God changed the time, and no one noticed. Most of the Jews never even observed the miracle and never understood. But before we look at the time change, for the better by the way, examine primogeniture a bit more. It comes from the Latin phrase primo gentura which means, “first born.” Adam was the firstborn of His kind. “Adam” was not his name. He was man kind. If one checks Genesis in scripture for the word, “man.” The Hebrew corresponding to that word is ‘adam.” He was made in the image of God, and part of that image, God did not make a name for His man, and neither did the man make a name for himself as he did for the beasts.
God has no name. He is without genealogy and has no genus.
Hence God’s kind was One and that was Himself. The traits of the Kind of
God are managerial, preservational, and creative. Characteristics of His are Fatherly, Messianic,
and Spiritual in the three “substances” — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. His “seed”
is from the Holy Spirit, and the “hand” that planted it in the Garden is Jesus.
As such, Adam is the son of God, and his nature came entirely from God.
Lucifer’s “seed” that was already planted was in the Seraph
of the Tree of Knowledge. Translators used “Serpent” to identify the body of
Satan, and since it would soon crawl, he was called the “Serpent.” Just as Adam
breathed life unto Eve from God, Lucifer breathed death unto the Serpent, and
then, the Serpent breathed death unto Adam. Then Adam became the son of Satan
with Satan’s genes. His kind changed from docile to feral as his genes mutated…
from man to beast.
“Eve” (Eva) means “life.” The seed of Adam and Eve are
“Man Alive.” With original sin, Man-Alive mutated to “Man Dead.” As such,
spiritually speaking, Adam was the “walking dead.” Cain (Hebrew Qayin) comes
from the root noun meaning “formed” or “fashioned.” The new form of Man-Alive
was something different than the Design by God. Adam was formed in Paradise,
but Cain in the world in a womb surrounded by sin. The womb of Adam was the Garden.
The womb of Cain was the world.
Then came Abel. Honoring the Law of God, the second son
would be heir to thereafer righteous Adam, for God had forgiven him his sin.
Cain killed Abel because of primogeniture. He was first-born and thought he
deserved the admiration of God more than Abel. He was created in iniquity and
became jealous.
Thereafter, the law of primogeniture — the law of man — was
overlooked by God and the second son was favored. Since Abel was killed,
righteous Seth became favored, and God put him and his posterity on the Holy
Mountain, or Mount Herman, to keep him from the sin below.
The heaven and the earth belong to Jesus. Since God is not
dead, then there is no law that makes either heaven or earth anyone’s. Rather,
God’s legacy is generously sharing His “Estate.” As is written, “In my Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you” (John 14:2). Hence, all God’s children are heirs of God and shall be residents
of Paradise again, on the “Great Plantation,” that right now we can only
imagine; one where the servants shall not be enslaved but shall only sing and
praise God.
Cain was more like his father, the Devil, than Father God. Some
believe that he had the Devil in him as the Serpent, Judas, and the Antichrist will
in the end. That is not scriptural. He had the Devil’s genes in him; call it
the Serpent’s venom if you wish. Cain was not a “beast” but turned feral like
the beastly Serpent. He killed instinctually because of his inborn nature was
not right because of original sin.
Lucifer believed that he was heir to God; that he deserved
the heaven and the earth. By the law of primogeniture, they would be his
someday, and that he is lawful heir even to this day. Remembering that “I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High,” the Devilish
Serpent still believes that heaven and earth does not belong to God. In his
eyes, since God died on the Cross only he is master of the manor.
Hence, life is all about primogeniture, and the battle is
always fought in both realms. “Devil” means the “Accuser.” Just what has he
done to be the Accuser? He accused Jesus of presumptuous sin; that by staking
His claim as God, then the Heavenly Estate would never he His. The Accuser caused
God to suffer death by propagating lies in the minds of either selfish or naïve
men.
Why would Lucifer not be rightful heir? After all, he was generated
first (First in Genesis), and that was his right! But that is by the world’s
standards, and Lucifer is presently ruler of the world. However, God remains in
control, and He adopts children that belong to Satan since birth, at rebirth,
when regeneration to perfection begins.
Those “born again” are adopted by God, and he coats them with
the Flesh of a Lamb — the Lamb of God, to keep them from the Accuser’s harm. Rather
than a coat of skin, it is the invisible Flesh of God that we call the “Holy
Ghost” of Jesus. The invisible Flesh of Jesus is not only on God’s children but
in them as well. They are inundated with the very Spirit of Jesus!
Right this instant there are two global wars in progress:
(1) a global war for the world’s territory, and (2) global spiritual warfare
for the heavenly realm. Both Christianity and Islam have the goal of being the “Big
Tent” covering Shem, Ham, and Japheth… the entire world.
