Adam and Eve and Lucifer "That o'l Serpent"

But the Woman being deceived, was in the Transgression

Superfetation is not unknown in humans wherein dizygous "twins" showing marked differences in size, embryological development and presumed age are born of different fathers. The best-known of recent cases happened in Sweden and France.

In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black, and a blond, blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and a Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans wherein a woman with multiple ovum is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination so that the offspring are not true twins but step-brothers or step-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm.

The most famous case of superfetation in humans is found in the Bible account of the conception and birth of Cain and Abel. Whoever reads Genesis carefully, will see it speaks of the two seeds, or offspring, right after the fall. So from the very beginning, there were two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain, who is not once mentioned in the genealogies of Adam. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living". Never is it suggested that Adam is the father of all living. If Cain actually would have been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God, and a special place in God's record.

Abel was killed with no offspring, therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect also, the Word of God is perfect and enlightening -- Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch. Jude identifies Enoch as the seventh from Adam: Cain is absent and was not mentioned in the genealogies in Genesis, Chronicles, Luke, or Jude.

Genesis 4 is intended as a historical message. In verse 1 the connection with what precedes is very clear. The history here recorded is tied to the Paradise narrative with the conjunctive phrase, "And Adam," or "And the man," Adam is presented as being familiar to us from the preceding events, with no further introduction necessary. Also, his wife is simply presented by her name, Eve, "mother of all living," which according to Genesis, she had been given by her husband following the Fall, whence Eve bore in her womb two seeds.

This history traces the enmity God has placed between these two seeds and foreshadows the Promise. The writer must first dispose of Cain and his ungodly line who have no part in the Promise or Kingdom of God. Then he returns to Seth through whom the line of Promise is maintained. The story of Cain and Abel points out that from the very first, men have been divided into two great classes, viewed in connection with God's Promise and Presence in the world.

Whilst anthropology teaches it is to the self-reliant and God-defying energy of the descendants of Cain that we owe much of the external civilization of the world, the descendants of Seth pass away and leave only this record: that they "walked with God".

Genesis 4 is the historical account of the sinful misapplication of God's command to "multiply and fill the earth" in the garden, which produced death by Eve's reasoning with Satan through the agency of the serpent, instead of waiting for God's uncompromised Word to be revealed through her husband in due season.

This is the first mention of a sexual relationship between Adam and his wife. Cain had already been conceived by the serpent prior to Adam having knowledge of his wife. Eve saw in Cain the fulfillment of the natural promise of Genesis 3:15, and looked on her first child as God Himself, the "Deliverer," Who would restore them to Eden. It is unusual for the mother to justify Cain's name by declaring "I have begotten a "MAN" with the Lord", when Cain was but a babe. To Eve, however, Cain was the "Man-child" Who would smite the Serpent. Eve did not claim to bear Cain by Adam but supposed he was gotten, acquired, or created with the Lord.

It is not said of Eve that she conceived again and bare Abel (which is the usual Scriptural way of intimating a second birth) but simply that she bore him after Cain. That a difference was from the very first put between the two, is plain from the remarkable language which she applies to the first-born, "I have gotten a man from the Lord"; and indeed from the very names given the two brothers respectively. Cain signifies "acquired one". Deceived by Satan who incarnate the Serpent, Eve thought Cain was the Son of God, whereas she knew Abel was, and named him the son of her own husband. Abel means "a son", which well suits the first-born child of man. Hence we have the line of the serpent through Cain (falsely supposed to be the Son of God), and the line of Adam, beginning in Abel.

The etymology of Cain and Abel are quite separate. From their birth, at the same time, there was a difference put on these two sons of Eve. It was understood from Genesis 3:15, that the race was to be divided into two great sections, of which the one only was to be reckoned as truly and spiritually the seed of the woman, while the other bore the character and fell under the doom, of the seed of the serpent.

Eve regarded her first-born son as the very individual who was to be the Savior, and understood at the same time that this Savior was to be a divine person. Hence her words, "I have gotten a man" or "the man, the Lord," the very Jehovah -- He who is God as well as man. Or, "I have gotten a man from the Lord." Clearly Eve was still deceived at the time of Cain's birth, because "that which is flesh is flesh" and as he was born by sex, Cain could not possibly be the Redeemer but was in need of redemption himself.

At all events, it is plain that in her judgment Cain was chosen rather than his comparatively lightly esteemed half-brother, whose very name in Hebrew means "vanity," or "nothingness." (Though of course, Adam and Eve did not speak Hebrew).

No other act with Adam is recorded between the birth of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth . . ." Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, we know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three WAS NOT the son of Adam.

In the garden of Eden, there were many trees, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit, which was permitted. And nothing is recorded about eating an apple, we read only about partaking of fruit from the tree of Knowledge. We read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." Something terrible had happened, after which the man and his wife recognized their nakedness and were ashamed such that they sought to hide it from one another and the Lord. Notice, they did not bandage their eyes nor cover their mouths, but veiled their reproductive organs. Solomon said, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness."

Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know they didn't eat ice-cream any more than eating a piece of fruit caused Adam and Eve to become conscious of each other's bodies, and Eve to be named "the mother of all living."

Paul certainly knew what happened in the garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church, "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." In view of the fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression."

Directly afterwards, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children..." This statement tells us what really happened. Women were not condemned to indigestion, as might be supposed were the transgression gastronomic; and despite the optimistic protests of some less than innocent girls, no woman has yet conceived through swallowing an apple seed. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, women give birth in pain and sorrow, and male circumcision was the token of the Old Covenant.

To that time, the serpent had walked upright, else would the statement, "upon thy belly shall you go" makes no sense. And the Lord pronounced judgment upon the serpent for his wickedness, changing every bone in his body. And He put enmity between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of Adam. According to the testimony given here, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its adversary, the seed which would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds.

Satan cannot beget nor can he create. He is a sexless, fallen spirit-being. Therefore he had to make use of the beast which was closest to man and could even speak. Only after the curse, did the serpent lose its human form and become a reptile.

Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Yea, has God said?" The Devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued It, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die . . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Eve fell for Satan's lie, being uplifted at the possibility of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex -- and how they might fulfill His Command to "multiply and fill the earth". Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil and we are thereby accountable to God. But what benefit was the knowledge of good and evil when separated from God?

Human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through sexual reproduction. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race. Satan through transgression pulled the first couple into death, and their dominion on this earth was surrendered to death. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh, that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death.

