THE ‘ADAMI FAMILY

  “Adam” is thought of as the name of the only created man. However, Adam was not the man’s name, but his kind. Consider the following passages:

KEY VERSES: Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: (Gen 5:2-3)

  Both Adam and Eve were ‘adam. They were of one flesh, and that flesh was of one kind. Other fleshes were of other kinds that scripture calls chay, (beasts; Gen 1:24). “Beasts” are kinds of “living creatures” much like Adam, except for Spirit of God was not breathed unto them. Hence, they are without souls.

  As a sidenote, your pet will not be in heaven, but there will be lions and lambs there, for instance. They will be docile and lay down together (Isa 11:6). They were not all cast out of Paradise. Those that remained in Paradise, because it is a paradise, should still be alive to this day!

  In the beginning when ‘adam was created, God “blessed them.” Paradise would be bliss for the two ‘adami. God’s blessing was Him bowing to His creatures in adoration (Strong’s Dictionary). That is what Jesus did for ‘adam (man) on the Cross; his blood “bowed” down to their dust. It was necessary that the blood of Jesus flow unto the dust of ‘adam (dust) again, and the Living Water from His side breathed life back unto ‘adam.

  Male and female are both ‘adam. The two together are as one. Mating for multiplication is Holy Matrimony. Mating for pleasure is an unholy coupling, or marriage, of two independent people. Coupling must be done purely in the sight of God for there to be Holy Matrimony. Instead, scripture indicates, that the female coupled with a Beast not of ‘adam-kind.

  “Male and female” he bowed to adore them. “Beast and female” he did not adore, and rather than bow to them, they were cursed: both the Serpent and Eve. Adam was cursed as well for looking on and bowing to the wishes of the Serpent (seraph-kind).

  Angels do not mate as ‘adam does. Genuine “marriage” is physical coupling for the purpose of replicating. Jesus said, “In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30). Neither the angels in heaven, nor the beasts there, couple or are given to coupling. Angels do not reproduce in a physical sense; but they can imbue ‘adam with unholy spirit.

  Did Eve have intercourse (carnal knowledge) with the Serpent? That would not be scriptural. However, he did have verbal intercourse with her, and all the while, as she walked away from the Spirit of God in the Tree of Life, she was imbued by the spirit of Satan. Adam was there looking on and saw it happen, and sin was accounted to him because he allowed the intercourse with Satan.

  The Serpent was indeed cunning. Eve thought that she was merely conversing with a snake. All the while, with Satan in the Serpent, she was having intercourse with Satan. The deception was more than the fruit of the tree, but the fruit of her womb. Theretofore, Adam and Eve had not endeavored to multiply, but Eve was filled with the Unholy Ghost of the Serpent, or “Satan” as he is called.

  Not to be disrespectful to Jesus, but Satan used God’s method of creating his male child as God did His. The unholy nature of Satan is to do what God does, and to present such things as God’s doing.

  Eve was naïve; she said to Adam, “I have gotten a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1). Indeed, she had — her new “Lord.” Perhaps Eve thought that Adam was the real father. Perhaps he was the biological father of Cain as genealogists suggest for Joseph as the father of Jesus. One big difference is that the vessel of Mary — her womb —was never violated. It was a clean place for Jesus to be imbued within Mary.

  For Cain, the birth story was somewhat different. After she spiritually conceived, Adam dirtied Eve’s womb with sperm that would be of no use except to corrupt the womb. She was already with an unholy child.

  Paul said it well, “if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons” (Heb 8:12). When Cain showed his resentment toward God when God chastised him, he showed that he was a bastard child, [1] not from the seed of Adam, but the seed of Satan.

  Now back to the key verses: “(God) called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” They were generated male and female and became one ‘adam (0ne flesh). That was on the very day they were created, but on a subsequent day, under the forbidden tree, another kind was introduced unto the one ‘adam. Like today, soon the family of God was a blend of God’s children and the child of Satan, and like blended families, things “went to Hell” so to speak, and Cain’s dust and his seed was sucked down unto the abyss when the flood receded.

  Once God paroled Adam and Eve, by putting on them coats of one lamb’s skin, Adam and Eve were again one flesh — the two together covered by a lamb. That was a return to Holy Matrimony that was meant to be! They were no longer separated by Satan but lived in the same “tent” together thereafter.

  Under the cover of the lamb, Adam and Eve, “begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth.” This time, unlike the first time, Adam begat a son that looked like him, both physically and spiritually. Adam had returned to the image in which he was created — in the image of God in body and spirit. That image was passed down to Seth. His and his father shared a common gene; they were both now in the image that God had made in Adam in the beginning. Finally, God provided for Adam, another ‘adam… another real man inside and out!

  Seth was as unlike Cain as his brother Abel had been. Abel was a keeper; he cared for the sheep. Cain was a tiller of the ground. His forte’ was works. From the beginning “works” were not sufficient for God, ‘adam-kind was to tend the sheep. Meaning the Way to heaven, Jesus said, “But he that entereth in by the Door is the shepherd of the sheep” (John 10:2).

  What do shepherds do? Very little! They tend the sheep, and are responsible for their care — they want than none should perish (John 3:16) and love the sheep as themselves. That’s why David would be heir to God; he loved the sheep and cared for them. That too is why Abel was so loved by God that Cain could not stand still until Abel returned to the dust… or so he thought!

  Seth replaced Abel. If not, then no man could ever be righteous again. Why is that? Because Cain had the spirit of the Wicked One, but nether Abel nor Seth did. Mankind needs to thank God for covering Adam and Eve with a lamb so that their flesh remained covered during physical intercourse, unlike Eve’s blatant naked exposure to Satan in the Serpent.

  Why do Satanists worship naked and dance around fires? To diminish God and elevate Satan. Their law is, “Do what thou wilt; that is the whole law” (Anton LeVey). What did Adam and Eve do naked around the “fiery flying serpent?’ They showed Satan their nakedness. Afterward, they were ashamed. They needed a coat to fully cover their flesh. It need not be cut off even though the flesh was now corrupted. God covered their corrupted flesh with incorruptible — His own Flesh!

  Seth was ‘adam as well, but God, “called his name Seth” — the “appointed” — to replace Abel — the “breath” of God. God gave Abel a second breath by appointing Seth to take his place. Rebirth is a second breath so to speak. The first breath by grace is bringing into existence. The second breath is spiritually alive in the world.

  Seth is much like Jesus. The Son of Man is the natural born Jesus. Mary was imbued with the Holy Spirit of God and a Seed was planted in the “dust.” The seed was not Mary’s and not Joseph’s. There was no sperm nor ova involved, but only Spirit.

  The Spirit was borne (transported) from God by Divine Knowledge (not carnally). Mary incubated the Spirit of God from an idea to deliverance. Then God’s Flesh grew to the image to which Adam was molded.

  When Jesus was baptized, God put the coat of a gentle Lamb on Jesus: “And I (John) knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, ‘Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.’” (John 1:33). God put onto His Son, the Holy Ghost. When John baptized Jesus with water, God baptized Him with the Holy Ghost. The water was of no affect because Jesus was born clean. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the “Coat of the Lamb” that God put on Jesus. Finally, like the first Adam, Jesus, the second Adam, was of the same image.

