Then he made Adam & eve chapter 2.
If this is the case then why would he SPECIFICALLY make it clear that his work was done in 2:1-4?
The incest would take place if he did not make other people before Adam & Eve. Not from the rib bone.
But, again, remove the Moses filter and show me where GOD conveyed as much without a human mouth familiar with human culture to say as much. Where is the scripture to suggest that Adam and Eve were not the first humans. for that matter, why even say anything about adam and eve if they were not? How would EARLIER humans than adam and eve have circumvented the retribution for Eves sin if they came BEFORE Eden and the temptation? Were those earlier humans not ALREADY having sex by the time Adam and Eve were created? If so, what's the point of the story then?
The tree in the garden of good and evil wasn't an actual apple. It was Satan talking Eve into having sex. The first thing she did after comming(no pun intended) from the tree was have sex with Adam.
can you show me scripure to back that up? I see nothing in Ch 3 that remotely suggests that the fruit from the tree of knowledge was sex.
In fact, sex couldn't have been the temptation since GOD specifically stated for his creation to multiply. I'm thinking that the beasts didn't begin humping AFTER eve ate the proverbial fruit.
3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Seems pretty clear from this angle..
Cain is the seed of satan and Abel is the seed of Adam.
um, I'm afraid i'm going to have to ask for evident scipture.
That is why Cain slew Abel.
1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
It seems to read that Cain was, in fact, the progeny of A&E. From how I read the bible Cain slew able because god rejected his fruit offering while accepting able's offering of meat. I see nothing indicating anything about Cain's paternal satanic father.
The first "Man" God made did not have souls.
um, scripture evidence please. I hope you are not referring to the Nephelim here.
Adam was the first "Man" God gave a soul to. Cain went to Nod and took a wife because there were already people before Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. The decendants of Cain were and are the Kenites. Cain was the spawn of satan. Eventually Eve has another child by Adam named Seth which begins the lineage to Noah. God found favor and Grace with Noah because he was not a Kenite. He then tried to wipe out all the bad seed with the flood. The reason God was so pissed is because he gave Adam a soul, which in turn gave Eve a soul. Any Children comming from her would have a soul be it from Adam or from Satan. Any children of Cain would be a soul decendant of Satan. THats why God was so pissed and tried to kill all the Kenites with the flood.
What denomination are you again? I respect your opinions but I'm hella curious which denomination takes this angle. Doesn't this perspective assume that pre-eden humanity was already sinful regardless of Eves actions? Don't you think it's awfully FUNNY how MOSES seems to indicate that GOD favors HIS lineage above ALL other human creations? Regardless of all that since I'm sure you will provide the appropriate versus, can you fathom how this MOSES FILTER might just have motive to, um, embellish the tale in his favor, so to speak? In comparison, can you understand how MOSES may not be an accurate mouthpiece of god much like, I daresay, you might think of Jo Smith and his tale of moroni?
I know this is a long read but here is something to masticate.
The Original Sin 1/3
In the garden of Eden, there were many trees, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit which was permitted. And nothing is recorded in Genesis 3 about eating an apple, we read only about partaking of fruit from the tree of Knowledge. Therefore, it is important to know who and what the tree of Knowledge was. In Genesis 3:7, we read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Something terrible had happened after which the man and his wife recognized their nakedness and were ashamed such that they sought to hide it from one another and from the Lord. Notice, they did not bandage their eyes nor cover their mouths, but veiled their reproductive organs.
Genesis 3 portrays the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know they didn't eat an ice-cream or a piece of fruit.
The apostle Paul certainly knew what happened in the garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church, "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3). In view of the fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:14).
Directly after it happened, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children. . ." (Genesis 3:16). This statement tells us what really happened. Eve was not to eat meals in sorrow and pain, as it might be supposed if the transgression had been oral; and no woman conceived through eating fruit. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, and under normal circumstances, women give birth in pain and sorrow. They don't suffer toothache at mealtimes. Proverbs 30:18-20, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness."
Just as birth-pains are to remind women of the original sin, so circumcision in the flesh was a token of separation to men under the Old Testament. When God made a covenant with Abraham and his seed, He required circumcision, "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male child among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10-14). Every soul who refused circumcision was cut off from His people because he did not have the token of the Covenant. And the soul which refuses the Message of God's Prophet today is cut off from among the people because without the Message he can not have the Token, the new birth by the Fullness of the Word and cannot be restored (Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23; I Corinthians 13:10).
The Lord God pronounced judgment upon the serpent for his wickedness and said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:14). Up to that time, the serpent walked upright, else would the statement -- "upon your belly shall you go" would make no sense (Ezekiel 28:13-14).
