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When God created Adam and Eve, they were very good.
Genesis 1:27,31a (NIV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.…31a God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
God placed man in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:8,9 (NIV) Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
When God created man, man had a free-will to choose to love and obey God, or to choose to commit sin. In order to effectively give man a free-will, God had to give man a law to comply with, or violate. If man had no law to comply with, or violate; and therefore no way to violate God's law and thereby to commit sin; man could not have sinned, and consequently, man would not have had a free-will. The law that God gave man was the command to, "not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Genesis 2:16,17 (NIV) And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
"Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden." - Mark Twain 1835-1910
Adam and Eve committed the very first human sin, by eating, "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
Genesis 3:6-7 (NIV) When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
After Adam and Eve committed the first human sin by eating, "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," Adam and Eve gained knowledge of good and evil, and realized that they were naked. When Adam and Eve realized that they were naked, they attempted to clothe their nakedness in fig leaves. (To those who foolishly believe that man is simply another animal, consider that no animal in history has ever sinned, because animals do not have a soul. Consequently, no animal in history has ever attempted to clothe their nakedness.)
"Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them." - George Herbert 1593-1633
After Adam and Eve committed sin, they became sinful, and were no longer "very good", as they had been, referenced in Genesis 1:31a, printed above.
God cannot tolerate sin, and God cannot be in a relationship with anyone who is sinful.
Habakkuk 1:13a (NIV) Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.
The sin of Adam and Eve occurred when Adam and Eve elected to do what they wanted to do, irrespective of the fact that God had told them not to do it. In violating the law that God had commanded, Adam and Eve had by default placed themselves in the position of God of themselves. Adam and Eve had set themselves up as the god of their lives. When Adam and Eve set themselves up as the god of their lives; they spiritually separated their own souls from God, and physically hid their bodies from God. Adam and Eve's sin also effected the death of their spirit; consequently thereafter Adam and Eve possessed the sinful spirit of death in themselves. Because Adam and Eve possessed the sinful spirit of death in themselves, Adam and Eve had no option but to worship themselves instead of worshiping God. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden where they had been able to physically associate with God. The sin of Adam and Eve separated Adam and Eve from God; soul, spirit, and body. All of Adam's descendants thereafter are born with their soul and body separated from God, and with the sinful spirit of death in them. That is YOU. YOU are a descendant of Adam. YOU were born with YOUR soul and body separated from God, and with the sinful spirit of death in YOU. Because YOU were born with YOUR soul and body separated from God, and with the sinful spirit of death in YOU, YOU have committed sin. Through no personal fault of their own, because they were born with themselves selfishly set up as the god of their lives, not a single one of Adam's descendants could abstain from sinning every day, "in word, thought and deed".
The payment for sin is always death. "For the wages of sin is death" - Romans 6:23a (NIV) The just punishment for sin is death. God's perfect justice required man to die, for man's sin. When man sinned, man had to die as punishment, for that sin. Because of their sin, Adam and Eve deserved to die. Because YOU have sinned, YOU deserve to die.
God's Love provided a way of balancing God's perfect justice.
2 Samuel 14:14 (NIV) Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.
God's Love immediately revealed a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice clause within God's perfect order; to compensate for YOUR sin, and allow YOU to have atonement with God. Atonement means at-one-ment, for YOU to become one in a relationship with God, or reconciled to God. Hebrews 9:22 referencing Leviticus 17:11, demands a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice for atonement for sins.
Hebrews 9:22 (NIV) In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Leviticus 17:11 (NIV) For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.
God's redemptive Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan was put into effect immediately after Adam and Eve committed sin, when God clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins.
Genesis 3:21 (NIV) The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
The fig leaves that Adam and Eve clothed themselves with were not adequate. The Lord God took animal skins and clothed Adam and Eve. An animal had to die to cover the nakedness that became apparent to Adam and Eve after they sinned. The Lord God (Jesus Christ) was functioning in His capacity as High Priest when He sacrificed the animals in order to acquire their skin.
God's redemptive Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan was more clearly revealed, when God accepted Abel's sacrifice, but rejected Cain's sacrifice. Cain, Adam and Eve's first born son, offered a sacrifice of grain as atonement for sin, but Able offered a sacrifice of flesh. Cain's sacrifice of grain was not accepted by God. Abel's sacrifice of flesh was accepted. (An animal had to die as punishment to atone for Abel's sin.)