  Just as the skin of one lamb was sufficient to cover both Adam and Eve (both ‘adam), the Flesh of the Lamb of God is sufficient to cover all ‘adami.

  Are you beginning to see that the story of the “Adami (Adams) Family” is a preview of “The Greatest Story Ever Told?” And Genesis is just the beginning!

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[1] “Cain: The Bastard Son” (Herrin Daily Thoughts: CAIN: THE BASTARD SON (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

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CAIN: THE VERY ANTICHRIST

  Cain had killed righteous Abel, and he showed himself to be the unrighteous one. Four thousand years later, John referred to Cain as “of the Wicked One” (1 John 3:12). Recently, I contended that Cain was the son of Satan. [1] The key verse is simple this time, in fact half a verse, to wit:

KEY VERSE: And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. (Gen 4:15b)

  God gave the son of the Wicked One a mark. That mark was the mark of the Serpent — the mark of the Beast.

  During the ministry of Jesus, he pointed out to the scribes and pharisees that they sought to kill Him. The job of scribes was to merely provide handwritten copies of the Law, but they began to make the Law by adding to it. The Pharisees were accusers (devils); today they would be called “snitches” who judge everyone by what they see. Again, in modern terminology they would be the media and the corrupt politicians, respectively. Jesus had no kind words for them as he judged them on the spot:

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

  Jesus did not judge by their appearances nor their professions but something unseen by the human eye. He saw their hard hearts; hearts that had not been circumcised.  He accused them of being like the murderers, Satan and Cain; hence the expression, “raising Cain.”

  The “Devil” is from the Greek word, “diabolos” which means accuser. “Lucifer” is the angel’s name, “Satan” his nature, and “Devil” his modus operandi. All those traits are invisible or hidden from the eyes of mankind.

  However, Lucifer appears, literally, in beasts: first the Serpent, next in Cain, then in Cain’s seed. Sin did enter the world by one man, as scripture says (Rom 5:12). Adam did sin, but he was pardoned by grace in Paradise. Then, he was “sent out” unto the world. (Gen 3:23). The verse that follows is written, “drove out.” Which is it? In the Hebrew, the common meaning is “divorced.” In other words, God emancipated Adam to do what he willed to do.

  That seems harsh with “drove out” but what God did was to allow Adam to be King of the World; to do either what was right in his own eyes or what was right in God’s eyes. To this day, ‘adam-kind has the same choices.

  Abel did one and Cain the other. Sacred Literature, Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts With Satan, revealed that Adam and Eve endeavored to do God’s Will after their emancipation, but were often deceived. Cain was the one who always did evil in the sight of the Lord.

  Adam was the one man in which sin entered the world, but Cain the one male that continued to willfully sin. God marked Cain in his heart, as he was not willing to obey the tenets of God. Since Cain murdered Abel, all men are marked — “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Cain may have been marked on the head, or at least somewhere on the flesh. The head makes sense since it was his mind that was unwilling to obey God.

  That mark got through the flood somehow. The obvious means would be by the wives of Noah’s sons. Woman in the Hebrew is ‘ishshah . One meaning of that word, in certain contexts, is “harlot” and in the case of Eve, “adulteress,” because although “one” with Adam, Eve may have played the harlot with Lucifer. 

  In the footnoted commentary, the contention was made that Cain was the son, not of Adam and Eve, but Lucifer and Eve. Righteous Abel and righteous Seth were legitimate heirs of Adam. They were ‘adam-kind, and Cain was a mutation of seraph-kind and harlot-kind. He must be marked, and God marked him!

  The point is that Cain’s DNA got through the cleansing flood somehow. Noah’s line was all from righteous Seth. As the sons of God (dark angels) married the daughters of men (Adam’s seed), then their seed had evil in it too. “Sons of God” and “daughters of men” are ambiguous. Literally, from the Hebrew, that means seeds of Yahweh and daughters of ‘adam. Thus, contrary to some sacred literature and other commentaries, the Devil got into mankind by rebellious “angels.” That may be Seth’s line that was safe on the Holy Mountain, but they too rebelled. Cain’s line of sinful men my be correct; not “men” by ‘adam but “wife-‘adam,” namely Eve.

  The mark of Cain made it through the flood, but the mark of God removes the mark of the Beast (Cain).

  Cain had Satan in him as did the Serpent and Judas, as well as the Antichrist sometime in the future. Just what is the mark of God? The countenance of Abel. Why Abel? Because Cain’s countenance fell (Gen 4:5) and Abel’s did not.

  Cain’s countenance was a hard heart, and Abel’s a soft heart. Abel’s heart never required circumcision because he was willing to do God’s Will. He still sinned, as all men have, but his faculty of the will was not to sin. His spirit was willing, but his flesh may have been weak as well as Cain’s. God did not see Abel’s sin inherited from Adam, but He did see the countenance of his heart. It would not need circumcision, and Abel would enter God’s Garden Paradise on his Way to the Tree of Life to where Jesus would be crucified! On the other hand, perhaps someday Cain will be entirely “circumcised!”

  Abel was never marked as the “Beast” was never in him, but sin alone. His homage to God erased that sin, and he was rewarded with Paradise that Adam had lost. His good sacrifice, just as Abraham’s much later, was counted to him as righteousness, but Cain’s as unrighteousness. Cain was marked, and his “brother” Judas was as well. Both had hardened hearts.

  The hardest of hearts is yet to come. That is the Antichrist. John saw that “Beast” who shall come from the land of Nod to the east of the Eden. That Beast will come from the Euphrates River. John saw him in the future, to wit:

¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: ¹⁷ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. ¹⁸ Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13:16-18)

  The mark of the Beast is “666.” What does that mean? It is the mark of Cain, most assuredly. Remembering that Satan was a murderer from the beginning, then “666” is his mark. Adam was created on the sixth day. So, the ‘mark of ‘adam-kind is six. Then God rested. 

  Cain then was marked, and his sixth genealogical line, Lamech, had two wives, and he also murdered, as his “father” Cain had. So far ‘adam (or man) is six, Lamech the adulterer and murderer was six, and then the Earth was washed clean.  What is the last number of the Beast? It would be the last days of mankind; the end of six-thousand years of life (the sixth “day”) before Jesus comes to reign on the seventh “day,” or seventh thousand years.

  What happens right before then? The Great Tribulation; the final days of the Antichrist. Why is 666 the mark of the Beast? Because Cain was the first “beast” of Satan, Lamech the second “beast” of Satan, and the Antichrist, another Beast. Judas was a “beast” as well, and it would seem that his number would be six as well. He was not sixth in apostolic election, but he was the last choice of Jesus. He would be the one most like Cain who would do the bloody deed. Judas would try to circumcise Jesus entirely. That was Satan’s and Cain’s wills be done.

  Judas raised Cain from the grave, just as Lamech had. In the end, Cain is marked. He will arise from the grave and be the Beast. He will come out of the Euphrates and obtain revenge on God.

  The Antichrist is the final raising of Cain. He is marked. No man can kill Cain as God said (Gen 4:15). Why no man (‘adam)? Because Jesus, God in the Flesh, will raise Cain and kill Him. Judas was not Cain. He did have Satan in him, but not by transformation. His number was not six because he was just another ‘adam that God would use. The Antichrist will be the real Cain that comes to a face-off with God.

