Quit Blaming the Devil
Everyone wants a scapegoat or a fall guy — somebody to blame for their problems. The devil has become the scapegoat of many Christians.
It is easy and logical to blame the devil. He is a thief and he comes to wreak havoc. This arch deceiver’s entire mission is to destroy our faith and walk with God, if possible. The influence of these dark powers is what we must overcome to conquer sin and walk holy and blameless following the Spirit of Truth.
God is a tester of all faith and a righteous judge of all sin. God uses the dark powers He created to accomplish His good purposes. God’s will is that we will be sanctified, which means purified of the power of all sin and fleshly lusts. God inspects His works along the way to catch any impurities or weak spots sooner than later. This is all part of His love.
Jeremiah 6:27 I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways. This is GOD speaking to His mighty army that He controls and He sends forth to work His good purposes.
Did The Devil Make You Do It?
Until we get rid of our sinful nature and put on the divine nature of Christ, we will be in a major battle. But we can’t have a pity party and blame the devil for what is happening. We must look inside of ourselves.
We are tempted and enticed constantly to do wrong. Jesus was tempted not just in the wilderness but throughout His entire walk on the earth in the body of flesh. We are no different and do not get a free pass. If we give into sin and temptation, the enemy just keeps on coming. They will keep on coming back until we resist the temptations and prove we have died to that sin and do not love our sin more than we love God. I have learned this first hand and have come to hate my “former lovers”, which were my sins. I used to blame the devil for this, as he was indeed a participant, but the blame always rested fully with me. I was deceived but really loved my sins more than I loved God. My worship of God was with my lips and on the outside only. My heart was impure. I had just listened to religious lies that I could have it both ways, but we can’t. We can only serve ONE MASTER. We can only have ONE HUSBAND and it is totally up to us to choose. We are slaves to the one we obey.
Passages like this one speak to the devil’s forces and the sinful lusts they bring to us as “our lovers”.
Ezekiel 16:38 Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
What do you really love? If you love Jesus, He said you would obey Him. If you love sin, then sin is your master and Jesus is not your Lord. We become naked when we give into sin and show our love for sin as greater than our love for God. This is how Adam and Eve realized they were naked, once they had sinned. God is merciful however and when we sin, He brings judgment upon us to turn us back to Him. He does not abandon us, He wants our whole hearts focused on Him. This is what Jesus meant when He told the church of Ephesus to repent. We need to return to our first love, the LORD JESUS, if we claim to be His.
Revelation 2:5 But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. ’Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent
Too many people have been taught to blame the devil when things go wrong but this blame is misplaced. We make the devil the scapegoat when what we really ought to be doing is examining ourselves to see if and where we are falling short of God’s commandments. I am not saying all our trouble is related to sin, so please do not accuse me of saying that. Sometimes God does things, we cannot understand, but we need to trust Him that He is working all for His greater good. Jesus told us He made the blind man blind, not because of sin but so the glory of God could be made manifest.
Even Peter told us we should not be surprised at all the trials and tribulations that would come our way. We should expect them and must know from whom they come. They come from God as it is He who is total absolute control of everything that happens. The devil may be the instrument by which they come, but know they come from God.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation
Yet in many cases our problems and trials may well be traced back to our sin. Our problems may well be that God is bringing discipline upon us in order to turn us back to Him with a true Godly sorrow and repentance. This is a vehicle our loving God has put in place to prepare us and establish us solidly on the narrow path that leads to life. He wants us to do good works as Jesus showed us the way, but first God must purge out sin. Where there is practicing of sin there is NO power in our walk with the Lord. This is the gospel and it is why Jesus came.
1 John 3:8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
Jesus came to show us the way and give us the power to overcome the devil and the trials of life. We are only made righteous by faith in Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He suffered on the cross. Forgiveness of sins committed in our prior ignorance are all under His blood. God even forgives us when we stumble and sin out of weakness when we confess our sin to Him with a true godly sorrow. But the grace of God is not a license for sin. He who practices sin is not of God but of the devil. Do not be deceived my little children the Apostle John tells us, He who practices righteousness is righteous and he who practices sin is of the devil.
Forgiveness of our sins is the result of our repentance or turning towards God, not with our lips but with our hearts. This is who the Redeemer comes for, those who have turned from sin. We must turn and stand in the grace of God to overcome. True faith is believing that God will raise a new man from our own dead body of sin.
Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds
Judgment & Discipline for Sin
Many ignore the devil at their own peril and never connect the dots between what is happening in their life and how God uses His creation to bring judgment for sin and discipline to us. Just like a natural father that disciplines his children to bring them into obedience, so does our Holy Father in heaven. If we do not respond to that discipline, we are illegitimate sons.