Genesis 4:2b-5 (NIV) Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
Like man, animals were created with, "the breath of life" - Genesis 2:7; and like man, animals were created with blood, "For the life of a creature is in the blood" - Leviticus 17:11a (NIV), but animals were created without a soul. Part of the purpose for the creation of animals, is that they would die as an atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice for man, until the atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice of Jesus Christ; when Jesus Christ was Crucified on the Cross. God created animals without a soul, in order that something living, that had "the breath of life" in it, that had blood in it; could die as a substitution for the punishment that man deserved, because man had sinned. The animals who were sacrificed did suffer and did die as punishment for a man's sin, but the animals do not have a soul and exist forever as man does, and consequently the suffering and punishment for sin was horrible, but was temporary. Because man has a soul and will exist forever, when a man dies and is punished for his own sin, then it is horrible and eternal! The animals who were sacrificed as an atoning Blood-Substitution Sacrifice for man, would cease to exist because they have no soul, in order to keep man who has a soul from existing in an eternal death in Hell.
In God's perfect Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice plan, the suffering and punishment of the animals was temporary. Because the animals had no chance for eternal suffering as the animals do not have a soul, the forgiveness that the animal sacrifice afforded was also temporary. Consequently, animal sacrifice was required day after day, year after year. As Jesus Christ has a soul, and will live forever, the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ the man, perfectly balanced the scales of God's justice, and consequently, the atonement is eternal.
Jesus Christ was Crucified, horrendously sacrificed and killed on a Cross, as a Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice punishment for the sin that YOU personally have committed, in order that YOU may have a restored relationship - atonement (at-one-ment) with God.
God made provision so that through faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ a person can live without continuing to sin.
1 John 3:4-10 (NIV) Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
YOU are either a "Born Again" Child of God, living a Holy life through faith in Jesus Christ, because YOU are filled with the Holy Spirit of Love, peace, and life; or YOU are a lawless Child of the devil who cannot stop committing sin because YOU are consumed with YOUR father the devil's spirit of hatred, theft, violence, destruction, and death.
The Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ replaced the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of animals. Now the ONLY avenue to God is through the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Acts 4:12 (NIV) "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
If YOU do not avail YOURSELF of the Blood-Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God's ONLY avenue of atonement, then YOU will pay the full price that God's justice demands for YOUR sin.
When God imposed Himself on creation, thereby imposing His perfect natural order on creation; could God have imposed a different system of natural order on creation, than that system of natural order which God imposed?
No, God could not have imposed a different system of natural order on creation than that which God imposed, for this reason. Everything has degrees of quality, as in good, better, best, all the way to complete perfection. God is completely perfect. The ultimate perfection is love, and the ultimate love is referred to as "Agape" Love. God’s system of perfect natural order that God imposed on Creation is perfect "Agape" Love. God IS "Agape" Love.
1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
"Agape" Love is a completely unselfish, completely pure, totally giving love, spoken out from the Creator in every direction, and is unaffected by anything within its path. Any deviation from God’s perfect natural order that God imposed on creation, would be a deviation from perfect "Agape" Love. God will never deviate from perfection, because God will never deviate from Himself; consequently God will never deviate from God’s perfect natural order that God imposed on creation.
Only man, with man’s free-will, and Holy Angels are allowed to deviate from God’s perfect natural order. (Holy Angels are allowed to deviate one single time, whereupon they instantly become fallen angels. Fallen angels have deviated from God's perfect natural order by sinning, however when they exercised their free-will and sinned, every single one of them including Satan, lost their free-will and became completely and totally restricted by God's perfect natural order.) As with angels, man must pay a penalty for every single microscopic deviation that man makes from God’s perfect natural order. Before angels sinned, angels knew God, and they knew about God’s perfect natural order; and they deviated from God's perfect natural order anyway. Man is ignorant. Because of man’s ignorance of God and God's perfect natural order, it was possible for God to establish a Redemption Plan for man. The disorder of sin required a legal, reciprocal, compensation avenue to balance God’s perfect natural order. The Salvation Plan requiring the Crucifixion of the Perfect Man, Jesus Christ, is the only form of compensation that was mathematically acceptable within God’s perfect natural order.
God is a Trinity. God is a Soul, God has a Spirit, and God has a Body. Man was created in God's image (Genesis 1:27). Man is a trinity. Man is a soul, man has a spirit, and man lives in a body.
At least three things occurred when man sinned and was cast from the Garden of Eden. Man's soul was separated from a daily walk and communion with God, man lost the Holy Spirit of God as man's guide, and man's body was separated from the Garden of Eden where all of the desires of man's body were provided for man, free of any charge. The sin of man separated man from God; soul, spirit and body. God immediately provided the Redemption Plan for the atonement of man's soul. Part of the Redemption Plan made provisions for the return of the Holy Spirit of God as man's guide. God also provided a plan for the redemption of man's physical body. The Redemption Plan for man's physical body was different for the man than for the woman.
Redemption of the soul - God's plan began with the substitution-sacrifice of animals and concluded with the Substitution-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ to atone for man's sin, in order to bring man spiritually back to God.
