I have been studying ancient Hebrew. Those almost unreadable Hebrew letters of their alphabet are a sort of script writing of objects. Hence, the Hebrew letters represent objects and works that are the moving of objects. Those beautiful letters are much like Egyptian hieroglyphics and can be read in the same manner, right to the left directions.
This week, I had the opportunity to
test my insight. I met a Jew who knows Hebrew and who has read the Talmud
completely through in that language. I told him about that insight, and he said
it fit the purpose of Hebrew letters. With that said, now move on to the
insight that I received.
If the ‘creature’ from Eve (Gen
4) was Cain (1 John 3:12) and that Cain was marked by God, but from whom did
Abel come?
Abel came from Eve… “She again
bare Abel” (Gen 4:2) As the mother of all living (Gen 3:20), Abel indeed was
the son of Eve. Adam seems to have nothing to do with the birth of Abel!
Cain and Abel both brought offerings
to the LORD GOD, “And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering, but
unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect” (Gen 4:3-4).
Much later, both grain and meat
offerings were respected by the LORD GOD. Each type of offering was for different
types of sins. Both were gift offerings; the fruit of the ground (from Cain) and
the ‘fruit’ of the womb (from Abel). However, Cain’s fruits were not respected,
although both were from the labors of each of the two.
What was missing? Abel offered
himself in the Spirit of God. Cain offered the fruit but not himself. Just as
Cain indicated that he was “not his brother’s keeper” Gen 4:9), Abel was in
fact, as it was implied, was his brother’s keeper. He was appointed by God to
keep the Garden in the same manner as Adam, who had failed to properly do that.
The purpose of Cain was to redeem
the sins of Adam and Cain. The purpose of Cain’s sacrifice was to elevate
himself in the eyes of God.
Cain seed was scattered in the
Land of Nod to where he was cast out — east of Eden. That could be
directional, or it could be time related — before time. In this case, perhaps it
was to the East in the land outside the Garden, the land that was made for
isolation before time!
God knew that mankind would degenerate
and had prepared for them a place outside the Garden, but still in Eden. (Based
on extant names in the middle east, the middle east seems to have been Eden.)
Cain was not allowed in the Garden but was condemned to the “prison” outside
the boundaries of the Garden.
Abel is referred to in scripture
as “Righteous Abel” (Mat 23:35), and Abel’s sacrifice was “more excellent” and
even in death, Abel still spoke” (Heb 11:4). Paul hinted that Abel still lived
even thousands of years later. Because Abel’s sacrifice was more excellent,
death was gain for him, as Paul would say it. Abel is alive and well in the
Garden of God in the ‘land’ of Paradise whereas Cain is dead in ‘Nod.”
Now, take some liberty to free your
mind. Cain never quit wandering. His soul is eternal and to this day, Cain is still
wandering, not in the flesh, but a wandering soul. He is lost forever outside
Paradise in Hell. As Enoch revealed, heaven has two substances: Paradise and Hades.
Just as there is no longer a Paradise on Earth but only in heaven (another
realm), therefore it is reasonable to assume there is no longer a ‘Nod’ on
Earth and it may be the Hades in heaven.
There is a hint to the lack of
excellence in Cain’s gift to God, “For the love of money is a root of all sorts
of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and
pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Tim 6:10). It was not Cain’s gift that
was lacking excellence, but his nature; he did not like sacrificing the works
of his hands.
Their gifts, Cain’s and Abel’s,
was their ‘money’ in that economy. Cain was cursed to wander because of his demonic
nature… the root of all evil! “A man who wanders from the way of understanding
will rest in the assembly of the dead” (Prov 21:16).
Cain is still wandering. God has
prepared for him another place outside of Paradise because with his selfish
gift, Cain lost rights to the Way to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24). He remains
wandering outside of Paradise.
On the other hand, Abel’s gift
was excellent, and he gained rights to the Way to the Tree of Life. Death in
the Word (Jesus) accomplished that for him. For Cain, his death was loss in
addition to the selfish sacrifice but for Abel’s gain.
The name Cain (Qayan) means
“acquisition” and “possession,” and related words mean “spear”
There was some sort of ‘hedge’ about
the Garden — a wall of some sort — because there was a portal to enter in although
it was guarded (Gen 3:24).
It could be that the crown of thorns
of both God’s ram in His sacrifice for Abraham as well as the crown of thorns on
the head of Jesus were symbolic of the Garden with the only Way to enter in was
by the Mind of God, either the Spirit of God or the Man, God.
Abel (Hebel) was in scripture
for a reason. He was not just a cameo star to give credit to the scene but an
important figure.
Remembering that God added an ‘H’
to the names of Abram and Sarai, Hebel lost his ‘H” (Hebrew ‘hey’
or הֶ).
The hieroglyph for the Hebrew ‘H’
is a man with upraised arms. Between the Hebrew and Greek, Hebel lost
his ‘H’ (praise), going to ‘Abel’ whose death prevented him from raising his
arms in praise. That motion is the beginning of a wave offering that Cain
prevented him from doing any longer.
Hebrew reads from right to left. Hebel’s
name is in Hebrew characters, “הֶבֶל” leaving only the two to the left. The
hieroglyphics of Hebel are hey, bet, and lamed;
arms in praise, a house or building, and a staff to lead or teach; respectively.
In hieroglyphics, perhaps the meaning
might be to teach a house to praise. The ‘house’ in this case would be the
family of God in the same fashion as royalty is a ‘house,’ like the house of
the Stewart kings.
Names means things in scripture.
It seems that Hebel was meant to be a priest, and one on the order of
Adam, both of which would have been high priests in the Garden. As Adam was to keep
the Garden, he was the high priest, and since Cain was of the Wicked One, Abel
was in line to be High Priest.
Cain failed to be High Priest and
was sent on his way, and in the meantime, Seth was made High Priest in the house,
or room, of his father Adam, as a replacement for Abel, to wit: Eve “bare a
son, and called his name ‘Seth’ for God, said she, has appointed me another
seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew’” (Gen 4:25).
Seth’s lineage were ‘sons of God’
because his ‘house’ replaced the house of Abel who had no children. Hence, Seth
became High Priest in the ‘room’ of Cain, who by primogeniture would have been
High Priest and King.
Seth’s name (‘Set’) means ‘compensation.’
Now check that to the hieroglyphics of his name (שֵׁת) shin het (heth).
The hieroglyphics are breasts and a thread. Breasts are the chest
and that points to the action of breathing. The thread indicates continuity;
that makes sense that Seth was the replacement for Abel who was dead.
Called, ‘Righteous Abel,’ indicates
that he was not born in iniquity. As God did with Mary and with Sarai, it
appears that He breathed life unto Eve just as He had with Adam, and that Abel
was the produce of God. That is somewhat validated by his name meaning ‘Breath.’
The thread hieroglyph may
be of what Solomon wrote about, “Or ever the silver cord be loosed” (Ecc 12:6);
literally the pale twisted thread become unwound. I believe that Solomon
was speaking of degeneration of Adam’s kind until the DNA “thread’ would become
completely undone.
Seth had kept the thread of Abel
intact, and by that I think it may be his DNA in the blood that Abel cried out
from the ground (Gen 4:10).
The blood has the DNA of the
organism in every nuclear cell. Hence, Seth was Abel’s blood, in a sense,
crying out. Abel was alive in heavenly Paradise because for him the Way to the
Tree of Life was wide open. Death saved his living soul, and death to this day
does just that!
Paul wrote about Christians, “Receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (2 Pet 1:9). Salvation
is at the end of the faith of Christians. That ‘happy ending’ is not when the
faith falls away (Greek; apostasia), but death. Abel got his reward when
Cain killed him. He found the Way to the Tree of Life all the while ‘dead’ Cain
still wanders in the netherworld of Nod to this day… the place built before
time for his forever dying soul!
Abel was the first living soul to
die in the Garden and the devil killed him in the flesh of Cain. The sacrifice
of his own flesh to God was the best sacrifice and still is. Paul wrote, “I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service” (Rom 12:10. Abel did that, and immediately Abel was back in the Garden
because the sacrifice of his own flesh was the most excellent sacrifice!
(The story of Cain and Abel is a
foreshadowing of the Savior and us ‘wicked ones.’ Abel lived on in heaven, and
so does Jesus!)
What do even Christians hang onto
the most? The flesh. Even those who trust God, even Cain, hang onto their
flesh.
Cain could have bought the most
excellent sacrifice from Abel with his ‘currency’ of grain and that would have
been acceptable. Not him; he held onto what could have been better spent.
The problem with you and me is
that the flesh is the stronghold of us all. Even the very act of trusting God
is to save, not our souls, but are fleshes, or so we think.
This flesh will never enter the portal
to heaven because it is too much of a burden. It will be our immortal souls
that find the Way to the Tree of Life and God who will regenerate the living
souls by providing for us incorruptible flesh (1 Cor 15:52.)
It appears that other than Jesus,
Abel was the only other person that never sinned, and deviate mankind killed him
for only one reason; Abel was the righteous ‘son of God’ and he was killed by
Cain, the unrighteous ‘son of the Wicked One,’ Lucifer. With that finished,
Lucifer won the battle, but God saved the day with Seth.
But the plan of Lucifer is always
to go after the righteous ones and leave the unrighteous to their own devices, because
they have the genes of the Devil in them and are already of the ‘house of
Lucifer’ (John 8:44).
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