Hebrews 12:7-8 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
When we are under attack from the enemy, we need to be on the alert it could be judgment for our sin. We need to seek the Lord’s face and ask Him to show us where we are falling short. You will know as the Holy Spirit will tell you and it is when we respond to this discipline that we grow strong in faith and know first hand the power and glory of God working in our lives.
In our fallen away doctrines of the end times, we have perverted grace into a license to sin. The cross of Christ and the Covenant of God has been misappropriated to mean a one way deal with instant and unlimited forgiveness of all sin, past, present and future. This is not the truth. Two cannot walk in Covenant unless they are agreed. Christ said I will die, and He invites us to die with Him. Yet very many are deceived about the true gospel.
Examine Ourselves
When we practice sin, we tell God we love our sin more than we love Him. This is idolatry as anything in our heart that we love more than God, even our own families or our church or anything — is an idol before the Lord. If we harbor any idols, we are not worthy of Him. He is a jealous God and He demands our whole heart, 100% of it. The purity and simplicity of this foremost command has all but been forgotten. This message of purity and holiness is deemed to be “too hard” and preaching it is considered “doom and gloom” to a world searching for an easy way to God and salvation.
Paul wrote some very tough things to the early church. In second Corinthians he told them he was not sorry that he ripped them hard in his first letter. Paul knew that selling cotton candy and tickling ears was not true love. While Paul may have been more liked or more popular by comforting believers in the flesh, instead he chose to speak the truth to them and let God sort it out.
2 Corinthians 7:8-9 For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it–for I see that my letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while– I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.
Where is this kind of teaching today? I don’t see it and I am afraid for my brethren.
Many Christians harbor idols and God keeps on sending judgment upon them in hopes they will return to Him with a pure heart. Many respond to this by blaming the devil. We should perhaps be looking elsewhere to find the source of the problem.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test?
Are you passing the test?
Jesus wants us healed and He wants us delivered fully from the hands of the enemy. He wants us to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But Jesus only imparts this truth to us when we come to Him with a pure heart and turn from our transgressions. Apostasy and error have crept into our doctrine and the church. God will blind the hearts and minds of those that insult the Spirit of Grace and practice sin and do not respond to His discipline. They will be ever seeing but never see and ever hearing but never hear the truth.
Matthew 13:14 Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them
To be healed by Jesus we must be able to see the truth. To see the truth we must worship God with a pure heart, purged of our former love of sin.
They way to get rid of the devil is to repent of our sin and stop practicing it. That is deliverance 101 as I like to say. Resist the devil and he will flee. But know that when you are attacked, you are either being judged for sin or your faith is being tested by God. If it is discipline, respond to it. If it is a test, STAND firm on the ROCK and do not listen to the liars or come down off your cross in the flesh in response to the test.
Hi again brother Bill.
I don’t know if I understand your question right:
Gen 4-7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
It might sound like that I give the impression, that there was no way out for Cain. What I try to say is that he was that much different than Abel, that he received the message: Try to show a good behaviour and not an evil behaviour. He did not pass. He went and killed his brother after knowing that it was wrong. He was evil in nature. Not as evil as the seventh generation of the serpent thou.
The reason why Cain never was mentioned as the rightful firstborn generation, child of Adam, is that the blood stream proves different.
Taking later events into account of this secret, I would like to mention the event of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob / Esau.
As explained below, the tenth generation is the judgement generation. And in Abraham every nation shall be blessed. Abraham was the tenth generation of the new world from Noah. Whosoever who was not a son of Abraham, was not in the covenant with God through the promise of God to his servant, Abraham.
But even Abraham the father of believers proves himself to be a mingled man, in the FLESH. He got the son of promise, Isaac. Isaac got Esau and Jacob.
Why? Somewhere on the way to the tenth generation from Noah, there must have been a mingling of holy seed with the woman offspring of the daughters of Ham. Ham was the one to take himself a wife of the gentiles into the arch of Noah. That is how the nature of the serpent survived the flood. There were 7 clean and 1 unclean of all kind. Also human beings. 8 souls in the ark.
The birth of Esau and Jacob shows the old story repeating itself again. Esau was the firstborn. Just like Cain. The firstborn is the one ordained to carry on the seed of the generation of the promised Christ. But no. Something strange happened in the mothers womb. A fight between good and evil. The tree of knowledge bearing good and evil again.
