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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Satan's Plan: Altering the Seedline...The Garden of Eden

Excerpts from The Bullinger King James Companion Bible Appendix 19:

It only shows the power of tradition, which has, from the infancy of each one of us, put before our eyes and written on our minds the picture of a "snake" and an "apple": the former based on a wrong interpretation, and the latter being a pure invention, about which there is not one word said in Holy Scripture. 
Never was Satan's wisdom so craftily used as when he secured universal acceptance of this traditional belief: for it has succeeded in fixing the attention of mankind on the letter and the means, and thus blinding the eyes to the solemn fact that the Fall of man had to do solely with the Word of God, and is centered in the sin of believing Satan's lie instead of Jehovah's truth.
This is his [Satan's] object in perpetuating the traditions of the "snake" and the "apple", because it ministers to the acceptance of his lie, the hiding of God's truth, the support of tradition, the jeers of the infidel, the opposition of the critics, and the stumbling of the weak in faith. 
We cannot conceive Eve as holding converse with a snake, but we can understand her being fascinated by one, apparently "an angel of light" (i.e., a glorious angel), possessing superior and supernatural knowledge. 

We established in The Tree of Life & The Tree of Death & Ets vs Atseh posts that Christ was the Tree of Life and Satan the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The fruit from Satan was two fold and against God's Plan all the way (1. twisting God's Words and sharing misinformation & 2. Christ's seed line).  Satan's biggest initial try at altering God's Plan for His children was to impact the seed line for which Christ was designated to come (God's Plan: 2nd Earth Age Creation & Brief Recap of God's Plan).  Satan would temporarily accomplish this by deceiving Eve.

Genesis 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, 'Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'"

The word "touch" is the Hebrew word naga in the original manuscript and means to lie with a woman (have sexual intercourse). 

Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, "What is this that thou hast done?"  And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat."

The word "beguiled" here in the Hebrew is nasha meaning to lead astray, to seduce.  It is important to be able to take the words back to the Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) to know the difference in meanings (e.g., the word "beguiled" in Genesis 29:25 is ramah and means to deceive or betray in Hebrew....a completely different Hebrew word than that in Genesis 3:13).

II Corinthians 11:2-3 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: 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 Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Eve was beguiled by Satan.  Beguiled here in the Greek is exapatao meaning to be wholly seduced.  (Note that the "chaste virgin in Christ" has to do with your mind and Satan's attempt to alter God's Plan in the 5th & 6th Trumps....all to be discussed with the Trumps).

Genesis 4:1-2 Adam "knew" his wife and she conceived.  Adam had sexual intercourse with Eve chronologically after Satan had done so.  Eve carried fraternal twins (Cain was the offspring of Satan and Abel the offspring of Adam).  Genesis 4:2 "and she again bare his brother Abel"... "again bare" means to continue in birth ("again" is the Hebrew word yacaph meaning to continue).  Eve gave birth to Cain in verse one and continued in labor and gave birth to Abel in verse two.  Fraternal twins are where two separate eggs or ova are fertilized and come from two separate bags of water, meaning they had two separate conceptions.  Fraternal twins can be fertilized anywhere from two to six weeks apart. 

Remember that the "repopulation" of the earth was already going on outside of the Garden of Eden with all of the races that were made with the 6th day creation.  Adam and Eve's purposes were for the seed line of Christ.

Cain was the first murderer referenced in John 8:44 (as he killed his brother Abel Genesis 4:3-8 & I John 3:11-12).  Cain was not found in the genealogy of Adam in Genesis 5 because he did not descend from Adam but Satan (Abel is not listed there either as he was slain and had no resulting offspring).  Cain's genealogy is found in Genesis 4.  Note that Cain's descendants are "Kenites" meaning simply "sons of Cain".  The Kenites are that seed spoken of by Christ in the Parable of the Tares in Matthew 13:35-42 "tares are the children of the wicked one" {more on Kenites as well as the Parables of Christ in future posts}   

"There were 130 years before Seth was born and substituted for Abel in the line of the promised seed." (Bullinger, Appendix 20)

Hebrews 2:14-16 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.  For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. 

Christ came in the flesh, born of woman, just as God has required all of us to do in this 2nd earth age.  He died in pain, in the flesh not saving Himself on the cross, for our sins and for us to live forever with Him in paradise in the rejuvenated 3rd earth/heaven age.  He came to take away the "2nd death" (the death of the spirit) from us, to take that power from Satan, who is death.  He came to destroy death, which is to say Satan.  He came through the untainted (by Satan or fallen angels) seed line of Abraham (Adam). 

The sin in the Garden of Eden was that of partaking in the fruit of Satan.  There is no apple mentioned, nor did Adam and Eve cover their mouths with fig leaves but there private parts for that is from where their sin was committed and for what part they were ashamed.  

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