God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply," and every specie was to bring forth after his own kind. But in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to His will, for His Will is His Word, which is His thoughts expressed. He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage when Eve usurped authority over her husband, listening to one she knew to be inspired by Satan. She then instructed her husband in this secret knowledge and gave herself to Him.

Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin. Eve had crossed over from eternity into time and was dying. Though she should have been burnt, according to the law which is forever written in heaven, Adam loved her, and quickly took her to himself. He was not deceived, but as a son of God, Adam knew he could no more be lost than God could be lost. He also knew Eve was part of him, and if he joined her in death, somehow God must redeem him, and his death would "save" Eve. A perfect type of Christ.

Thus, the fall took place when Eve gave herself to the serpent, and when Adam took her back and she had her first relation with her husband, he surrendered all under his dominion to death. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel.

The apostle John also knew what happened in the garden of Eden for he writes, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one." In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle writes of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one." Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture by this description. In Revelation he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In many places Scripture calls the opponent of God "the wicked one," God is altogether good; Satan just the opposite. In the Lord's prayer when we petition, ". . . lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one," we are not meaning Adam. We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain, and origin of all ungodly things. Cain the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning -- not in heaven, on earth.

We also must remember that enmity was put between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . thy seed and her seed." With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there.

These things are foreign to what most of us have been taught to believe as truth, but we were warned ". . . the things that the preacher is liable to teach you ain't necessarily so." And this is the one faith or understanding revealed by God throughout the Bible in all the ages concerning the Fall. God"s Word never changes. bb940516.htm

The Original Sin

There were many trees in the Garden of Eden, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit, which was permitted, and nothing is recorded in Genesis 3 about eating an apple; we read only about partaking of fruit of the tree of Knowledge. Therefore, it is important for us to know who and what the tree of Knowledge was. 

In Genesis 3:7 we read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves skirts." Something terrible had happened. Satan's promise was half fulfilled but not quite as expected; they had developed a self consciousness of their nakedness and of the guilt of their genitalia, which hitherto had been public but which they now considered private and sought to hide from each another, and from the Lord. You will notice, they did not blindfold their eyes or cover their mouth, but veiled their guilty reproductive organs that instead of bringing life, introduced death into the world. Guilt-conscious, their intimate relationship with God is replaced by distrustful, selfish, servile fear, as the first common act of sin passes over to a second, and they seek to hide themselves and their sin amongst the trees of the Garden. 

Genesis 3 portrays the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know it was not an ice-cream or apple they ate. 

The apostle Paul certainly knew what happened in the Garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3). In view of the Fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:14). 

Directly after it happened, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children . . ." (Genesis 3:16). This statement tells us what really happened. It was not meals she was to eat in pain as one might suppose had the transgression been epicurean; and neither Adam nor yet any woman has conceived by eating fruit. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, and under normal circumstances, women give birth in pain. They don't suffer toothache at mealtimes. Proverbs 30:18-20, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her orifice, and says, I have done no wickedness." 

Birth-pains remind women of the original sin, "for the woman being deceived was in the transgression," and lost her co-equality with man (Genesis 3:16; I Timothy 2:8-15). Under the Old Covenant, circumcision in the male organ of generation recognised that because of the Fall corruption is inherently transmitted by our sexual conception (Psalm 51:5), and symbolised an Israelite man's severance from nature's defilement to a state of consecrated fellowship with God. Hereby an unmarried Israelite woman came under the Covenant by the token of her father, and a married woman came under the token of her husband (I Corinthians 11:3-16; Ephesians 5:20-23). So "God's holy One, whose flesh should not see corruption" was "born of a virgin" (Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 7:14). When God made a Covenant with Abraham and his natural seed He required circumcision, "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male child among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10-14). Every soul who refused circumcision was "cut off" from His people because he did not have the token of the Covenant. 

In Jeremiah 9:24-25 we read, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the days are coming when I will punish all these circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and the Semitic Arabs who dwell in the desert and cut the edge of their beard: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." Three classes are distinguished here, the Covenant people, their Serpent seed half brothers, their Semitic Ammonite, Moabite and Arabian cousins, and Gentile Egyptians. All of these nations were uncircumcised in spite of a circumcision in the flesh, (which from Israel's standpoint was an unjustifiable imitation of the sacred sign of the Covenant), while the whole house of Israel, including Judah, is uncircumcised in heart and ears and essentially no different from the heathen nations without the token. From this it is evident that the only means of escape from the threatened punishment is a living and truly productive knowledge of the Lord (Jeremiah 9:22-23). 

In Genesis 17:12-13 and Exodus 12:43-49 we learn that every Israelite and every Gentile of Adam's race must have the token of circumcision in the flesh before he can partake of the Passover, which the Serpent's seed are forbidden to eat. The historian Josephus wrote that John Hyrcanus compelled them to "circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, (25) and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1). 

(Note 25: "This account of the Idumeans admitting circumcision, and the entire Jewish law, from this time, or from the days of Hyrcanus, is confirmed by their entire history afterward (Antiquities XIV, 8:1; XV, 7:9; Wars of the Jews, II, 3:1; IV, 4:5). This, in the opinion of Josephus, made them proselytes of justice, or entire Jews, as here and elsewhere (Antiquities, XIV, 8:1). However, Antigonus, the enemy of Herod, though Herod were derived from such a proselyte of justice for several generations, will allow him to be no more than a half Jew (XV, 15:2). But still, take out of Dean Prideaux, at the year 129, the words of Ammonias, a grammarian, which fully confirm this account of the Idumeans in Josephus: "The Jews," says he, are such by nature, and from the beginning, whilst the Idumeans were not Jews from the beginning, but Phoenicians and Syrians; but being afterward subdued by the Jews, and compelled to be circumcised, and to unite into one nation, and be subject to the same laws, they were called Jews." Dio also says, as the Dean there quotes him, from Book XXXVI, p. 37, "That country is called Judea, and the people Jews; and this name is given also to as many others as embrace their religion, though of other nations." But then upon what foundation so good a governor as Hyrcanus took upon him to compel those Idumeans either to become Jews, or to leave the country, deserves great consideration. I suppose it was because they had long ago been driven out of the land of Edom, and had seized on and possessed the tribe of Simeon, and all the southern parts of the tribe of Judah, which was the peculiar inheritance of the worshippers of the true God without idolatry, as the reader may learn from Reland, Palestine, Part I, p. 154, 305; and from Prideaux, at the years 140 and 165). 