Lucifer will stop at nothing and will fight to the death.
The death of Judas knocked the wind out of Satan, but his influence is strong
all over the world. His contention is that the heaven and the earth belong to
him, and both he shall have. With that notion, Adams (mankind) are merely
slaves on his global “plantation.” The vicarious death of God on the Cross,
hung from His own “Tree,” meant to Lucifer that the world belongs to him, and
for the world he shall fight! Mankind is merely collateral damage, and like the
20th Century Japanese, Satan’s soldiers are merely kamikaze pilots
sacrificing themselves for nothing that will never happen. (Much like a socialist
Utopia that they want to change Paradise into!)
Lucifer knows his peril. He knows the truth and uses both
good and evil to gain the Estate. Perhaps he figures that God will see the
light since he claims to be the “Lightbearer.” Whatever the reason, Lucifer is
a fool as the heaven and earth will never be his. Perhaps he is satisfied with
his six “day” reign until Jesus comes on the seventh for a millennium.
God never promised Adam heaven and earth. Adam knew that he
was not entitled. Satan put in his heart that it should be his. Although only
the Garden was Adam’s estate, God gave him his wish. He was cast out of the Garden
and the world belonged to Adam. The second son, although he was not rightful
heir by the law of sin, owned the world. God leased the world to Adam
until He restores Paradise for him.
Leases are temporary. They either expire in a certain amount
of time, or until the leased property is destroyed. Adam was king of the world
for 930 years. He withered away much as the fig tree in the parable of Jesus.
The first Adam withered and died, but the second “Adam,” Jesus, died but was
restored. He is not “King of the Jews” as the sign said, but King of Heaven and
the Earth. Because He remains secluded in His Estate does not mean that He does
not rule!
“Primogeniture” is literally, “first generated.” Lucifer accepts
that law although he was not born but created. “Born” would mean that he was
carried by some being. God dropped him like a hot potato immediately! “How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down
to the ground (Isa 14:12). With the “fetal” Lucifer perishing, the world would
not belong to him. His pride, his desire to be king, perished his angelic soul
and made Lucifer not more than a lowly being that crawled. God made him meek,
but in Lucifer’s mind, he is still a seraph! Not to be satisfied with that, he
disguises himself as a beautiful cherub without all the beastly faces that a
seraph has.
True, Lucifer was the first generated, and the first to
perish. Lucifer was “as dead” when God promised that his “seed” would be crushed
(Gen 3:15). Crushed, no less, than by the heel of Eve’s seed — Jesus! The
heaven and earth belong to Jesus and the sign on the Cross pointed to that. Pilate
knew that the Jewish man was rightful King, and Gentiles would live in His “Tent.”
Noah knew what God was talking about when He regenerated the earth by water!
Jesus was not really “born” of a virgin. He was “borne.”
Mary carried him (born) but God transported (borne) the Soul of Jesus from
another realm. Mary did not produce Jesus but served only as the “vessel”
that would translate Jesus from heaven to earth, from the invisible to the
visible realms. He had been there all the time, and birth for Him was again,
God supplying the “second Adam” with a coat of skin. This time, the Flesh would
be permanent, and the Holy Ghost has glorified Flesh that can overcome the firmament
between heaven and earth. Jesus said it Himself, “I have overcome the world”
(John 16:33).
The world found out that God would never die. The walls if the
tomb could not hold him. Jesus was borne again, when the Father delivered him
from His “womb” of stone, and Jesus was regenerated. They call that, the “Resurrection.”
Jesus was erected again in the Image of God. The world had toppled and
destroyed the first “Statue” of God, but a new Image was quickly re-erected!
Now, to what you have patiently waited: That God divided
time. Examine the key verses again:
KEY VERSES: 21 Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it be so, why am I thus?” And she went to enquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said unto her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger...” 25 The first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob… 33 And Jacob said (To Esau), “Swear to me this day;” and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. (Gen 21:21-23, 25-26, 33)
The unborn twin “children” struggled in the womb. (Not fetuses
but children). God also knew them in the womb as he knew Jeremiah long after
(Jer 1:5). Isaiah knew his adversaries; he said to them, “I knew that thou
wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb”
(Isa 48:8). He was warning Israelites that they were more like Esau than their “father”
Jacob, renamed “Israel” by God. Of course, God knew his creatures as they
incubated in the womb. As such, Jacob means “heel-grabber” because he was
contesting Esau’s emergence from Rebecca’s womb.
Their personalities (rather purposes) predestined their names.
Jacob would grab Esau’s heel. Esau, means “worker” (Abarim Publications). Jacob,
later renamed “Israel” by Jesus Himself when they wrestled, was grabbing the
right to primogeniture even in the womb.