  Cain literally means, “created one” (Online Etymology Dictionary). But only Adam and Eve were created ones, were they not? Satan created Cain in the womb of Eve. She is the “mother of all” but scripture does not say that about Adam. Cain was surely not the son of man, but the offspring of Satan. The Antichrist may be Cain who is resurrected, as all men will be, but then quickly put down to the bottomless pit.

  In the end, the mark of Cain will be given to all who are not sons of God. The mark of Cain will be put on either the right hand or forehead. That would be on the mind and the most offensive member, thoughts and works, respectively. 

  What are mankind’s hugest problems? Their thoughts and works. Cain was marked on his hardened heart (thoughts), but also on his hand, most certainly, because his offering was the work of his hands, and demographically, it would be his right hand.

  Cain would need both his mind and hand cut off but that did not happen. If his hand would offend him, it would have to go, according to the Law (Mat 5:30). If his mind would offend, by the same reasoning, his head should have been cut off. Why the hand and forehead in the apocalypse?” Because those two members are how Cain offended God, and how Satan gets revenge.

  What would God have done if he had not had a purpose for Cain? He would have summoned the cherubim who would have walked him back to the Garden past the Holy of Holies in the center of the Garden, and to beneath the foundation stone, to cast him into the abyss.

 What will God do when Cain is raised? Cast him into the bottomless pit. No one can kill Cain because he is a marked man! God will save the worst for the most severe punishment. Cain, with Satan in him, will suffer final death. Judas was not the final death of Satan. Satan fled Judas and goes to and fro awaiting Cain to be raised!

  The story of Cain and Abel is not just a story about our progenitors or ontology, but about the eschatology of the heaven and the earth. Abel represents those glorified and made like original Adam. Cain represents those who are damned and like the harlot Eve and their father, the Devil.  

  This is my commentary. You consider it and do as you wish. However, be warned that after this was revealed to me about the father of Cain, I discovered that it was written in the Midrash of the Jews thousands of years ago!

  The Midrash (Study) of ancient Jewish scholars was to, “"discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces” (Wikipedia). The Midrash is, therefore, Jewish commentary on Scripture. They discerned the same message about the fathering of Cain as early as the times of the kings and the Chronicles of the kings. The priests of David’s time saw the same revelation of Cain and as I saw independently just this week!

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[1] Cain: The Bastard Son; Herrin Daily Thoughts: CAIN: THE BASTARD SON (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

(picture credit: Shutterstock; Ayatollah Khomenini) Not that this man is the Antichrist, but he will come from that specific area, culture, and perhaps, religion.

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD IN A FEW WORDS

  Often in the Bible, what appears to be only a statement of fact has profound meaning. For instance, not to take the Name of the Lord in vain, is “the greatest commandment.” It is essentially to love the Lord “with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength” (Mark 12:30).

  To understand that, the commandment must be researched expositorily, or word for word. Not loving God with that intensity is taking the Lord Himself in vain. And just who is the Lord, and what is the Lord’s Name? Jesus Christ. It seems that the Third Commandment is the Greatest Commandment. Now consider that and perhaps the reader will agree that words means things in the Bible because they are the Divine Words of God and were enunciated by Jesus.

  With that background, now think on the key verse:

KEY VERSE: And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. (Gen 4:25)

  Adam is ‘adam in Hebrew and means “man.” Then man knew his wife again. “Adam” was not his name but his kind. Eve was about to bare man’s kind. What other kind had she before?  Abel was man kind, but perhaps Cain was not. [1] Cain may have been of another kind — a hybrid resulting from spiritual intercourse between the serpaph, Lucifer, and Eve.

  Lucifer was another kind of being entirely. He was not only evil-kind but an invisible kind. [2] Perhaps Y-DNA entered ‘adam-kind through Cain, as Eve was XX and Lucifer, perhaps YY. (YY-DNA is not naturally occurring).

  Next consider “knew his wife again.” Knew is ‘yada in the Hebrew. Man had carnal knowledge with wife-man (woman). They were one again but were previously three: man, woman, and beast. Woman implies “adulteress” (Gesenius’ Hebrew -Chaldee Lexicon), obviously because Eve would adulterate with Lucifer, if that is true. Adam and Eve would have coitus. They obeyed God’s command to multiply. It was not for pleasure but to replace Abel who was killed. Adam and Eve would multiply as commanded by God, not pleasure as offered by Lucifer.

  Note that man (‘adam) and the “mother of all” (Eve: Gen 3:2) would multiply. Adam must have not been “father of all” because it was not specified that he was, as with Eve. Adam, it is proposed, was not the father of Cain; Lucifer perhaps was. Now consider Seth:

In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth. (Gen 5:2-5)

  Adam was made in the likeness of God. So was Abel and his replacement was as well. Adam again seeded a son “in his own likeness.” He was created in the image of God, and Seth was created in that same image. Implied is that Cain was not the image of God nor of Adam. Remembering that ‘adam is “man,” Cain was not in the image of either ‘adam nor God. Adam was like Jesus and Jesus like Adam, but Cain was like some thing else. He was a mutated kind, and in the image of neither Adam nor Jesus. In fact, with Satan’s DNA in him, Cain was the image of the Beast, and was the prototypical “Antichrist.”

  Those who are against Christ are antichrists. They are in the image of Cain, not mankind or Jesus. Anyone that is not in Christ is an antichrist. Most ‘adam-kind are antichrists.

  But everyone came from Noah, did they not? Not so! They came from Noah’s DNA and the DNA of women. Perhaps Noah’s DNA was all XX and the wives of his sons, since some daughters of men had intermarried with Sons of God, were mutated, with XXY. That is a “chromosome arrangement is one of the most common genetic variations from the XY karyotype” (Klinefelter syndrome – Wikipedia). That is certainly speculation, but mankind has its own DNA and chromosomes that other kinds do not have. When XXY or YXX occurs, it may be residual DNA from angelic kind.

  With that speculation, perhaps Lucifer-kind was inbred with the “mother of all the living” and until Noah’s day, all mankind had been corrupted excepting Noah from the line of Seth.

  Now consider the phrase, “knew his wife again.” Adam continued to have coitus with his wife. Perhaps he endeavored to meet his obligation to multiply, but God’s “elect” are the ones that He chooses. Neither all sperm, nor all ova, result in living beings. “Election” are those combinations that by Divine Providence are matched with their pre-existing souls (Ephes 1:4).

  Adam obliged God with the intent of multiplication, but God did the mathematics. He chose who would be and who would not be. God pre-ordained Seth. That name means “compensation” (Strong’s Dictionary). Seth compensated for the loss of Abel, not for the absence of Cain. Adam nor Eve missed Cain. For Eve, he was a bad memory and for Adam, there was surely no pleasure to remember!

  Eve named Seth, not Adam, for she said that God, “hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel.”

  Second sons were always God’s heirs to His Will. By the rule of primogeniture, Cain would have been, but God’s heirs are second sons, and in their absence, third sons, and so on. David was heir as the tenth son because none of the others fit God’s Purpose for his “Second ‘adam (man),” Jesus.