Before one is fit to celebrate our "Passover," which is to partake the Lord's Supper and foot washing under the New Covenant, he or she must be circumcised—not in the flesh—but in heart and ears, and our Token, unlike that of the Israelite, must be on display for it is the Life of Christ generated by the Spirit of Christ within the individual believer. Whereas the Israelite woman was "saved" under the Token of her father or her husband, "the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the Token of his Christian wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified under the Token of her Christian husband" (I Corinthians, 7:11-19). 

There is no shame in displaying our Token, and our Token is not the Token unless it is on public display. Now the soul that refuses the Message of God's Prophet in this day is "cut off" and "shall be destroyed from among the people" (Malachi 4:6; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:17-19). This is so because since the Seven Seals are revealed, Christ is no longer a Mediator for ignorance, and without this Message he is "uncircumcised in heart and ears" and cannot have the Token, which is the new birth by the Fullness of the Word, aside from which he cannot be restored to fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Word (Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23; I Corinthians 13:10; John 17:20-26). 

The Lord God pronounced judgment on the serpent for his wickedness and said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and eat dust all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:14). Up to that time, the serpent walked upright, else the statement "upon your belly you shall go" would make no sense (Ezekiel 28:13-14). 

Most important is the following verse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." According to the testimony of the Lord God, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its archenemy, both seeds would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds as there are two different seeds in the church. 

Satan cannot beget nor can he create. He is a sexless, fallen spirit-being. Therefore he had to make use of the beast which was closest to man and could even speak. Only after the curse, did the serpent lose its upright human form and become a reptile. 

Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Has God said?" The Devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued it, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Uplifted at the prospect of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex—how they might fulfil God's Command to "multiply and fill the earth,"Eve fell for Satan's lie. What benefit was this knowledge of good and evil that separated them from God's Presence? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil whereby we are accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14). 

The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race in Cain and his lineage. Eve's transgression caused Adam to forfeit our dominion over earth to death. As we are conceived according to Satan's worldly wisdom, we are born with a nature of this world, which is the nature of the god of this evil age. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, Jesus announced victoriously, "I have the keys of death and hell"  (Revelation 1:18). 

God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28), so He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, and in correcting him made God's prohibition even stronger by adding, "neither shall you touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," which is Satan. Hereby she usurped authority over her husband, who was the spoken Word of God. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the Word of God, which is His thoughts expressed. Eve then gave herself to Adam. 

Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin, and although she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he was not deceived, but he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Eve was dying, having crossed the Word from eternity into time but as a son of God Adam knew he could no more be lost than God can be lost. He also knew that Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, God must somehow redeem him, so in dying he would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ. 

Thus the Fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent and then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel. 

In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black, and to a blond blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, a Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ova is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but half-brothers or half-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm. 

Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds or offspring right after the Fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth. 

Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that he is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). Had Cain been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God, and a special place in God's record. 

As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth . . ." (Genesis 4:25). Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three was NOT the son of Adam.

The apostle John also knew what happened in the Garden of Eden. He wrote, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (I John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle wrote of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13, 14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In the Gospels Jesus calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's Prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain and origin of all ungodly things. 

Cain, the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning—not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behoves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the Fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God the Bible says Abel knew animal had caused the Fall and so animal life must be offered. 

When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice for which he had not laboured, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if by faith he offered the same sacrifice as His vindicated prophet, he felt humiliated. Concealing his pride, Cain asked Abel to expound the faith. Abel was reluctant to explain, fearing for his life, but when Cain prevailed he expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he was not Adam's son, that he had never possessed the birthright, and was nowhere in the genealogy of God, but that if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned there was the possibility of fabricating primogeniture. 

Hence, when God exposed Cain's evil and he saw there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, which is ultimately the restoration to eternal Life in a restored world, he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face I shall be hid; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles. 

It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from whom no evil can come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. When all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, we will be placed back into our original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth. 

Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted in the genealogy (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring; therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening—Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch—Cain is not Adam's seed and is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18; Luke 3:38). 

The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain; the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . . and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life. 

God hates hybridizing—His Word is Spirit, and it is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning it is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God." Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she first had to receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind—spiritual serpent seed—and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word. 

In Matthew 13:36-43 the Lord spoke clearly about these diverse spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is the Word expressed—Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by God's Word hybrid into creeds is reasoning against the faith; it is the mark of Cain and of the beast, and is death. Those influenced by the wicked one hardened their hearts, to which Jesus said, "You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." He did not dispute their claim to be Abraham's seed, nor did he concede that they were also the seed of Isaac and Jacob and therefore Israelites. As we have noted, the majority of Judeans (or Jews) in His day were Edomites. Esau, their progenitor was Abraham's seed but he married into Cain's race and marred his inheritance. Knowing this the Pharisees protested, "We were not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Jesus said, "If you were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham . . . and if God were your father, you would love Me." Since they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, even those who were in Adam's line physically, were serpent seed SPIRITUALLY, and blotted from the record of life (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28; Jeremiah 9:24-25). 

We must remember that God put "enmity" between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed"  (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there. 

Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth," deceiving Eve and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God. 

After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing it with reasoning into creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7. 

Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding bloody Lamb and taking the Book of Life, which is the title deed to all He has redeemed, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. Revelation 10:1-6 signifies Christ descending to earth in WORD Form with the Book that was sealed open in His hands to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' to the Laodicean Church Age before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52). 

You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride whose acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" will know nothing of this: God having called out the righteous, both wise and foolish virgin, their end will be a lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).

Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would "RESTORE the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This is the ministry of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, whose Message is the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which is the "midnight cry" heard and heeded by the wise and virgin of Matthew 25:6 and confirmed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4. This Message is Christ the fullness of the Word "spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began"—"that which is perfect" or complete (Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7). It separates Christ's tiny Flock from the hordes of the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters, bringing her into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; Romans 8:19; II Thessalonians 2:1). 

The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and last Adams, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born spiritual children of the second Eve, whom Jesus calls "the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth," is extant. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, while Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14). 

Revelation 1-3 prophesies the battle that commenced on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. These trees that stood in the midst of the Garden have grown together, like Judas and Jesus, as brothers within the framework of the Christian church, so close as would almost deceive the very elect if it were possible. However this is the harvest time, each congregation is bearing the life of the seed that was planted and cannot hide its fruit. Satan's apostate big church is uniting with the apostate smaller churches in order to convert or kill Christ's little Flock. But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit—NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost—our little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus. 

