Friday, January 2, 2015

Fri.'s Devo - The Fruits of Sin

Read: Gen. 1:4-7 I said yesterday we would go back and talk about Adam and Eve. It was God that said it was not good that Adam be alone and it was God who brought Adam his bride. It was God who created this world to find a bride for Jesus and it is God who is going to bring forth that bride. The devil deceived the bride but Adam chose to eat the apple. (I Tim. 2:14) Sin entered through the first Adam and it was defeated through the second Adam, Jesus. Adam was a type of Jesus (I Co. 15:45-49) and Jesus chose to become sin for us. When they ate of the tree they knew both good and evil and when they produced children they produced both good and evil. Abel was good and offered a pleasing sacrifice just like Jesus was God’s son and he offered himself as a pleasing sacrifice. Both were accepted by God.
Cain was evil and offered an unpleasing sacrifice because his heart was evil. (1 John 3:12, Jude 1:11) Cain was the first murderer just as Satan was the first being to rebel in heaven. Adam’s third son was Seth which means “substitute”. He was a substitute for Abel who was killed. When Seth had his first son and named him Enos men began to call on the name of the Lord. Enos means “mortal man”. Finally a righteous line begins. All the other genealogies were from Cain, the unrighteous line. In chapter 5 it talks about Adam’s line and completely leaves out Cain because Cain was not of Adam’s line. If you look back at Genesis 4:1-2 it says that Adam knew Eve once but she produced two children. They were twins: one evil and one good. God only counted the good one from Adam. Of Cain it said he was gotten from the Lord. In Seth’s line we have Enoch who walked so close with God he just walked right off the earth into heaven. He is a picture of the raptured church. Noah is the grandson of Enoch.
Genesis six is key to understanding history. These demonic angels left their natural abode and came down and captured women and impregnated them. (Jude 1:6) Their offspring became giants that were half human/half demon. That was the reason God had to destroy the earth; the bloodline of man was becoming polluted with demonic blood. Noah’s blood was pure so God chose to save his family to repopulate the earth. The ark would be a replica of God’s first creation: three stories. They represented the sky, the earth, and the sea. He was only to save the things God had first created. The earth would begin again. What a picture of salvation.
Lord, help us to see Your saving grace in everything You do.

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