  “His name would be Seth.” The word, “name” in the Hebrew is shem (pronounced shame). Shem, Noah’s son, was chosen right then, when shem was the Name. Likewise, righteous Seth was called by his shem to compensate for the loss of righteous Abel.  Much like Seth, “Jesus” throughout scripture is called “The Name.” He IS Shem, and also, since Jesus compensated for righteous Abel, His Name is called “Jesus” (Ya Saves).

  When Adam begat Seth, God had His own Flesh in mind. Seth is fully man kind. Cain was mutated with sin, and because of corruption between the DNA of Seth and Cain before the flood, all men have some Seth in them, and some Cain as well. The seed of both passed through the flood and was sown again on virgin soil.

  “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Just what is God’s “Glory?” His Splendor that was in the image that he created in Adam. Adam lost his “Glory” when he sinned. His Splendor degenerated. He came short of the glorious condition in which he was created, but God covered that corrupted Splendor with the glorious skin of a lamb. No longer did Adam come short because God covered for him.

  Three seeds were planted after the flood. The soil was made afresh, and a new crop was planted — Shem, Japheth, and Ham. Shem is the Name and is both the Semites (Jews) and antitypical of Jesus who was “The Shem.” Throughout scripture, God appointed the Name (Shem) as replacements for righteous Abel (Hebel in Hebrew). Abel had God breath into him as well. Abel means “Breath.” God breathed life unto Abel but did not Cain whose name means “Possession.” Eve was possessed by Satan. Cain is the seed of that possession.

  Abel was meant to fend off Cain, but Cain slew Abel. Abel is antitypical of Jesus and Cain the Antichrist. That time the Antichrist slew Abel, the second Adam, but Jesus the Second Adam after Abel was killed, slew the spirit of Satan in Judas, and will the incongruous flesh of the Antichrist.

  Seth was the replacement for Abel… until the real second son of God came. Likewise, Seth-kind is the people who were chosen to plant the Seed of the Second Adam in the “paradise” of Israel.

  When the soil was dirtied, God still had a Plan. Satan would not get the inheritance. Cain was as dead and his seed was washed off the face of the Earth. Lucifer had a plan as well. He provided wife-men to carry his seed just as with Eve.

  After the flood, bad seeds were found in Ham and his seed, Canaan. The good seed was in Shem (The Name). God knew that would fail, so Japheth would dwell in the canopy of the Garden paradise. Japheth means “opened.” Knowing that His Shem would fail, God opened the Way for Gentiles (Japheth’s seed).

  The key verse is the method of implanting God’s Promise, to wit: “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” (Gen 3:15). “Put” therein is Hebrew shiyth, the same word used for “appointed” in the key verse. In other words, God would appoint someone for to be protect against the Adversary. Seth and his seed were appointed to kill the Serpent. Jesus, the Seed of Seth, would step on Cain’s seed (The Antichrist). That was the Plan from the beginning. Generations was how to get to that.

  Symbolically, Jesus did that to Judas. Judas of Kerioth was the seed of Cain. He died the same day that Jesus was crucified. Kerioth was a city in Moab. Moab means, “seed of my father.” It was, indeed, the city of Moab’s ancestral father, Lucifer.

  When Judas died, he stepped on the seed of Lucifer. Not only that, but Adam is said to be buried beneath Golgotha. Jesus redeemed Adam’s willful sin by stepping on the skull of Adam as he went the Way to the “Tree of Life’ (the Cross). [3]

  You see, I hope, that words mean things. It is written in scripture, not for the moment, but to reveal the Plan. The Mystery of God of which Paul wrote, is understanding God’s role for everyone in the salvation of ‘adam-kind.

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[1] I refer to my previous commentary, Cain: The Bastard Son, (Herrin Daily Thoughts: CAIN: THE BASTARD SON (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)) wherein I proposed that Cain is the son of the Wicked One.

[2] In my book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, I contended that mankind has XX chromosomes and angels YY. That mankind’s DNA is from angels and men, to wit: XY DNA. That was based on no naturarally occurring YY-DNA in human kind, with the exception of XYY that is a mutation.

[3] That is the premise of my book, The Skull of Adam.

(picture credit: Russian Church Icon of Seth)

CAIN AND ABEL: THE TRUE, TRUE STORY

  The story of Cain and Abel is about conflict among brothers. Cain, as the heir to Adam, according to the world’s values, would have been heir to Adam. That is by the law of primogeniture, or the rights of the firstborn. Upon the death of Adam, Cain, by the world’s standards would inherit the earth. God’s Will was then, as now, that “the meek shall inherit the earth” (Psalm 37:11; Mat 5:5). Meekness was not a new condition for inheritance because it is in each of God’s “Testaments.”

  Meekness in the psalm is ‘anav: gentle, humble, lowly, meek, poor and so forth. (Strong’s Dictionary). “Lowly” is quite descriptive; God is to be exalted and mankind diminished. Because original sin is exalting oneself over God (Gen 3:5) , meekness is diminishing that arrogance. Abel deferred to God and “Abel… brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof” (Gen 4:4). God was pleased, not because of the animal, for the animal already belonged to God. He was pleased with his man for elevating Him.

  Cain brought the fruit of the ground; things for which he had sweated. He brought works to God. The Lord would have respected grain, for grain is God’s seeds. However, Cain brought fruit of the ground (Gen 4:3). Wheat, barley, and such seeds are acceptable, but fruits never were in scripture. “Fruits” were unwelcome sacrifices because the Serpent dispensed fruit.

  Abel had reverence for his Father God, but Cain his father the Devil. [1] Abel brought the same gift that God had given his father (flesh from a lamb) but Adam the flesh of fruit with which Satan had tempted Eve.

 Cain was wroth when his sacrifice was rejected. Why would have God been pleased? for Cain was the son of the Wicked One, to wit: “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous” (1 John 3:12).

  Note that when Adam was sinful, he was meek. He endeavored to cover his shame. Cain covered his shame by murder. Anger subdued him, and if he had been God’s, God would have humbled him. His anger at both God and his brother was evidence that Cain did wrong in the sight of the Lord.

  Cain had the audacity to challenge God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Well, Abel was a keeper of the sheep (Gen 4:2). Brothers of Jesus are as sheep. Cain should have been shepherding Abel as the older brother, but instead he killed him. Abel would not have killed the sheep, God would have. God’s Will, before Adam, was that man shed neither the blood of man or beast (Gen 9:5-6). Only after the world was populated would man be allowed to kill and eat meat.

  Abel had brought meat for God to kill as He did with Adam. For Adam it was for safety and for Abel it was for honoring the preservation that God had provided. The sheep that Abel brought was for God to make for him a coat of skin, as he had done for Adam.

  Of course, that prefigures the Coat of the Lamb (i.e., the Holy Ghost of Jesus) that God put on his children after He was glorified. Abel’s lamb was glorifying God who would, in turn, kill the lamb and Abel would have worn it as a coat for preservation.

  Cain, if he had brought palm leaves, fig leaves, or even hemp; God would have woven him an apron for some safety, but he would have been exposed to his father the Devil. Adam and Eve, with their aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7) had remained exposed to the Devil. Hence, Cain’s covering was not enough; it would take blood and water from Jesus to preserve their corruptible flesh. Now examine what Jesus taught: 

⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? ⁶ This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.  (1 John 5:5-6)

  Sacrificial lambs were to be killed and the blood collected by those who were ceremonially cleansed by the complete washing of water. When the lamb was killed, then the blood was collected in cups and the contents sprinkled over the altar be those so cleansed. [2] The water and blood are important because the water represented the seriousness of the sacrifice, and the blood, the sacrifice itself — the firstlings of the flock. Normally priests, God’s designated, would perform the slaughter, never any unclean sinners.