GENESIS 25:23
» 23 † And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Jacob had to steal that firstborn right of blessing later on in their life, when they were grown older. But he received his name by birth. Jacob, the betrayer. He was ordained to take his brother by the “heel” Betray. Also Cain was firstborn. But he was not the firstborn of the “line” of blood.
GENESIS 38:28
» 28 † And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
The blood line on his hand, proved him to be the first born of the blood line of Josef.
The rightful beloved firstborn sons apparently have some problems getting out first. By different reasons. But he is always the one to get his blessing.
GENESIS 25:26
» 26 † And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Also here we see the hand on the heel of Esau. Term used of betraying the right of being the firstborn son of Isaac.
He who first came out was the good one. And out came the hand of Josef. On his hand was put a line. A blood red line. This line was the prove of being the firstborn thou he was not the firstborn. Just like Abel. He also was the firstborn son of Adam. Adam has nothing to do with the birth of Cain. That is how I see the spiritual story of God unfolding. HIDDEN SECRETS revealed to his servants, the prophets.
ISAIAH 45:3
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
I CORINTHIANS 2:6-10
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
The sons of god in Gen ch 6 were not Nephilim angels.
bill
Gen 4-7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
God Bless
Bill
Hey again brother Bill.
In the way I see the generation of Adam, He did not get any daughter in the main time. And if he only got daughter for a hundred and thirty years, then the question is WHY… As I see it, Cain was born of the will of flesh, the serpent. Abel was born of the will of man, Adam. And Jesus was born of the will of God.
Regarding Cain. God gave Cain a wife. But he received his wife from Adam and Eve. He received a daughter of Adam, after having killed his brother Abel.
Cain knew that he was guilty to death. And the one who he could meet on his way was Adam, the king of Eden. But Adam shows his mercy by giving the evil man a chance to survive through childbearing.
Cain first killed his brother. Then he receives his holy wife and leaves the presence of God. And there out of the presence of God he knew this wife of his. There is nothing written about finding a wife.
GENESIS 4:16
» 16 † ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
GENESIS 4:17
» 17 † And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
The mercy promise is the wife…
There was no wife to take before Abel was killed. The wife was Gods prove to Cain, that he shall live and not die thou he was guilty to death. Again this was according to the promise to the serpent. The seed of the woman shall bruise thy head. If that happened already in the second, in the Cain and Abel event, then the prophecy would not be fulfilled in Judas and Christ. Abel never rose again. Thou Set is the image of the resurrection of Abel. He is a resurrection son.
Judas the son of the serpent went to Jesus and gave him a hug. By this hug, Jesus asked him: “Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?” This betrayal is the enmity between the serpent seed and the seed of the woman, who has no seed. The seed was given to the woman from God, Jesus Christ our Lord. Between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. This kiss is the “bruise of his heel.” Betrayal.
When Judas goes to hang himself in between heaven and earth, in the tree of condemnation, then he, from the tree was, by God, crushed down to the ground. Head first. His “head” was crushed against the”rock” his belly was split open. ”On your belly…” He fulfils the prophecy of being that foretold seed of the serpent. Even to his death.
The wife of Cain was the prove from God, that if anyone would kill Cain, then the vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. Cain was blessed with a God daughter of the resurrected Adam. A daughter of the nature of the seventh day.
And this is why that whosoever kills Cain shall be vengeance seven fold. The man is made holy by his wife. The wife is made holy by her man. The seventh generation from the serpent took himself two wives, and believes therefore that whosoever kills him, shall be vengeance seven times seven fold. The evilness is again grown to its limits. Believes himself to serve God when he is killing.
Evilness and goodness growing together. The seventh from Adam again was a prophet. Just like in the beginning. Adam the Christ image.
Regarding the sons of God on the days of Noah. I did listen to your speech. But as I see this, it is impossible for spirits to take upon themselves flesh. Of cause a person of flesh and blood can be overtaken by the power of spirits, but. What is born of flesh is flesh. What is born of a spirit is spirit. And when Jesus revealed himself to the disciples, after the resurrection, they thought they saw a spirit. But spirits dos not have flesh and bones. So, in order to be a creation of flesh, you have to have a mother of flesh and blood.
Eve is the mother of ALL living creatures.
The Sons of God.
The daughters of God.
The human being in the image of man. Going out of the image of man, Eve and not Adam.
And the woman of the flesh, going out of the image of man, Eve and not Adam. Adam is the image of God. Eve was created in the image of Man.
Those last kind of human beings were the daughters of man who were fair.