As Satan incarnate the beast in the Garden of Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he is cast out of the heavenlies he will evict his demons and incarnate the man of sin, thereafter called the beast, who will lead his followers to perdition. Christ's purpose is to be fulfilled in His Bride. He is that Corn of Wheat that fell to the ground at Calvary in order to reproduce Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride. 

When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15). 

Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul wrote, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ—if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We are privileged to live in the time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including the original sin in the Garden of Eden. bb930112.htm

There were many trees in the Garden of Eden, including the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Fall was not caused by eating natural fruit, which was permitted, and nothing is recorded in Genesis 3 about eating an apple; we read only about partaking of fruit of the tree of Knowledge. Therefore, it is important for us to know who and what the tree of Knowledge was. 

In Genesis 3:7 we read, "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked: and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves skirts." Something terrible had happened. Satan's promise was half fulfilled but not quite as expected; they had developed a self consciousness of their nakedness and of the guilt of their genitalia, which hitherto had been public but which they now considered private and sought to hide from each another, and from the Lord. You will notice, they did not blindfold their eyes or cover their mouth, but veiled their guilty reproductive organs that instead of bringing life, introduced death into the world. Guilt-conscious, their intimate relationship with God is replaced by distrustful, selfish, servile fear, as the first common act of sin passes over to a second, and they seek to hide themselves and their sin amongst the trees of the Garden. 

Genesis 3 portrays the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. Every man and woman understands temptation of the senses, so Eve's admission, "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat" should be understood by every adult person. When a girl or a boy is entrapped and beguiled, we know it was not an ice-cream or apple they ate. 

The apostle Paul certainly knew what happened in the Garden of Eden. Otherwise he could not have admonished the Corinthian church: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3). In view of the Fall, the apostle writes further, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression" (I Timothy 2:14). 

Directly after it happened, the Lord God told Eve, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children . . ." (Genesis 3:16). This statement tells us what really happened. It was not meals she was to eat in pain as one might suppose had the transgression been epicurean; and neither Adam nor yet any woman has conceived by eating fruit. God knew what took place, and where punishment should be pronounced. Therefore as a memorial of the original sin, and under normal circumstances, women give birth in pain. They don't suffer toothache at mealtimes. Proverbs 30:18-20, "Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her orifice, and says, I have done no wickedness." 

Birth-pains remind women of the original sin, "for the woman being deceived was in the transgression," and lost her co-equality with man (Genesis 3:16; I Timothy 2:8-15). Under the Old Covenant, circumcision in the male organ of generation recognised that because of the Fall corruption is inherently transmitted by our sexual conception (Psalm 51:5), and symbolised an Israelite man's severance from nature's defilement to a state of consecrated fellowship with God. Hereby an unmarried Israelite woman came under the Covenant by the token of her father, and a married woman came under the token of her husband (I Corinthians 11:3-16; Ephesians 5:20-23). So "God's holy One, whose flesh should not see corruption" was "born of a virgin" (Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 7:14). When God made a Covenant with Abraham and his natural seed He required circumcision, "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male child among you shall be circumcised" (Genesis 17:10-14). Every soul who refused circumcision was "cut off" from His people because he did not have the token of the Covenant. 

In Jeremiah 9:24-25 we read, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the days are coming when I will punish all these circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and the Semitic Arabs who dwell in the desert and cut the edge of their beard: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart." Three classes are distinguished here, the Covenant people, their Serpent seed half brothers, their Semitic Ammonite, Moabite and Arabian cousins, and Gentile Egyptians. All of these nations were uncircumcised in spite of a circumcision in the flesh, (which from Israel's standpoint was an unjustifiable imitation of the sacred sign of the Covenant), while the whole house of Israel, including Judah, is uncircumcised in heart and ears and essentially no different from the heathen nations without the token. From this it is evident that the only means of escape from the threatened punishment is a living and truly productive knowledge of the Lord (Jeremiah 9:22-23). 

In Genesis 17:12-13 and Exodus 12:43-49 we learn that every Israelite and every Gentile of Adam's race must have the token of circumcision in the flesh before he can partake of the Passover, which the Serpent's seed are forbidden to eat. The historian Josephus wrote that John Hyrcanus compelled them to "circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, (25) and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1). 

(Note 25: "This account of the Idumeans admitting circumcision, and the entire Jewish law, from this time, or from the days of Hyrcanus, is confirmed by their entire history afterward (Antiquities XIV, 8:1; XV, 7:9; Wars of the Jews, II, 3:1; IV, 4:5). This, in the opinion of Josephus, made them proselytes of justice, or entire Jews, as here and elsewhere (Antiquities, XIV, 8:1). However, Antigonus, the enemy of Herod, though Herod were derived from such a proselyte of justice for several generations, will allow him to be no more than a half Jew (XV, 15:2). But still, take out of Dean Prideaux, at the year 129, the words of Ammonias, a grammarian, which fully confirm this account of the Idumeans in Josephus: "The Jews," says he, are such by nature, and from the beginning, whilst the Idumeans were not Jews from the beginning, but Phoenicians and Syrians; but being afterward subdued by the Jews, and compelled to be circumcised, and to unite into one nation, and be subject to the same laws, they were called Jews." Dio also says, as the Dean there quotes him, from Book XXXVI, p. 37, "That country is called Judea, and the people Jews; and this name is given also to as many others as embrace their religion, though of other nations." But then upon what foundation so good a governor as Hyrcanus took upon him to compel those Idumeans either to become Jews, or to leave the country, deserves great consideration. I suppose it was because they had long ago been driven out of the land of Edom, and had seized on and possessed the tribe of Simeon, and all the southern parts of the tribe of Judah, which was the peculiar inheritance of the worshippers of the true God without idolatry, as the reader may learn from Reland, Palestine, Part I, p. 154, 305; and from Prideaux, at the years 140 and 165). 

Before one is fit to celebrate our "Passover," which is to partake the Lord's Supper and foot washing under the New Covenant, he or she must be circumcised—not in the flesh—but in heart and ears, and our Token, unlike that of the Israelite, must be on display for it is the Life of Christ generated by the Spirit of Christ within the individual believer. Whereas the Israelite woman was "saved" under the Token of her father or her husband, "the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the Token of his Christian wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified under the Token of her Christian husband" (I Corinthians, 7:11-19). 

There is no shame in displaying our Token, and our Token is not the Token unless it is on public display. Now the soul that refuses the Message of God's Prophet in this day is "cut off" and "shall be destroyed from among the people" (Malachi 4:6; Acts 3:23; Revelation 22:17-19). This is so because since the Seven Seals are revealed, Christ is no longer a Mediator for ignorance, and without this Message he is "uncircumcised in heart and ears" and cannot have the Token, which is the new birth by the Fullness of the Word, aside from which he cannot be restored to fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Word (Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21-23; I Corinthians 13:10; John 17:20-26). 