  With that, Abel was certainly ceremonially clean in both flesh and spirit. He brought the firstborn of the crop for God to supply the blood, just as God did on the Cross much later. Cain was neither ceremonially clean nor clean in the heart. He was jealous that his brother was the designated heir of God. Even with his arrogant attitude, he thought God would still honor his work and the sweat of his face!  Ten comes the key verse. It is difficult to comprehend, so be patient:

KEY VERSE: If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Gen 4:7)

  First off, doing well is acceptance from whom? Of course, the answer is “God.” What must Cain do? He had already worked hard but doing well would be him killing the beast in himself. His sacrfice would be himself. He would give his own heart to God to circumcise just as Abel gave a lamb for God to circumcise the flesh thereof. Rather than fruit or even the flesh of a lamb would not do for Cain, but his own flesh.

  God would even have done the “bloody” deed as Zipporah called it! (Exod 4:25-26). God does the circumcision and He always has. Circumcision of the foreskin is what the faithful would do for their brothers… circumcision of the heart is what Jesus did for His brothers.

  Cain fully “circumcised” his brother. He did the bloody deed. God had no part in that. He questioned Cain as if He knew nothing about the bloody deed, but He already knew Cain’s heart. He also knew that Abel’s was circumcised but Cain’s was not.

  “Doing well” in God’s eyes would be Cain presenting himself as the sacrfice. Paul said it well, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Rom 12:1).

  Cain should have left his fruit in the cave and came alone to do His reasonable service to God. God would humble his arrogance and jealousy of only he would cleanse his dirty flesh with living water that flows from the Garden of God, and then give to God his heart!

  What should have Cain done in addition to presenting himself as the right thing to do? He should have been his brother’s keeper as ‘adam-kind was assigned to do (Gen 2:15). He should have traded the fruits that he grew to Abel for a goat. A “goat” represents Satan. Cain had his chance to vicariously sacrifice his own “father” but instead, he sacrificed the Will of God.

  By paying his brother for an animal, would be keeping his brother. Perhaps Abel had only sheep to cloth him but would need vegetation.  Their diet until Noah’s time was herbs. Keeping Abel would have been sharing the fruits of the herbs. Abel would have starved without vegetation and sharing with Abel would have kept him.

  God asked Cain a question, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?” What is the acceptable sacrifice? Not the blood of animals but his own blood, “But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13).

  God expected the human faculty of the will from Cain. God would rebirth him, not the blood of an innocent animal, but the evil will of the Beast within Cain. Cain should have asked God to hang him from a tree, just as Judas would do to himself long after.

  For what reason? To free the Beast within him.

  Beast? Certainly. Beasts are without a soul. The soul is not a membrane, but the “bodily shape” of the Spirit of God residing within them, as with Jesus (Luke 3:22) — the Holy Ghost of Jesus in the image of his person. Without God’s Spirit, Cain was without a soul. He was more like the “Beast” that is called the “Serpent.”

  Grace is God doing it all, but the scripture says, “If thou doest well.” How can that be and still be grace? Doing well is standing still, as Joshua did in the waters of the River of the Garden — to stand still and let God remold his creature. In other words, “doing” is nothing but compliance. Cain did not stand still for his soul to be remolded but became angry. Anger aborts rebirth.

  Then God asked, “Shalt thou not be accepted?” Sinners do not accept God; God must accept the sinner. Abel accepted God because he was there to pay homage to him. God did not accept Cain because of his image. He was in the image of his father, the Devil.

  Cain had good and evil in him, as all ‘adam-kind does. Implied is that Abel wore a coat of a lamb, perhaps a firstborn one and the best of the herd. God had covered his nakedness just as with his father, Adam. By grace, God accepted Abel and made for him a coat of skin to preserver, comfort, and protect him from the world, as well as the fiery darts of the Wicked One.

  Cain had no such coat because he was a tiller of the ground. Cain remained vulnerable to his Wicked One.

  He was not his brother’s keeper, as he reminded God with arrogance. Most certainly, Abel was willing to share one of his many coats from his herd, but Cain would not even share, with a tender heart, his fruit with Abel. Since meat was not authorized at that time, he would certainly starve Abel. God was merciful. He made Cain wrathful and Cain killed Abel quickly. Remembering that “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21), Abel gained that day. His soul was saved in a heavenly Paradise, as Cain returned to tribulation outside earthly “paradise.”

  Abel put on Christ as he copied his father, Adam, who wore a coat of skin. Perhaps gentle Abel even spared the skin and put on a garment of white from the lamb that God provided.

  Cain, if he put on anything, it would have been some sort of apron that he wove with his own hands. That would not suffice for God, and Cain would not be accepted because works are “As filthy rags” to God (Isa 64:6).

  Cain as well have worn Satan’s produce. With nothing covering all his flesh, if anything at all, Cain was essentially naked but covered with iniquity, to wit: “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like” (Gal 5:19-21).

  It is obvious what “clothing” Cain wore that day: a girdle of adultery against God, a sash of fornication against his brother, unwashed feet of a farmer with no shoes from God, an idol of flesh, a sword of hatred for Abel and God, the wrath from the Beast, and envy covering his heart. Then he murdered his brother and reveled against God. Cain was clothed with the fruits of the forbidden tree.

  If only… if only he had love for God and his brother!

  Jesus said that he did not come to bring peace on earth, but “a man's foes shall be they of his own household” (Mat 10:36). The two were not even striving for Adam’s approval, but the Word’s (Jesus’s).

  The Word disapproved Cain, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?” Cain knew he had not done well and endeavored to cover his sin. He put Abel “in the vault,” so to speak, in a secret place, and then acted as if he did not know where Abel was.

  “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Yes, he should have been, but no he was not. Cain did not so well. In fact, he had iniquity in his heart. What would be the perfect sacrifice? Circumcision of the Beast from his heart.

  The heart is the human faculty of the will. To be accepted, Cain’s will would have imaged the Will of God. God Willed reverence and Cain willed selfishness. Only repentance could have washed Cain clean, just as with the baptism of John in the time of Christ.

  Only a coat of the Flesh of Jesus would have tamed the “Beast” in him. At that time, God provided the coat of an innocent lamb, but with the advent of the Lamb of God and His death, the “Comforter” (Coat) that Jesus provided was the bodily shape of His Holy Ghost. If only Cain had put on the Holy Spirit of God, his wrath would have been placated. He did not and paid the price. Thereafter, Cain remained the “son of the Beast” and contaminated the seed of righteous Seth.

  Cain sowed seeds of sin. His lascivious lifestyle, after he was not accepted by God, corrupted the souls of Seth’s seed. “Farmer Cain” sowed the seeds of discord, and because of him, God’s creatures still have the Beast within them… all because Cain would not take a knee to God but defied him arrogantly.