Redemption of the spirit - One of the function's of the Holy Spirit of God is to counsel man. When Adam sinned, Adam was banished from the Garden of Eden and the physical presence of God (Genesis chapter 3). At that time, man also lost the Holy Spirit of God as man's Counselor. The Holy Spirit of God cannot dwell in an unholy being, and so the Holy Spirit of God could not dwell in man until Jesus Christ came, and was Crucified as a Substitution-Sacrifice Punishment for man's sin, thereby enabling man to live a Holy life. God's plan was to send Jesus Christ as a Substitution-Sacrifice Punishment, thereby enabling man through faith in Jesus Christ to live a Holy life; and enabling the Holy Spirit of God to return and indwell a man. Man lost the counsel of the Holy Spirit of God at the Garden of Eden, and did not get the counsel of the Holy Spirit of God back until the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4), and only when man is living a Holy life. Because man lost his Counselor, man was steeped in spiritual ignorance:
Acts 17:30 (NIV) In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Since the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit of God is now able to dwell in a person who is living a Holy life, and consequently the Holy Spirit of God is able to counsel or guide that person. When founding YOUR faith on the Holy Word of God, and in those instances where YOU perceive a contradiction in the Holy Word of God, YOU must ask the Holy Spirit of God to lead YOU into all truth:
John 16:13 (NIV) "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come."
John 14:26 (NIV) "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."
Ephesians 1:17-19 (NIV) I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
Luke 11:9-13 (NIV) "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
Ephesians 3:4-5 (NIV) In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets.
Redemption of man's body - man would be forced to work, and man would die a physical death:
Genesis 3:17-19 (NIV) To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
Exodus 20:9 (NIV) Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Proverbs 18:9 (NIV) One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
Proverbs 21:25 (NIV) The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NIV) For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
Most people do not avail themselves of God's Redemption Plan for the soul and the spirit, and most people attempt to avoid God's Redemption Plan for their physical body.
The Redemption Plan for man's body is that man has to work. The more wicked man becomes, the less he will want to work. As men become more wicked, they will resist work even more. Men will become more lazy, sloppy, and slothful than they are today.
"The stay-at-home mom is over, not just because of women's liberation but because of men's liberation from wanting to be the breadwinners." - Uma Thurman July 13, 2006
As the Seven Thousand Years of Measured Time continues, the laziness of men will result in a lawless, disorderly and chaotic society, governed by a lawless, disorderly and chaotic government. God is a God of perfect discipline, perfect law and natural order. The Antichrist is a man of lawlessness - no discipline, no law, no natural order. During the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period (Matthew 24:21-22 [KJV], Revelation 7:14), the discipline and regimentation of most men individually, and society as a whole will be gone. That lawlessness will effect disorder and chaos throughout the world. That disorder and chaos will allow many "Born Again" Children of God to evade the Antichrist and death when the Antichrist attempts to kill the "Born Again" Children of God.
Redemption of woman's body - Women were NOT directed to work like men as redemption for their bodies. The redemption plan for women is that they would have pain in childbirth, and that they would desire to be in subjection to their husband:
Genesis 3:16 (NIV) To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
1 Timothy 2:13-15 (NIV) For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
The National Organization for Women in America (NOW) lobbies for women to work on an equal basis with men. God never meant for women to work like men. Women were not directed to work like men. Women's bodies are not built for hard physical work. A woman's body does not typically carry the heavy muscle that a man's body typically carries. That is why in this, "unisexual politically correct" society, there must still be separate divisions for male and female athletic competitions. Women are to be a help and support for their husbands, while their husbands work. Women working like men is as dysfunctional in a society, as men attempting to carry and birth babies.
When a woman has sex with a man inside or outside of marriage, she automatically becomes psychologically subjected to some extent to that man. We have all seen examples of a woman who was paired with some sorry piece of scum man, whom the woman would not leave. It is because that once a woman crosses the sexual line, she is psychologically addicted to that man and subconsciously desires that he, "rule over" her, referenced in Genesis 3:16 printed above. The more sexual a woman becomes with a man, the more the woman desires the man to, "rule over" her. Every menstrual cycle that occurs, when a woman is at her physical weakest, while she is with a man, there is greater psychological pressure for her to become more in subjection to that man. Do YOU think YOUR mother was always as subordinate to YOUR father as she is now?
YOUR mother is not in subjection to YOUR father? That is because the sinful self-will of a woman is in rebellion to her psychological desire to be ruled by her man, and so a sinful woman resents being in subjection to her man. The more sinful a woman becomes, the less that she wants to be in subjection to her man.
