This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 39, number 03 (2016). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here.
“Here is what really happened in the Garden of Eden. The Word says that Eve was beguiled by the serpent. She was actually seduced by the serpent….He was so close to being human that his seed could, and did mingle with that of the woman and cause her to conceive. When this happened, God cursed the serpent.” — William Branham¹
Branham (1909–1965), a proponent of Oneness theology,² taught the so-called serpent seed interpretation of Genesis 3, with adherents of this view often citing Genesis 3:15 in support of their position: “And I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel” (ESV).
The crux of the serpent seed view is that Eve and Satan engaged in sexual relations. Consequently, sin is viewed as sexual in nature, as opposed to the traditional interpretation of the fall as sin being disobedience to God. In addition to Branham, other serpent seed interpretations of Genesis 3:15 are found in the teachings of the Christian Identity movement, as well as, for instance, in the teachings of Arnold Murray (1929–2014) of Shepherd’s Chapel and also the Unification Church.
The Identity movement’s serpent seed interpretation clearly leads to racism, as one expert explains: “As early as the mid-1940s, Identity preachers were building a new doctrine: the Serpent Seed theory. It is a fairly simple and straightforward belief: Jews are the physical descendants of a sexual union between ‘Mother Eve’ and ‘the serpent’ (Gen. 3). The serpent is variously identified as either Satan, or a demonic representative of Satan. As such, Jews are literally ‘Children of the Devil.’ Most Identity believers claim the serpent was a physical manifestation of Satan himself.”³ Furthermore, Identity teachers add that Cain is the offspring of a union of the serpent and Eve, while Abel is said to be the result of the union of Adam and Eve.⁴
Even if the serpent seed doctrine does not overtly lead to racism, the interpretation remains problematic and unwarranted. Before exploring responses to the perspective and examining the biblical texts more closely, this article will first present how Genesis 3:15 is interpreted by supporters of the serpent seed teaching.
The Seduction. Branham explains, “He seduced her [Eve] and by her did Satan have a child vicariously. Cain bore the full spiritual characteristics of Satan and the animalistic (sensual, fleshly) characteristic of the serpent.”⁵
Some proponents of the serpent seed doctrine point to the word “beguiled” in Genesis 3:13 (KJV) as evidence of Eve being sexually seduced by the serpent. This requires the interpreter to suggest that “beguiled” in this context actually means sexually seduced. However, in contemporary translations, the Hebrew word that the King James renders as “beguiled” is often translated as “deceived” (ESV, NIV, HCSB, NLT) or “tricked” (NRSV, NET), while none of these translations render the word as “seduced” or imply sexual seduction. In short, “beguiled” means to charm, enchant, deceive, or trick. In context, Eve is blaming the serpent for tricking her into eating the fruit of the forbidden tree. She is not stating that the serpent seduced her sexually.
Another approach to arriving at the serpent seed interpretation is Branham’s view that the Tree of Life in Genesis refers to Jesus. Branham exposits, “If the Tree Of Life is a person, then the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a person ALSO. It can’t be otherwise. Thus the Righteous One and the Wicked One stood side by side there in the midst of the Garden of Eden” (emphasis in original).6 By arguing that Jesus is the Tree of Life, Branham then concludes that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is Satan (the serpent). This leads Branham to conclude that the sin in the Garden of Eden involved sexual relations between Eve and Satan.
The Seed of Satan. In the King James Version, the first portion of Genesis 3:15 reads, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.” The view that both seeds are literal has resulted in the serpent seed doctrine sometimes being called the “two seed” interpretation. Most modern translations render “seed” as “offspring,” while granting that the Hebrew word is “seed.” Whether the word is translated as “seed” or “offspring” is not crucial. The question in reference to the serpent seed view is, does this passage mean that Eve and the serpent (Satan) had sexual relations resulting in the birth of a child and, as a result, a line of human beings that are literal descendants of Satan?
This leads to a problematic theological assumption, namely, that it is possible for demons to manifest physical bodies, engage in sexual relations with humans, and produce offspring. However, strong biblical arguments can be made against such claims.7 For instance, in Luke 24:39, Jesus states that “a spirit does not have flesh and bones” (ESV). In any event, even if one believes that demons may engage in sexual intercourse with humans, it does not necessarily follow that the serpent seed interpretation is correct.
Disobedience. What are the hermeneutical errors present in the serpent seed interpretation? The primary error is that of eisegesis—reading into the biblical text what is not actually present within the text. There is nothing in Genesis 3:15 or the surrounding context to indicate the sin of the garden involved sexual relations between Eve and the serpent. In fact, other passages throughout the Bible clearly indicate that the sin in the garden had to do with disobedience to God, not sexual relations: “Scripture is clear that the first sin was not sexual but rather consisted of Adam’s disobedience to God’s command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ([Gen.] 2:16–17).”8 This point demonstrates at least two other principles of sound hermeneutics: (1) allow Scripture to interpret Scripture and (2) examine the entirety of biblical teaching on a subject rather than interpreting passages in isolation. A third overarching hermeneutical principle is context. Given the context of Genesis 3:15, as well as the context of the whole of Scripture, we learn that the passage in question underscores humanity’s proclivity toward sin and disobedience to God, not sexual relations with the serpent and the rise of a demonic line of humans. Finally, adherents of the serpent seed doctrine ignore more viable and clear interpretations of the passages in question.
Regarding the Christian Identity movement’s racist interpretation of the passage, R. Alan Streett lists several problems with the Identity movement’s serpent seed teaching: “First, Israel traces its origin to Jacob, not Abel, when the former’s name was changed to Israel. Second, Abraham, not Cain, is called the father of the Jews. Third, all must be born again. Fourth, Jesus reminded the woman of Samaria that ‘salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22).
Fifth, and most important, Jesus was a Jew from the tribe of Judah; thus, according to this theory, He would be the enemy, not the Son of God.”⁹
Genesis 3:15 as Protoevangelium. There is good reason for calling Genesis 3:15 the “Protoevangelium,” that is, the “first gospel” or first instance of the gospel in the Bible. Rather than teaching the serpent seed doctrine, the passage encapsulates the centrality of the gospel message: “It has traditionally been understood as pointing forward to the defeat of the serpent by a future descendant of the woman…This defeat is implied by the serpent’s being bruised in the head, which is more serious than the offspring of Eve being bruised in the heel. For this reason, v. 15 has been labeled the ‘Protoevangelium,’ the first announcement of the gospel.”10
The Apologetics Study Bible adds, “The language is figurative, indicating the life-and-death struggle between the adversary and the human family borne by the woman….[The passage refers] to the ongoing opposition to the people of God by their enemies and [predicts] the rise of a particular seed, Jesus Christ, who will destroy the serpent in the end (Romans16:20; Revelation 12:9–10).”¹¹ Ultimately, Christ delivered the crushing blow to Satan via His sacrificial atonement and miraculous resurrection.
As to serpent seed interpretations that lead to racism, the Bible is clearly opposed to racist ideas: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
Finally, the serpent seed interpretation leads to a severe misunderstanding of the true nature of sin, which is that sin is essentially disobedience to the Holy Lord. The account of humanity’s downfall is tragic enough as plainly stated without having to sensationalize it with the unfounded view that Eve and Satan engaged in sexual relations. It is for these reasons that the serpent seed doctrine should be soundly rejected ~ Robert Velarde
Robert Velarde (MA, Southern Evangelical Seminary) is author of several books including A Visual Defense (Kregel Publications, 2013) and Conversations with C. S. Lewis (InterVarsity Press, 2008).
NOTES
¹ William Branham, “The Original Sin,” available at https://www.williambranham.com/the-original-sin/; accessed February 19, 2016.
² Oneness theology holds to a form of modalism, meaning that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not viewed as distinct persons, as in the historic orthodox view of the Trinity. For an overview of Branham’s life and teachings, see Stanley M. Burgess, ed., The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002, rev. and exp. ed.), s.v., “Branham, William Marrion.”
³ Richard Abanes, American Militias (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 162.
⁴ Ibid., 162–63.
⁵ Branham, “The Original Sin.”
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ See Hank Hanegraaff, “Did Demons Have Sexual Relations with Women in Genesis 6:4?” available at https://www.equip.org/bible_answers/did-demons-have-sexual-relations-with-women-in-genesis-64/.
⁸ Ted Cabal et al., The Apologetics Study Bible: Real Questions, Straight Answers, Stronger Faith (Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007), 10.
⁹ Alan Streett, “What Is the Christian Identity Movement?” in The Apologetics Study Bible, 1640.
¹⁰ Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 56.
¹¹ Cabal et al., The Apologetics Study Bible, 10.
THE ORIGINAL SIN , STUDY click here
The Doctrine of the Original Sin
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St. Augustine thought he had found The sin by which mankind is bound: "It was not," so said he, "The fruit on the tree, But the lust of the pair on the ground." Was he right? |
The Serpent Seed
THE ORIGINAL SIN
Author: Richard l.s.Gan
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WHAT WAS ACTUALLY THE ORIGINAL SIN
THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE FALL OF MAN?
1. "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." — Matthew 26:28
Why must the Precious Blood of the sinless Person of Jesus Christ be shed to purchase our salvation if the Fall of Man was caused merely by Adam's disobedience to a commandment? The Bible says that "as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Rom.5:12). Why must sin fall on every man in every generation, when the Scriptures clearly mention (in Exod. 20:5; 34:7; Num. 14:18 and Deut. 5:9) that God would visit "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation" only?
Now, what was the iniquity, or sin, of our father Adam and mother Eve that it fell not only unto the fourth generation but on all generations?
If you were to study and meditate for a little while, you will notice that it must be something that Adam and Eve had committed that could be passed down from one generation of people to another, and upon all generations up till this time.
2. Why did God choose His Own BLOOD; why not some other substance?
Traditional and denominational-minded preachers have made people to believe that the Fall of mankind was merely the result of disobedience by Adam and Eve to God's commandment not to eat, or partake, of the fruit of a LITERAL TREE. If the cause of the Fall was the partaking of the fruit of the forbidden literal tree then Redemption must come by eating the fruit of another literal tree which God would have to provide, for His law requires thus: "thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe" (Exod.21:23-25 cf. Rev.13:10).
As God did not provide another literal tree whereby Adam and Eve might eat of its fruit for eternal life, it stands to reason that it was not the eating of the fruit of a literal tree that caused the Fall of the whole human race. Truly, it was disobedience to a commandment of God, but a serious act was committed such that it was necessary for the Blood of Jesus Christ to be shed as a Remedy for the Fall. Thus, the blood of man must have been involved in the Fall or else God would not have required the BLOOD of ANOTHER PERSON — His Only Begotten Son — to be shed to remit the sins of mankind. (Read Hebrews 9:22 and Matthew 26:28 — blood for blood.) Therefore it stands to fact that it takes the Pure, Sinless, Eternal LIFE BLOOD of Christ Jesus to cleanse the perverted, sinful DEATH-BLOODED NATURE in mankind. Read 1 John 1:7; Romans 3:24-25.
3. LIFE is in the blood, or blood is life, according to Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:4; Deuteronomy 12:23; John 6:53. Man was originally ordained to have LIFE (eternally) but instead DEATH reigns supreme. Read Romans 5:12,14,17.
Why? How? Because a substance totally foreign (not of the same kind) to the pure blood was introduced into the body of God's highest creation — Man. Since then DEATH has a firm grip on Man.
Any mixture of kinds is contrary to God's law. God has placed a law in His creation that the earth would bring forth the vegetation, fishes, birds and animals "after their kind". This phrase is repeated ten times in five verses of Genesis 1 (verses 11,12,21,24,25). To go against this law is to produce something not of its own kind. This is sin in the eyes of the Lord God. Hybridizing causes death. It cannot reproduce LIFE. In the animal kingdom, science has crossed or hybridized the mare and the donkey, producing the mule; the lion and the tigress, producing the liger; the zebra and the she-ass, producing the zedonk: and all these hybrids are sterile (unfruitful, without life). They cannot reproduce life physically because they are products which are against the natural law of God. Therefore death (sterility) reigns in their kind physically. (In type, we can see why there is only death in all denominational churches. They have committed spiritual fornication by mixing the Pure Word of God with the words of man-made creeds, dogmas and traditions.)
So, as a result of that sinful act of perversion — the introduction of a substance, not of its own kind, into the bloodstream — DEATH reigns in mankind spiritually. That substance, which carried the Satanic traits, was the blood gene of the Serpent (who was demonically influenced).