  Surely sin entered the world by the first ‘adam, but God accepted his contrition. Sin would have died the day that Adam and Eve put on coats from God. However, Cain would not, and most since then have refused to put on Coats that God provides. The water of baptism runs off and may soon be forgotten, but baptism of the Holy Ghost covers sin unless the old creature desires emancipation from God all over again.

  “Regeneration” is becoming as reformed Adam. “Degeneration” is continuing as sinful Adam. Cain may have thought he was honoring his father and mother, but his true father was the Devil, and Cain would favor his spiritual father. He was a wicked one, and the things of the Wicked One he would do.

  Next, God issued a warning: “If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.” Cain was not allowed in to the “door” of Paradise for it was guarded by cherubim to keep beasts out and away from the Tree of Life. And since sin is to the third and fourth generations, Cain’s line would not enter the door of the ark for salvation. All but eight in the entire world would be as Cain and have the Devils DNA in them. Only righteous Seth’s seed would be resown on a Holy Mountain away from Paradise. God would regenerate His “plantation” without sowing the corrupt seed of Cain. But somehow, perhaps through wicked wives, Cain’s seed made it through the flood.

  The last of the key verse is ambiguous, “And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.” God is speaking of sin as Satan in Cain. Cain would desire the things of his spiritual father — the fruits of the forbidden tree (see above). However, God’s expectation was a “must be” — “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Cain was born of the Wicked One. When God said, “Thou shalt rule over him,” he meant the Devil within.

  How could Cain have done that? Trust God and not himself. His “idol” was his flesh, but it was his flesh, not God’s. Cain could have put on Christ, and then in death, it would have been gain, as it was with Abel.

  Jesus recounted the story of the Hebrews in the wilderness who were bitten by poisonous vipers (John 3:14). Even those who were bitten, when they looked at the lifeless serpent in his “tree,” lived. Cain could have lived if God had accepted him as a reasonable sacrifice and put the evil spirit inside him on a tree and hung him there.

  Hanging himself would have not been sufficient for it would again be the works of his own hands. He would need to be like Isaac, where God provided the reasonable sacrifice. Cain could have traded for a lamb that God had provided and hung the Serpent up to wither that day, but that would come until 4000 years later when Jesus did it for him!

  Jesus suffered death on the Cross, but it was Satan in Judas that withered that day. Cain could have caused the vicarious death of Satan if he had offered his own flesh, but instead, Jesus would do that for him.

  That would have saved God much consternation, but it was not to be. If it had, then wicked Cain would have been the Savior of mankind, but he was the son of Satan. Sons of Satan were not meant to die to redeem ‘adam-kind. That job was assigned to Jesus in the beginning:

  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. (Ephes 1:35)

  Does that not sound familiar? Well, it should because Judas with Satan in him, hung himself on the Judas Tree. He was the son of the Wicked One, the same as Cain. Cain was born that way, but Judas degenerated and was reborn the son of the Wicked One. God’s Plan, before the foundation of the world, was that Christ would accept or not accept sinners as His children. God’s Plan all along was for neither Cain nor Adam to be the perfect sacrifice, but only through Jesus can anyone be saved.

  That lifeless brazen Serpent on the pole did not save anyone. That was an idol that God soon destroyed because it appeared that the Serpent did the saving. What did that really represent? What Cain should have done, and what Jesus did— to present himself a living sacrifice as His reasonable service (Rom 12:1).

  God hung Himself on His Tree to redeem ‘adam-kind with His own Flesh. Satan put Judas in his tree, and that left Satan without any flesh to live in. As such, Satan was somewhat isolated from mankind that day. Without flesh, he could not touch God’s children but could only degenerate them by his DNA being in them.

  There is no Cain tree, no Sally tree, no Henry tree, or even a Serpent’s tree. Only God’s “Tree” (the Cross) that points the Way to Paradise. Righteous Abel still cries out from the dust beneath Calvary because Abel had regenerated Adam in him.

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[1] The Devil may have been Cain’s biological father. For the evidence, see my blog, “Cain: The Bastard Son” at Herrin Daily Thoughts: CAIN: THE BASTARD SON (kentuckyherrin.blogspot.com)

[2] The “cup” that Jesus could not pass to another was His blood and water that was sprinkled on the earth to save ‘adam-kind. That “cup” was His Purpose, and His very Soul as the Holy Ghost gave up the “Cup” of Jesus.

(picture credit: Art.com; "The Hanging of Judas")

THE GOLD OF OAK ISLAND

  As it turns out in my search for the gold of the Ark of the Covenant, that I considered the gold of Oak Island. It will be my new book because just as the gold is everlasting, my thoughts are forever exploring!

  What you read today s the rough draft of a small portion of what will become my book. It is not spell-checked, formatted, or even organized, but is merely a seed that I plant for those who have inquiring minds. Perhaps Rick and Marty Longinus have stumbled onto the real Temple treasurers or perhaps not. Just where may they be? Read with me as I write and explore the lost treaures that belong to Jesus.

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Whatever happened to the articles from Solomon’s Temple? Treasures from Judah were taken in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Who, it is written, “Carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said” (1 Kings 24:13). Later, they came back and took the remainder of the treasures. The captain of the guard left necessities to the poor, but took about everything else, to wit:

 

13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. (2 Kings 25:13-17)

 

A reasonable assumption is that Nebuchadnezzar used the gold to make a statue of himself:

 

1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god (Dan 1:1-2)… Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. (Dan 3:1)

 

But God surely had a purpose for the gold! After Babylon was destroyed and Cyrus the Mede ruled Babylon, by grace, the gold was destined to return to its place of origin, to wit:

 

13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. 14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; 15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished. 17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. (Ezra 5:13-17).

 

Nebuchadnezzar never melted the utensils of the Temple to make a statue of himself. Although that would make more sense, God surely intervened so that His Ark and such were not destroyed. Rather, it seems, that the golden statue of Nebuchadnezzar was when Cyrus won the war. God’s Purpose is to preserve, and certainly he preserved the Ark for a more important occasion! Then came King Darius after the treasures had been laid up as there were other kings between Cyrus and him:

 

1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon… And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God. (Ezra 6:1,5)

 

When Nebuchadnezzar took the treasures, he broke the brassware, but did not the gold treasures. Darius had the brassware restored. If they are ever found, the brass would have tell-tale signs of repair, but the gold treasures would not. Note that Sheshbazzar was given possession of the treasures. His job was to “dress and keep” (restore and protect) the treasures until the Temple was built. His role was much as Adam’s to do the same to the Garden. Without proof, perhaps the gold for these from King Solomon’s mines came from the Cave of Treasures. That is mentioned because, perhaps they would be laid up in the Cave of Treasures until the Temple was restored.

Obviously, since salvation is a  thread to be followed throughout the Bible, it is reasonable that the gold of Adam is as well, or the Cave of Treasures would have no significance. That would mean, the gold would have significance for the entire duration between for the entire ontology of the world through its eschatology. Perhaps now God’s instruction to the scribe of Jeremiah, Baruch. Be presented:

 

2 Baruch 6:¹ And it came to pass on the morrow that, lo! the army of the Chaldees surrounded the city, and at the time of the evening, I, Baruch, left the people, and I went forth and stood by the oak. ² And I was grieving over Zion, and lamenting over the captivity which had come upon the people. ³ And lo! suddenly a strong spirit raised me, and bore me aloft over the wall of Jerusalem. ⁴ And I beheld, and lo! four angels standing at the four corners of the city, each of them holding a torch of fire in his hands. ⁵ And another angel began to descend from heaven. and said unto them: 'Hold your lamps, and do not light them till I tell you. ⁶ For I am first sent to speak a word to the earth, and to place in it what the Lord the Most High has commanded me.' ⁷ And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle. ⁸ And he spoke to the earth with a loud voice:

 

        'Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God,

        And receive what I commit to you,

        And guard them until the last times,

        So that, when you are ordered, you may restore them,

        So that strangers may not get possession of them.