A sinful woman's rebellious heart makes her desire to violate God's command. She rebelliously wants to rule over her man. If her man allows this, then the woman psychologically resents her man for not giving her the security of leadership. This psychological/sinful war creates massive turbulence within a woman. The sinful woman's heart is at war with her head. This psychological/sinful war creates chaos and wreaks havoc within the home. It confuses the children on what role God has set forth for them to fulfill. It is one of the reasons confused children begin practicing homosexuality. This war will aid in the destruction of the family as a unit, and consequently aid in the destruction of our society in general.
"The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head." - Mencius 372-289 B. C.
God in His infinite wisdom, knowledge, understanding, planning, and natural order structured the human mating process to typically begin at a time when young people’s hormonal urges are at their strongest, and when these individuals are most malleable in their lifestyles.
As young people began developing personal psychological awareness, the four universal questions they begin asking themselves are: Who am I? What is my purpose here? Where did I come from? Where am I going? These introspective questions come simultaneous with a developing hormonal drive that instinctively urges young people to mate. In nature, opposites attract; and so follows that most young couples are diverse in many ways. After mating, the diversity of the couple begins to create friction between them. It is sex that functions as a cohesive to hold young couples together while they make the concessions and compromises that are required in order for them to function as one unit in marriage. In the designed order of things, the couple grows together across their lifetimes, and become more and more to be, “one flesh” referenced in Genesis 2:24. Their respective hormonal drives decline as time goes by in their lives, and in a direct inverse proportion, the couple typically becomes more molded to one another, and more set in their ways.
(Note: The physical intercourse that occurs when two people become "one flesh", is a fore-glimpse of the spiritual intercourse that occurs when God and man become "one spirit". The circumcision of the physical body that is required by the Levitical Law prior to physical intercourse between a man and a woman, is a fore-glimpse of the circumcision of the heart that is required of a person prior to spiritual intercourse with God.)
Early in the couple’s relationship, the individual mates begin to realize that they have a need to love, and to be loved that is not being satisfied by their human partner. The devil tempts all mates to try to satisfy that need outside of their marriage. What very few mates realize, is that the need to love and be loved, that is not being satisfied by their partner, is not a need that can be satisfied by another human. That need to love and be loved, which is not being satisfied by their human partner, is a spiritual need. That spiritual need can never be satisfied with another human; that need can only be satisfied through spiritual intercourse with God.
As time elapses, the devil continues telling an unsatisfied mate that some person or another outside of the marriage is the perfect person to satisfy the unsatisfied mate’s need. Many unsatisfied mates will believe the devil’s lie and commit adultery. After the temporal physical lust declines, the adulterous and still unsatisfied mate will realize that they are less satisfied than they were before they committed adultery.
If the unsatisfied mate does not succumb to the devil’s temptation, the tempter continues tempting. As the unsatisfied mate ages, the unsatisfied mate consciously or subconsciously believes that if they are ever able to find, "the perfect mate", then the unsatisfied mate would return to the hormonal drive, and the malleability that the unsatisfied mate had, when the unsatisfied mate was young. Any person who believes that is a fool. The chances of a middle age person finding a second partner that will completely satisfy them as they believe that the first mate should have is nil. Everything is working against that possibility. God's perfect natural order is working against the success of the subsequent relationship. The problem is that the hormonal drive of each of the re-mates has weakened. Additionally, each of the re-mates are much more set in their ways. Both of the older individuals have a diminished sexual drive, and both of the individuals are more set in their ways. Opposites still attract one another, but the hormonal drive is not strong enough to force the remolding of the re-mates into, “one flesh” referenced in Genesis 2:24. Consequently, the re-mates either live with a bad situation, or they continue to re-mate again in life until they exhaust themselves, at which point, they stalemate.
When cement, sand, rock and water are mixed together, the mixture begins a chemical exothermic reaction to set and form concrete. Once the materials are mixed together and the chemical reaction begins, every time that the concrete is re-mixed, the strength of the concrete is reduced from its original design strength. So it is in a human marriage. Once a sexual bond is made, every single sexual bond thereafter with a different mate is weaker than the bond with the first mate. In God’s Perfect Design, life is only long enough for one good marriage.
Malachi 2:13-16 (NIV) Another thing you do: You flood the Lord's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. 14 You ask, "Why?" It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. 15 Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 16 "I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel," and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the Lord Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.
Should YOU find yourself past YOUR malleable and hormonal youth, and outside of a failed marriage; even if YOU have the Biblical grounds of adultery justifying YOUR divorce, YOUR best course for complete joy and fulfillment is to satisfy YOUR need to love and be loved through communication, communion, and spiritual intercourse with God.
Corinthians 7:28 (NIV) But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
Consider the first act of murder. Cain was a farmer. When Abel's blood hit the ground, the ground was cursed to Cain. The ground would no longer produce for Cain; and consequently his descendants became ranchers, musicians, and ironworkers.