The Lord God pronounced judgment on the serpent for his wickedness and said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and eat dust all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:14). Up to that time, the serpent walked upright, else the statement "upon your belly you shall go" would make no sense (Ezekiel 28:13-14). 

Most important is the following verse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." According to the testimony of the Lord God, there would be two different seeds. He spoke of the seed of the serpent, and also of its archenemy, both seeds would come through the woman. In Scripture, seed speaks of offspring, and there were in Eve's womb two different seeds as there are two different seeds in the church. 

Satan cannot beget nor can he create. He is a sexless, fallen spirit-being. Therefore he had to make use of the beast which was closest to man and could even speak. Only after the curse, did the serpent lose its upright human form and become a reptile. 

Genesis three records the conversation between the serpent and Eve. It began with the well-known question, "Has God said?" The Devil always uses the same approach: planting doubts about God's Word. Thus he misconstrued it, and entangled Eve. "You shall not surely die. . . Your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Uplifted at the prospect of teaching her husband the secret knowledge of sex—how they might fulfil God's Command to "multiply and fill the earth,"Eve fell for Satan's lie. What benefit was this knowledge of good and evil that separated them from God's Presence? Since that time the eyes of each one of us have been opened to know good and evil whereby we are accountable to God (Romans 5:12-14). 

The human attributes are found in the genes which actually lie in the chromosomes inherited through begetting in the sex act. In this way, Satan was able to inject his nature vicariously through the serpent into the human race in Cain and his lineage. Eve's transgression caused Adam to forfeit our dominion over earth to death. As we are conceived according to Satan's worldly wisdom, we are born with a nature of this world, which is the nature of the god of this evil age. Therefore the Redeemer had to come into human flesh "That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil, and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:14-15). Conquering Satan and death, and rising the third day, Jesus announced victoriously, "I have the keys of death and hell"  (Revelation 1:18). 

God's commandment was, "Be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28), so He instituted marriage and joined the first pair together. The tragedy lies in the breaking of this first marriage, when Eve listened to one she knew to be inspired by Satan, and in correcting him made God's prohibition even stronger by adding, "neither shall you touch the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil," which is Satan. Hereby she usurped authority over her husband, who was the spoken Word of God. Every species was to bring forth after his own kind, but in Eve's womb was a creature, cross-bred from Satan through the serpent, and not in the original creation. Whatever does not derive from His thoughts can never submit to the Word of God, which is His thoughts expressed. Eve then gave herself to Adam. 

Adam knew Eve was no more a virgin, and although she should have been burnt as says the law (which is forever written in heaven), he was not deceived, but he loved her and quickly took her to himself. Eve was dying, having crossed the Word from eternity into time but as a son of God Adam knew he could no more be lost than God can be lost. He also knew that Eve was part of him and if he joined her in death, God must somehow redeem him, so in dying he would 'save' Eve. A perfect type of Christ. 

Thus the Fall took place: Eve gave herself to the serpent and then had her first relation with Adam. From both unions, which happened in quick succession, children were born: Cain and Abel. 

In this day, 'twins' are born of different fathers. The best-known cases happened in Sweden and France. In Stockholm, when Mrs. Bjoerlen gave birth on the same day to a black, and to a blond blue-eyed baby, her husband refused to take financial responsibility for the child which clearly was not his. In the trial Mrs. Bjoerlen admitted to having a black lover. On the same day she had known both men. In France, a Mrs. Duval also gave birth to a white and a black child, and 26 year old Marseilles prostitute, Yvette Landru, gave birth to one white, one Negro, and one Chinese. Medical records are replete with cases of superfetation in humans, where a woman with multiple ova is fertilized by sperm of separate insemination. The offspring are not truly twins but half-brothers or half-sisters. True twins result from simultaneous fertilization of one ovum by two sperm. 

Whoever reads Genesis 3:15 carefully, will see the Lord God had spoken of the two seeds or offspring right after the Fall. So from the very beginning, there were these two lineages: the ungodly line of Cain and the godly line found in Seth. 

Not once is Cain mentioned in the genealogies of Adam in the Old or the New Testament. Not one time is Adam called the father of Cain. This is why Adam pronounced his wife "the mother of all living": never is it suggested that he is the father of all living (Genesis 3:20). Had Cain been the first-born son of Adam, he would have had the nature of Adam who was the son of God, and a special place in God's record. 

As Eve bore her firstborn, she exclaimed, "I have gotten a man from the Lord" (Genesis 4:1). This must be understood correctly. Eve was NOT declaring Adam was the father of Cain: under Satan's delusion she actually thought Cain was Christ, "the beginning of the creation of God." No other act with Adam is recorded between the births of Cain and Abel. We are simply told, ". . . And she again bore his brother, Abel. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth . . ." (Genesis 4:25). Since THREE sons were born from TWO acts by Adam, you know POSITIVELY that ONE of those three was NOT the son of Adam.

The apostle John also knew what happened in the Garden of Eden. He wrote, ". . . not as Cain, who was of that wicked one" (I John 3:12). In this statement Adam could never have been meant. Adam was not the evil one, neither the wicked one, whose son Cain was, according to the written Word of God. The same apostle wrote of the believers, ". . . because you have overcome the wicked one" (I John 2:13, 14). Again Satan is meant in this place as in many other places in the Scripture with this description. In Revelation 20:2, he is called "the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan." In the Gospels Jesus calls the opponent of God "the wicked one." God is altogether good; Satan is just the opposite. In the Lord's Prayer we petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" (Matthew 6:13). We now know "the evil one" is the vicarious father of Cain and origin of all ungodly things. 

Cain, the first killer and murderer, was full of envy and jealousy; and Satan was a murderer from the beginning—not in heaven, but on earth (John 8:44). Now it behoves us to consider what prompted such envy and jealousy as would cause Cain to murder Abel. It arose from their worship of God. Cain was rejected with his revelation, because he was carnal. Perhaps he thought it was an apple that caused the Fall, and knowing God requires life for life, picked the choicest of his crop, knowing the 'life' would go out of it. But by revelation from God the Bible says Abel knew animal had caused the Fall and so animal life must be offered. 