⁹       For the time comes when Jerusalem also will be delivered for a time,

        Until it is said, that it is again restored for ever.'

¹⁰     And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up.

 

For now, consider only the last passages. Baruch was to take all the adornments of the Holy Temple and place them in the earth for preservation and safety from “strangers.” The strangers would be the Babylonians. This raises a question: Were the utensils and treasures carried off to Babylon, or were they hidden in a cave, or at least beneath the ground somewhere? In the same Book of Baruch, God directed him to far away places. Legends about that trace the travels of Jeremiah, Baruch, Tea Tephu, and Tara Tephi, to Egypt, with the Ark. In Egypt, they met Milesius, and traveled first to Spain, and then to Ireland. Just who was Milesius? A Hebrew Galatian:

 

According to Irish tradition, the ancient Kings of Ireland were the descendants of King Milesius of Spain. Milesius was the grandson of Breoghan, conqueror of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal, who was also called Brigus or Brian. Milesius achieved outstanding military success in Egypt, and was given Scota, the Pharoah's daughter, in marriage. (House of Names n.d.).

Jeremiah is believed to be entombed in Cairn T in Ireland, and that he was the Irish sage, Ollam Fola. The legend is that the treasures as well as Jacob’s stone ended up in Ireland, and that the final destination is Coronation Stone of Scotland and England. If that is true, then perhaps the Ark of the Covenant made it to Ireland, and perhaps Britain. Did it come to America? Some think so!

Two stories raise questions. Did the treasures truly return to the Temple? Scripture indicates that it did. Christians must always accept scripture as truth, or it is not from God. Jeremiah and Baruch, therefore, could not have taken the treasures to Ireland if they were stored away safely in Babylon. The last evidence of them is in the Temple in Jerusalem, but in 70 AD that Temple was destroyed.

Four angels (from 2 Baruch) took the treasures and stored them beneath the ground. The spirit raised Baruch aloft to see over the wall of Jerusalem, and there he saw the angels conceal them. That raises the question: Did Baruch see the present or into the future? After all “a strong spirit raised him.” Did he see into the spiritual world?

The apostle Paul once said, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven” (2 Cor 12:22). Like that man, was Baruch raised up in body or in spirit. He would not know because it was so real.

Therefore, there remains two alternatives: (1) That the treasures are still somewhere in Jerusalem, as scripture indicates, or (2) that they were hidden and replicas were taken to Babylon. Is that fantastical? No. To this day, replicas of things with great value are made to preserve the real thing. Are there two sets of golden treasures? If so, which were the originals? It makes sense that the originals were taken to Babylon and are hidden somewhere beneath the ground. Perhaps Baruch was keenly aware of the switch, if that is the case. Perhaps Baruch knew that angels of God would take care of the real treasures, and all he need to do is flee with the copies.

From a Christian perspective, the works of Baruch would be for naught. God would take care of things. He did not need Baruch because of his four angels, but Baruch could be used for deception.

Why the deception? So nobody knew the location of the real things! Baruch was given a reason for that, “For the time comes when Jerusalem also will be delivered for a time, until it is said, that it is again restored for ever,” Well, John the Revelator saw what Baruch saw: “The temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail” (Rev 11:19).

God speaks of worldly things and spiritual in the same breath. Speaking of eternity, Baruch was told, “For you shall depart from this place, and you shall pass from the regions which are now seen by you, and you shall forget whatever is corruptible, and shall not again recall those things which happen among mortals.” (2 Baruch 43:1-2). Therein, God was speaking of heave, but also of Baruch’s departure from Israel. He and Jeremiah, along with Zedekiah’s daughters went first to Ethiopia, then to Spain, and on to Ireland. There Simeon Baruch was known as “Siomón Brecc” in Ireland where he was high king.

There seems to be three possibilities. The treasures are in the earth in Israel, (2) in far away lands, or (3) both, if there were replicas. Perhaps another possibility should be examined; that Romans also took the treasures. Oftentimes in scripture, history repeats itself. Perhaps just as Babylon stole the treasures before Christ (ca 550 BC), that the “harlot Babylon” (Rev 17:5), or Rome, took the treasures when the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. Of course, there is no record of that, but perhaps it was well-concealed because of the Christians in Rome.

Rome was made for a purpose. God grew it from a wolf den to a great city for one purpose — they would be useful tools for both the Passion of Christ and the eschatology of the world. Perhaps the Popes have the treasure, not in the Vatican Museum but beneath in a safe place…. In the earth.

Now for some extreme “fantasies.” Rick and Marty Lagina arein search of the Temple treasures. They believe they may have found them beneath the earth (just as God showed Baruch), beneath the surface of Oak Island, Nova Scotia (New Scotland). Perhaps they did get there for Old Scotland to there, by way of the Knights Templar.

Milesius of Ireland was a Hebrew from Galatia, or “Gall.” Galatians were Gaelic, and where would they naturally travel? The land of the Gaelics. By that time, Gall had grown from its epicenter in the mountains of Europe all the way to the Islands. To this day, the Irish speak the same language as he Galatians of Christ’s time. Ireland was essential in the spread of Christianity, Someone from Galatia carried it to Ireland long before the Romans ever went to Britannia. Perhaps Baruch took “Christ” to Ireland in the company of Jeremiah who both knew Jesus before He was ever born.

Who else came from Galatia, or “Syria” at that time? Longinus! Forget the different spelling because spellings changed and were different in different languages. The Roman Centurion, Longinus (Wikipedia), thrust the spear in the side of Jesus and spilled the blood and water on the earth that saved mankind. As that was finished the earth quaked and opened. The Blood of the Messiah seeped through the earth into a cavern. There it possibly flowed onto the Mercy Seat of God atop the Ark of the Covenant. With that said, can you not see the irony of Italians Marty and Rick “Longinus” seeking the same treasure on which their namesake spilled the Blood of Jesus? That dastardly deed made Longinis a Christian and today the Roman Church considers him a Christian — Saint Longinus — whose statue is on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

And it goes further: Brutus killed Julius Caesar but Gaius Cassius Longinus of Syria plotted the coup d’etat. He commanded the Roman troops at the Battle of Phillipi (near Jerusalem). Longinus committed suicide because his and Brutus’s plot failed. He died in Phillipi in 42 BC (ibid). Why Longinus? He died in infamy around the same time Jerusalem fell to the Romans. Nero Caesar existed because Longinus killed himself. His very existence was for the gold of that belonged to King Jesus.