Note: Adam was a son of God, and he was to bring forth sons and daughters of God "after his kind" unto God. There would not be, nor could there be, one bit of Satan's traits, such as lying and murdering, in them. Man was the only creature created in the image and likeness of God. His creation was in two phases. Read Genesis 1:26-28 very carefully. Adam was first created a spirit in the image of God and His Holy Angels. He was in the likeness of God and His Holy Angels when he became a living soul after God fashioned him a body of dust (Gen.2:7). And as the commandment for Adam to replenish the earth was issued to him immediately after he was created a spirit, it shows us that God dealt with him primarily in his standing as a spiritual being, a son of God. Hence, when sin came, spiritual death was imputed upon him.
How true it is that life is in the blood. All man are born sinners and have a perverted nature. We lie, we cheat, we covet. We do all manner of evil works. This is because of the serpentine nature that is in the blood. We live a sinful life because of the sinful nature and life that is in the blood. Therefore, we need to be BORN AGAIN of the Spirit of Jesus Christ Who had shed His Pure Sinless Blood for us. We need to apply His Blood onto our heart so that His Life is released on us. Only then would we change. We would have a new heart, a new life (because of His Blood). The Life of Christ comes in and we live anew. (That's what Paul teaches in Romans 7 and 8.) Truly, the LIFE is in the BLOOD. Hence, the shedding of the Blood of Christ is as an atonement of our sins.
4. "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." — Isaiah 7:14
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise; when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." — Matthew 1:18
Why must Jesus Christ bypass ordinary human conception and be Virgin Born?
Many Christians do not really know the answer to the question. To them, it seems that it was "just a proof" that Jesus Christ was a Son of God. Nevertheless, the reason should now be obvious to you if you have seriously studied the preceding paragraphs.
The blood of man was involved in the Fall. Therefore God had to choose BLOOD in his Redemption plan as His Own law requires it (Gen.9:6; Exo.21:23-25 cf. Heb.13:12). Jesus Christ had to bypass ordinary human conception and be Virgin Born because the blood of man is sinful (polluted) before God. If Jesus was born by ordinary human conception, He would surely be "shapen in iniquity; and in sin" (Psa.51:5). Then the work to redeem mankind would fail, for God requires only PURE innocent BLOOD.
In the Old Testament, God required the innocent blood of certain animals to be shed for the atonement of the soul. Read Leviticus 17:10-14. The BLOOD of Jesus Christ must need be INNOCENT to be accepted for the atonement of our souls (Mat.27:4; Eph.2:13; Rom.3:24, 25; 1Jhn.1:7).
BLASPHEMOUS TEACHING: Some denominational preachers are treading on dangerous ground in teaching the people to believe that Jesus was born of Mary's egg and God's spermatozoon. They believe that to be so because Jesus was a GOD-MAN, prophetically recognized as the "seed of the woman", and had an earthly genealogy as well; and being a God-man He had to be born of a sperm cell from God and an egg from Mary. Now, if this be true, then Jesus the Christ was in sinful flesh instead of being "in the likeness of sinful flesh" to be made sin for us (Rom.8:3; 2Cor.5:21). He would then be born a sinner because every man born into the world is a sinner by reason of the Fall which took place in the Garden of Eden. Thus, if Mary's egg was involved in the creation of the Body of Jesus, then Jesus had a sinful nature.
However, that certainly was not so! The Body of Jesus, a body of a man, was the very creation of God. God created both the sperm cell and the egg cell, and overshadowing Mary, planted the fertilized Seed in her womb. Mary, blessed of the Lord, was appointed as the mother to bring the Saviour into the world. As a mother she was to cradle, suckle and nurture the Holy One. The theological term "seed of the woman" is derived from such Scriptural verses as Genesis 3:15 and Isaiah 7:14. It refers to a conception not of man but of God (Luk.1:31,32,34,35).
Not only was Mary's egg not involved in the creation of the Body of Jesus, her sinful blood also did not contaminate the BLOOD of Jesus while He was a baby in her womb. (The baby in the womb of its mother has his own blood circulatory system. The mother's blood does not pass through the placenta into the baby's blood.)
So we see then that the whole genetics belonged to God alone. God had caused Jesus to be virgin born for a purpose: that His Blood might be Pure and Sinless in order to redeem mankind. It was totally a new creation, so to speak, to bring about a "new heart" and a "new spirit" for the repentant souls as prophesied in Ezekiel 36:26-27. Jesus Christ was God's ultimate conception in the Master Plan of God.
And because of the prophecies and promises of God as spoken through His prophets, God provided the genealogical records to correctly identify the Saviour. That's the purpose of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
5. Since blood was involved in the Fall of man, SEX must be the gateway to it. If SEX was not involved in SIN, why did Adam and Eve sew fig leaves together and make themselves apron to cover their nakedness? (Gen.3:7). And why was the female sexual organ cursed by God that her SORROW and CONCEPTION were greatly multiplied? (Gen.3:16).
Those of you who believe that SIN came by the eating of a literal fruit (whether apple, pear or whatever), have you ever wondered why the sexual organ was covered and cursed rather than the mouth if it was indeed the mouth which was involved in the act of SIN? Was not it strange for Adam and Eve to cover their sexual organs instead of their mouths? It could not be any clearer that the sexual organ was the guilty member of the body in the act of eating of that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil! And they were trying to cover up their guilty parts! — "Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" (Gen.3:11). Why did God (and why should He) curse the female sexual organ when the act was the eating of a literal fruit (if it was indeed a literal fruit) as the denominational churches would have you believe?
Man's sexual organ was not cursed because "Adam was not deceived". Eve was the transgressor (1Tim.2:14). However, the ground was cursed for Adam's sake. Since then man has to toil and till the ground, struggling against thorns and thistles, for his food (Gen.3:17-19).
6. In Genesis 3:15, God having cursed the Serpent, said to him:
"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."
Most Christians, in spiritualizing Genesis 3:15, can only see that "her seed" prophetically refers to the "seed of the woman" — Jesus Christ born of the Virgin Mary, and that Christ would crush and defeat Satan who could only bring temporary suffering to Him. They either fail to see or choose to disregard the first part of this dual prophecy. God had put enmity between the Serpent and Eve, and also his seed and her seed — BOTH SEEDS, NATURAL AND PHYSICAL. ("Thy seed" is what stumped many Christians. "Thy seed" is the "seed of the Serpent" — Serpent's Seed. The Serpent had a seed!) Eve had a natural seed — "her seed" — Abel, and so had the Serpent his natural seed — "thy seed" — Cain. And there was enmity between them concerning their faith in God. [See Appendix A-1.]
7. The genealogy of a person is traced to the side of the man (the father) because the blood line (or descent) comes through the male cell. But why does not the Bible tell us that Adam was the father of all living instead of stating that Eve was "the mother of all living"? (Gen.3:20). Does not this show that Cain was not a child of Adam but of Eve and the Serpent? And consider why Eve so named her first son Cain. Cain means acquisition, because he was not Adam's begotten son; he was merely an acquired son. Also, Genesis 4:1 states only one act of union between Adam and Eve, but two children were born. Yet, it does not record the two as twins. Whenever twins of the same father were born they are specifically stated in the Scriptures. Read Genesis 25:24; 38:27.
Note: All life, big or small, good or evil, comes from God (Isa.45:7). Thus, Eve was able to say that she had "gotten a man from the Lord" (Gen.4:1).
Undoubtedly, Cain was not the seed of Adam. He was clearly the seed of the Serpent.
8. If Cain was a son of Adam, who was a son of God, why did he kill Abel (Gen.4:8) since the characteristic traits of God are righteous? Would God's righteousness turn to unrighteousness in Cain to kill and to destroy life? Read Luke 9:56; Gen.18:23-28; 1 John 3: 15-16. (Remember: the law of God states that every living seed shall bring forth after its own kind (Gen.1:11-12, 21, 24-25 cf. 1:26).
If Cain's murderous act was not from God, then from whom did Cain inherit that trait? 1 John 3:12 reads "...Cain was of that wicked one and slew his brother."
Who then was the wicked one, the originator of murder? Jesus said that "the devil was a murderer from the beginning" (Jhn.8:44). He was the one who injected the murderous spirit and other evil traits into Cain through the Serpent.
9. What about Cain's lie: "I know not..."? (Gen.4:9). Where did it come from? John 8:44 has the answer: the Devil is the father of lies. Also where did Cain get his violent temper that he withstood God so — "Am I my brother's keeper?!"?
Not only did Cain show those two traits, but he also manifested a "NO REPENTANCE" nature which further proved that his life, prior to the murderous act, must have been quite disobedient.
10. The birthright belongs to the firstborn alone (Gen.43:33; 48:8-19). Why was Cain, who was the firstborn (Gen.4:1), not mentioned in the book of the generations of Adam (Gen.5) and in the genealogy of Jesus Christ (Luk.3:23-38)? (Notice: Esau, who was the firstborn of Isaac, was not mentioned in the genealogy Jesus Christ because he sold his birthright to Jacob — Genesis 25:29-34. Abel was not listed because he was murdered (that stopped the lineage), and Seth was the substitute to bring about the descendants of the Adamic Race.)
Jude 14 states that Enoch was the seventh from Adam. If Cain was of Adam, Enoch could not have been the seventh; he should be the eighth counting from Adam.
However, nowhere in the Bible is Cain referred to as a son of Adam.
All the above points conclusively proved that not only was the commandment of God broken, but that blood was also involved in the Fall through sexual fornication which resulted in the birth of the seed of the (Satan-possessed) Serpent — Cain.
Cain was not the seed of Adam; he was truly the seed of the Serpent as stated in the Scriptures in Genesis 3:15 and 1 John 3:12. He was a bastard. He was a seed that was not planted by the Almighty God but Satan.
Sexual fornication had its beginning in the Garden of Eden. Since then "filthy" sex is rampant everywhere. Satan is a Pervert ("Perverter") and from him sprang three great evils that blanket the whole world today — Sexual Perversions, Lies (including so-called white lies) and Murders. They were found manifested in the land of Eden. Since then, they have been on the increase, with added evil attributes, in every generation.
11. If the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a literal fruit tree from which the first couple had partaken of its fruit that caused the Fall of Mankind; and also, if the Tree of Life was a literal fruit tree that man might partake to have Eternal Life, then where are both these trees today, since God did not destroy them? (There is no record in the Sacred Scriptures that they were destroyed.) If the trees were literal, it would be most logical to believe that the Tree of Life should be on earth somewhere in the region of the Garden of Eden (Gen.2:10-14) so that man may partake of its fruits in order to have Eternal Life, isn't it? If that be so, (a) where is that Tree of Life? and (b) why must Christ die to give us life through the shedding of His BLOOD?
Note: In Egyptian mythology, the Tree of Life is the fig tree. Obviously, you do not believe that, or do you?
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THE SEED OF THE SERPENT
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THE SEED OF ADAM
In checking the [two] blood lines (or lineages) of Adam and the Serpent, we will notice plenty of differences between their descendants.
1. Genesis 4:2 records that "Cain was a tiller of the ground". He was just like his father, the Serpent, who tilled the ground as a servant of Adam. Man was said to "till" the ground (Gen.2:5) only through his servant, the Serpent. Notice that Man was commanded by God to subdue the earth and to have dominion over all creatures of the earth that God had placed under his authority (Gen.1:28). After the Fall, Adam had to till the ground himself (Gen.3:23) when he lost his Serpent-servant whom God had cursed to become a snake. [See Appendix A-2.]
The Scriptures could not be any clearer in describing what the Serpent originally was. Yet, the Truth is actually hidden from the wise and the prudent man (Isa.29:14 cf. 1Cor.1:19; Luk.10:21). Observe that the Serpent was the highest and most intelligent of all beasts. He was also more subtle. He was not loathsome. Of all creatures of the field the Serpent was the only beast that could talk and communicate with Adam and Eve (Gen.3:1). Undoubtedly, He was an upright creature, very much like man but was not created in the image and likeness of God to be a son of God as Adam was (Gen.1:26). He was under the control of Adam, a son of God, to do as Adam commanded him. He was Adam's servant. (Perhaps the Serpent was like the Prehistoric Man, maybe better looking. The Prehistoric Man existed long before the present Modern Man (made in God's image and likeness) was created some 6,000 years ago.)
So Cain was like his father — the Serpent — a tiller of the ground. But "Abel was a keeper of sheep" (Gen.4:2) like his father Adam who kept animals under his hand (that is, his authority).