When the elder saw his 'works' rejected and Abel's sacrifice for which he had not laboured, accepted of God, it seemed so unreasonable. And when God told him he would be accepted if by faith he offered the same sacrifice as His vindicated prophet, he felt humiliated. Concealing his pride, Cain asked Abel to expound the faith. Abel was reluctant to explain, fearing for his life, but when Cain prevailed he expounded the 'original sin.' Cain recognized he was not Adam's son, that he had never possessed the birthright, and was nowhere in the genealogy of God, but that if he destroyed Abel, he reasoned there was the possibility of fabricating primogeniture. 

Hence, when God exposed Cain's evil and he saw there was no way he could claim Adam's birthright, which is ultimately the restoration to eternal Life in a restored world, he exclaimed, ". . . from Your face I shall be hid; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall slay me" (because intermarriage with his line always procreates the unredeemable serpent seed and further pollutes the human race). So to prevent man from taking vengeance on Cain and his kindred, God placed a mark upon him. That mark is worldly wisdom: reasoning against the faith. According to anthropologists and Brother Branham, the serpent seed were responsible for all inventions and the discovery of all technological principles. 

It is absolutely impossible for Cain to have come forth from Adam who was created in the image of the holy God from whom no evil can come. Satan misused the serpent to enter into the human race in this cunning way, and throw it into destruction and death. Thus it was necessary for God to come in human flesh without human male instrumentality to redeem us back from the power of Satan. When all the redeemed receive their full inheritance, we will be placed back into our original ordained position under God to rule over all the earth. 

Enoch was the seventh from Adam: Cain was not counted in the genealogy (Jude 14). Abel was killed with no offspring; therefore the record of the genealogy goes through Seth. In this respect, the Word of God is also perfect and enlightening—Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch—Cain is not Adam's seed and is not mentioned (Genesis 5:6-18; Luke 3:38). 

The seed of the serpent was just as real as the seed of the woman. If the serpent did not have a seed, then Christ too was a myth. The seed of the serpent was Cain; the promised seed of the woman was Christ. Paul referred to the promised seed, ". . . and to your seed, which is Christ" (Galatians 3:16-19). He is the seed for whom the promise was given. In the Old Testament, we read, "When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed" (Isaiah 53:10). God's law states that every seed must reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). So we should recognize not only did the serpent seed produce a physical race of people not on the Book of Life, but it also produces spiritual death in Adam's race, causing names to be removed from the Book of Life. 

God hates hybridizing—His Word is Spirit, and it is Life, but when mixed with human reasoning it is no longer His Word and becomes death (John 6:63; Revelation 22:18-19). In Luke 8:11 we read, "The seed is the Word of God." Before Eve could receive the physical seed of the serpent, she first had to receive the perverted word or suggestion of Satan into her mind—spiritual serpent seed—and reason against the clear instruction of God's seed Word. 

In Matthew 13:36-43 the Lord spoke clearly about these diverse spiritual seeds, "He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one." Our lives manifest our faith or understanding. A life lived by the Word is the Word expressed—Christ in you, the hope of glory. A life lived by God's Word hybrid into creeds is reasoning against the faith; it is the mark of Cain and of the beast, and is death. Those influenced by the wicked one hardened their hearts, to which Jesus said, "You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there no truth in him." He did not dispute their claim to be Abraham's seed, nor did he concede that they were also the seed of Isaac and Jacob and therefore Israelites. As we have noted, the majority of Judeans (or Jews) in His day were Edomites. Esau, their progenitor was Abraham's seed but he married into Cain's race and marred his inheritance. Knowing this the Pharisees protested, "We were not born of fornication; we have one father, even God." Jesus said, "If you were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham . . . and if God were your father, you would love Me." Since they were deceived on the Word and abode not in the Truth, even those who were in Adam's line physically, were serpent seed SPIRITUALLY, and blotted from the record of life (John 8:37-47; Psalm 69:21-28; Jeremiah 9:24-25). 

We must remember that God put "enmity" between the two seeds, "And I will put enmity between . . . your seed and her seed"  (Genesis 3:15). With the aid of the serpent, Satan came into the human race to destroy God's order. And the enmity is still there. 

Satan perverted God's holy instruction to "multiply and fill the earth," deceiving Eve and coming into human flesh and blood to produce death instead of life. "Man that's born of woman is of few days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). God required a perfect substitute, so Jesus was born of a virgin without sex, by faith in the spoken Word Seed of God to pay sin's penalty. Hence our second birth is not by woman but by the Man Christ Jesus without sin and without sex, by the spoken seed Word of God. 

After Pentecost, Satan returned to pervert the spoken Word seed of God by mixing or hybridizing it with reasoning into creeds and traditions. So long as the seven-sealed Book was closed and the mystery sealed to the time of the end, Christ was in the Office of Mediator, interceding in behalf of the ignorance of God's elect concerning the faith (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4,7). Once the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean Church Age had been baptized into the Body, Christ answered the call of the elders, fulfilling Revelation 4, 5, and 10:1-7. 

Advancing from the sacrifice altar as the bleeding bloody Lamb and taking the Book of Life, which is the title deed to all He has redeemed, He became Lion, Judge, and King of Kings. Revelation 10:1-6 signifies Christ descending to earth in WORD Form with the Book that was sealed open in His hands to reveal Himself through the ministry of the 'angel' to the Laodicean Church Age before the seventh Trumpet Angel sounds the end of the Gentile Dispensation (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:52). 

You see the Church Age saints cannot be made perfect without us. As the Holy Spirit was waved before God in the first ripe Sheaf of the Lord Jesus Christ, and accepted in that God resurrected Him for the justification of the whole harvest (Romans 4:25), that same Spirit in the Fullness of the Word is to be waved again in the end-time Bride whose acceptance will signal the resurrection of the sleeping saints and build faith for translation grace. The "church" will know nothing of this: God having called out the righteous, both wise and foolish virgin, their end will be a lake of Fire (Leviticus 23:16-21; Matthew 3:12; I Thessalonians 5:1-10; Revelation 19:20; 20:10).

Speaking through His prophets, God promised He would "RESTORE the faith once delivered to the apostolic saints" (Joel 2:25; Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:19-21). This is the ministry of the seventh Church Age Messenger, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, whose Message is the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16, which is the "midnight cry" heard and heeded by the wise and virgin of Matthew 25:6 and confirmed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4. This Message is Christ the fullness of the Word "spoken by the mouth of all God's holy prophets since the world began"—"that which is perfect" or complete (Acts 3:21; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7). It separates Christ's tiny Flock from the hordes of the great whore of Rome and her Protestant harlot daughters, bringing her into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation (Genesis 49:10; Amos 3:3; Matthew 13:41; Ephesians 1:10; Romans 8:19; II Thessalonians 2:1). 