Genesis 4:1-22 (NIV) Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." 8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" 10 The Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." 13 Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 But the Lord said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech. 19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute. 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
Sin Corrupted Man's DNA
At creation, God imposed His perfect natural order on the universe.
Genesis 1:3 (NIV) And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Within that perfect natural order, God built-in cause and effects, which by default imposed rewards and penalties for action or inaction. After creating man, God educated man concerning one law and the penalty for violation of that law. When man violated that law, man automatically incurred the penalty of spiritual and physical death. Adam would never have died spiritually or physically if Adam had not sinned.
Genesis 2:16-17 NIV) And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
In God's perfect cause and effect natural order, the penalty was already built in so that the day Adam committed sin; the effect was that Adam's physical body began decaying. Adam lived 930 years and then Adam died (Genesis 5:5).
Romans 6:23a (NIV) For the wages of sin is death,
Biologists have stated that within the human body, every single cell replaces itself, or is replaced within a seven-year period. (Seven is God's number.) If every cell is replaced within a seven-year period, then physically we are completely renewed every seven years. Man was originally designed for complete cell replenishment into infinity.
What cause effects a person to ultimately get old and die?
When Adam sinned against God's Law, Adam's sin twisted Adam's replenishment process such that Adam's replenishment process would not function infinitely. Sin twists or distorts the replenishment process thereby restricting the natural function of the replenishment process. It is not coincidental that the structural arrangement of DNA is represented by the twisted double helix. Our DNA genetic reproductive structure is always represented as being physically twisted.
Within God's design, another element was required for the maintenance of man's replenishment process into infinity. That element is contained within the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life was in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:9 (NIV) And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
After sinning, Adam was removed from the Garden of Eden to keep him from eating of the Tree of Life, which would have forced Adam to live in a sinful state forever.
Genesis 3:22-24 (NIV) And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
At the time of Adam's sin, the life span of Adam was reduced from infinity to 930 years. The wickedness of Adam's descendants continued to additionally reduce man's life span.
Genesis 6:1-6 (NIV) When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
When "the sons of God" mated with "the daughters of men", that physical intercourse was so wicked that it grieved God that He had made man. That physical intercourse was not simple fornication, adultery, homosexuality, or bestiality, as when the sins of fornication, adultery, homosexuality, and bestiality were recorded, we did not get the equivalent horrific reaction from God. That physical intercourse was human women mating with creatures that were not human. God is the father of all creation. God created everything, including all of the angels, and all of the humans. God created the angels that fell, and God created the humans that fell. "the sons of God" were created by, and therefore direct descendants of God. In view of their wickedness, we know that these "sons of God" were fallen angels, or demons. "the daughters of men" were just exactly what the Holy Word of God describes them as; they were the female offspring of human men. The process of elimination only leaves us with the conclusion that the physical intercourse that occurred was between human women and fallen angels (demons). Prior to the Flood at the time of Noah, fallen angels (demons) mated with human women, and produced "Nephilim." This mating of human women and fallen angels was physical intercourse, but between women whose spirit was dead (since the fall of Adam) and demons who were depraved, fallen spirits. This physical intercourse occurred when the devil and his angels attempted to duplicate the spiritual intercourse that God desires to enable man to have with God. The devil and his fallen angels are strictly and completely controlled by God. Because the devil and his fallen angels are strictly and completely controlled by God, the devil and his fallen angels would never be allowed to rape the human women. The sexual intercourse that occurred between the demons, and human women, was permitted because the human women have a free-will. God does not restrict a human from sinning, or God would deprive that human of their free-will. The sexual intercourse that occurred between the demons, and human women is because the demons tempted the human women to desire, and then to free-willingly participate in sexual intercourse with the demons.
Immediately following the mating of demons with human women, and the consequent production of "Nephilim," the Flood occurred.
Genesis 6:5 (NIV) The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 6:11-22 (NIV) Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them." 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
God did not flip a switch to start the Flood of Noah's time. God built penalties for wickedness into the universe when God created the universe. There are defense mechanisms built into the human body internally and externally for the protection of the human body. There are also defense mechanisms built into the universe internally and externally, for the protection of the earth. These defense mechanisms that are built into all of creation have thresholds that when man crosses, trigger responses for the self preservation of the human body; and trigger responses for the self preservation of the universe in part, and as a whole. It was the wickedness of man that triggered the Flood. The physical intercourse of demons with human women was so wicked that it made the creation convulse:
Romans 8:22 (KJV) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
The sin of man is continuing to effect groanings and travail of the whole creation. Due to sin, the earth is sick to the point of continuous convulsions. The SIN of man is effecting earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, heat waves, blizzards, extreme hot/cold weather, etc. The Sin of man caused the earth to vomit, just as the sin of man makes Jesus Christ want to vomit:
Revelation 3:16 (KJV) "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."