In the apocryphal book, The Cave of Treasures, the treasure of Adam in that cave was traced down through genealogy as belonging to Jesus. In other words, Jesus is heir to the treasures of Adam’s Cave where he lived after he was sent into the world outside the Garden. That same Cabe of Treasures exist to this day, and there are various caves supposed to be that Cave. What would be hidden in the Cave of Treasures? The gold that God gave Adam and Eve.

What was in the Cave of Treasures? Gold. But there was another treasure, even more valuable, and that was time. “And I (Daniel) heard, but I understood not: then said I, ‘O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?’  And he said, ‘Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end’” (Dan 12:8-9).  Salvation is sealed up until the end of time. Just as Jesus was presented gold in scripture when He was born, the “Gold” in His tomb was not gold but water and blood. Likewise, the “treasure” was revealed when Longinus pieced the side of Jesus. The treasure was revealed when it was finished, and He gave up the real treasure. (John 19:30). That “Treasure” was not gold, silver, or even jewels. It is the Holy Ghost of Jesus. Longinus found the treasure, and my hope that the Longinas will find theirs! 

(Picture Credit: HITC; "Will there be a season eight of the Curse of Oak Island?")

CAIN AND ABEL: JUDAS AND JESUS

  Yesterday, in my commentary, I questioned whose son was Cain. Before I proceed with the symbolism in chapter four of Genesis, compare the two verses about the Cain and Seth, the unrighteous son and “righteous Seth” as he is called.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. (Gen 4:1)

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. (Gen 4:25)

  In the first passage, “Adam knew his wife” but in the second, “He knew his wife again.” So far, so good! However, with Seth, it is written, “she bare a son.” In the first birth, it says  only, “bare Cain.” In the first case “I have gotten a man” and in the second, it was clear that Adam had a “son.”

  Ironically, as if with foreknowledge of his impending death, scripture says, “And she again bare his brother Abel” (Gen 4:2). Nothing else is said about his birth. Eve seemed to know that Abel, “a keeper of the sheep” would die an untimely death without issue. All the births had a purpose.

  Abel was the “antitype” of Jesus, not opposite of Jesus, but “something that corresponds to or is foreshadowed in a type” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).  Both Jesus and Abel were keepers of the sheep; Abel literally, and Jesus figuratively. Both had short “processes.”

  Scripture says, “And in process of time it came to pass” that both sons brought offerings to the Lord. Cain brought the work of his hands that he had sowed, tended, and harvested; and Abel brought lambs that God sowed, God watched over, and God harvested.

  Already, the righteousness of grace overshadowed the false doctrine of works. The word, “process” was much different in the English language in 1611 when the King James Version of the Bible was written. Its origin was in the thirteenth century (Online Etymology Dictionary) and meant “advanced” or “going forward.” Later, it would be used for many forward moving events. Ironically, in this case, it applied to two much different processes of multiplying life: (1) lambs grown into sheep with little work, and (2) seed into grain with much work. Cain was like Adam in matters of vocation; both worked the ground by the sweat of their faces, but Abel watched over the flock while God multiplied the sheep.

  Concealed within their occupations were two doctrines: works and grace. God favored grace, and punished works.

  Cain was the son of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) who advanced works, as he was the cause of sinful Adam who would work strenuously because of Lucifer. Cain seemed to be like Adam but was more like Lucifer. With poetic justice, although God sent Adam outside the Garden, Cain was isolated even further; he was cast out of the Presence of the Lord (Gen 4:16).

  Cain sentenced himself — before he was sent out, he saw his future, “Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid” (Gen 4:14). God sent both Adam and Cain away, but only Cain perceived that he was driven out. Cain felt like Judas Iscariot, who also had Satan in him. Because of sin, both felt isolated from God, and both, rather than repent and ask for grace, resolved their guilt by works. Cain hid out, and Judas Iscariot hanged out. Both left the Garden to remove themselves from the Presence of the Lord.

  Abel was somewhat different. He watched over the lambs until harvest time, and then when the harvest was finished, he honored God as Adam had done in remorse. Surely Abel was of Adam and Cain, of Satan! By grace God made Adam righteous and Comforted him with flesh that God provided from a lamb that died for that purpose. That was the first time any animal had died, and it was a lamb to cover sin!

  Cain worked by the sweat of his face, then with a poor attitude, because he must, brought his sacrifice. It was as good a sacrifice from and intrinsic perspective because God came to honor both animal and grain sacrifices. What was wrong, then? Attitudes! Abel had generous and loving attitudes about honoring God, and Cain selfish and uncaring attitudes. Cain, in all aspects, favored the law of sin, and Abel the Doctrine of Grace.

  Just as Judas, by the works of his own hands, isolated himself from Jesus and resolved his own guilt, Cain fled from the Presence of the Lord to resolve his. One hung and the other fled. Many sinners to this day, if things get bad enough, commit suicide, and others flee from God. Both are escapes from the psychosis of guilt.

  When young, nearly everyone recognizes that sin is wrong, and with that guilt, there are two recourses: (1) Submit to God, or (2) Flee from Him. Those that flee are also of their “father the devil” (John 8:44). Cain’s seed was plentiful, and he went forth and planted them in the world where they thought that they would be out of the sight of the Lord. Cain’s seed grew in darkness even in the sun that caused them to sweat. Chapter four goes on to reveal that all his sons were workers with the hands.

  Abel never worked. Since “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21) by grace Abel went to Paradise by Way of the cherubim and continued in the Presence of the Lord as the Tree of Life. Abel never worked for his Sabbath, and Cain, nor his seed, ever had Sabbath. He went asway from the Tree of Life, out of its Presence, and died. Abel was judged good and faithful, but Cain was never known (spiritually) by God.

KEY VERSES: And he (Cain) said, “I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?” And He (God) said, “What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.” (Gen 4:9-11)

  Compare Abel to Jesus, of whom he is an antitype. “But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:  But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:33-34). The ground opened to receive Abel’s blood and so it did to receive the Blood of Jesus. The ground essentially opened its mouth in both cases… for Abel’s blood here, and for the Blood of Jesus later:

  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened… (Mat 27:50-52)

  Cain, with his own hands, caused the death of Abel who foreshadowed Jesus. Judas, with his own hands, caused Jesus to die. Cain was the foreshadow of Judas. God knew all about Judas and Jesus long before they were ever born. If Moses wrote about the life and death of Cain and Abel, he understood about the life and death of Judas and Jesus; the former who was the son of the Wicked One, and the latter the Son of God, the Most Righteous One.

  God asked about Abel and said,  “The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.” Long after, “in the process of time,” Jesus said to the Pharisees, “If these (brothers in Christ) should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

   Can you not see the similarities? God did have a process! His Way was to set the stage for a “play” that would be played-out four-thousand years later. He was preparing ‘adam-kind to love God and for brotherly love — the same as Jesus said were the “Greatest Commandments.”  (Mat 22:36-40).

  The “Law” in the time of Cain and Abel was twofold: (1) Love God with all their hearts, minds, souls, and strengths; and (2) love their brothers as themselves.

  The story of Cain and Abel was more than an archaic play, but a rehearsal for God’s Plan. When Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30), he meant The Greatest Story Ever Told, from the beginning to the ending. In between was a work in progress. Everything in scripture advanced the cause of Jesus, who probated that God’s Will be done.

(picture credit: Manchester Ink Link; "Cain and Abel: Good and Evil Came to Life")