2. Abel, being the son of Adam, the son of God, had the true revelation of the Fall. That revelation enabled him to sacrifice the firstlings of his flock (Gen.4:4). He knew what had happened in the Garden. He knew that blood was involved and blood must be shed. (At least two animals were sacrificed by God Who made coats of skins to clothe Adam and Eve (Gen.3:21).)
Cain, being the son of the Serpent, had no such revelation as Abel had; he brought forth an offering of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and suchlike products of the ground (Gen.4:3). Now, paganism can be traced back to Cain. It is Cain's religion.
3. Cain manifested his father's traits which were derived from Satan — murder, lies, and violent temper (Gen.4:8,9). Read John 8:44.
4. The genealogy of Cain as recorded in Genesis 4:16-24, shows us what kind of people the Cainites were like.
Lamech, the great, great, great grandson of Cain practised polygamy by taking two wives (Gen.4:19). From whom or where did he get such a "revelation"? (Read what God had commanded through the prophecy of Adam in Genesis 2:23-24 concerning marriage.) Like his great, great, great grandfather Cain, Lamech also committed murder (Gen.4:23).
Cain's people were great people. They were knowledgeable in the things of the world, they were inventors, builders of great cities and big monuments, and also great businessmen (cf. Gen.4:17-22).
5. After Enos was born to Seth "then began men to call upon the name of the Lord" (Gen.4:26). This verse has often been misinterpreted by most Bible readers. Ancient Jewish records rendered that they (that is, the Cainites) "began profanely to call upon the name of the Lord. This shows us that the Cainic people had drifted off from whatever little knowledge of the true spirit of worship, which they might have learned from their father Cain, into idolatrous worship. They invoked the Holy Name of Jehovah God in their idol worship. Idol worship is also traced back to that time.
6. Genesis 5 records Adam's lineage right up to Noah. They were simple people. They maintained their spirit of true worship of Jehovah. History tells us that they were mainly shepherds. In this genealogy of Adam, you will notice that there is no record of any Satanic trait manifested in the descendants as each firstborn was a pure blooded son of Adam, the son of God. (Only firstborn were recorded because of the birthright. [See Appendix A-3.])
There is also no record of any polygamous marriage, lying, killing, or any other evil works of the flesh. Sin was only imputed upon Adam after the Fall. Therefore he and all his people had only imputed sin (DEATH penalty) upon them. They did not possess any inherited evil.
Questions: What could we say about the evil attributes of Cain and his descendants? Why was Cain's and his descendants' nature so vastly different from Seth's and his descendants' if they were all from the same stock (the same father, Adam)?
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APPENDICES
A-1. THE TWO PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SEEDS OF GENESIS 3:15
The word "seed" is from the Hebrew word "zera" which means "seed, fruit, plant, posterity", from "zara" meaning "bear, conceive seed". The same word in Greek is "sperma", which means "that which is sown, the germ of anything, children, offspring, posterity, progeny, descendants". The word "zera" is translated as "posterity" in the Lamsa Translation, and "offspring" in the Amplified Translation and the New Berkeley Version.
Modern theologians may maintain that the woman does not have any seed and that it is biologically impossible for the woman in Genesis 3:15 to have any seed. Yes, it is a scientific fact that a woman does not have any seed. However, the "seed" in Genesis 3:15 refers to that seed which the woman had been impregnated with by Adam as opposed to the seed implanted in her by the Serpent. Because Eve came forth from Adam's side, she was thus a part of Adam. Therefore that which was Adam's seed was rightfully also Eve's seed, which was Abel. And Cain, who was not of Adam, was not her seed in any way. Hence, Eve was only able to say that she had "gotten (not begotten) a man from the Lord" (Gen.4:1). Cain was the seed of the Serpent. The Serpent, in seducing Eve, intruded on Adam's garden (cf. Song of Solomon 4:12,16; 5:1; 6:2) and implanted that physical seed. Eve, in eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, brought forth the fruit of Death from her womb.
Note: Jesus Christ was neither of Mary, nor of Joseph. Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, not begotten of Mary (cf. Mat.1:16). He was supposedly the son of Joseph (cf. Luk.3:23). Our Lord Jesus was begotten of the Almighty God, our Heavenly Father (cf. Jhn.1:14; Acts 13:33). Hence, the revelation that the ovum of Mary was totally bypassed to bring about the sinless nature of the body of Christ in the Virgin Birth is true. The whole genetics belonged to God alone; not a slightest bit was of the fallen nature of Mary.
The subject of the two seeds of Genesis 3 cannot be suppressed nor can Eve's relation and connection with the Serpent be evaded. For in it we are enlightened on the true doctrine of the Original Sin — that which brought about the Fall of Man. We cannot miss what the Spirit had written concerning the woman's sorrow in conception and in childbirth; and that her desire would be to her husband who would henceforth rule over her. In His divine judgement, God meted the punishment to fit the crime. Why did God employ the pain of childbirth? What is the purpose of using the word "conception"? How about the word "desire"? Anyone who has the spirit of discernment would be able to see and understand what the whole chapter of Genesis 3 is all about.
There is great spiritual blindness among modern theologians. Though they declare that the "seed of the woman" (who was the seed of promise) prophetically refers to Jesus Christ, yet they rule out any progeny from the Serpent. (They are consistent in inconsistency!) How could they deny that the Serpent had his seed when the Word of God specifically stated that both — the Woman and the Serpent — have their respective seeds? 
A-2. THE TILLING OF THE GROUND
If the Garden of Eden was a paradise why must the ground be tilled? This question seems to be in the mind of some people.
The Bible does not give us a picture of a perfect earth with a garden of paradise that Adam and his wife would just spend their time roaming leisurely around it, and doing nothing but luxuriating for all eternity. Although man was not supposed to toil, he was required to work, even as God worked (and is still working). He was commanded to "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over" all the creatures.
We read in the Scriptures that God rested on the seventh day from all His work. Ecclesiastes chapter 3 tells us that there is a time for everything. The heavenly body of light is a regulator of seasons for the earth. In the coming Millennial Reign of our King, the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be work for His Bride(-wife), the Elect. There will also be work for everyone to do in the New Heaven and New Earth. Work (activity) has always been a part of God's plan of creation.
Adam was commanded to subdue the earth. The earth must be tilled (or cultivated) before it could be subdued. Adam, as a son of God, had the authority over all the creatures of the earth. Adam was not created to be a tiller of the ground. A son of God is not created to toil; he is a child of God. The Serpent-kind was created to be subjected to him to do the tilling. But when sin was imputed upon Adam, he lost his authority and all his privileges. He also lost his Serpent-servant. To obtain his food, Adam not only had to till the ground himself, but also had to toil against the thorns and thistles which the ground brought forth as a result of God's curse upon it.
A-3. LIST OF THE PURE SETHIC FIRSTBORN
ADAM and Eve =====> ABEL (murdered by Cain)
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``===> SETH + Sister
ENOS + Sethic wife
CAINAN + Sethic wife
MAHALALEEL + Sethic wife
JARED + Sethic wife
ENOCH + Sethic wife
METHUSELAH + Sethic wife
LAMECH + Sethic wife
Last =======> NOAH + Cainic wife or Hybrid wife
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Pure Sethic ``===> 3 sons -- mixed seeds -- HYBRIDS -- Japheth, Ham, Shem
Firstborn
Hence, after the Flood, God "...hath MADE OF ONE BLOOD (that is, the one blood line [kinship, descent] from Noah and his wife) ALL NATIONS OF MEN FOR TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH..."
-- Acts 17:26
In His Great Plan, the Will of God, which was foreordained before the foundation of the world, is expressed thus — "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." — Romans 8:20-21
Next: SECTION I - THE ORIGINAL SIN: QUESTION & ANSWER PRESENTATION Part 3-7
The Doctrine of the Serpent Seed
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The Doctrine of the Original Sin...(cont'd)
The Serpent Seed
THE ORIGINAL SIN
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THE INTERMARRIAGE OF THE TWO PEOPLE
Genesis 6:4 states that there were giants in those days before and after the Flood. [See Appendix 4.] The giants, both physical and intellectual, were born as a result of genetic disturbances caused by the cohabitation between the sons of God (Seth's people) and the daughters of men (Cain's people).
Since all the Adamic firstborn were mentioned up to Noah (Gen.5), we can be very sure that, except for Noah, their wives were of their own blood line (Seth's). However, many of the other sons and daughters of each firstborn had become fallen sons and daughters of God. The Scriptures state that the "sons of God" (Sethic men) took the "daughters of men" (Cainic women) because they were beautiful (cf. Gen.6:2). Perhaps, the Sethic women married the Cainic men because they were tall and brawny. Not only were they unequally yoked with Cain's people in cohabitation, or marriage, but they also took to the Cainite's evil ways of living, and hence, corrupted themselves.
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THE FLOOD
The continual intermarriage of the two lines caused the condition of Genesis 6 to prevail to such an extent that God had to judge the world of its wickedness. The Flood came in Noah's time, but all the pure Sethic firstborn had to leave the scene before judgement could be passed upon the world. (This types the "Church of the firstborn", who are pure in the faith, the "firstfruits of his creatures" that will be taken off the world before tribulation sets in.) Of all the sons of God (children of Seth), only Noah was a just and perfect man, who walked with God and found Grace in the eyes of God to go over the Flood with his family. (Why Noah, a firstborn, was made to go through the "tribulation" Flood, is disclosed in the following topic.)
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DID THE SERPENT SEED GET OVER THE FLOOD?
There were eight souls in the Ark. They were Noah (a pure Sethite) and Mrs.Noah, and Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their wives. Was there any pure descendant of Cain in the Ark? Was there any seed of the Serpent carried over the Flood? How did the serpentine nature get over the Flood? And who carried it?
Since Noah was a pure Sethite it only remains for the other seven members to be identified. Although the pure Sethites may be led to partake of the Cainic lifestyle, they did not possess in their blood the genes of the Devil-possessed Serpent. It is clear from Genesis 9:19 that every person born on this earth can be traced to one of the three sons of Noah — Shem, Ham, and Japheth — "These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread." Noah and his wife did not have any more son or daughter. The Scriptures do not lie: Noah had only Shem, Ham and Japheth. Hence, there was not a single pure Cainite or seed of the Serpent in the Ark. [See Appendix 5.]
In Genesis 9:20-24 it is recorded that Ham committed incest with his mother, Mrs. Noah. This act was committed when Noah was drunk and lying naked in his tent. Both Ham and Mrs. Noah were guilty of a perverted sexual act.
Note: To you who do not understand the terms "uncovered" and "the nakedness of his father", I suggest that you study Leviticus chapters 18 and 20. The chapters deal with laws forbidding acts of immorality and the penalties for those who committed any such acts. According to Leviticus 18:8 and 20:11, a man who lay with his father's wife had uncovered his father's nakedness. Read also Deuteronomy 22:30 and 1 Corinthians 5:1. [See Appendix 6.]
Thus, we see that both parties manifested the wrong spirit — a trait that could only come from the Devil himself through the Serpent. Therefore Mrs. Noah was obviously a Cainite or a hybrid. (Certain Jewish writings state that she was a Cainite. Also, in the genealogy of Cain's descendants, a woman by the name of Naamah was mentioned — Genesis 4:22. In the record of genealogy, women were not mentioned unless they played a part in the history of the people. Was Naamah the wife of Noah?) And since she was Ham's mother, Ham without controversy must have inherited the genetic traits of the Serpent from her. However, Ham was not a Serpent seed as he was not a Cainite, but a half-breed Sethite. Likewise, his two brothers, Shem and Japheth, also possessed the serpentine traits.
So, we have the righteous Noah (of Seth's lineage) and his Cainic or hybrid wife who gave birth to three sons of mixed blood. The sons, in turn, most probably married Cainic women or women of mixed blood because, during their time, the earth was heavily populated by people of mixed race who filled the earth with wickedness, evil, and violence (Genesis 6:1-13). Remember the Cainic women — "daughters of men" were fair (that is, sexy and seductive, perhaps like modern day Jezebels). With such conditions prevailing, the true "sons of God" — Sethites must have been watered down to nothing.
No, Noah was a pure Sethite. His drunkenness did not prove otherwise. Drunkenness is not an evil trait nor is it inherited. It was never considered a sin in the Old Testament time but only a curse (Isa.5:22-23; Prov.23:19-21). In the New Testament age, under Grace, Paul hit out at excessive wine drinking and warned that drunkards could not inherit the Kingdom of God because, as saints of God, our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit. Excessive alcohol when taken into the body, not only numb the senses, but gradually destroys certain tissues of the body. (Read Ephesians 5:18; 1 Timothy 3:3,8; Galatians 5:16-26 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-20.)