Prior to the Flood, the earth's belly was full of water that the earth then vomited up.
Genesis 7:11-12 (NIV) In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
This is similar to humans getting sick the first time they chew tobacco, smoke a cigar, or drink strong alcohol. The human physical body adjusts to these poisons, although continued use of these poisons continues damaging the physical body until death. The earth was damaged but the earth adjusted, even though the sin of man is continuing to damage the earth, and will ultimately result in the death of the earth. The earth altered itself for defense purposes, and was virgin no longer to the wickedness of demons mating with human women. The water was no longer substantially in the earth's belly; the earth vomited the water to the surface of the earth. The hydrogen crystalline firmament that was above the earth, that protected man from the harmful, ultraviolet rays of the sun, came down in the form of rain. The firmament rained down, and was gone. The earth radically altered itself. So when the "sons of God" came back, and again mated with human women, it did not result in a second flood.
After the Flood, "and also afterward" (Genesis 6:4b), the "Nephilim" were again in existence, so the mating of fallen angels and human woman continued even after the Flood. Arba may have been a first generation "Nephilim." Arba resided in Hebron. Hebron is a terrible trouble spot today.
Numbers 13:32-33 (NIV) And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Deuteronomy 9:1-3 (NIV) Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. 2 The people are strong and tall--Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: "Who can stand up against the Anakites?" 3 But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.
Joshua 14:15 (NIV) (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)
Joshua 15:13-14 (NIV) In accordance with the Lord's command to him, Joshua gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion in Judah--Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.) 14 From Hebron Caleb drove out the three Anakites--Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai--descendants of Anak.
The Anakites were descendants of demons. Some of the Anakites lived in Hebron, but Joshua killed all of them in that area.
Joshua 11:21,22 (NIV) At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.
As referenced in Joshua 11:22 printed above; "only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive." We have no Biblical or historical record of the Anakites in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod ever being wiped completely out. Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod are Palestinian cities. Is the extreme wickedness that is occurring today through terrorism being perpetrated by people, some of whose lineage is from demons? After all, Allah is Satan, Satan is the king of terrors, and the Islamic method of operation is terrorism.
Job 18:5-21 (NIV) "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning. 6 The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out. 7 The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down. 8 His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh. 9 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast. 10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path. 11 Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step. 12 Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls. 13 It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs. 14 He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors. 15 Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling. 16 His roots dry up below and his branches wither above. 17 The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. 19 He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived. 20 Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror. 21 Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."
God said that He would be at war with the Amalekites from generation to generation:
Exodus 17:14-16 (NIV) Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the Lord. The Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation."
Deuteronomy 25:19 (NIV) When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
God instructed Saul to kill all of the men, women, children, infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys of the Amalekites:
1 Samuel 15:1-3 (NIV) Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' "
1 Samuel 15:7-9 (NIV) Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, to the east of Egypt. He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs--everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.
1 Samuel 15:17-20 (NIV) Samuel said, "Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And he sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.' Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord" "But I did obey the Lord," Saul said. "I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.
Is is possible that the Amalekites also had DNA from demons? That would certainly make God's command to destroy all of them completely understandable.
Saul disobeyed God's command and did not destroy the Amalekites. It was an Amalekite that killed Saul.
2 Samuel 1:1-13 (NIV) After the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days. 2 On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and with dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor. 3 "Where have you come from?" David asked him. He answered, "I have escaped from the Israelite camp." 4 "What happened?" David asked. "Tell me." He said, "The men fled from the battle. Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead." 5 Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?" 6 "I happened to be on Mount Gilboa," the young man said, "and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and riders almost upon him. 7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, 'What can I do?' 8 "He asked me, 'Who are you?' " 'An Amalekite,' I answered. 9 "Then he said to me, 'Stand over me and kill me! I am in the throes of death, but I'm still alive.' 10 "So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord." 11 Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them. 12 They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 13 David said to the young man who brought him the report, "Where are you from?" "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite," he answered.
Saul also spared King Agag of the Amalekites. Haman, the enemy of the Jews, was a descendant of King Agag. Haman was an Agagite:
Esther 3:1-11 (NIV) After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. 2 All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor. 3 Then the royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's command?" 4 Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai's behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew. 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. 6 Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. 7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, they cast the pur (that is, the lot) in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar. 8 Then Haman said to King Xerxes, "There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them. 9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business." 10 So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11 "Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and do with the people as you please."
