Thursday, March 18, 2021

BEGOTTEN, LIVE, AND DIE

 Everyone has some things in common. They are begotten, they live, and they die. Some live and die in the womb and others live and die outside it. However, everyone since Seth are begotten. In chapter five of Genesis, repeated time after time is, He begat ____, and _____ begat ____, and _____ lived “X” number of years, and he died.

 Then out of nowhere, the chorus changed: “Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch… And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”.

  With Enoch, the cycle was broken, and the chorus changed. Enoch was begotten, lived, but he was taken up! The next generation was begotten, lived, and died. Soon, the cycle was broken again, and all the choir were silenced with the flood. Before the waters were released, Noah sang solo, and God listened to his “song.” Noah warned the begotten that although they live, they will die.

  Solomon sang a song that seems to be from Genesis chapter 5: “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”[i]  That happened between Seth and Noah!

   After the cleansing, the Earth still abides, although mankind, excepting eight, lived. Then the process began again: begat, lived, and died. Even Jesus was begotten, lived, and died, but he and Enoch shared one thing in common — they both still live! Only one other person shares that distinction, and that is Elijah. Neither Enoch nor Elijah suffered death, but Jesus suffered death but did not die.

  Then Solomon continued with his song:

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted 12 A time to be born, and a time to die… 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts… 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? (Ecc 3)

  Begotten, live, and die is the curse put on Adam. Grace is, “To die is gain;” [ii] to be relieved of the curse. There is only one way for the living to escape the curse, for life itself is the curse. Solomon wrote about the curse.

  A wealthy young man asked Jesus, “What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” To which Jesus replied, “One thing thou lackest… come, take up the cross, and follow me.” The man did not bear the cross that Jesus would bear.” The man would need to do nothing but follow Jesus who would do it for him. The crowd was astonished when Jesus revealed how to be saved from death: “With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God, all things are possible” [iii]

  “Astonished” they were! What significance is astonishment? Jesus had said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” [iv] All it takes to inherit eternal life is to be born again.

  Natural birth is hard work. That is part of the curse for Eve, to wit: “I will greatly multiply thy (woman’s) sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children” [v] For man, the curse was this: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground” [vi] Adam in this case is mankind. The work starts at birth. The woman not only goes into labor but the child labors with her. That last two-inches ofcrawling is some of the hardest work for both mother and baby that they will face. With that, all those generations mentioned in Genesis chapter five, begin with the curse — begat and end with the curse — death. In between, life is a curse.

  What must a man do for eternal life? No thing. God does it for them: For God all things are possible, but for man to save himself it is impossible.

  Solomon asked a very pertinent question: “Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” Well, God knows, and that is the only One who needs to know.

  Enoch was taken away. Why would he be the one? God knew his spirit, “God took him” [vii] God took Enoch to avoid a great tribulation — the flood that would kill all, save eight.

  Solomon understood that God knows the spirit of man (ben ‘adam), meaning “son of man.” The Son of Man is the second Adam, Jesus Christ. Adam was made in the Image of Jesus and Jesus in the Image of Innocent Adam.

  Solomon realized that men in the original image of ‘adam (mankind) could be saved and go upward along with Paradise that he had lost. But mankind was begotten, lived, and died. It seems that none were “born again.”

  How would they do that? Simply by trusting God for eternal life. They would live as if the Serpent is dead in the Tree of Knowledge, just as the Hebrews who were bitten with the sting of death and lived during the exodus. [viii]

  Because Adam sinned, there was a less obvious curse that was for the generations. Most of Adam-kind became “beasts.” Cain, “of the Wicked One,” [ix] whose father was the Devil, was the first man-beast; his DNA was of Satan.

  There are two genealogies from Adam — Cain’s and Seth’s. The seed of Cain, with the Beast (the Serpent) has the Wicked One’s DNA. All Cain’s line are children of the Wicked One. [x] What must Enoch do to be saved? “Because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the Wicked One.” [xi]

  Enoch surely overcame the Wicked One, but he did not do that himself as, “He was not; for God took him.” Enoch never did any thing. He just Was Not. He broke the curse — that “you shall be as God.” [xii] Who IS God? “I AM” [xiii] Enoch understood that he “was not” God. Once he was released from the curse for that good knowledge, God Himself took him to where God IS.