The 'enmity' God placed between the seed of the righteous first and last Adams, and the unrighteous physical seed of Cain and the bastard-born spiritual children of the second Eve, whom Jesus calls "the mother of harlots and abominations on the earth," is extant. Christ's little Flock is marching toward heaven in the rapture, while Satan's mighty world-wide church is marching to Armageddon (Revelation 16:13-16; 17:14). 

Revelation 1-3 prophesies the battle that commenced on the day of Pentecost between Christ in His people, and antichrist in his people. These trees that stood in the midst of the Garden have grown together, like Judas and Jesus, as brothers within the framework of the Christian church, so close as would almost deceive the very elect if it were possible. However this is the harvest time, each congregation is bearing the life of the seed that was planted and cannot hide its fruit. Satan's apostate big church is uniting with the apostate smaller churches in order to convert or kill Christ's little Flock. But after a brief and powerful demonstration of the Spirit—NOT a public display as it was in Pentecost—our little hunted and persecuted group will go to be with Jesus. 

As Satan incarnate the beast in the Garden of Eden and led the first Eve to death, when he is cast out of the heavenlies he will evict his demons and incarnate the man of sin, thereafter called the beast, who will lead his followers to perdition. Christ's purpose is to be fulfilled in His Bride. He is that Corn of Wheat that fell to the ground at Calvary in order to reproduce Himself in the many-membered spoken Word seed Bride. 

When Jesus was on earth, Satan showed Him all the kingdoms and their glory in this end-time and said, "I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). Our Redeemer knew that once He overcame, and shed His blood for the redemption of those ordained for eternal Life, the inheritance forfeited by the first Adam would be His. Already the psalmist had said, "Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations" (Psalm 82:8; Revelation 11:15). 

Of Christ's elect or Spiritual Seed, the apostle Paul wrote, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ—if so be that we suffer with Him, we may be also glorified together" Romans 8:17). This will be fulfilled sooner than most (so-called) Christians dare imagine. We are privileged to live in the time when all the mysteries contained in the Holy Scriptures have been revealed, including the original sin in the Garden of Eden. bb930112.htm

This Article is basically the transcript of conversation via 'echo mail' in the days of Bible Believers' BBS

Thank you for your post. It is certainly a great encouragement to know there are 'eyes' out in cyberspace seeking the Absolute of faith. 

God's law of reproduction states that every seed bring forth of its own kind and that there is no change in specie (or evolution). God instructed Adam and Eve to multiply and fill the earth. But before Adam even knew how to procreate, Eve had committed adultery with the serpent, whose offspring, Cain, is not in the genealogy of the human race (i.e. the Book of Life); not in the genealogy of God either (i.e. the Lamb's Book of Life Revelation 3:14). Jesus Christ is the last Adam; He is not the last Cain. 

AW: I've heard this before. 

God's law of reproduction is Genesis 1:11. Every life brings forth of its own kind. If it produces a hybrid, it is death and can never breed itself back to original life because it is not a continuation of God's creative Word (John 6:63). The most famous hybrid is the mule, a cross between two of God's creations—the donkey and the horse. All hybrids are sterile or if they are fertile they cannot breed themselves back to God's original seed Word. 

Now, God's Word is Spirit and it is Life. 'Creation' is the manifestation of the Spoken Word. All species are God's expressed thoughts and therefore cannot change, and there can be no evolution. Cross-breeding is adding to or taking from His Word and the result is death—a mongrel, or what Jews call a mamser or bastard God did not create (Joshua 1:7; Revelation 22:17-19). 

Now the second birth comes not through sex, but through faith in God's Word for the hour in which we live. We must recognize our day and its Message day. When we can see that part of the Word manifesting in us, we know we are written epistles of the presentTruth and it is no longer us, but Christ (the anointed Word for the hour) living through us. 

If we add to, take from, or impersonate the Word for a day gone by, there is no way we can be born-again. It is no longer Spirit and Life when we add to or take from God's Word, but a creed or man-made tradition, dogma and death. All it can produce is a denominational hybrid: a spiritual bastard—spiritual Serpent's seed as Cain and his offspring are natural Serpent's seed. Now Adam was a spoken Word of God, and the beginning of the old creation. You will learn from the files In the Beginning and As it was in the Days of Noah, how God formed Adam (who was the beginning of the old creation) before He formed the lower creations. Some hundred years after Adam's manifestation, and after the finish of His creation, God put Adam to sleep and took from his side a rib from which He fashioned woman who is not original creation but a by-product. 

The first Adam had within him the whole human race (including Eve) just as the first lemon tree had within it every lemon fruit that ever was or will be. Adam was therefore the Book of Life. This Book is the genealogy of Adam's fallen race. And Jesus Christ is the last Adam and Kinsman Redeemer who died to redeem Adam and all of his seed. 

Jesus Christ is the Lamb's Book of Life. He is the Word (God) manifested in virgin-born flesh. The true Church is made from manifested faith in the Word for their day and was therefore accounted as being in Christ when He died on Calvary. She paid for her sinsin Him, and was justified by God in that He raised her in Christ on the third day, and she is even now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (II Corinthians 5; Ephesians 2; Colossians 3:3, etc). 

All those in Adam's race were born 'saved' from their mother's womb, because Christ has already paid the price of their redemption (John 1:29; Romans 6; I John 2:2). Whether they retain their name on the Book of Life and salvation (once they are beyond the age of accountability) depends upon what they do with the revealed Word when It is presented to them. Of course, most of Adam's race will make the wrong decision, resulting in the removal of their name from the record of life. Then they are as lost as those of Cain's race whose names were never written in the Book. 

The Lamb's Book of Life is a portion (or chapter) of the Book of Life, and the record of God's foreknowledge of those who would go from justification and sanctification to the baptism of the Holy Ghost which is the new birth—it's the record of those who are the elect and in Christ. Their names can never be removed, and together with Jesus they will judge the world at the White Throne Judgment after the general resurrection, and grant the 'saved' of Adam's race whose names remained in the Book of Life in to eternal Life (I Corinthians 6:2). 