Most important is the following verse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." According to the testimony the Lord God gives here, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its adversary, the seed which would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds.
Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Yea, has God said?" The devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued It, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Eve fell for Satan's lie, being uplifted at the possibility of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex -- how they might fulfill His Command to "multiply and fill the earth". But what benefit was the knowledge of good and evil when separated from God? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil and we are thereby accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14).
The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race. Satan through transgression pulled the first couple into death, and their dominion on this earth was surrendered to death. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, He victoriously announced, "I have the keys of death and hell" (Revelation 1:18).
God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, usurping authority over her husband. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the will of God. Eve then gave herself to Adam.
Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin. Though she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Adam was not deceived. Eve had crossed the Word from eternity into time and was dying but he knew that as a son of God he could no more be lost than God could be lost. He also knew Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, somehow God must redeem him; thus his death would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ.
Thus, the fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent, then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel.
In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black and a blond, blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ovum is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but step-brothers or step-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm.
Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds, or offspring right after the fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth.
Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that Adam is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). If Cain actually would have been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God and a special place in God's record.
As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1 ). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion, she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth . . ." Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three WAS NOT the son of Adam.
The apostle John also knew what happened in the garden of Eden. He writes, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (1 John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle writes of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13,14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In many places Scripture calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain, and origin of all ungodly things.
Cain the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning -- not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behooves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God, the Bible says, Abel knew animal had caused the fall, and animal life must be offered.
When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice, for which he had not labored, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if he offered by faith the sacrifice of His vindicated prophet, Cain felt humiliated. Containing his pride, he asked Abel to expound the faith. Fearing for his life, Abel was reluctant to tell Cain. But when he prevailed, Abel expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he never had the birthright, was not Adam's son, and nowhere in the genealogy of God. But if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned the possibility of fabricating primogeniture.
Hence, when God exposed his evil, and Cain could see there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, (which is ultimately restoration to eternal Life in a restored world), he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles.
It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from Whom can no evil come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. As soon as all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, they will be placed back into their original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth.
Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring, therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening -- Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch -- Cain is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18).
The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain, the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . .and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life.
God hates hybreeding -- His Word is Spirit, and It is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning, It is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God". Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she had to first receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind -- spiritual serpent seed -- and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word.
In Matthew 13:36-43, the Lord speaks clearly about these two different spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is God expressed -- Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by church creeds is substitution, reasoning against the faith, the mark of Cain and of the beast. And it is death. Those influenced by the wicked one, hardened their hearts, to whom Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." Protesting they were not of Cain's serpent seed line they said, "We be not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Now Jesus knew these were physically in Adam's righteous line, but they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, therefore He said, "SPIRITUALLY, you are serpent seed, and will be blotted out from the record of Life". And they were (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28).
We also must remember that enmity was put between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there.
Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth", deceiving Eve, and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin, without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God, to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman, but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God.
After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing It with reasoning -- creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed, and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7.
Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding, bloody Lamb, and taking the Book, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. He tore open the Seals, then in Revelation 10:1-6 we see the symbol of Him descending in Word Form to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' of the Laodicean Church Age, before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52).
You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted, in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride and Her acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" knows nothing and will know nothing of this, for their end is a Lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would RESTORE the faith once delivered unto the apostolic saints (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This restoration is the Message of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6. It is the 'shout' of I Thessalonians 4:16 which both wise and foolish virgin of Matthew 25:6 hear and heed. It is Christ, "that which is perfect" of I Corinthians 13:10, Acts 3:21, and Revelation 10:7 -- the Fullness of the Word spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began. Which separates His tiny little Flock from the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; II Thessalonians 2:1; Revelation 18:4).
The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and second Adam, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born children of the second Eve, Jesus calls the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth, is still there. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, and Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14).
Revelation 1-3 records the battle set in array on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. As these two trees were together in the midst of the Garden, they have grown together within the framework of the Christian church through the Ages. Like Judas and Jesus: brothers in the Word, so close it would almost deceive the very elect IF it were possible. But we are in the harvest time where the seed which was planted is mature and can no longer hide its fruit. The church that has rejected Christ is apostate doesn't know it. It's uniting to REJECT and destroy the manifested Word Bride (Revelation 3:15-20). But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit -- NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost --- that little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus.
As Satan incarnate the beast in Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he's cast out of the heavenlys, he evicts his demons from the man of sin and incarnates him; thereafter he's called the beast. Christ's purpose will be fulfilled in His Bride: that Corn of Wheat which fell to the ground and died at Calvary will have reproduced Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride.
When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "All these things will I give You, if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15).
Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul writes, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ -- if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" (Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We have the privilege to live in a time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including what happened in the garden of Eden. bb930112.htm
Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Yea, has God said?" The devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued It, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Eve fell for Satan's lie, being uplifted at the possibility of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex -- how they might fulfill His Command to "multiply and fill the earth". But what benefit was the knowledge of good and evil when separated from God? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil and we are thereby accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14).
The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race. Satan through transgression pulled the first couple into death, and their dominion on this earth was surrendered to death. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, He victoriously announced, "I have the keys of death and hell" (Revelation 1:18).
God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, usurping authority over her husband. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the will of God. Eve then gave herself to Adam.
Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin. Though she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Adam was not deceived. Eve had crossed the Word from eternity into time and was dying but he knew that as a son of God he could no more be lost than God could be lost. He also knew Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, somehow God must redeem him; thus his death would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ.
Thus, the fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent, then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel.
In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black and a blond, blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ovum is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but step-brothers or step-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm.
Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds, or offspring right after the fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth.
Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that Adam is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). If Cain actually would have been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God and a special place in God's record.
As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1 ). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion, she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth . . ." Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three WAS NOT the son of Adam.
The apostle John also knew what happened in the garden of Eden. He writes, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (1 John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle writes of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13,14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In many places Scripture calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain, and origin of all ungodly things.
Cain the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning -- not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behooves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God, the Bible says, Abel knew animal had caused the fall, and animal life must be offered.
When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice, for which he had not labored, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if he offered by faith the sacrifice of His vindicated prophet, Cain felt humiliated. Containing his pride, he asked Abel to expound the faith. Fearing for his life, Abel was reluctant to tell Cain. But when he prevailed, Abel expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he never had the birthright, was not Adam's son, and nowhere in the genealogy of God. But if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned the possibility of fabricating primogeniture.
Hence, when God exposed his evil, and Cain could see there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, (which is ultimately restoration to eternal Life in a restored world), he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles.
It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from Whom can no evil come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. As soon as all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, they will be placed back into their original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth.
Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring, therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening -- Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch -- Cain is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18).
The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain, the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . .and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life.
God hates hybreeding -- His Word is Spirit, and It is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning, It is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God". Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she had to first receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind -- spiritual serpent seed -- and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word.
In Matthew 13:36-43, the Lord speaks clearly about these two different spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is God expressed -- Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by church creeds is substitution, reasoning against the faith, the mark of Cain and of the beast. And it is death. Those influenced by the wicked one, hardened their hearts, to whom Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." Protesting they were not of Cain's serpent seed line they said, "We be not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Now Jesus knew these were physically in Adam's righteous line, but they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, therefore He said, "SPIRITUALLY, you are serpent seed, and will be blotted out from the record of Life". And they were (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28).
We also must remember that enmity was put between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there.
Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth", deceiving Eve, and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin, without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God, to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman, but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God.
After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing It with reasoning -- creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed, and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7.
Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding, bloody Lamb, and taking the Book, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. He tore open the Seals, then in Revelation 10:1-6 we see the symbol of Him descending in Word Form to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' of the Laodicean Church Age, before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52).
You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted, in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride and Her acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" knows nothing and will know nothing of this, for their end is a Lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).
Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would RESTORE the faith once delivered unto the apostolic saints (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This restoration is the Message of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6. It is the 'shout' of I Thessalonians 4:16 which both wise and foolish virgin of Matthew 25:6 hear and heed. It is Christ, "that which is perfect" of I Corinthians 13:10, Acts 3:21, and Revelation 10:7 -- the Fullness of the Word spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began. Which separates His tiny little Flock from the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; II Thessalonians 2:1; Revelation 18:4).
The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and second Adam, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born children of the second Eve, Jesus calls the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth, is still there. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, and Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14).
Revelation 1-3 records the battle set in array on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. As these two trees were together in the midst of the Garden, they have grown together within the framework of the Christian church through the Ages. Like Judas and Jesus: brothers in the Word, so close it would almost deceive the very elect IF it were possible. But we are in the harvest time where the seed which was planted is mature and can no longer hide its fruit. The church that has rejected Christ is apostate doesn't know it. It's uniting to REJECT and destroy the manifested Word Bride (Revelation 3:15-20). But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit -- NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost --- that little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus.
As Satan incarnate the beast in Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he's cast out of the heavenlys, he evicts his demons from the man of sin and incarnates him; thereafter he's called the beast. Christ's purpose will be fulfilled in His Bride: that Corn of Wheat which fell to the ground and died at Calvary will have reproduced Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride.
When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "All these things will I give You, if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15).
Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul writes, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ -- if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" (Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We have the privilege to live in a time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including what happened in the garden of Eden. bb930112.htm