Was Mohammed with his philosophy of "steal, and kill, and destroy" (John 10:10) a descendant of the Anakites, or Amalekites? Was Mohammed's father a demon? The murdering, lying, stealing, pillaging, pedophile Mohammed was certainly a spiritual descendant of the devil:
John 8:44 (NIV) "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
The physical intercourse of fallen angels and human women dealt a horrible physical blow to the gene pool of man. When fallen angels (demons) mated with human women, man's DNA was damaged to the extent that man's life was reduced to approximately 1/8 or only 12% of what it had been. Those wicked acts damaged the human gene pool to the extent that man's life cycle was placed on the path that would reduce man's life eventually to 70 years.
Prior to the Flood of Noah's time, Methuselah lived 969 years.
Genesis 5:27 (NIV) Altogether, Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.
By the time of Jacob (Israel), man lived only 147 years.
Genesis 47:28 (NIV) Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
By the time of Moses, the human replenishment cycle had deteriorated to the extent that man lived only for approximately seventy years.
Psalms 90:10 (NIV) The length of our days is seventy years-- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
The sin of man continues to seriously impact man's life cycle. The AIDS virus is greatly reducing the length of a man's life. Scientist's do not know exactly when humans contracted the AIDS virus. The first cases of AIDS in America appeared in 1981. There is agreement among scientists that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus. The sooty mangabey or "green" monkey carries the HIV virus. The HIV virus transferred from monkeys to humans when man became involved in bestiality. It is a surety that some human or humans got involved in bestiality. In God's perfect cause and effect order, the penalty for the sin of bestiality was placed in the monkey at creation 6,000 years ago.
Exodus 22:19 (NIV) "Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death."
When man stepped across God's Law into bestiality, man ingested the penalty of HIV into man. I am certain that it was not the first time that man had been involved in bestiality, anymore than conception automatically occurs the very first time humans become involved in physical intercourse. When all of the conditions were right, the transfer of the penalty of death occurred. That penalty for sin which transferred the HIV virus into man escalates the deterioration of the cell replenishment process, and death occurs within a few years. Sin has again further deteriorated the length of man's life.
All Science is the study of God's perfect cause and effect order. Mathematics is a reflection of God's perfect cause and effect order.
"Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." - Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Logic is built on God's perfect cause and effect order. Biology and astronomy are the study of God's creation. History is the study of God's relationship with man, and sin's impact on man. Philosophy/theology is the study of God. To attempt to understand anything without the recognition of God is foolish.
Psalms 14:1a NIV) The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
In man's searching of God's perfect natural order which we call science, man has learned how to delay the HIV deterioration through a large amount of drugs (cocktails of anti-biotic). Man has learned how to speed up, and slow down the cause and effect natural order of God. As man continues to play with genetics and the DNA, man will continue to unlock more of the characteristics of God's cause and effect natural order. Man will be able to use God's perfect natural order to alter God's cause and effects, and thereby extend the length of man's life. Man will use God's cause and effect natural order to delay God's cause and effect natural order. In the future, and during the Millennium, man will be able to extend the replenishment cycle such that man will live substantially longer.
Isaiah 65:20 (NIV) "Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
While man will alter, extend, and manipulate life, man will never be able to create life. Man will never be able to take dirt, breathe into dirt, "the breath of life", and make the dirt live.
Genesis 2:7 (NIV) the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
When Jesus Christ rules from Jerusalem, Jesus Christ will dictate against man sinning. Due to dictated righteousness, man will live longer.
At the end of the Seven Thousand Years of Measured Time, when man gets to Heaven, man will be able to eat of the Tree of Life. Man's replenishment cycle will be fed, and man will never grow old.
Revelation 22:1-3a (NIV) Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse.
Revelation 22:14 (NIV) "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Revelation 22:19 (NIV) And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
From the birth of Adam, it was only 1,656 years until man had so corrupted himself that God's Creation had to destroy in a flood, all of mankind except Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives (referenced in Genesis chapters 5-9).
After the Flood, the spirit of the devil was still active in the heart of Noah's descendants:
Ephesians 2:1-2 (NIV) As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
The spirit of the devil was still active because God had not yet sent His Son Jesus Christ as an atonement thereby enabling man to have a pure heart (Matthew 5:8). The fact that the spirit of the devil was still active in the heart of man was evidenced in the actions of Ham after the Flood.
Genesis 9:20-27 (NIV) Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers." He also said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave."
One of the spirit of the devil's desires that was innately in man, was a desire to go back to Heaven.
Isaiah 14:13-14 (NIV) You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
Sumaria was the first civilization of recorded secular history, and existed after the Flood. Sumaria was located in what is now modern day Babylon (Babel). It was there that man decided to build a tower that reached to Heaven.
Genesis 11:1-9 (NIV) Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."" So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel: --because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
At the Tower of Babel (Babylon) God confused the languages and thereby separated man. The separation of man following the attempted construction of the Tower of Babel occurred during the time of Peleg. Peleg was born 1,755 years after Adam and lived for 239 years until 1,994 years after Adam. Peleg means division.