  The Book of the Secrets of Enoch is not canon in the western Church, but it is in the Eastern Orthodox Church. That book is a tour of where God IS and therein all the heavens are visited by Enoch when God took him. Of course, God is here with us — the First Heaven, and He is with the dead saints as well in the Third Heaven.

  Paul knew a man, perhaps himself, who visited there, “Whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell.” [xiv] Paul, if it was him, would not know because he was blind to his whereabouts, but in his blindness, he saw and heard Jesus. What did Paul do to be born again? Nothing. Jesus transported him to the heavens. Transported means “borne.” Paul, like Enoch, was transported to the Third Heaven. Enoch was borne that time, and not “begotten” as at his birth. Enoch’s transport was “born again.”

  Both returned and told their stories — the Pauline letters for Paul, and the Secrets of Enoch for Enoch.

  Paul wrote of the “Mystery of God” and the “Mystery of Christ” as if they are one mystery. They certainly are! The “mystery” is that all along, Jesus IS God. Enoch heard the Word and saw Jesus. Paul heard the Voice of Jesus and understood the Word.

  Paul stood out among the prophets. Enoch stood out among the patriarchs. Neither did nothing to be taken up, but both followed Jesus.

  Paul followed Jesus and took up his cross. He was crucified upside down, but Enoch took up his cross and followed Jesus all the Way through the heavens.

  Paul’s gain was his own transport as he was taken up by death, and Enoch to demonstrate that the curse could be broken. Those together are a picture of the rapture where both those dead in Christ and the living shall be taken up, not by their own power, but pulled up by the “silver cord” that God loosens for their transport. [xv]

  After the flood, the circle remained unbroken — begat, live, and die. Jesus broke the cycle a second time. Now the circle remains broken. Some shall be begotten, live, die, then live again, and taken up to heaven. Enoch’s visitation of the heavens was for mankind’s benefit. He was to write about what he saw. Enoch saw Jesus, and told the gospel story, and his too, was “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”

  The Greeks, who were of the Wicked One, desired to break their own curse. Their simple request was this: “Sir, we would see Jesus” [xvi]

  What would Enoch do for immediate eternal life? Nothing! He would see Jesus. That worked for him and it worked for Paul. It surely worked for the Greeks and it can work for anyone. That “work” is nothing; it is if we only see Jesus.

  I saw Jesus and still do! I see Him in the Word. I see Him walking in the Garden, having grace on Adam and Eve, laughing with Enoch in the Third Heaven, baptizing the world with water, saving mankind with Noah’s kind, and writing God’s Will with Abraham and Moses.

  Where can Jesus be seen? In the Word. If you have not seen Jesus, then check out Holy Scripture.

  Not to forget the beasts! Cain’s line were the beasts. They were the “daughters of men” who were taken down by the Sons of God (Seth’s line). All men became beasts that had Cain’s seed within. Noah is thought to have married the daughter of the murderer, Lamech. If so, the DNA of the Beast made it through the flood through Noah’s wife and their children.

  Perhaps, as some say, Noah’s wife was of Seth and she was a “daughter of God.” Then, the DNA of the Beast would come from the wives of one of the sons.

  Perhaps the Beast in Cain made it through the flood with the curse of Ham. The curse fell on Canaan. [xvii] To this day, the Beast, I believe, lives within the Canaanites; those who are called Palestinians and are of the Islamic faith.

  I believe that some Islamic leader will arise, and the seed of Cain will be dominant in his DNA. He will have his “god,” Satan, in him. Then, Jesus will break the curse. He will come down from the Third Heaven and cast the Beast, the Son of Cain, and throw him into the bottomless pit.

  There, as Enoch saw, he will be held captive where prisoners are held until the final hurrah. Satan, like all the “beasts” from him, are begotten, will live, and will die… suffering death for eternity just as Enoch is alive for eternity. 

(picture credit: Shawn Perry-Weebly; "Meditation of Christ")





[i] Ecc 1:4

[ii] Phil 1:21

[iii] Mark 10:17, 21, 27

[iv] John 3:7

[v] Gen 3:16

[vi] Gen 3:19

[vii] Gen 5:24

[viii] Gen 3:14

[ix] 1 John 3:12

[x] Mat 13:38

[xi] 1 John 2:4

[xii] Gen 3:5

[xiii] Exod 3:14

[xiv] 2 Cor 12:2

[xv] Ecc 12:6

[xvi] John 12:21

[xvii] Gen 9:25

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