This is also why I see the time line in the form of:
1: The paradise of God. The time where God created a earthly paradise with a earthly image of God in the midst of the garden, Adam. Adam being the last creation. The tenth creation of God. The judgement is in the tenth. The creeping things of the sea. The fishes and the grate beasts of the ocean. 1, 2 and 3. The fowls of the ocean of the ground and of heaven. 4, 5 and 6. The creping thing of the field the wild and the cattle. 7, 8 and 9. Now he have finished the creations after its 9 kind of beasts. Let us make man in our own likeness. 10. Amen.
2: The time of the sons of God. Which ends in the greatest prophet of its time. Noah the tenth from Adam. He made an end of the suffering of the ground. Through faith he killed the evil man. The thorns and thistles of this world. The murdering generation of Cain.
3: The time of the law ends with the greatest prophet ever born of a woman. John the Baptist. Adam the first being hold outside of being greater. He was not born of a woman. It is a lowering thing to be born of a woman. It is the birth through knowledge. If we dont believe when he talks to us about the earthly things, how should we could believe when he begins to speak about the heavenly things? This is the earthly heaven, revealing the heaven to come.
When Peter knew who was the greatest among the disciples, he asked Jesus what will happen to this man, John the beloved? Jesus said unto him, “If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.” So Jesus here lets us know what is a grate thing to experience. The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ have to be the greatest revelation time ever.
The river to water the garden, which were raised from the dust of Eden, filled with gold of the good kind and bdellium and the onyx stone in the garden of Eden is the blood stream of Adam. Outside you find the blood stream of Adam divided into these four kinds of human beings. Only one kept the clean gold and the stones of its grate value.
GENESIS 2:5
» 5 † And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
GENESIS 2:6
» 6 † But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
The mist is the spiritual man of God. Adam. He is the first cloud filled with water.
JUDE 1:12
» 12 † These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I might add that Cain and Abel is the story of the wheat and the tares. Jesus said “nay let them grow up together” Cain and Abel also grew up together as cryptically identified in Gen 4-3 ” And in process of time it came to pass”
Gen 4 8 “when they were in the field”, —the field is the world.
Matthew 13-36 Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
the serpent was the most subtle beast of the field.
Abel was the first martyr and is linked to the last martyrs in the book of Rev. I cover all of this in the breakout study “the first and last martyrs” on our web-site also. i would like to say also that my intent is not to lead people to our web-site or to have a following of any kind. But many of the studies reveal the chewing of scripture from Gen. to Revelation. You might even say Revelation that book before Genesis. The Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.
God bless
Bill
Joen my point was to establish that Cain was not fathered by the serpent in the garden. Many are believing, especially in British Israelism the “serpent seed doctrine”
Cain and able may have been twins, the text is unclear about this.
Able was to be the seed (a keeper of sheep) love thy neigghbour as thy self.
Cain was a tiller of the ground (a builder in the flesh who does not care about his brother) This is verified in Gen ch 4. God said where is thy brother, and Cain said; I know not, am I my brotherrs keeper? He could care less about loving his brother.
Seth was the seed that was born 130 years later to replace Abel (Abel means vain, meaning he could not carery the seed forward because he was killed) So he was for not and a new seed was given to Eve. There were other children born of Adam and Eve before Seth, but none of them wee sons. This is obvious as Cain tooka wife.
The key to understaning Cain is “he was born a man”, andd Seth was born a son. I cover this on WW in “the sons of God Gen ch 6 Part 2″.
The Generations of Adam are in ch 5, Cain is never mentioned, The seed was intended to go through Abel but he was killed, thus Seth was the replacement seed.
Adam could of had many children before Seth was born. But no Son.
Peace be with you
Bill
Hey Bill Johnson
GENESIS 4:1
» 1 † ¶ And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I HAVE GOTTEN A MAN FROM THE LORD.
GENESIS 4:2
» 2 † And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Adam did not know his wife for the second time for many years. But she again bare his brother without the knowledge of Adam.
That is because they were twins. How and who knew the tree of knowledge, Eve is already told in the story of the fall.
And that’s why she in the first place calls her first born baby Cain. She thought that this son was her promise of salvation.
GENESIS 3:15
» 15 † And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; IT SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The play with words on Cain means to receive a man from the Lord.
The woman was promised “A man from the Lord” She was promised to conceive the savior.
She thought that she was the one to give birth to Christ, the saviour. She misunderstood the message. She thought that she, now, had received and conceived Christ the saviour.
Adam did not know his wife more than once. And he did not know her again for at least twenty to thirty years. Bear that in mind.
Adam did not know the tree of knowledge again until after: Cain and Abel were adults. Found themselves a place in the field. Abel and Cain began to offer. Cain rising against his brother Abel. Cain killing his brother. NOW Adam went to the tree of knowledge that God no longer did forbid them to eat of. The tree of life was denied them after the fall, not the tree of knowledge.
