Saturday, March 9, 2024

THE DEVIL IN YOU

 Jesus, in Matthew 23, went on and on about the treachery of the scribes and Pharisees, calling them ‘serpents’ and so forth. After calling them serpents, Jesus added that they were the progeny of poisonous snakes.

Of course, those people were neither serpents nor progenitors of viviparous snakes; they were sons of the Devil, according to Jewish thinking.

One thing that makes Judeo-Christianity seem mythological is the notion of a talking serpent.

Any ‘devil’ is a supernatural spirit. The Devil — the Serpent — is the foremost supernatural spirit. That Lucifer is the devilish spirit comes from his purpose; Isaiah wrote of him it as the adversary of God (Isa 14:13-14). Satan means ‘Adversary.’

Devils are spirits that oppose God. The scribes and Pharisees were opposing Jesus, the Person of God, during His entire ministry.

Of course, the scribes and Pharisees were not supernatural spirits but natural men. However, they were daimonizomai in the Greek — possessed by devils. How do devils possess people? Devils get into them via their minds. Those cunning men were not literally snakes nor poisonous, but their natures were as the Beast — the Serpent itself.

Unlike Yahweh, Lucifer is confined by time and space. For example, demons and Satan appeared to Job from elsewhere: 

There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it” (Job 1:6:7)

 There was another day when Satan presented itself to Jesus. Satan — the ‘Tempter’ — came to Jesus to tempt Him. Satan came alone. It was Satan against Jesus. The ‘Serpent’ was alive and well and still walked on the Earth. Unlike God, Satan is confined to the world, and as it turned out, Jesus was not; He overcame the world.

The Serpent was not in the scribes and Pharisees. It could not be in multiple people at one time. The Devil was certainly in King Herod the Great because he was the first adversary of Jesus, seeking Him in His infancy. Of course, Satan entered Judas (Luke 22:3), and with Judas dead, surely Satan entered Caiphas the chief priest.

How did Satan enter unto all those various people: genetically is one answer. He was in their genes, so to enter them spiritually was an easy task.

Herod was Jewish outwardly but Arab inwardly.

Judas’s lineage is unknown but since he was from Kerioth, Judas was at least partly Arab.

 How about Caiaphas? He was of the ‘House of Ananias’ and chief priest after the five sons of Ananias. As the son-in-law of Ananias, Caiphas would inherit the family name by genealogy rather than spirituality. Although Jewish, Caiaphas was the generation of vipers from Ananias, his sons, and then himself.

The point therein is that the ‘Serpent’ Satan is not in anyone but the most adversarial person at any given time.

From a historical perspective, when Simon the Sorcerer received the Spirit, it was not the Holy Spirit, but Satan entered him. In the early Church it was the Gnosticism of Simon Magus that haunted Christianity, and most certainly it was Simon who was the ‘thorn’ in the side of Paul, “There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me” (2 Cor 12:7). Ostensibly, Simon became the messenger of Satan who troubled Paul during his journeys.

So, if you think that Satan made you do anything, unless you are a very significant person, you are giving Satan too much credit. He is not in you, but you are of him because the genes of the Serpent are in you, just as Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). As the son of Cain, you are of the Wicked One yourself in your natural state.

Satan is in you, not in spirit, but in your nature. You, if you have not been born again, think like Lucifer. You magnify yourselves as if you all are gods!

What were the scribes and Pharisees doing? They were essentially making a name for themselves at the expense of God. By pursuing and diminishing Jesus, they were exalting themselves. Jesus only pointed out to them that their natures were like the Beast; that they were progeny of Cain, thus them raising Cain to prominence.

Jesus nailed it: “You (all) make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess” (Mat 23:35). Although they were ceremonially clean outwardly, their genetics were daimonizomai — possession by demons. Demons had gotten into them genetically as they too were not really ‘sons of Aaron’ but ‘sons of Cain.’

Adam was the first chief priest. As the first supposed son of Adam (Gen 4:1), Cain was the second chief priest by the law of primogeniture, albeit he was not even the son of Adam but the ‘son of the Serpent.’

Satan got into everyone, but Jesus, genetically, hence any mention of ‘gens’ in any word in the Bible points toward genetics.

David confessed how sin got into himself, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). King David was depraved because it was in his genetics.

When Jesus used “generation of vipers” he revealed to the scribes and Pharisees how the Serpent got into them. They were born that way since none of them had experienced rebirth. If you have not been born again, you too are a viper because the blood of Cain is in you.

Jesus was talking genetics; “That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the Earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar” (Mat 23:35). Because the scribes, Pharisees, and all the unredeemed are of Cain, they are as responsible as Cain of murdering righteous Able.

Hopefully, it has been demonstrated that Cain was not the son of Adam, and not of God. His father was the Devil, and so it is for the sons of Cain. The scribes, as old-timers say, were indeed ‘raising Cain.’

Jesus raised righteous Abel. Now for some conjecture… if Cain was of the Wicked One and Eve, “the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20), then Abel was the son of God and the woman.

Adam, unlike Eve, was not the father of all living. Jesus called Abel ‘righteous’ and as the son of the Wicked One, Cain was unrighteous.

I submit that Abel was of God. “The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering” (Gen 4:4) and not Cain (Gen 4:5). It was surely because Cain was not the son of God, but Abel was. Perhaps God created Abel to atone for the sins of Cain, but Cain rejected the grace of God and killed his ‘Savior.’

Abel was to cover the sins of Cain with the blood of his lamb. However, Cain would endeavor to cover his own sins without the shedding of blood. Blood must be shed for the redemption of sins, and Cain thought that the works of his own hands were sufficient! “Without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb 9:22).

As for the blood of Zacharias, he came to the princes of Judah to condemn them and they killed him, “They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord” (2 Chron 24:21). Zechariah shed his blood for the remission of the sins of the royal house. Blood must be shed for the remission of sins, and that applied all the way from the killing of Abel and Zachariah, and to Jesus.

Blessed are we, because Jesus shed His own blood for even our genetic sins — “sins that are past” (Rom 3:25). Thanks to the blood of Jesus fixing our genetics, Christians are no longer of the Serpent, and Satan is no longer in us.

 


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