Genesis 10:25 (NIV) Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
Genesis 11:16-19 (NIV) When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters. When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 1:19 (NIV) Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
There still exists today a tower of worship at Ur in Sumaria dating from the time that Peleg lived. When God separated man, what man learned in Babel (Babylon – Sumaria), man took with him wherever he migrated. Following that separation, man established cities throughout the world, with the earliest cities of record having been found at Jericho and in Egypt. Man's desire to ascend to Heaven was then evidenced in structures found throughout Mesopotamia, Egypt and by the Mayans in Central America.
“It is fascinating to see from the earliest beginnings of monumental building an almost universal spiritual need to reach up to the heavens. The specific gods may change through history but the ambition remains constant." - pg 2 The Architecture Time Charts C Michael Stephenson LLC and Worth Press Ltd. 23 Prospero Road, London N193QX United Kingdom
The Flood was 1,656 years after Adam. Peleg lived from 1,755 to 1,994 years after Adam. The Division of the Earth occurred during the life of Peleg. The Tower of Babel occurred a maximum of 338 years after the Flood. The Tower of Babel occurred sometime within the 99 year to 338 year window of time after the Flood. God's awesome power was demonstrated by the Flood. With the knowledge of God's awesome power, how could the descendants of Noah and his sons have deteriorated so rapidly to the conditions that occurred at the Tower of Babel? The answer to that question is; in the same way that the people of the United States of America have deteriorated so rapidly in a 230 year period. The people of the United States of America have deteriorated from a people who left France, Spain, and England, to go to a foreign, uncivilized country, fraught with danger in order to attain freedom of worship. The freedom they were seeking was from the Roman Catholic Church in France and Spain, and the Anglican Church in England. Today, six of the Supreme court Justices are Roman Catholic, and the other three are Jewish. There is not a single Protestant on the Supreme Court. Six of the Supreme Court Justices belong to an organization that trains their members to pray to Mary, the Queen of Heaven; the other three Supreme Court Justices do not believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Jewish Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan does not openly admit that she practices homosexuality, but her female partner does admit to practicing homosexuality.
Peleg was born 1,755 years after Adam, lived for 239 years, and died 1,994 years after Adam. Abraham was born 1,945 years after Adam. Peleg was alive when Abraham was born, and lived for approximately 49 years during the life of Abraham. As soon as God divided the people of the earth because of sin during the time of Peleg, God began enacting God's plan to bring people back to God in Righteousness through Abraham. God directed Abram to leave Abram's homeland of Ur where the Tower of Babel was located, in order to isolate Abram from the wickedness that existed in Ur.
Nehemiah 9:7-8 (NIV) "You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.
The Tower of Babel occurred when Satan tempted humans to create a physical tower that Satan hoped would enable Satan to re-enter Heaven. Satan was the motivating factor behind the construction of the Tower of Babel, as prior to that time, no human had ever been in, or even heard of Heaven. Prior to Satan imparting esoteric occult knowledge of Heaven to man, no human could have had any compelling motivation to go to Heaven because no human had even heard of Heaven prior to that time. If the idea of re-entering paradise had been initiated by humans, the humans would have attempted to return to their human paradise, which was the Garden of Eden. The fact that the humans were attempting to enter Heaven, and not re-enter the Garden of Eden, is proof that the idea of a physical tower with which to enter Heaven, was originally from the devil.
Man's spiritual desire to ascend to Heaven that motivated the Tower of Babel still exists today. It was partially that innate desire that motivated man to travel to the moon. It is partially that innate desire to ascend to Heaven that is the motivation behind man surveying the planets through the Hubble space telescope.
Mankind is searching for other forms of life in the universe. The search for other forms of life in the universe is a veiled attempt at disproving the Holy Word of God, and consequently the existence of God. Because of the perfect cause and effect natural order of God's universe, mathematics is universal. Two plus two equals four at the farthest stretches of the universe. As mathematics is universal, so many social laws are also universal. No society by any form of life anywhere, can deviate from certain social laws. If we were to find another society (we won't), that society would either:
(1) be built on love,
(2) or be less advanced than man is today,
(3) or that society would have advanced to the state of destruction, and no longer exist.
God is Love.
1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
If a society is built on God (love) and God's laws, that society can function infinitely. If a society is not built on God (love), that society will either have not yet advanced to the state that mankind has advanced to on earth, or that society will have already advanced to self destruction.
"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Mankind is at the advanced stage of where a society moving away from God (love) goes. Mankind has almost advanced to the point of self destruction. God will be forced to intervene soon, or man will destroy himself.
Matthew 24:22 (NIV) "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened."