Monday, November 6, 2023

Much Ado About Abel

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” (Abarim Publications 2023). The devil seems to have possessed both Eve (beguiling) and Cain (inseminating). Indeed, Eve acquired Cain and thus Cain was the ‘possession’ of the Wicked One. Not by coincidence, a spear is a ‘lance’ and the centurion, Longinus (‘the lance’) pierced the Savior.

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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