Noah's indulgence in excessive wine drinking came upon him most probably as a result of the influence of the mixed populace of his generation before the Flood. He must have acquired the art of wine-making and drinking then. (You must remember that the people of Adam were simple people, mainly keepers of animals, and those of the Serpent were not only tillers of the ground but also great achievers in many fields of science because of their imaginative and inventive minds.) Noah became a husbandman, tilled the ground and planted a vineyard only after the Flood (Gen.9:20).
If Noah was a mixed seed then his mother was either a Cainic woman or one who was a mixed seed. But the genealogy of the Adamic firstborn did not end with his father, Lamech. Read Genesis 5. It ended with Noah who was mentioned with his three sons together, rather than with Japheth his firstborn alone. Also, Japheth is placed last among the three sons. Thus, the last of the pure righteous firstborn was Noah. [See Appendix 7.] (Examine the genealogy of Cain in Genesis 4:16-22 and you can see that the last of the pure Serpent firstborn was Lamech. Lamech had three sons and a daughter by his two wives, Adah and Zillah. Jabal was the firstborn of Lamech, and "he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle" (verse 20). This verse leads us to understand that Adah could only be a Sethite as evidenced by the lifestyle of Jabal. Jabal's dominant Sethic characteristics could only have come from her. In contrast, Adah's second son, Jubal, inherited a dominant Cainic nature for "he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ" (Gen.4:21). The three sons of Cainic Lamech were of the same generation as Sethic Enoch whom God had raised up to prophesy against that wicked and evil generation of the two peoples when they began to intermarry.)
All the pure righteous firstborn of Adam's blood had to pass away from the wicked world before God's judgement was poured out because God does not treat the righteous and the wicked alike (Gen.18:23,25; Psa.1:5-6). Methuselah was the oldest and the last (pre-Flood) patriarch to die.
Though he was a pure righteous firstborn, Noah had to go through the tribulation of the Flood because he was unequally yoked in marriage with a woman of the world, so to speak. However, he found Grace in the eyes of God (Gen.6:8,9) to survive the Flood with his family. (Noah types the Foolish Virgins who have to ride the wave of the Great Tribulation period that is soon to come.)
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CONCLUSION
In God's original plan, Adam and Eve were supposed to produce sons and daughters of God unto God (cf. Gen.1:26-28, 2:21-24). However, Satan sent the Serpent to seduce Eve and perverted the bloodstream by injecting his evil traits into the Serpent's seed which fused with Eve's egg (ovum) and produced Cain, who was his son, vicariously. Cain bore the full spiritual characteristics of Satan and the animalistic (sensual, fleshly) characteristics of the Serpent. [See Appendix 8.] Thus, two blood lines (that of Cain, and Seth who replaced Abel; Seth means "substitute") were then presented. These two blood lines were distinct up to the period before the Flood. Noah was the last of the firstborn of Seth's lineage. His wife was either a Cainite or a hybrid. She bore him three sons, Japheth, Ham and Shem. And "these were the three sons of Noah and of them was the whole earth overspread" (Gen.9:19).
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WHAT WAS THEREFORE THE ORIGINAL SIN?
It was Satan who possessed the Serpent who planted his seed in Eve by sexual fornication with her. It was by this means that Satan injected his evil and sinful traits into the human race. And it was that seed of the Serpent which had corrupted mankind and caused their relationship with God, the Creator, to plunge to a debased level, both physically and spiritually. That was the ORIGINAL SIN. All men today are traced back to the three sons of Noah for the inheritance of their acquired Satanic traits.
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APPENDICES
A-4. GIANTS — (Hebrew: Nephilim) — GENESIS 6
A great many theologians propagate that the GIANTS were the offspring (of the union) of the fallen angels and the women of the earth. It is taught that the fallen angels had either pressed themselves into some men or somehow transformed themselves into human beings in order to cohabit with the women. But none of the Scriptures quoted to support this theory is conclusive enough to prove its validity. The term "sons of God" in the Scriptures does not, in any way, refer to the angelic beings. Like the Trinitarians who use the one and only verse, Matthew 28:19, to support their theory and formula to baptize a convert in the triune title of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, so are these theologians using the one and only verse, Job 1:6 (Job 2:1 is identical) to support the theory that the term "sons of God" refers to angelic beings. Many people have misinterpreted the verse and concluded that the angelic beings one day (suddenly) came and stood before the THRONE of God in Heaven. It takes more than a casual reading to really understand Job 1:6 (also Job 2:1). Confer Job 38:7. The event of Job 1:6 (and Job 2:1) actually speaks of the saints of God coming together to offer themselves before the Lord.
Most theologians teach that the Flood was meant to destroy all the giants who, in their theory, were progenies of the fallen angelic beings by the natural women of the earth. And because of their sin in bringing forth giants into the world, those "sexually perverted" fallen angels were imprisoned by God and reserved unto judgement (Jude 6; 2Pet.2:4). Now, if this theory is true, how come there were giants after the Flood?
The term "sons of God" actually denotes the special relationship of man to God — as His children. And the Sethites were such a people. Furthermore, such terms as "Father" and "son" do not only show the existence of a relationship but also the ability to procreate — "Be fruitful, and multiply..." But the angelic beings were not created to procreate. Being spirits, they are always portray as "men", never as "women" and they are asexual, sexless (Mark 12:25). In the Scriptures they are often called "stars" (Job 38:7; Dan.8:10; Rev.1:16a, cf. 1:20; 8:12; 9:1).
A-5. NO MORE PHYSICALLY PURE SERPENT RACE AFTER THE FLOOD
Some self-styled prophets are teaching that more than eight persons came out of the Ark after the Flood. Such "wise" preachers blatantly disregard the Holy Word of God and override It with their so-called revelation. Even though the family of Noah was in the Ark for one year and ten days (Gen.7:11; 8:14) Gen.8:18 states very clearly that not more than the same eight souls, who went into the Ark, came out of the Ark on to dry land. While one teaching propagates that Mrs. Noah committed fornication with a Cainic man and was impregnated with his seed prior to entering the Ark, another teaches that Noah had a second wife (hidden somewhere in the ark) who was impregnated by a Cainic man. Others teach that the wives of the three sons of Noah were impregnated by fornicating with Cainic men. Hence, by their "revelation" they believe that a pure Serpent race of people still exists today. Some of these preachers (which include those of the sect known as the "White Christian People" or the "British Israelis" who believe they are the pure Adamic Race) point to the Negroid, or the Jews, as the pure seeds (descendants) of the Serpent, whereas the others let the winds blow ever which way. The Scriptures of John 8:37-44 and Matthew 13:38-39 are used to support their teachings. However, in these passages of Scriptures, the Lord Jesus was referring to the attitude of the religious Jews towards Him and His doctrines. He was not saying that they were literal Serpent seeds. Like Cain, whose revelation was contrary to Abel's, who sought and killed Abel; the Jews, too, sought to kill the Lord Jesus.
As foretold by God in Genesis 3:15, these Scriptures (John 8:37-44 and Matthew 13:38-39) speak of the enmity between the two "seed lines", sometimes identified as the wheat and the tares. What was Jesus referring to when He said: "I speak that which I have seen with my Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your father"? (And also, in John 8:23: "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world"?) As He was speaking to his enemies, the religious and self-righteous Jews, it is obvious that He was pointing to that which He had learned and understood from His Father — Yahweh; and that which the Jews had learned and understood from their father — Satan. Of course, whatever they had received from the Adversary, who is the god of this evil world, was not only against the Truth of God, but they also made themselves enemies of the Christ. Hence, the reference to them being the "children of the wicked one" or "ye are of your father the devil". Remember, the Serpent was not the wicked one. He was the instrument of the wicked one who vicariously fathered Cain.
Notice the defense of those "children of the wicked one" in John 8:41: "We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God." This clearly tells us that the Jews knew about the fornication between Eve and the Serpent that took place in the Garden of Eden, which resulted in the birth of Cain whose religious doctrine was a discrepancy to the true revelation of the Word of God. Since then, in every age, the Devil has his religious "Serpent seed" people who would bring all sort of teachings contrary to God's Truth. Such religious "vipers" (who have two hands, two feet, but no tail) as Jesus called them, existed not only in the time of the Old and New Testaments, but also in our time. They are largely found in and among the organized religion of Christianity (so-called). These religious "snakes" with all their degrees in theology, which earned them fanciful titles such as Archbishop, Holy Reverend, Right Honorable, Cardinal, Very Reverend, and et cetera, are holding the Truth in unrighteousness. For doctrines, they would teach the traditions of men, creeds and dogmas, beguiling the worshippers into committing spiritual fornication against the very Word of God which they claim to believe! Jesus rebuked them saying, "...for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two fold more the child of hell than yourselves" (Mat.23:15). See, such religious leaders of organized Christianity are "producing" children of hell (children of Satan, the Devil) who are twice worse than they are. Do you not know that the devils believe in one God, and that they tremble? Read James 2:19. There are many "devils", walking on two feet in this world, claiming to believe in the God of the Bible, but who tremble when they come face to face with the Word of Truth. They are deceivers! They perpetually hiss at the Word of God with their poisons! In this way, the Devil sought to deceive and to destroy the true sons of God in every age just as was prophesied by the Almighty God in Genesis 3:15. However, Jesus promised that His elect will have no problem handling them and their poisons (Mark 16:18).
A-6. GENESIS 9:18-27 — THE SIN OF HAM
For a long time, these few verses of Scriptures have remained a mystery to many Bible students. As such, there are three different views concerning the sin of Ham. The two widely accepted views are: i) that Ham simply ogled at Noah's naked body (and made light of it to his brothers), and ii) that Ham committed a homosexual act with his completely drunken father.
Note: This author finds it extremely ridiculous to believe that it is a sin for a son to look at the naked body of his father (or perhaps, for a daughter to look at the naked body of her mother) unless there is lust in the mind. In the case of homosexuality, how could a man commit the act with another man who is dead drunk (not just drunk) and whose every member of the body is flaccid? If so, that would be a rape.
There are other ridiculous views. One is that Ham castrated Noah while he was drunk. Another is that it was Canaan and not Ham that committed the sin against Noah.
The least understood and generally rejected view is that Ham committed incest with his mother, Mrs. Noah. Yet, it is not only the true interpretation but it also shows the perfect continuity of the revelation of the doctrine of THE ORIGINAL SIN which is substantiated by the sinful nature of fallen man after the Flood.
Note: The author was once surprised by an exclamation made by a Bible student, who is against this teaching of incest and who believes that Ham had simply ogled at Noah's naked body. He gasped: "What? Let's be serious. How could you accuse the wife of a man of God, like Noah, of committing such an act of sin?" Apparently, his knowledge of the Bible must have flown over his head. He must have thought that only wicked men and women commit sins. Just what has denominational teachings done to his mental faculty? "Sex" seems to be a dirty three-letter word to many Christians like him, so they tame the cause of the Fall of Man and the sin of Ham with "It's an apple, or some fruit" and "Ham ogled at his father's naked body and made light of it".
However, the few who agree that the five verses refer to incest may still find it hard to reconcile certain verses with the whole passage.
God has His mysterious ways of hiding His Truth from the wise and prudent. One of His ways is the use of various particular expressions in the Bible — in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. He also uses the natural things to type the spiritual. If you realize this, you may then increase your understanding of strange sentences in the Scriptures. So, look beyond the literal verses and read between the lines.
Now, irrespective of what you believe, here are a few thought-provoking points for you to examine. May the Holy Spirit give you the Grace to see the Light.
a) Consider the explicit statement — "And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine,..." This affirms the curse that was to come upon Noah for indulging in wine-making and wine-drinking. Gradually He became an alcoholic, and one day when he "...was drunken;..." one of his sons "uncovered" and "saw" his nakedness. "And Ham,...saw the nakedness of his father,..." (The keyword to understanding this mystery is not "nakedness" as many supposed, but "uncovered".)
b) Read the laws as recorded in Leviticus 18 and 20, and note the following words and phrases: "uncover...nakedness" (18:6-8), "lieth with...uncovered...nakedness" (20:11) and "see...nakedness" (20:17).
Note: Moses was the author of both the Book of Genesis and the Book of Leviticus. The words and expressions he used in the two books do not differ, in the least, in their meanings. From the word "UNCOVERED" and the expression "SAW THE NAKEDNESS OF HIS FATHER", we can be very sure that Ham had LAIN WITH HIS FATHER'S WIFE.
c) Anyone who believes that Ham rightly warranted the curse on his son, Canaan, from his father simply because he happened to stumble upon Noah lying naked in his tent and then told his two brothers about the incident has an understanding that is worse than a mule's. Just read Genesis 9:24 carefully and you will see that it clearly shows that Ham "had done" something to Noah and not simply saw his naked body. He had brought shame to Noah when he lay with his mother ― uncovering his father's nakedness. This caused Noah to curse Canaan.
But why did Noah curse Canaan? Why not Ham’s other sons? Does it justify Noah to curse Canaan if Canaan was the seed of Ham and his wife (Mrs. Ham)? Should not Ham be the one cursed instead? For a curse to be justifiable, Noah should either have cursed Ham's eyes because he ogled at his naked body, or cursed his brain (mental faculty) for he made light of his drunken naked state. And, if Ham had forced himself upon Noah when Noah was drunk, then a curse upon Ham's reproductive organ would be justified. Remember the Word says: "And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe" (Exod.21:23-25).
So, why Canaan? God emphatically mentioned the name of Canaan in connection with Ham’s sin, in Gen.9:22, "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without" and in Gen.9:18, "And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan". God calls to our attention that Canaan was a seed produced out of that act of sin ("uncovering...saw the nakedness of his father") – sin of an unholy union. Canaan was a seed not of Ham and his wife (Mrs. Ham) but of Ham and his mother (Mrs. Noah). The incestuous act brought forth that seed – Canaan. And Canaan brought forth GIANTS, this side of the flood (Gen.10:15-19). He was an accursed seed, just as Cain was a bad seed. Hence, Noah was justified in cursing Canaan. It could not be any plainer. This shows that Ham's sin was not something else, like making light of Noah's drunken naked state. (Notice that Mrs. Noah did not bear any more children for Noah after her incestuous act with Ham which resulted in the birth of Canaan.)
It is obvious that Ham and his mother had committed incest while Noah was dead drunk and lying naked in his tent. Do not think that the illicit act was committed "on the spur of the moment". The mother and the son must have been flirting with each other for some time before that.
Note: It is recorded in ancient history that Ham's grandson, Nimrod, was just as perverted as Ham. He married his own mother, Semiramis.
What was Noah's interest after the Flood? See section a) above, and also read the various records of the Scriptures to see what drunkenness can do to a person. Not only does it debase a person; it also brings him poverty, perverts his sense of justice, brings about debauchery, debility, disorder, and many other negative effects upon his life including his relationship with his wife.
Not being a pure Sethite and having the nature of the Serpent, Mrs. Noah began to step out of her marriage bond. Noah's state of complete drunkenness that day provided her and Ham the opportunity to commit the shameful and sinful act.
d) Verse 23 is the most difficult verse to reconcile with the whole passage of Genesis 9:20-24 regarding incest. Those who believe that Ham merely saw the naked body of his father would read the verse and say, "See, Shem and Japheth took a garment to cover Noah; and in doing so, they walked backwards so that they would not see their father's naked body".
If it is so easy to understand such expression of the Scriptures as you do your '1+2+3', the world of Christianity would not be in such a mess as it is today.
God has chosen mysterious ways to confound the wise and prudent. But He also reveals His Truth in simplicity to babes and such that would learn.
The Jews, who were God's chosen people, could not even grasp the Truth of what the Lord Jesus was presenting to them when He said (in John 6) that a man must eat of His Flesh and drink of His Blood in order to have Life. They interpreted His words literally and thought that the Lord was encouraging them to be cannibals or vampires. On the other hand, the Roman Catholics take the Eucharist as the real Flesh and Blood of Jesus Christ.
e) Let's examine verse 23: "And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,..."
Now, if you interpret this verse literally without regard to any hidden spiritual meaning behind it, you are then faced with this question: "Why did Shem and Japheth take such a large and heavy piece of garment instead of one that was big enough and yet light, to cover their father's naked body?" That piece of garment must really be a large and very heavy one, otherwise they would not have used BOTH THEIR SHOULDERS to carry it.
If you want to cover someone who is lying down, would you use (let's say) a piece of heavy rug which is 6 feet square, or a piece of ordinary cloth of the same size?
f) Again, the verse says "A GARMENT" and not a piece of large cloth. A garment is an attire for the covering of the body. (The Aramaic translation of the word is MANTLE.) So, how large and heavy could that garment be that it had to be carried on both shoulders of two men? Was it a clumsy garment worn by Noah or one of his sons? If not, then it must be just an ordinary piece of garment -- a mantle. And, a garment of an ordinary size and weight on both the shoulders of two men walking backwards would mean that they had to position themselves shoulder to shoulder. And would not that be a very stupid way to do so? (If Bible Believers would only use their brains and think, there would not have been so many "hee-haw" preachers and believers around.)
g) When one realizes how God has used certain particular expressions to hide the Truth and yet reveal it, it will not be difficult then to see the true picture of the Truth.
After having had carnal relation with his mother, Ham was not ashamed to tell his brothers about it. He was just like the adulterous woman who, after partaking of adultery, dared to boast and say that she had done no evil! (Proverbs 30:20). He did not think of the shame that he would bring to his father who was at that time lying naked and dead drunk in his tent. (Can you not see the woe that was upon Noah as a result of his indulgence in wine-drinking?)
Shem and Japheth took a GARMENT "...and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward,..." This covering up was literal. The particular expression used here tells us that both the brothers were ashamed of what had happened -- "their faces were backward" -- when they were covering up the nakedness of their father.
h) Check through the Scriptures regarding the usage of the word "garment" and the expression "upon the shoulders". You will notice that the "garment" (not just a piece of cloth) was a COVERING. The Scriptures state that the brothers "LAID IT UPON BOTH THEIR SHOULDERS". It means that they both took it upon themselves to BEAR THE YOKE and covered up the shame. But it was a RESPONSIBILITY that was hard to bear. For not long afterwards, Noah "awoke from his wine" (that is, after being long in a tousled state of mind Noah was enlightened to awareness) and found out what an evil thing that Ham had done to him.
i) "...and they saw not their father's nakedness." This is an emphatic statement which shows that Shem and Japheth were not involved in any illicit affair with their mother when their father was under the curse of intoxicating drink.
A-7. NOAH, THE LAST OF THE PURE SETHIC FIRSTBORN
All the genealogical records in the Holy Scriptures are arranged in an orderly manner. God did not write His Book indiscriminately. Notice Genesis 5. It is called "the book of the generations of Adam". In verse 3, it states that Adam "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth". So, for a firstborn to be put on that record, he must be a direct descendant of Seth who bore the image and likeness of Adam. (Only all the firstborn were recorded.) And since the record ends with Noah's name, he must be the last of the pure Sethic firstborn, as his firstborn son and his other two sons were hybrids by his mixed marriage. Although Japheth was Noah's firstborn, he did not bear the likeness and image of Adam, therefore his name was not listed in the genealogy of Adam. Notice that his name is even placed after his two younger brothers, Shem and Ham (Gen.5:32). Hence, a different genealogy of each of the three sons of Noah was recorded. Note how the Holy Scriptures record it: "These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread" (Gen.9:19); "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood" (Gen.10:1). There is no record of a genealogy of Noah. Why? Because none of his sons bore his image and likeness (of the Sethic race). And even if Japheth did, his name would be recorded in the genealogy of Adam.
Notice that Noah's first son was born when he was 500 years old. The other firstborn (of the Adamic race) before him had theirs before they were 190 years old. Why was there this big gap in age? The reason is apparent when we realize that by the time Noah was born, the Cainites' influence upon the Sethites was so strong that all except Noah were drawn into the net of the Cainites' lifestyle. But Noah grew up to be a righteous man and he walked with God and was the only Sethite, among his people, who found grace in the eyes of God.
By the time Noah was old enough to get a wife, he could not find a single Sethic woman, among the dwindling number, who was willing to live righteously and walk the way of Seth with him. The Cainites' way was more attractive to them as the light of a candle is to moths, or as the light of Hollywood is to some Christians today. The Bible tells us that the people of his generation was so corrupted and wicked that God had to destroy them. This era of great evil had begun from the generation of Enos, which saw the Cainic race first profaning the Name of Jehovah in their worship (Genesis 4:26). As the Sethites and the Cainites slowly began to mix and intermarry, hybrids were born. And such offspring of mixed marriages were generally more wicked and evil. This was one of Satan's many cunning schemes to destroy Adam's race. As time continued, God raised up Enoch to prophesy to his generation about the impending judgement of God upon their corruption and wickedness (Jude 14-16). Gradually, the evil of men became so great that God had to call it to a halt in the generation of Noah (Gen.6:5,11).
Noah's own brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces, cousins, and other relatives, also succumbed to the evil and wicked influence of Cain's people that they indulged themselves in idolatry, debauchery and other evil deeds. Although genetically they were pure Sethites, they were no longer righteous in the sight of God. They were fallen sons and daughters of God, for they had all gone the way of the Serpent kind, the way of Cain. They had left the faith of their forefather Adam. Hence, God was not obligated to take them into the Ark
However, all the while, Noah continued to live and walk with God until he was almost 500 years old when he finally had to settle down and start a family in order to carry on his family name, so to speak. Now, in any race, there must be some God-fearing people. Without exception there must be some among the Cainites and some of the mixed seeds. If there was no Sethic woman who was willing to walk the way of Seth with him, Noah had to pick one from the other people who was willing to worship his God and follow the way of Truth that his forefathers had done. Somehow that was the permissive will of God.
Though Noah married a non-Sethic wife, he did not corrupt his life. He walked with God just as Enoch did. He kept himself away from all wickedness and evil which were so rampant. In the midst of moral darkness, Noah's life was radiant with righteousness (Gen.6:9; 7:1).
Note: Although it is not expressly stated in the Bible, Noah must have married Naamah, a daughter of Cainic Lamech (Gen.4:22). A woman's name is mentioned in a genealogy if she had a significant role in the history of mankind (cf. Matt.1:5,16).]
"Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God" (Gen.6:9b). This verse tells us the kind of person that Noah was. No wonder "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" (Gen.6:8). [Please consult Strong's Concordance, 2580 for the word grace. "Grace" in Hebrew is "chen", meaning graciousness, kindness, favor, pleasant, precious, well-favoured, from 2603, chanan, to stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; to implore.] Not only was he a just (righteous) man, but he was also perfect, and He walked with God. The word "perfect" used in this verse is translated from the Hebrew word "tamim" which means "without blemish" in terms of breed or pedigree. Hence, the Scriptures clearly show us that Noah was a "pure breed" Sethites, and not a hybrid.
However, because of his marriage to a Cainite or a hybrid woman, Noah could only have three sons. All Sethic firstborn before him had sons and daughters because all of them married Sethic women. This is due to two reasons. One, that intermarriage always results in genetic disturbances. Hence, Noah had sons and no daughter. Two, that it was a plan of God to bring about a new order through the judgment by the Flood, that the three sons of Noah would be the progenitors of the human race (Gen.9:19)
A-8. LITERAL SEED OF SERPENT, SPIRITUAL SEED OF SATAN
Satan, of course, could not create nor procreate. However, he could impersonate and pervert whatever God has created. Cain was a Serpent-man. He was physically the son of the Serpent; but, he was vicariously the son of Satan. For instance, Paul called the man of sin, the "son of perdition" (2Thes.2:3); Jesus called Judas Iscariot, "a devil" (John 6:70); and of the theologians of His days, the Lord told them, "Ye are of your father the devil" (John 8:44). Yes, the Word of God is clear — they were spiritually the children of the devil! They possessed their father's (that is, the devil's) spiritual genes and acquired his evil attributes.
NEXT: SECTION II - DOCTRINAL PRESENTATION: THE SERPENT SEED
The Doctrine of the Serpent Seed
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The Doctrine of the Original Sin...
The Serpent Seed
THE ORIGINAL SIN
Author: Richard l.s.Gan
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THE DOCTRINE OF THE SERPENT SEED
"And the Lord God said unto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle,
and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel."
— Genesis 3:14,15
MAN'S DOMINION OVER ANIMALS
Genesis, the Book of Beginnings, records the Creation of the heaven and the earth. Man was the last of all the creation of God. And like the angels he was created in the image and likeness of God. Adam, the son of God, was not only told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it" but he was also commissioned by God to have dominion over all the living things of the earth (Gen.1:26,28). So we realize that Adam was the highest of all the creation of God.
LAW OF REPRODUCTION
Now, it is stated in Genesis 1:11,12 and 24 that God commanded every species of life, whether plant or animal life, to bring forth seed after its own kind. Therefore to hybridize two different species of animals is to go against God's commandment and law of reproduction. (Keep this law of God in mind so that you may understand later how, and why, the hybridizing of Mankind with the Serpent-kind had brought forth the sin that could be passed down to all men today.)
EVERY NATURAL TREE GROWN IS GOOD FOR FOOD
Having created all things and rested on the first Sabbath day, "God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Gen.2:7). Then God put Adam in a garden in Eden to dress it. And out of the ground God caused to grow EVERY TREE that was good for food for Adam to eat (or partake). Two other trees were also mentioned. They were called the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The carnal minded people would give these two trees a carnal interpretation that they were two real literal natural fruit trees. But if the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a real literal tree, it would certainly be contradictory to God's own words in Genesis 2:9 if its fruits could not be eaten — "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food" See! Every tree bearing fruits was good for food! Hence, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil were something other than natural trees as they did not grow out of the ground (cf. Gen.2:9b - "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil", a phrase interposed to hide a truth.)
CARNAL INTERPRETATION
The carnal minded people always give the Bible their carnal interpretations based on personal opinion, church theology, traditions of man, or "my church teaches some other way". To understand the mystery of God's Word we have to put away such childish attitudes, and be mature and learn wisely.
UNDERSTANDING TERMINOLOGIES
Please note that the doctrine of the Serpent Seed (or the doctrine of the Original Sin) is neither an allegory, a myth, a legend, nor a fable, but is based on literal historical facts set forth and emphasized by the use of certain particular expressions or figures of speech. A particular expression or figure of speech is never used except for the purpose of emphasizing and intensifying, and calling attention to, the reality of, the literal sense. It is God's way of hiding Truth whilst revealing It.
Look at the second half of Genesis 2:9: "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." This is an interjection to call your attention to something different. This particular expression could only be understood by analyzing the meanings of the various terminologies used and other terminologies which are related to it. Hence, to understand the doctrine of the Serpent Seed, we must first analyse the meanings of the following terminologies: "Tree of Life", "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", "In the midst of the garden", "Eat" and "Fruit".
The word "tree" is used in the Bible to symbolize different things. Our Lord Jesus used it for nation (Luk.21:29), whereas the blind man whom He healed in Bethsaida used it for man (Mark 8:24). In the Old Testament the term is used for a king (Dan. 4:10), wisdom (Prov.3:18) besides others. In Genesis 2 and 3, the word "tree" has been used for two different things. One points to that which grew "out of the ground" — natural trees; and the other points to that which were "in the midst of the garden" — but what were they? Hence, not all the "trees" (in Scriptures) were literal trees, neither were they the same type of "trees".
Likewise the word "garden" does not necessary mean a literal garden. It could symbolise the soul (Jer.31:12), the shrine (Isa.65:3), or the human body (Songs of Solomon 4-8). The basic meaning of "garden" whether literal, symbolic or spiritual, is an enclosure i) where a seed can be planted to reproduce itself; ii) cultivated for public enjoyment. While the Garden of Eden is a literal garden, the "garden" mentioned in Genesis 2:9b is not that Garden of Eden.
The word "eat" to many simply means to consume food with the mouth. "To eat" means "to partake". Proverbs 30:20 gives a good rendition of the word. It tells of an adulterous woman who had partaken adultery (that is, she lay with a man who was not her husband) and then said that she had done no evil. Read also Psalm 127:2; Proverbs 1:31; 13:2; Jeremiah 15:16; Hosea 10:13; John 6:56.
Note: Among other uses of the word "eat" in Hebrew is "lay" (see Strong's Concordance: 398 akal [lit. or fig.]. See also 5060, naga, translated "touch" in Genesis 3:3, a word added in by Eve to what God had said to Adam in Genesis 2:17. Naga means, in euphemism, to lie with a woman). The original Hebrew word "food" ("maakal") comes from the same root meaning as the word "eat"; and in Genesis 3:6 these two words are interwoven together to hide and yet reveal the mystery of the act that brought about the Original Sin.
To almost all Bible readers, the word "fruit" is simply a literal fruit such as an apple or a pear. However, according to the Scriptures, the word "fruit" (Hebrew: "periy") may be used literally or figuratively (see Strong's Concordance: 6529 periy; from 6509 fruit [lit. or fig.]). For example read Deuteronomy 28:4; Psalm 127:3; Proverb 18:20; Luke 1:42. Hence, the word "fruit" does not always refer to the literal fruit.
Now we have a background to the doctrine of the Serpent Seed and of how man fell from his first estate into sin.
SERPENT — UPRIGHT CREATURE
"Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made." — Genesis 3:1
The word "serpent" came from the Hebrew word "nachash" and has the following meanings: "hiss", that is, "whisper a (magic) spell"; "a divine enchanter"; "use enchantment"; "learn by experience". "Subtile" is not just cunning but also wise and intelligent, having a knowledge of the understanding of life as well.
The Serpent was the highest of all the animals and was the last to be created before Adam. OF ALL THE ANIMALS HE WAS THE ONLY SPECIES THAT COULD TALK! If the Serpent does exist today he certainly would still be able to talk. Some may argue that he was able to talk because he was possessed by Satan just like the demon-possessed man at Gadarenes (Luk.8:26-33), or just like the ass which God used to speak to Balaam (Numbers 22:28-30), Satan might have done the same with the Serpent. But note the fact that it was the Serpent who beguiled Eve, and not Satan. So, it was not Satan speaking through the Serpent. And who did God judge — Satan or the Serpent?
The Serpent no longer exists today because he had been cursed and transformed into a snake -- a member of the lowest of the animal kingdom. He was originally not related to snakes whatsoever, but now when we say "serpent", we would generally picture a long slimy wriggly snake.
Traditional theology has so numbed the minds of people that it causes them to believe that the Serpent was originally a snake without limbs and which stood on its tail! Some dare to insinuate that he was created to stay only on trees and not on the ground! Regardless of all those 'churchylogy' nonsense in the world of Christianity, it is clearly stated in the Bible that the Serpent was originally an upright creature! We know that the primates were of the highest order of animals which God has created. And notice that they have two hands and that they stand on two feet! And since the Bible states that "the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field" he had to be among the top order of the primates with Adam ruling over him! He could not be a slimy wriggly snake for snakes are of the reptilian class, and reptiles are ranked lowest in the animal kingdom.
Being the last of the animals created before Adam, the Serpent was ranked next to man and looked very much like a man. We can actually say that he is the "missing link" between the animals and the human race. [See Appendix 9.] Science may name the different species of "early men" such as Neanderthal man, Peking man, Cro-Magnon man, et cetera, but the one that was created to be the servant of Adam was named Serpent by Adam. The Bible tells us that all things, including the Serpent, that God had created were good, very good indeed. Although he looked like a man and could talk and communicate like one, the Serpent was not created in the image and likeness of God as Adam was. The Serpent did not have a spiritual soul.
Note: Adam was created a full grown man with perfect intellect. He must have possessed a certain prophetic revelation to name the Serpent as such, for that name has been associated with the evil one (Satan) throughout the Bible which God had caused It to be written later after the Fall. The name Serpent has become synonymous with the name Satan, as Satan had complete control over the Serpent and his reasoning power; that was why he could be so persuasive that Eve succumbed to his seduction.
CERTAIN SEEDS COULD CROSSBREED
The seed of the Serpent could fuse with the egg of the woman. This seems very far-fetched to most people. But just look at what some men have done with some of the animals. They have produced a liger, a cross between a lion and a tigress; a zedonk, a hybrid between a zebra and a she-ass. The most common hybrid that we know is the mule which is a mixture of the donkey and the mare.
Scientists have tried to commingle beast and man without success. Beast and man cannot intermingle and reproduce. But the chemical affinity between them proves their close relationship. However, the intermingling between an animal (Serpent) and a woman (Eve) did take place in the Garden of Eden. But God had completely destroyed that pattern of the Serpent, and no other beast can commingle with man again.
Now God did not create all those hybrids. He commanded each species of living things to bring forth its own kind (Gen.1:11,24). But man has caused the seeds of some of the animals to mix resulting in the death of the seed, that is, the hybrid is sterile; it cannot bring forth life. The penalty for tampering with the law of God is Death. [See Appendix 10.]
CAIN -- A HYBRID
When the Devil-possessed Serpent committed fornication with the woman, that animal's seed was planted in her womb and became fused with her egg resulting in the birth of a hybrid — Cain — a perverted seed! And death came into the world! Yet DEATH was not in the seed NATURAL, but in the seed SPIRITUAL, for man originally was created a spirit being first and later put into a body of clay (Gen.1:26-27; 2:7).
Mendel's law states that "every individual is the sum total of the characteristics, recessive or dominant, in its two immediate progenitors. There is nothing in any individual that was not in the father or mother of that person, and everything that was in the father and mother is in the offspring."
Being a cross-breed of the Serpent and the woman, Cain, the son of the Serpent, inherited a part of Eve's nature, the nature of the Spirit of God which was in Adam. Remember that Adam and Eve, who were created in the image and likeness of God, had sin imputed upon them after the Fall. The image and likeness of God in them were thus "stained" by sin, so to speak. Hence, Seth (who was a substitute for Abel) and all his descendants could only bear the image and likeness of Adam (Gen.5:3). However, Cain, being a hybrid, did not bear the image and likeness of Adam, who was a son of God. He was a mongrel with a marred (or damaged) image and likeness of mankind. Falling short of that glorious image of God means spiritual death.
SIN OF DISOBEDIENCE
The fornication of the woman with the Serpent had brought forth DEATH to the world. It was actually Eve's disobedience to God's commandment not to eat of that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. [See Appendix 11.]
TERMINOLOGIES APPLIED
Let's take those terms -- "Tree of Life", "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", "In the midst of the garden", and "Eat", and MEDITATE upon them for awhile. We will understand that the human body is the garden, and in the midst of the garden is the sexual reproductive organ. And two laws govern that sexual reproductive organ. (Remember, two trees stood in the midst of the garden, not side by side Gen.2:9). The Divine Way or Law of Life is symbolised by the Tree of Life. The Perverted Way or Law of Death is symbolised by the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. These two Laws (Trees) are diametrically opposed to each other. When one keeps or breaks the Law of God, one will and must reap its fruit accordingly. [See Appendix 12.]
LIFE AND DEATH
Divine Life and Truth come from God and are eternal. Perverted Knowledge and Ways come from the Devil and they lead to Death. Satan has always been opposing God. He has always been perverting God's way of Life. Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14:12-15 tell us about Satan's position in heavenly places before his fall. He was known as Lucifer then. He was the seal of wisdom and crown of beauty. Not being contented with his status and possessions, he used his knowledge to exalt himself to be like the Most High. He perverted the knowledge that was given to him and thus fell from his first estate. Since then he has been the opposition to the Way, the Truth and the Life.
ALL THINGS CREATED FOR A PURPOSE
There is a purpose in everything that God had created; and that is to bring glory to Himself (Eph.3:11 cf. Eccle.3:1, 17; Isa.14:26-27). Likewise, there is a purpose in each and every member of the human body. The misuse of any member is sin in God's eye. Read Matthew 18:8-9; James 3:10-12. The commandment is clear: man must obey the Divine Law of Life and Purpose of the Creator. Disobedience is a transgression of the divine commandment which leads to the perversion of the Divine Truth and Purpose of the Creator.
THE PURPOSE OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN
Without controversy the purpose of the reproductive organ is to bring forth life. The woman was given to Adam to reproduce himself. According to the divine plan of God, Adam and his wife were expected to come together at the appointed time and season of life (Eccle.3:1-8) to eat (partake) of the fruit (effect, reward) of the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden. The effect of such partaking would bring forth (fruits, rewards of) sons and daughters of God with eternal life.
REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN MISUSED
However, Satan, through the Serpent, must have had, at a certain point in time, indoctrinated Eve about partaking of the other tree, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and finally tempted her to eat of it. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her: and he did eat" (Gen.3:6).
Instead of eating of the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden at the appointed time and season, Adam and his wife, partook of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (which was also in the midst of the garden) of which God had commanded them not to do so.
"Woe unto them that call evil good...! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
— Isaiah 5:20a, 21
And so with carnal reasoning the Serpent deceived the woman into thinking that she would be wiser by partaking of the fruit of the forbidden tree that was pleasant to the eyes — a delight, gratifying to the physical and sensual desires, lusty — as the tree was good for food to make one wise (discerning). (That tree might have looked good for food but it certainly was not the kind of food for the spiritual soul.) [See Appendix 13.]
The fruit of disobedience, the partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, was the conception of Cain. Cain was a hybrid in a world where all living things were pure breeds. He was a discrepancy who disrupted the order of God. He was the seed of the Serpent (Gen.3:15) and the "son" of the Wicked One — Satan (1Jhn.3:12). He was a part of Satan's plan to destroy the Plan of God.
Eve was a part of Adam because she was taken out of Adam. And Adam was supposed to join himself to Eve that they should become one flesh. But before Adam could copulate with Eve, the Devil had caused her to fornicate with the Serpent. Eve broke God’s divine commandment when she used her sexual organ for pleasure in her fornication with the Serpent. Being defiled, Eve was no longer suitable to be Adam’s wife. Adam knew that he would lose Eve forever when God should pass judgement upon her. Therefore, in order to "redeem" Eve, Adam must identify with Eve while she was yet in her sin (and "the wages of sin is death" – Rom.6:23). Adam had to join himself to Eve, who was a part of himself, in order to identify with her sexual passion even though he knew that she was defiled. However, "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression" (1Tim.2:14).
Let me emphasize again. The Woman was deceived not into fornication per se but the partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which she then gave it to the Man. So, what then was it that Adam ate? He partook of the same that Eve partook — perverted knowledge. Adam knew Eve had done wrong. He knew that God would take her in death and that would mean Adam would lose his mate, his bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh. When that happened he would have no one else to spend his life with on the earth except having the animals, birds and other creatures for companions What would Adam do? Simple. He would have to do what His Heavenly Father expected him to do. Like Christ Jesus, Adam had to redeem his wife, his bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh. So he had to identify with her sin, brought about by the partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Perverted Knowledge). Adam was really taking the blame for his wife.
Note: Jesus Christ, the second Man, typed Adam when He came to identify with us. For "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom.5:8). He came "in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh" (Rom.8:3). "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin" (Heb.4:15 cf. Isa.53:5).
When Adam and his wife had partaken of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, sin was imputed upon them and the result was DEATH. Since they chose this forbidden tree of perverted knowledge, they had to reap its result and drink of the bitter cup. [See Appendix 14.]
Therefore the Divine Tree of Life (the Perfect Law of God) which governed the perfect purpose of the relation of life in the Divine Plan of God was never allowed to manifest. God had kept it (Genesis 3:22-24) but brought it forth about 4000 years later in the Person of Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus is the very Personification of the Divine Life and Purpose of God — the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is the True Wisdom (1Cor.1:24 cf. Prov.3:13, 18, 19). Whosoever eats (partakes) of Him shall have Eternal Life (Jhn.6:47-58). Without this relation to Him as the Tree of Life there is no Eternal Life.
COVERING UP
"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."
— Genesis 3:7
Why? Because their eyes were opened to their guilt, and they realized that they were naked, so they tried to cover their sexual parts! They were ashamed of it! (If eating apples or pears or any particular fruit had caused the first couple to realize that they were naked, then these fruits ought to be passed among those half-naked females in the streets and beaches today.) God's question to Adam, "Who said you were naked?", shows that Adam was covering up a guilty act committed by his sexual organ. (Read Matthew 5:29-30.) If it was the mouth, Adam would have covered it, and perhaps God would have questioned him thus: "Who asked thee to cover thy mouth? What's wrong with it? Did thou eat or munch at the forbidden fruit?" (You probably have seen people who, unintentionally, said a foul word that they went "Oophs!" and covered their mouths with their hands.)
Note: The word "naked" used in Genesis 2:25 is different from that found in Genesis 3:7-11. The latter is translated from the Hebrew word "eyrom", which comes from the root word "aram", used only in a derogatory sense.
However, it was not good enough for Adam and Eve to merely cover themselves with vegetable leaves. What they needed was an atonement. Blood was involved in Eve's act of sin. The blood of mankind was infiltrated by a foreign substance which resulted in the production of a hybrid — a debased creature — Cain. (Remember that Adam (Man) was God's highest creation. He was created in God's image and likeness. That image was "stained" with sin when he fell. However, the image and likeness of God became marred when Adam's descendants intermingled with the descendants of Cain. Thenceforth mankind became part and parcel of the animal kingdom.)
God had to slay innocent animals to make coats of skin to clothe the Man and his Woman, and in the process blood was shed (Gen.3:21). Read Leviticus 4; Hebrews 9:22; 2 Corinthians 5:21. See, it was not the fruit of a literal tree that Adam and Eve had partaken. If it was a literal fruit that they had partaken, Adam and Eve should have covered their mouths rather than their physical nakedness. Even in His covenant with Abraham, God's requirement was still blood — from the foreskin! (Consider these questions: i) Where did sin begin? ii) Why the circumcision of the heart in the New Covenant?)
It is true that Adam and Eve lost their righteousness and became spiritually naked in the sight of God. However, it was their physical nakedness that caused them to be ashamed of their sin and to cover their sexual reproductive organs with fig leaves, and to hide from God.
GOD'S JUSTICE & JUDGEMENT
"If any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
— Exodus 21:23-25
"...and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward."
-- Hebrews 2:2b (See also Rev.13:10.)
FROM SERPENT TO SNAKE
In passing His judgment, God did not destroy the Serpent, whose head was the Devil. Instead He cursed him above all the creatures of the field. The Serpent was cursed and transformed from an upright animal to a belly crawling reptile — a snake! Without his limbs, dust would become a part of his diet every time he feeds himself — "dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life". The curse of sin on the Serpent has even caused all snakes to bear his name — serpentine! Remember, he went on his belly after the curse, and not before! [See Appendix 15.]
In Genesis 3:15, God prophesied, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed." This conclusively proved that the Serpent would have his seed as the woman would have hers.
WOMAN'S CURSE
"Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
— Genesis 3:16
The first part of this verse should also cause us to understand that the sexual organ was the guilty member of the body in the act of sin. It was that part of the woman which God had cursed. He also increased the number of her conceptions. (A study of animals shows that the higher the animal the lesser is the number of its conceptions. The woman's conception and sorrow are GREATLY MULTIPLIED.) Since then every woman has her conception period at about every 28 days or 13 times a year. And coupled with each period there is that great sorrow of physical and emotional tension. Truly, "every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward" (Heb.2:2b).
All these would have been avoided if Eve had partaken of the Divine Tree of Life in the midst of the garden instead of the perverted and pleasurable Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which was in the midst of the same garden. The women's sorrow and conception were multiplied as a result of the act of pleasurable sex which was contrary to the Divine will and purpose of God. [See Appendix 14.]
The phrase: "thy desire shall be to thy husband", certainly alludes to the fact that Eve must have earlier subjected her desire to someone else. It could not be plainer that Eve had first subjected her desire to the Serpent when she "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,..." (Gen.3:6).
St.Paul, in his teaching concerning the state of virginity of the Church, made mention of the seduction of Eve by the Serpent when he said, in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3:
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealously: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you
as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
(Greek: exapatao [not apatao]; that is, thoroughly seduced) Eve through his subtilty,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
Yes, Adam's wife was thoroughly deceived and seduced by the Serpent! She sold the women down the river, so to speak, by her disobedience. Even now, those who are born of the Spirit of God, must submit themselves to their husbands, as unto the Lord, for the man is the head of the woman, even as Christ is the Head of His Church (Eph.5:22-24). Those wives who despise and disobey their husbands, and domineer over them, are violating a divine law of God.
ADAM'S CURSE
The judgment that God had pronounced upon Adam was a curse on the ground (Genesis 3:17-19) and not upon his reproductive organ because Adam was not deceived into transgressing the law. Eve was. (1Tim.2:14). But Adam listened to her and joined her in her sin.
Adam knew what he was doing when he hearkened to his wife. Being taken from his side, she was a part of him. He knew she would be lost because of her sin. Therefore, in order to redeem her, he must identify himself with her sin. So, Adam knowingly joined Eve in her sin. And his act brought DEATH into the world.
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
WHO IS THE FIGURE OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME."
— Romans 5:12-14
ADAM IS THE FIGURE OF HIM THAT WAS TO COME. How is that so? Adam redeemed his wife back to himself by identifying himself with her transgression. Remember, Adam had no former lust and knew no sin. Similarly, Jesus Christ, the last Adam, identified Himself with His fallen Bride and became sin for her that she might become the righteousness of God. But in identifying Himself with fallen man, the redemptive act of the last Adam (Jesus Christ) brought LIFE back to man. With the Water and the Blood that flowed from the side of Jesus Christ at Calvary, God made a Bride for Him. Read Romans 5:12- 21; 1 Corinthians 15:21,22,45. Amen! (Type and antitype — nothing could be any clearer!) We are reconciled to the Living Tree of Life, not a fruit tree but the Living and Wise God!
The man and his wife were then driven out of the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden was God's delight. Anything not in accordance with God's law — God's harmony — could not be born there. Hence, as a hybrid was being conceived in the womb of Eve, the couple had to be driven out of the Garden. The hybrid was the Serpent's seed, a seed of discrepancy.
Since the Fall, man has been toiling by tilling the earth and weeding off thorns and thistles to obtain his food. He had lost his household servant, the Serpent-kind, who was the tiller of the ground.
MOTHER OF ALL LIVING
Genesis 3:20 is a very interesting verse that most Christians overlook. A short statement such as this would have given many an understanding of the Serpent Seed doctrine if they had paid close attention to it and meditated on it. Unfortunately, many simply bypassed it.
"And Adam called his wife's name Eve;..."
The name was given only after the curse was pronounced. Before that, she was called Woman (Gen.2:23). Eve means life-giver; life giving; "because she was the mother of all living" (Gen.3:20b). She was the mother of Cain and Abel, her first two sons. But only one of them was of Adam. If they were both of Adam, Adam would not have named his wife Eve. The reason: the seed comes from the male. Rightly so, Adam should be called the father of all living. But Cain was not his seed; Adam did not father him. The Serpent did. Thus Adam was not the father of all living!
GENESIS 4
One verse which confounds many Christians is Genesis 4:1. "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord." It appears to them that Cain was the son of Adam. But a deeper study of the chapter gives us a better light to the verse. The word "knew" in verses 1 and 25 means having a positive knowledge of conception. Adam "knew" Eve twice only (verses 1 and 25) but brought forth three sons. Yet, when we study the rest of chapter 4, we realize that the very characters of Cain and Abel were extremely different. Therefore, one of them could not be a son of Adam.
All life, good or evil, comes from God (Isaiah 45:7; Acts 17:28). And Eve could not be more right when she said: "I have gotten a man from the Lord." [See Appendix 1 in SECTION I - Q&A Presentation Part 1-2.]
THE RELIGION OF CAIN AND ABEL
"And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof."
— Genesis 4:3-4a
Abel possessed the revelation (from God) of the events which transpired in the Garden of Eden that led to the Fall of mankind when he slew the firstborn of his flock and offered them to God. God had done the same when He shed the blood of two animals to cover the sin and guilt of his parents, Adam and Eve. Abel's offering was a righteous one which pleased God.
On the other hand, Cain, being the son of the Serpent, did not possess such a revelation. Though he was raised up together with Abel and taught the same Truth and Knowledge of God by Adam and Eve, he never really possessed the full revelation of it. (True revelation of God's Truths can only be received by sons and daughters of God.) Like his daddy, Cain was a tiller of the ground and he brought unto God an offering of the fruit of the ground. The fruit of the cursed ground was his achievement and pride. In the sweat of his brow and with his own hands he had tilled the ground to obtain what he thought would please God. His works were evil in that they were self-righteous (1Jhn.3:12; Isa.64:6). Cain was not spiritual, but he was certainly religious.
The present day's pagan religions, or worships, which practise the offering of the fruits of the ground, such as fruits, flowers or vegetables, are traced to Cain as the founder.
Abel practised the true religion (from re-ligo — to bind back). He knew by revelation who God was and what God expected of him. True worshippers worship God, by revelation, in spirit and in truth (Jhn.4:22-24).