Now Cain was never in Adam. He is nowhere in the genealogy of the human race (i.e. the Book of Life). Neither is he in the genealogy of God (the Lamb's Book of Life). He is vicariously 'of' or 'begotten of' that wicked one by agency of the Serpent's seed (I John 3:12). You'll note from Genesis 4 and 5, Eve conceived three sons from only two acts of carnal knowledge with her husband, so one of those sons was definitely not a son of Adam. Eve had already been beguiled (or seduced) by the serpent in chapter 3. 

Chapter 4 testifies to what happened. Eve, who was deceived by the Devil-incarnate Serpent—a man-like creature—actually believed she was bearing Jesus Christ ("the beginning of the creation of God"—Revelation 3:14). And she would have, had she waited for the Word, and brought It to birth. 

God changed every bone in the Serpent's body, placing him on his belly. We know him today as the snake. But it wasn't always so. 

AW: However the Bibles I have (NIV, & AV) don't seem to bear this out. 

Best to put modern versions on the shelf; they can be helpful sometimes in understanding some old phrase but whichever version you read, you will have to go original tongues for a serious study. Some of the newer translations omit whole verses as their objective is to reveal God by the 'letter' rather than by the 'Spirit' . . . by 'intellectual learning' rather than 'faith' (or a clear revelation of the Word), which is 'the mind of God' in you. 

I've ministered in seventeen countries and I have yet to find a minister (who is also a believer), no matter what his mother tongue, that does not study the KJV in English. Of course this is not to say there are not a number of mistranslations in the KJV because the whole of the Old Testament it adopted is the fraudulent Masoretic text written by Edomite Jews between the fifth and tenth century AD. 

So you see Cain and his descendants are not God's creation. Not on the Book of Life, and therefore without redemption. As Jesus Christ was the second Adam and not the second Cain, they have no Kinsman Redeemer. 

AW: was told that the Serpent/Eve offspring are the Jews. 

Generally speaking, the answer to this is 'no'. But it is important that we understand just whom the 'Jews' are, and who they are not. Jew is a term first applied to the Judeans or residents of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar when he took captives from the Southern Kingdom regardless of their race or religion. 

King Sennacherib of Assyria had carried away the Northern Kingdom some 200 years earlier. These are commonly known as the 'lost Ten Tribes' but we know them today mainly as Moslems. Isaiah tells us they will be gathered primarily from the lands surrounding Israel, not from London, New York or from Europe. Those 'Jews' are Gentiles impersonating the Hebrews. According to Britannica, all of the Jewish Encyclopaedias, and the most eminent Hebrew scholars and historians, some 95%+ of Jewry are wholly unrelated to Abraham, Isaac and/or Jacob by blood. And by no means do they have the faith of Abraham, following as they do the Talmud and not the Law or the prophets. 

Now if you read their history you will know that through intermarriage, many of these are Serpent's seed. Whenever a son or daughter of Adam has a child by Cain's race, that child and its offspring forever are serpent seed. 

AW: and that the descendents of Adam are the Aryans. 

Certainly Aryan's are descendants of Adam but so are the colored people. Color of skin is a function of historic dwelling-place. Although it may be a guide, it is not necessarily a pointer to race. 

AW: The Negros, Asians have been around for ages before Adam and their purpose is to serve the Aryans. Do you have any comments on this? 

Yes, it is unscriptural nonsense. 

Intermarriage between the people of Seth and Cain would ultimately hybrid Adam's race and those offspring would not be on the Book of Life. This hybridizing so grieved the Lord, He destroyed the world by the Flood. But we know from Scripture the Serpent seed was also in the Ark and Jesus prophesied hybridizing between the descendants of Cain with Adam's race would repeat right at the end of the Gentile dispensation. 

AW: I've been told that the flood was not worldwide, but only in a certain region and the Bible has been mistranslated in that where it says "face of the earth," it should read "race of the land." Any comments? 

I was told that once by the senior deacon of a church I was working out of, and I took the long way of researching various books—not to settle my mind, but to disprove what he had said. I spent several weeks reading. 

II Peter 3:5-6 instructs us the 'earth' (or land) was above the waters and the 'world' (or civilization) was submerged under water and perished. Also see Genesis 6:12, 17 and Job 22:15-17 where God said 'all' flesh and every land animal or 'thing that breathes under heaven shall die'. 

It is really a worthwhile study, for there is an abundance of information that records the world-wide flood. 

AW: Basically I believe you can have respect for other people's existence as human beings, but this doesn't mean you have to have a multicultural/multirace society. 

This is absolutely correct. Interbreeding with the physical Serpent seed is genocide, as receiving denominational teaching against the faith (spiritual Serpent's seed) is spiritual death. 

Racial mixing is accursed of God; specifically interbreeding with Serpent's seed. This was the result of the original sin. This so grieved God that He sent a flood which destroyed all of the land-animals not in the Ark. 

God is a separator. His people are a separated people (Deuteronomy 32:8). Read Genesis 10 and 11, this describes the separation of the sons of Shem, Japheth and Ham. After the Flood they intermingled again and God separated them at the Tower of Babel. 

God made promise to Abraham which He fulfilled through Moses and Joshua. He led the children of Israel to the Promised Land which was populated by the Serpent's seed. He instructed them to kill utterly all the Serpent's seed in the Land. They did not, and being deceived, made a deal with them. When the people of Judah returned from the captivity in Babylon, it was found that many of them had taken Serpent seed women to wife and we read in Ezra how they were commanded to put away those wives and their children. 

Indeed, we are to have respect for every creature. But those of us who are Christians are separated from 'denomi-'nations spiritually, as natural Israel was separated from the nations physically. 

Our forefathers knew that never in the history of the world have the races intermixed (except through lust at the time of the Flood), or through conquest. God destroyed all life on earth by the Flood because of multi-racialism. Jesus said this great evil wouldrepeat at the close of history. And we see Australia leading the world in ignorance, our treasonous politicians trying to buy favor with the haters of God and of Christianity who are setting up the New World Order. Peter said God would destroy all life on earth once again because of this abomination; this time by Fire (II Peter 3:6-10). 

AW: Sorry to bother you with all this . . . I'm sure you're very busy. 

Yes, I am very busy, but as a minister I am busy on the Work of the Lord and that includes responding to your letter. My business is helping you. 

I trust this letter has been profitable for you. It is later than most of us dare think. Download faithnow.htm it's a worthwhile slideshow which illustrates the PRESENT Truth. And if you'd like some fellowship on the Word, come along to church some time. 

AW: . . . Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. 

As you will have recognized from your Bible following what I had written in a previous letter, they were saved from the foundation of the world . . . if they are saved. What they do with the sermons they hear will determine whether they stay 'saved'. bb951123.htm