GENESIS 5:3
» 3 † And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Adam the prophet knew, that he would have to wait, knowing his wife, for the second time. He knew that the thorns and thistles, Cain, would kill his first born son, Abel. His second son, not third son, but second son Seth, was Set instead of Abel. Again the playing with words.
GENESIS 3:18
» 18 † THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Cain was a thorn in the flesh of his brother Abel.
NUMBERS 33:55
» 55 † But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
This also explains what Paul was talking about. When he talked about his thorn in the flesh. A messenger of Satan. A person stirring up the people of the cities, against the unknown, strange God, that Paul was preaching. Jesus Christ.
It was a person sent from the devil, to give Paul the beat, everywhere he went. Paul once said: II TIMOTHY 4:14
» 14 † Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
And John: “Adam being foolish.” Please think about that statement once again. He was the image of God. And God have no shame of calling Adam his son. He must be better than that! What I here explanes to you, I believe to be the secret of the falling away. The sinful nature of the Jewish people was inherited from their forefathers. But it was not inherited from the beginning, Adam. No. It was inherited from the mingling of seed with the Gentiles. Mingling with the generation of the son of the serpent, Cain’s daughters. Mingling with the daughters of man. The grate sin in the days of Noah, which caused God to send the flood. This mingling of seed created the evil giants whose thoughts were evil all day long.
Genesis 6:2-7
Also Ham, the son of Noah was guilty of this sin. He did not take a daughter of God but he took himself a daughter of man to his wife. Again came forth the giants.
Genetic different human beings with six fingers and six toes, taller and their skin was not reddish to look at, but it was in the likeness of Esau, hairy.
Bill, Once again, thank you for sharing your eyes on history. I’ve witnessed the destruction you speak of. I was born in ’52 and likewise was blessed to have a traditional nucleus family.Even in the days of my unbelieving youth, I recognized women struggling in the professional work place. I’m not saying they can’t do just as well as a man, some excel remarkably. What I see it the price they pay, the toll it takes on them. For years it’s appeared to me they paid a steeper price and got paid less for it. It’s always pained me inside to witness this. I’m in total agreement on the ruin of the family,the evil of PP, and the father state. My inner voice has cried at all these federal agencies to “stop taking care of me”. When we don’t do what God says in subjecting ourselves to His established order, we suffer judgement.I find it interesting and very saddening to observe what once was, crumbling at the hand of the powers of darkness and mans rebellion.”Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.” Thanks for sharing your studies. Love and grace, Mark.
@Mark-The communist propaganda of women’s lib was the final epoch of the destruction of America. Now the christian community has a higher divorce rate than the non-christian community. The children are broken apart with great stress which carries on in their future life to come. There would have been no legalized abortion with out first having women’s lib. The women themselves did not start this movement, like all movements it was orchestrated by large financial funding. No need to go into the root of who this was, but women through flattery’s were deceived into thinking they would be equal, only its not the equality they thought it was going to be they now work 2 jobs and still have to take care of the children in many cases..For what was perceived to be a carrier, all deception. Women are blessed with many gifts that men do not generally have, nurturing is a wonderful gift of women, and they were deceived into thinking that being a mother or home maker was an insult. When in actuality the exact opposite is true. While the general nature of a man is less prone not to be deceived. Men and women were made to work together as a family unit. Men used to be gentleman as well, now that is gone. Plus all it did was create a slave state that gathered more income tax. Since then all manufacturing is gone in America, so thus we have to steal from all the rest of the nations to support our spending habits, as it allowed for FRBanking which brought about huge dept, also huge benefits for lawyers who always gain when misery is afflicted upon anyone. The children have suffered enormously because of this, childhood traumas are greatly increased today. Not saying by any means that it was all perfect before, because their has always been suffering. But now it is at a level never seen before. I am a student of history, and I witness to you that no where in the history of the world has the family unit been completely destroyed like in the last 50 years. NO OTHER TIME IN HISTORY
Karl Marx wrote (by the way all of his writings were done by Jesuit priests), Marx was just the salesman they used. But he said; you have to :enialate the father” to gain control over the populous. Now the state is the new father. we have a show out on WW this weak concerning this subject. And of course the men like Adam ate of this fruit and has now become a nation of impotent Ahabs. Marx said if you want to destroy the family you must first destroy the father.
I have experienced society in the 1950s, and 60s where our family knew of only a very few divorces and the family unit was much healthier.
This is by no means is to belittle women, for they are a very beautiful creation of God, and serve Him in many special ways that men are not best suited for. I was blessed to have a wonderful mother who raised us and provided for a very stable home environment while my father was the bread winner. I may add also, that my father was a gentlemen and had the utmost respect for women, but by and large that generation is dead and buried by the red horse Karl Marx theology.
The women were sold the lie of freedom of choice, they were never told that the blood in the baby’s body is not their blood, it is only the blood of the father in the baby. The life is in the blood. Men were equally responsible for this demise also. Planned parent hood is one of the most evil organizations in America. How do ye being evil come speaking good things, said Jesus.
Keep Jesus Love and give it to others
Bill
How so in 1967?
Eve was deceived by a propaganda artest, and Adam being foolish listen to his wife because he did not want to upset the apple cart (relationship).
The whole story took place again on a large scale in 1967.
Cain was Adams son.
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Agape
Bill
Hey massigusoni.
I would like to give you another view on this subject.
God creates a paradise through 7 nights and days,(death and resurrection) and he ends every day with saying that it was GOOD.
All of the sudden he creates something that he have another view of. The tree of knowledge. The tree of knowledge is neither evil nor good. It has the possibilities of bearing good and evil fruit. Through knowledge. Therefore, don’t even touch it. God did not create any evil thing. He created the possibility of bearing evil and good seed from the tree of knowledge.
Bearing this in mind, we must take a look at the fall in sin, once again.
Adam was created in the image of God. He was a Good man. Created in the image of the tree with everlasting life. He was the fig tree. He would never ever break the law of the fig tree. You must not know the tree of knowledge.
It takes two bees to produce / create a fig fruit. The first pollen carrying bee dies in the process. The second bee goes free. The serpent was that first pollen carrier. Adam was the second pollen carrier. Adam would never touch the tree of knowledge, unless… Unless he was forced by his love to his wife. He was a man after Gods mind.
But Adam was also a prophet. God gave Adam the job of giving names to every living creature. When Adam was finished doing this job, he claimed that this world has nothing that suits him. Help meet. Genesis 2:20
Then God puts him to sleep. Adam died. God don’t ever say that his children are dead. God is not God for the dead. He is God for the living.
This is in fact exactly the same that happens to the second Adam. He came to this world. He gave names to the creatures of this world. Some he called serpents. Some he called a rock. Some he called the sons of thunder. And so on. But for himself he found no one who was in his image. They were all fallen away from God. No one did right. Romans 3: 10-13
Adam was put to sleep. Adam died. And in his death a rib was “broken” of his body, to create him a help meet.
And also the second Adam was put to sleep. It was the will of God, to put him to death. But there should not be broken any bone in the second Adam. There was no commandment broken in the second. He was not of the dust. He was from above. He was the perfect man of God. Out of the side of the second Adam, God “came with the water and the blood” And he came with the spirit of God. Adam died away from the sixth day. And God finished the seventh day by rising up Adam and his help meet, on the seventh day. God finished the creation of the paradise through death and resurrection.
Now the number of Adam is no more six, like the rest of the living creatures. It is seven. The number of man is seven. The number of the beast is six. The mystery of the number of man 666 is the nature of human beings finding pleasure in the day they were created. The sixth day. If you don’t flee the world and its lusts, turn to God for a higher purpose and consider yourself dead to the world, then you don’t get part in the resurrection to the day of rest.
So, Adam was firstly a prophet. And as a prophet he knew what the good offering was. He sacrificed his own flesh to death through obedience to be put to rest. Deep sleep. He acted as a priest. Offering his life. After the resurrection we find him as the King. To reign the world. Adam was anointed with all spiritual anointing. Prophet, Priest and King.
God lifted him up to reign over all other souls. He became the great King of the paradise of God.
The falling in sin, in the beginning, is not Adam doing anything evil. It is in fact the serpent seducing the wife of Adam. The serpent convinced the woman that knowing the tree was not wrong.
But what is it to know the tree of knowledge? It is to know the woman. She was the tree of pleasure which was pleasant to the eye. She was the midst of the life of Adam. She was the one, not to be known. The serpent knew her. And she now carries the evil fruit of the serpent in her life.
Now Adam stands with a situation, asking himself what to do. Adam chose to know the tree of knowledge too. Why? Because the seed of Adam was the only seed, the good seed, that could save his wife from death. The good seed of Adam was the seed that could produce a saviour. As we know, the bible says that the saviour came from the generation of Adam, the son of God.
So Adam did a saving act when he knew his wife. And that is why, the New Testament says these words: She shall be saved through childbearing.
I TIMOTHY 2:14
» 14 † And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
I TIMOTHY 2:15
» 15 † Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
So looking at the tree of knowledge, and the good and evil fruit / seed going out of this tree, we will understand what it means to be a heden.
The wife of Adam was called Eve because she became the mother of ALL living. Good and evil living creatures. Cain was not the son of Adam. Cain was the son of the serpent. Abel was the son of Adam. Their doings proved who their fathers were. The bible says. A good tree can not bear evil fruit. And an evil tree can not bear good fruit.
Cain was the evil seed going out from the tree of knowledge, Eve. Abel was the good seed going out from the tree of knowledge, Eve. They were twins.
So, Adam the image of God in life and death is not doing anything contrary to the will of God. He is not trying to blame someone else. He begins to bear leaves of his kind. Fig leaves. The naked seed of God, Adam, was now given the cover of fig leaves, proving him to be good. Then God covers Adam with the cover of God. Skin of an offering that God provided for Adam. The covering of the offering of Jesus Christ. Adam the prophet, knew the will of God. He knew the message of the New Testament, even down in details, when it came to 1 Timothy 2:14
Adam foretold the serpent its end. He foretold that this highly intelligent beast of the field would end his life on its belly eating dust. In direct words it means to die. This serpent was not a beast creeping on its belly. It was the most subtle of the beasts. Which means, it was the closest to the image if God. It could talk. It was almost totally upright. It was what science would call, the missing link. It was almost a man.
The serpent beguiled me. Seduced me. And I ate of the knowledge. The serpent knew Eve. And she got pregnant with the serpent. Now, Adam the good man of God is facing his worst situation ever. What is to do now? Adam who loved his wife was willing to die for her if it was possible. And Adam the prophet understands that it is possible. If Adam gives Eve his seed, then Eve will get at chance to get saved through “Childbearing.” She will give birth to the son of God and that will be her salvation.
Jesus said:
LUKE 14:5
» 5 † And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?
What Jesus here says is that Adam is above the Sabbath day. He is greater then the day itself.
MATTHEW 12:8
» 8 † For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.
He breaks the Sabbath commandment in order to do well. To save.
Massi, I did not mean to say sins were not forgiven before Christ died as God did institute the rituals of animal sacrifices and atonement we read on the Torah. Jesus came to free us from the power of sin, to set us free from bondage. Forgiveness is a by product of being set free and following the LORD. That gift is there for all who choose to receive it and walk in the gift until the very end. I must make covenant with God. Covenant is a two way deal. He died for me and I need to die for Him. No greater love than a friend to give his life for another. I must lose my life to gain my life.
Jesus led the way. We follow. That is He came to earth as a man. We are to walk as Jesus walked, dead to our flesh and led by the Spirit. That is what Abram believed, that God would raise a new man from his dying body and then that new man (ISAAC) would walk with his father up the hill to be sacrificed. We are to be a holy sacrifice unto the Lord, which is our reasonable service.
Pete: Our Lord “forgave sins” before His Crucifixion. Following your reasoning, this would have been an impossibility. Yet it is so written that He did. I don’t think God ever had a “plan B”. If “the devil” could cause Him to initiate a “plan B” contingency, then He would not be omniscient and omnipotent. Our Lord Jesus Christ could forgive all sin, of all time, with one word. But, some would rather not be forgiven; they, rather would have Christ die in their place, and be their “scapegoat”. That is what took place “historically”; and, then afterward, vicarious atonement became the basis of false religion, “after the fact”. Hebrews X: 5+6 reads “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure”. It is the evil heart of man that demanded Christ’s death. And it is the evil heart of man that devised the doctrine of “necessary vicarious atonement”. Could there be a more wicked notion that The Son of God MUST die in your place; when God will forgive you if you simply ask Him to? We will know for sure when and in the day that He judges the “secret intents” of all hearts.
Very tough question you ask. I believe it was necessary and was God’s plan all along. It pleased Him to crush His Son. Forseeing that man would rebel and fall, God had plan B in mind all along. I am just a piece of clay and cannot speak back to the potter and question His method. I don’t fully understand it, yet seek more of it daily. But this I do believe, Christ did not die in vain. So based on that promise alone, I believe it was necessary as the potter set it up so that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood. Chirst died for us while we were yet still sinners (romans 5)
The propensity to, “point the blame”, so to speak, seems to me to be one of the most obvious, and one of the most hidden aspect of the result of “The Fall”. We see it exhibited in the Adamic statement, “the WOMAN which YOU gave to me”, and the Evil proclamation, “the serpent beguiled me”, at that very occasion. We later see that, “the wickedness and intents of the heart of man being evil continually”, at the time of The Deluge. Could not this scapegoatism be a large part of these wicked and evil intents? Later we witness the development in religious practices whereby innocent animals are killed to “shift the blame”. Could it not be likely, that man has been so effected by this propensity, that he has interpreted the necessity of the death of Jesus Christ into his doctrines? Is it not much more likely that God allowed the death of His Son, rather than demanded it, knowing man would demand it? “I would have mercy, and NOT sacrifice”!