THE SATANIC TRAITS OF CAIN
In the murder of Abel, three devilish traits were manifested in Cain, the son of the Serpent. Read Genesis 4:8-9. The murderous or lying nature does not come from God; it comes from Satan (Jhn.10:10; 11:25; Num.23:19). Jesus said that Satan "was a murderer from the beginning" and that "he is a liar, and the father of it" (Jhn.8:44). His rebellious nature was manifested in Cain when he (Cain) defiantly shouted at God, saying: "Am I my brother's keeper?!"
These traits alone are enough proofs that Cain was not a son of Adam who was a son of God.
CAIN'S PEOPLE
Genesis 4:16-24 is the record of Cain's own genealogy. His was a great people, full of intellectual knowledge. They built cities, they made weapons and they were great inventors. In their days, they were a renowned people — giants, both mentally and physically. The record also contains the murderous act of Lamech, the great, great, great grandson of Cain. He was the first person to go against God's will of one man, one wife (Gen.2:23-24). He married two wives. (Polygamy was permitted of God only after the Flood when the seeds of Adam (through Seth) and Cain were already mixed. Under the present Grace Age, Bible Believers who practise polygamy are guilty of committing adultery. Read Matthew 19:9; Luke 16:18.)
SETH'S PEOPLE
The descendants of Seth from Enos to Noah as recorded in Genesis 5:6-32 were different from the Cainites. They were simple folks, mainly shepherds and goatherds. There was not any liar, murderer or polygamist among them.
THE INTERMARRIAGE OF THE SEEDS
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."
— Genesis 6:4
As the population of the two peoples increased, the sons of God (Sethic men) were tempted by the seductive beauty of the daughters of men (Cainic women) that they took these Cainic women as they desired and cohabited with them (Gen.6:1-2).
Because of the genetic disturbances resulting from these intermingling between the fallen children of God and the children of men, many giant offspring were born. [See Appendix 4 in SECTION I - Q&A Presentation Part 3-7.] The word "giants" does not mean that the people were tall and big in size; many were "giants" in thoughts and intellect as well. Thus were they call "mighty men", "men of renown". But the "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Gen.6:5). They were desperately wicked and corrupted, and "the earth is filled with violence through them" (Gen.6:13). Moreover, the Name of Jehovah must have been much more profaned in their idolatrous worship than was in Enos' generation. And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, was raised up to prophesy against these ungodliness (Jude 14, 15).
ONE FLESH — TWO PEOPLE
The crossing of the two lines of people, generation after generation, from Enoch to Noah, naturally caused the bloodstream of the sons of God to be perverted with the evil nature of the Serpent seed. The spiritual quality of divine revelation within them gradually became watered down. Evil attributes were bred (increased) while the righteous traits diminished (decreased) throughout those generations until the two peoples became one flesh. The intermingling of the seeds was so complete in the generation prior to the Flood that all the people of the earth were involved. Noah, who was the last of the pure righteous firstborn of the Sethic line (Gen.5:28-29), also took to wife a Cainite, or a woman of mixed seed.
PURE SERPENT RACE DESTROYED IN FLOOD
All pure Serpent-people (pure Cainites) were destroyed in the Flood along with the hybrid race. Only Noah's family was spared by the Grace of God upon Noah (Gen.6:8,18).
SERPENT NATURE LIVES IN ALL FLESH
Shortly after the Flood the serpentine nature began to manifest itself. And of the three sons of Noah, it was manifested more markedly in Ham who committed incest (a perverted sexual act) with his mother. Noah was at that time dead drunk and lying naked in his tent. Read Genesis 9:20-23, Leviticus chapters 18 and 20, and pay special attention to 18:6-8; 20:11, 17. [See Appendix 6 in SECTION I - Q&A Presentation Part 3-7.]
Noah did not bear any more seed other than Japheth, Ham and Shem, "and of them was the whole earth overspread" (Gen.9:18-19). Thus, every person born into the world since then is traced back to these three sons for the inheritance of the Serpent nature. [See Appendix 3 in SECTION I - Q&A Presentation Part 1-2.]
Everyone possesses part of the Adamic nature which is godly and part of the serpentine nature which is beastly and evil. Everyone is a hybrid. We are all made of one blood (Acts 17:26). And "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom.3:23). For this cause God required innocent animals as sacrifices for the atonement of man's soul throughout the Old Testament era. (Read Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22.)
GOD'S WAY OF RESTORATION OF MANKIND
However "it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins" (Heb.10:4) because they could not perfect those who offered them (Hebrews 10:1-3). The life of the sacrificial animal could not return to perfect the believer, the sacrificer. And 
so a better sacrifice was needed.
There is a better sacrifice! The promised seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15 has come. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born to bruise the head of the Serpent Who was none other than the Devil. Satan, the adversary of God, could only bruise the heel of our Lord Jesus, to hinder His work but could never destroy Him. The Lord Jesus, Who was born of the Virgin Mary, was God manifest in flesh. He bypassed the serpentine nature which was in the degraded blood of Mary, a sinner. Therefore, His Blood was pure and sinless. He "is the mediator of a better covenant" (Heb.8:6) "by which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Heb.10:10), "for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" (Heb.10:14).
But we cannot be sanctified until we are born again of the Spirit of God (Jhn.3:3-8; 11:25, 26; 1Pet.1:2; Rom.3:26; 1Jhn.1:9). Without the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is the New Birth, we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God and see LIFE, for we are born of sinful flesh, coming into the world speaking lies, hating, coveting, having sensual desires and doing every evil work.
"YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN"
So we need to be born again of the Spirit of the last Adam (the Seed of God) and let His Seed (Spirit) "de-hybridize" the serpentine nature out of us by His Word. Read John 6:63; 1 Corinthians 15:45; 1 John 3:9. Then the LIFE of that Lamb of God would return upon the Believer to perfect him. Thus, "if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness" (Romans 8:10).
"And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved)"
— Ephesians 2:1-5
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APPENDICES
A-9. "MISSING LINK"
This "missing link" certainly does not fit into Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Animals did not evolve from a lower form of life, neither did Man evolve from the monkey. The Bible says that each species of creatures was created separately and distinctively from the others. Except for the Serpent, all the other animals exist today in the same form in which they have been created since the beginning of time. The birds build their nests and raise their young as they always have. The bees construct their honey combs as they always have done. The beavers build their dams. But only Man alone has the faculty of improving his lot.
According to the account in the Book of Genesis, God created the living things beginning from the lowest to the highest form. For example, He created the frog before the monkey; the chimpanzee before the Serpent, and finally He created Man to have dominion over all the creatures. And since the Serpent is no longer in its original form in which he was created before he was cursed, there is a "missing link".
A-10. HYBRID — STERILE — DEATH
Bear in mind that there is a vast difference between animals and man. Man has a "spiritual soul" but animals do not. Animals were created directly from the dust of the earth, whereas Man was first created a spirit, which was the image of God, before he was put into a body of dust, which was after the likeness of the theophany of God (Gen.1:26, 27; 2:7). For hybrid animals, their "death" is physical (physical sterility — unfruitful, dried up). As for man, God is more concerned with his precious soul than his body of dust. So, when "death" came upon man, it was a spiritual death (spiritual sterility — unfruitful, dried up). It takes the Holy Spirit of God to make him fruitful by quickening him (Jhn.6:63; 1Pet.3:18). The water of God's Word will quicken him to "life" and cause him to bring forth spiritual fruits of the Spirit of Life. Did not Jesus say, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God?" (Jhn.3:5).
A-11. FORNICATION
When the demon-possessed Serpent came unto Eve to tempt her, he cast a spell of doubt over her by asking, "Yea, hath God said,...?" (Gen.3:1). The fact, as we know it, is that God had said. By dislocating a word, and misplacing it, Satan was able to misrepresent, or to give a false interpretation of, the Truth that God had originally laid down. A firm statement or command became a doubting question. The moment that Eve was completely persuaded by the Serpent to believe his word — "Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Gen.3:4b-5), and took it into her mind (her heart) and had intercourse with it, she committed spiritual fornication by hybridizing the lie with the Divine Commandment (Truth) of God that was given to her. Then the physical act of fornication with the Serpent was committed, and DEATH was introduced into the world.
Eve committed spiritual fornication: i) when she omitted a portion of God's Word regarding the forbidden fruit of "the tree" — "of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"; ii) when she added to the Word of God — "neither shall ye touch it"; iii) when she changed a portion of what God had said — "Thou shalt surely die" to "lest ye die", making the definite commandment of God a conditional one.
Apparently, what Eve had done is the very same thing that many Christians are doing today. Religious leaders are adding their own creeds and dogmas to the Word of God, and also changing the Word of God by twisting the Scriptures to fit their dogmas and interpretations. And when they are confronted with the Truth which is not in accord with their teachings, they would just simply omit the portion of the Scriptures, or ignore them completely.
A-12. LAWS NOT PERSONS
Due to their lack of spiritual understanding of the Word of God and the teaching of the Laodicean Church Age Messenger, William M. Branham, certain Bible believers insist that the two "trees" "in the midst of the garden" were Jesus Christ and Satan, or Jesus Christ and the Serpent, standing side by side in the Garden of Eden. Then there are some who contend that the "trees" were Eve and the Serpent, or Eve and Jesus Christ. Such erroneous teachings are based on the misunderstanding of certain words used in the Scriptures; hence, the inconsistency in their interpretations. [Note: The inconsistency of interpretations has caused some denominational Christians to poke fun at the doctrine by saying that if the Serpent was the Tree of Knowledge (as some so interpret) and Eve had sex with him, then Adam must have had sex with the Serpent too.]
Genesis 2:9b does not say that the two trees stood side by side in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Also, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, could not have been there in the Garden of Eden as He was not yet born. Genesis 2:9b merely states "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." The two trees are two laws which govern the sexual reproductive organ which is found in the middle part of the human body (the garden). The Tree of Life is the Divine Way or Law of Life. It is the Divine Truth given by the Divine God for eternal (divine) life. Proverbs 3:18 says, "She (that is, wisdom, verses 13 and 19, which is the personification of the Creative Divine Word of Life) is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
A-13. PLEASANT — WISE
Genesis 3:6 says that the tree was "pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise..." How could the eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree make one wise? The word "wise" is defined as having the power of discernment and judgement. The use of this word carries a far reaching implication. Pagan religions, all of which came from Babylon, have the idea permeated among their followers that wisdom could come through the power of sexual involvement outside of the Divine Law of Man-Woman relation. Hence, the worship of sex in pagan religions which embodied prostitution. Did not St. Paul say in Romans chapter 1 that men took to worshipping the creature rather than the Creator? Up to this day the lie of the Serpent that wisdom could be discovered in sexual experience still holds true for many promiscuous males and females, adults and teenagers alike.
The word "pleasant" (Hebrew: "taavah") means a longing, by implication, a delight, dainty, desire, greedy, lusting. This word is tied directly to the word "food", "desire" and "wise". When Eve "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,..." it involved the cardinal sins of "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" (1Jhn.2:16).
A-14. SEXUAL UNION
It is true that "marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefied" (Hebrews 13:4). God created the man and woman physically different from, but complementary to, each other. THEY WERE CREATED SEXUALLY DIFFERENT SO THAT THEY COULD PROCREATE BY PHYSICAL UNION. Like all species of plants and animals, where there are male and female, it was the intention of God that they would bring forth "seeds after their kind" by physical union. Sexual union was intended that the two shall be one flesh — resulting in the birth of their offspring (Genesis 2:24). In the beginning when God joined the Woman to the Man in holy matrimony, procreation was His primary objective, not sexual pleasure. Adam and Eve were supposed to come together in sexual union only in the season of life to partake of that Tree of Life, which would bring forth sons and daughters of God which God had desired. Because Eve hearkened to the whispers of the Serpent and was enchanted with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Perverted Knowledge), and "saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the tree thereof, and did eat". She lusted for that knowledge by what she saw (understood) of it, and not knowing that she was being deceived, she fornicated with the Serpent.
After the Fall, human beings have become what they are today — lovers of pleasure! Have you ever seen animals coming together just for sexual pleasure? They copulate only for the sole purpose of propagating their species. But look at human beings today. It is often said that they behave more like animals. That's an ugly understatement.
A-15. THE SERPENT'S MATE
We know that God created all creatures in pairs. What happened to his mate when the Serpent was cursed to be a snake among the reptile family?
His mate was cursed together with him that they might reproduce their kind in the snake family. When God destroyed Korah, Dathan and Abiram for rebelling against Moses and his leadership, He also destroyed their wives together with them (Num.16:27,31,32). Read also Daniel 6:24.
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