ON REGENERATION

 

 

I have written much on the creation, or generation, of mankind. Referring to itself, scripture says this: 

¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; ² Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name ‘Adam,’ in the day when they were created. (Gen 5:1-2)

 Then it proceeds into further generations. Prior to that chapter, Cain’s progenitor was revealed. Eve created a creature in the likeness of the old creature, Satan (Gen 4:1). The “man” that she generated was not an ‘Adam’ but an ‘is in the Hebrew (Strong 2006). She regenerated Lucifer who had fallen from grace (Isa 14:12). As such, Eve, as “the mother of all living,” spread the genetics of Lucifer through Cain, the “Wanderer.”

Cain was not a “man” but was “extant” (ibid), meaning an “existence.” That “being” was not the “son of man” of Adam but a child of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). By the time of Jesus, He said to “mankind,” “You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44). Not that the Devil had penetrated our mothers, but that he was our progenitor and us “its” progeny. (Eve perhaps carried the genes of the Wicked One in her mitochondrial DNA and passed it along to both genders.)

Jesus recognized that Eve was the mother of all living as He warned them, “You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?” (Mat 23:33).

If you missed it, from Eve through Cain, what is considered “mankind” was not Adam’s kind at all but generation after generation of “vipers” from the innermost being of Lucifer — the “Serpent.”

From my perspective, sperm and its contents — DNA — were the “fiery darts of the Wicked” (Ephes 6:16). Within that “fruit” were characteristics: “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). Those with that nature “come short of the Glory of God” (Rom 3:23); that “Glory” had been generated in Adam in the beginning.

So, rather than Adam multiplying by spreading the Spirit of God as God had done with him and him with Eve, Eve spread the genome of Lucifer by carnal knowledge, as it seems. The “Image” of God was His own Glorious Genome, and the “Image” of Lucifer was perhaps the serpent-like sperm each with its horrible gene.

Figure 1: SciTechDaily; "Sperm Strking and Egg"

 David understood genetics; he said, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), but afterward, “God sought for a man after His own heart,” or Will.  (1 Sam 13:14). David was that “man” unlike Saul who had been regenerated but fallen away. Indeed, Saul had been regenerated of his wicked genetics: 

⁹ And it was so, that when he (Saul) had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. ¹⁰ And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. (1 Sam 10:9-10)

 What had God done? Replace his pump? No! God gave him another “leb” (in the Hebrew). Literally, it was a “heart” but figuratively it was a new nature; a change in his innermost being. (Strong 2006). The generation of a new Saul had come, but some other being aborted him!

Because Saul failed to heed the Will of God concerning the end to the Amalekites, “the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel” (1 Sam 15:35). He was instructed to cut off their genetic tree but he let King Agag live. Because Saul failed in doing the Will of God, God cut off his germline! Saul fell from grace. It was not sudden, but slipping little by little until the Will of God was insignificant compared to his own will.

God had begun a new work in Saul, but Saul lost his affection for God. The presumption that he could do as he wished, made him higher than God. With that said, Saul defected from God by apostasy — a gradual defection from God after once having affection.

With the kingly branch of Saul cut from the favored genetic tree, God created a new gens, or royal family, in David. David, although God began a good work in him, sinned greatly, but he repented of his sins (Psalm 51).

David wrote, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). He begged God for a restart of the regeneration that had begun to slip away. David fell back but never fell away like King Saul.

The point herein is that “regeneration” is not a one-time event, but a lifetime of commitment to God; “He that endures to the end shall be saved” (Mat 10:22). Salvation is total regeneration that cannot be undone.

It is impossible to become “unsaved” because the end-result is the reward of salvation. Just like the original “generation” was a “process in time” (Gen 4:3), much like Cain’s degeneration, so is regeneration. Time is therefore the enemy of those that were generated and those who have begun the regeneration process. Satan has a lifetime to persuade the Christian to defect. The “flesh” is the Devil’s instrument of torture and the Christians fairly well burn at the stake (their “cross”) of lust, according to Paul (1 Cor 7:9).

Next a comparison will be made of regeneration to the original generation. Hidden in the Book of Genesis — the generation — is the regeneration of fallen man, the one who in the beginning was generated in the image of Satan.