Oftentimes scripture says more where it does not outright cry it out. Paul called that “The Mystery of God.” All words and phrases in scripture means things. For instance, that it mentions Eve as “the mother of all” but not Adam as the “father of all.” Perhaps the reason is that Eve was the mother of all, but not Adam. If Cain was “of the Wicked One” who was Abel of? My hypothesis is that Abel is the Son of the Righteous One. After all, he was called, “The Righteous One” (Mat 23:35).
Before the generations of Adam are continued, look again at the three sons and what the Bible says about the birth of all three:
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 she again bare his brother Abel. And
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (Gen 4:2)
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)
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 5:3)
Not much is said about the birth of Abel. His characteristic
was his occupation. He was “the keeper of the sheep.” Abel’s birth was not the
focal point but his death. Nowhere does it say that Adam knew Eve with Abel;
only that Eve bred Abel. Could it be that perhaps, like Cain, Abel was not Adam’s
son? Could it be that Abel is of the Holy Spirit just as Cain is “of the
Wicked One” (1 John 3:12)? Paul wrote this
about Abel: “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Heb 12:24).
Jesus was the “Second Adam” and like Adam was the Son of
God. Jesus was without sin, and Adam was the cause of sin. Why Jesus? “Every
priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God” (Heb 10:11-12).
Jesus shed his blood, died, and was the perfect sacrifice for all mankind. The first
Adam propitiated his only son for his sins, much as Abraham was willing to do.
The Second Adam was the propitiation for all sins that are past (Rom 3:25). Adam,
like his Father, had the second “son” sacrifice his blood as both God and
Abraham would do,
Adam’s sins were in the past. Abel’s blood was not enough.
Jesus had to die for the sins of all the children of Eve but by grace, his
blood was available for all the sons of the Wicked One, to wit: “I (John) write
unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one” (1 John 2:13).
Abel was the first to overcome the Wicked One by the shedding of his own blood.
He shed it for Adam, himself, and all who would come after… even for evil Cain.
The conception of Jesus was the Spirit of God overshadowing a
virgin who carried Him to term. Abel, perhaps, was conceived by the Spirit of
God hovering over the repentant Eve who carried Abel. Cain had Satan in him
whereas Abel had God in him.
Cain admitted that he is not his brother’s keeper. He was no
keeper of the sheep, nor his brother. He was more like sinful Adam who had not dressed
and kept the Garden. Abel was more like his real Father. Perhaps Abel was of
God just as Adam was of God! God breathed life unto Adam without
carnal knowledge. Perhaps the reason Abel was more like generated Adam was because God breathed life unto Abel
as he had Adam.
In the case of Adam, it was the clay from the ground that
God molded and breathed upon. Eve was of Adam. Abel was of Eve but
received his spirit from God, through at that time, righteous Adam. Adam would
have breathed the Breath of God unto Abel just as he did Eve.
That raises the question: Was carnal knowledge the
intended way to multiply, or was it spiritual knowledge? Was Adam and Eve
ashamed of their nakedness because they sought to use carnal knowledge where
spiritual knowledge was intended? What does “knew” mean in the above verses? The
Hebrew word is yada’. That means both “carnal knowledge” and “made himself
known.”
Only with Abel did Adam never make himself known with Eve
(Gen 4:2). Like Joseph long after who never knew Mary (carnally), it seems that
only Abel of the three sons wherein Adam was not involved. (I contended that
Adam knew Eve, but after she was known by Satan. Not by carnal
knowledge per se but like an incubus where the spirit of Satan entered
her, leaving the Serpent until his child was born.) There is the evidence that
righteous Abel was the Son of God just as his Father was. Both had God’s Spirit
breathed unto them.
Jesus was the Appointed One: “And I appoint unto you a
kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me (Luke 22:29). Most often Jesus
is called the “Anointed One” because He is appointed. Prophetic of Jesus, Isaiah
wrote, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me (Jesus); because the Lord hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up
the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound” (Isa 61:1). That same information is written in Luke
4:18, referencing Jesus.