Chris, Praise our Lord who is working on both of us at the same time. He is not finished with me- nor you; but we just need to keep the faith and believe like Abraham did. God is raising up a new man out of our old dying bodies that were dead to sin. On the demon issue, God does call us according to His will to cast out demons in His name. Too much of what we call deliverance today is all flesh and it is not led by the Spirit of Truth. I have come to realize that unless we first ourselves purge sin out of our hearts, we do not have the Power of the Spirit working in us. We have to come thru the wilderness and the furnace of fire first, just as Jesus did. Paul told timothy, cleanse yourself of worldly lusts and then God can use you for truly noble purposes.
I agree with you about so many christians blaming the devil for everything. I am a fairly new christian and have been going to a church that is very charismatic/pentecostal. The people there seem to spend a lot of their energy and focus on satan and his demons. A lot of rebuking this or that spirit, or yelling into the air at satan himself. This bothers me as I do NOT see this kind of thing being done anywhere in the bible. Yes, demons are cast out of people — but the new christians don’t seem to be focused on engaging satan himself. Also, in my own life, God is doing a work in me that is anything but pleasant as He Himself changes me. I seem to be going through my own “dark night of the soul” as I die daily to my flesh. Old habits and ways die hard – but after a long life of nothing but feeding, nurturing and giving into the flesh, can I really expect to walk away so easily? I am just so grateful to God that He doesn’t just save me and leave me like He found me – that He is absolutely faithful and committed to changing me into the likeness of His Son. This can be a painful process, but luckily He doesn’t let my whining stop Him from doing what He needs to do. “God’s will is that we will be sanctified, which means purified of the power of all sin and fleshly lusts. God inspects His works along the way to catch any impurities or weak spots sooner than later. This is all part of His love.” – You are so right here – it is all because of love!
Christopher, I agree it comes down to 2 types of people. Wheat and Chaff, sheep and goats, righteous and wicked…… You are right, if we are walking in the present tense with faith we will not sin. However, there is spoken about the process of maturity, moving from babes and getting past the milk. We are told to exhort our brothers and rebuke sin and correct them with gentleness. As we mature and move from babes into a fuller knowledge, we are likely to stumble once in a while, and this is one of the gifts of God, the Holy Spirit that will bring conviction of our sin and move us back to the narrow road. There is a sin that does not lead to death John told us and it is these momentary stumbles that do not lead to death if we respond to the conviction and discipline the Lord sends our way. God sees our hearts and that is how he judges, if we practice sin and claim to know God, we deceive ourselves.
My take on Isaiah 26:10 is this. One of the ways we are tested by God is that the wicked can appear to be getting away with all their sins and wickedness. They may be blessed financially, tremendously popular with all the trappings of a pleasurable worldly life. But this security and blessing is only temporary. Know that Vengeance is mine says the Lord and all will stand for judgment according to their deeds. If we lust after these worldly things, we show our hearts are not pure. God works all things for the greater good, even allowing wicked people to be blessed on this earth. These flesh blessings are not really eternal blessings. If we lust after money, God may well give us what we want, but with that “blessing” comes spiritual blindness and ultimately death unless we repent and turn to Him with a pure heart. Isaac blessed Esau and God blessed Ishmael as well, but these do not partake in the eternal promise. We need to stay the course and have faith of what is yet to come and not let our sensuality (flesh discernment) be our truth that guides us. That is a characteristic of Mystery Babylon, their sensuality. Babylon judges by the flesh not by the Spirit of God.
My aim and our aim is for total perfection. If that is not our aim, Jesus is not really our Lord. But God is merciful and we have a mediator if we stumble, but this grace if used to practice sin will bring judgment and wrath as our hearts will not pass muster with God.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
James 3:2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
2 Peter 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble
Practice makes perfect. If we practice righteousness we will be perfect. If we practice sin, we are condemned and the Lord we professed was not the real LORD.
In the Bible there are two types of people
the Righteousness and the wicked so if we are walking faithfully how can we stumble in sin, if we new creation in CHRIST. we need to resist the beast right and don’t fall into sin that fighting a good fight.
Could you comment on Isaiah 26:10