God called him to provide the seed of Jesus in the Abrahamic
Covenant, and Jacob was predestined to be Israel… both the person and the
nation. However, it was not by his own destiny but God’s Plan. Israel overcame
the “worker” Esau just as Jesus, King of Israel as the son of David, would overcome
the works of man.
Now for the surprise! I wondered many times about this
story. It seemed that Jacob was always unfair to Esau, and perhaps Esau was so
treacherous because of the snares of Rebecca. (The name “Rebecca” means “snare.”)
What happened was God’s Will. He predestined Jacob to be Israel and he was
chosen. As hard as Esau worked to escape the womb, Jacob was the chosen one to
be the antecedent of Jesus.
Esau’s treachery was “works” from the beginning. He struggled
to survive much as a hairy beast would from a den or cave. Jacob, however, was
powered by the Holy Spirit of God, and he merely overcame Esau (works) because
of God’s Will for him to be the estate that would be called “Israel,” That “land
of milk and honey,” was surely the place of God’s original “Paradise. The name “Israel”
represents Jacob, the nation, and Jesus Himself as the “Son of David.” (I
omitted “Seed” there, because as Jacob was the seed of God in barren Rebecca,
Jesus is the Seed of God planted in the world but “transported” to Paradise in
earth by Mary.
The struggle inside the womb of Rebecca represents some thing
in the world. For years, I wondered, but God provided. His Word that was
rejected revealed it. I was astounded when I read it!
Ezra asked the angel about time:
I answered and said, “What will be the dividing of the times? Or when will be the end of the firs age and the beginning of the age that follows? “He said to me, ”From Abraham to Isaac, because from him were born Jacob and Esau, for Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the beginning. For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows. For the beginning of man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel, between the heel and the hand seek for nothing else, Ezra” (4 Esdras 6:7-10)
That is the answer to my wonderment! In the womb, the question was one of
primogeniture, first generated or second, as heir of God. The “worker,” Esau
lost the battle for survival. The first was not the fittest, and the first
fruit of Rebecca’s womb was sacrificed to keep the second fruit. “Firstfruits”
are the best pickings of the crop which are the first harvest. The second stand
is the poorer of the two.
Esau worked hard to be the firstfruit of God but that was not God’s Will.
Although Esau was the “firstfruit” and was produced first, that was not the
Plan. Remembering that Cain worked as hard as Abel, Cain would not get the “Estate”
of God on the Holy Mountain. As Abel’s proxy, Seth became the second son, and
the law of primogeniture was overcome.
It had to be. Rebecca set a snare. Isaac endeavored to use the law of
primogeniture, but it was not what God wanted. God out-witted Lucifer and again
provided the skin of a lamb, and Isaac became “Esau” to Isaac. With that cunningness
on the part of God, Rebecca set the snare and Jacob received the blessing that
by the world’s standards, was due Esau.
It would not be by the works of Esau who struggled the path through the birth
canal, but by the grace of God who transported (borne) Jacob, although Esau worked
harder. He spread the pelvis of Rebecca and Jacob merely coasted through! That
is Christianity in a nutshell.
Judaism is works. Rather
than their “father” Israel, Israel became more like their natural born father,
Esau. Big hairy “Red” (Esau was renamed Edom and means “red”) was the true
father of the nation of Israel in heart, more so than the man Israel. Hence,
the birth of Esau was intended to divide time. Esau, or works, was the end of
one age, and Jacob (a blessing by God) the beginning of another age… one of
grace.
Jacob got Isaac’s blessing, not by his will, but the Will of God. ”Blessing”
is “bliss.” The promise to Israel was bliss outside the womb and to Esau
works. Bliss is Paradise. Heaven would belong to Israel. The nation of
Israel would be their “tent” until they themselves, as Israel-kind, become
themselves, Temples of God. That would not happen in that age but two ages
later: (1) When Jesus was born was the beginning of the age that we call “Pisces,”
and the last age will be the age of Esau, when Lucifer works o tear down what
God has made with Great Tribulation.
Do not be dismayed. Edomites (Muslims) will tear down what God has made
with Great Tribulation, but then a new age will come with the return of Israel with
Jesus as its King. The “New Age” belongs to Jesus but Edomites (Esau’s seed)
will consume that “soup.” The Age of Aquarius is called the “New Age, “but is
the old age of works that Jacob left behind as heir to Isaac and of God.
The two ages changed with the birth of Jacob from one of works to one
of grace. Not really “changed” but understood. The ages were always by
grace. That is the “Mystery of God.” More on that later, but grace was from the
beginning “age.” It is first rank! Genesis
3:15 is a picture of what would be repeated at least twice. Stay tuned for more
of the mystery tomorrow!
(picture credit: The Life Institute; "Twins in the Womb")
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