Abel, just as Jesus long afterward, was appointed by
God to be the propitiation for sins that are past. Abel’s blood cried out from
the ground just as Jesus’s, to wit: “I tell you that, if these should hold
their peace, the stones would immediately cry out” (Luke 19:40), obviously from
the blood that Jesus would lose on the stones holding his Cross.
Why is Abel lost to oblivion… or was He? John wrote that
Jesus was there in the beginning. Was He Abel? That seems silly until one
considers Melchizedek: “And (Jesus) being made perfect, He became the author of
eternal salvation unto all that obey him; called of God an high priest after
the order of Melchisedec” (Heb 5:9-10) What was so peculiar about that specific
“Priest?” Paul wrote of Him as, “Without father, without mother, without
descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto
the Son of God; abideth a priest continually” (Heb 7:3). Melchizidek was the Image
of His Father. Perhaps Abel, was also the Image of His Father, not Adam, but Father
God.
Melchizedek is believed to be the Image of God who appeared
to Abraham. He was without father or mother. If Abel was conceived by the Holy
Spirit, then Abel was without father, and his “mother” was like Mary, a mere carrier
of Abel.
Abel not only presented the acceptable sacrifice to God for
the sins of Adam, Eve, and Cain; but as Jesus, the Perfect Sacrifice for all ‘adam-kind.
Was Abel a foreshadowing of Jesus or a real cameo appearance of Jesus to make Himself
the sacrifice for all mankind, and like Jesus, for sins that are past.
Abel died for the
past sins of all mankind, but mankind rejected his sacrifice. With a new world
after the Deluge, Jesus would be the sacrifice for all the sins that are
past, from Adam to Noah to Calvary were Adam was finally reprieved. [1]
Is it sacrilegious to infer that Abel is the preincarnate
Jesus? Not any more than the theological viewpoint that the King of Peace,
Melchizedek, appeared as the Image of God long after! Does the blood of Abel
still cry out from the stony ground? Perhaps it does.
How plain can the Bible be? Abel was the keeper of the
sheep! Who is Jesus? “I am the Good Shepherd:
the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (john 10:11). What did Abel do
as a priest of God? That “good shepherd” tended the sheep, ostensibly Adam and
Eve as well, and Abel gave his life for his brother. The brotherhood of man (‘adam-kind)
were the “sheep” kept by Jesus. Who did Abel die for? Adam, Eve, and Cain — all
mankind.
After Abel died, he did cry out from his grave just as the
Word of God (Jesus) cried out from the tomb. What did Abel’s blood cry? You will
see my Blood again! If so, then Abel, as the Priest of God, cried out the
Way from Adam to Jesus.
Why does Abel merely warrant a few lines of scripture?
Perhaps because the entire Bible is about the Blood of Abel. If Abel is, indeed,
pre-incarnate Jesus, then that would explain where Jesus was in the beginning with
God. It also makes sense that if there was a son of the Wicked One outside the
Garden Paradise to cause tribulation, that there would be a Son of the
Righteous One outside the Garden to preserve mankind.
It is known that Adam was created in the Image of God. Cain
was created in the image of the Wicked One. Seth was created how? “A son in his
own likeness (Adam’s), and after his (Adam’s image). Never was it said that
Cain was created in Adam’s image or even Abel’s. Abel was created as the Image
of God. Why was Jesus both the Son of Man and Son of God? He was created in the
Image of God as a Man. What about Abel? He was born in the Image of God as a
man.
Then what about Seth? He was born in the image of his regenerated
father, Adam, who was at that time covered by the Flesh of the Lamb as Adam was
regenerated in Spirit.
Did Abel’s job end as “keeper of the sheep” when he died, or
was he the Good Shepherd who tended God’s “sheep” until He would come again?
Certainly, the blood of Abel cries out throughout the Old Testament and
continued to cry out in agony for all ‘adam-kind until Jesus spilled the
last drop of saving blood once and for all!
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