Sat.’s Devo - The Fall

Read: Genesis 3:1-4:26; Matthew 2:13-3:6; Psalm 2:1-12; Proverbs 1:7-9 Among the living creatures that God made were cattle, creeping things and bases. The serpent was a beast which was a wild animal. Lucifer spoke embodying the serpent and questioned their one law, not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree was Lucifer’s seed so when Eve ate of it she produced his fruit - Cain. When she joined with Adam she produced his seed - Abel and carried them both in her womb at the same time. If you research every time it gives Adam’s line, Cain is never mentioned because he was not his son. When God came to Adam and his wife and questioned them about their shame, they begin to blame. Adam blamed his wife, she blamed the serpent and God didn’t even question the serpent; he began doling out punishment. God cursed the serpent to crawl on the ground in the dust. The dust stands for death and nothingness. Man was created out of dust and only the breath of God could give dust life. God released hostility between the women and the serpent and Satan’s offspring and woman’s offspring. So the line of Cain would always be in war with the descendants of Abel and Seth. They are covered with skins and banished from the Garden of Eden. God told the woman the would experience pain in delivering her seed. She would desire her husband but her husband would rule over her. God told Adam that his punishment would be hard work from a cursed ground. Adam gave Eve her name because she would be the mother of all living. Eve had Cain, the seed of Lucifer, first and he was a murderer from the start. He couldn’t offer an acceptable gift because his heart was not turned toward God. Abel offered the perfect sacrifice as a type of Jesus who would become our perfect sacrifice. Abel’s sacrifice was a blood sacrifice and it was from his first fruits of his labor. Cain was so jealous of God’s acceptance of Abel’s gift and not his that he murdered Abel. When God came to Cain to ask where Abel was, Cain lied. God knew where Abel was because his blood had been crying out from the ground. God banished Cain from the land and sent him to a barren land. He cursed him to be a wanderer with no home. He marked Cain so no-one would kill him so Cain went to the land of Nod. There, Cain married and had Enoch which he named his city after. Enoch had Irad, he had Mehujael and he had Methushael who became the father of Lamech. Lemech was a polygamist and also a murderer. Meanwhile, Adam and Eve had another son to replace Abel and his name was Seth. Seth means “appointed” and when he had a son named Enosh, men began to call on the name of the Lord. In Matthew, the angel warned Joseph to flee to Egypt and stay there until he told it was safe to return. Herod was going to kill all the baby boys. Every time God is about to do something great in the world there is a killing of babies (Moses, Jesus, now). When it was safe, the angel told Joseph and the came back and settled in Nazareth. Jesus, cousin, John started preaching and baptizing people. His message was to repent of their sins and turn to God because the Kingdom of Heaven was near. John was the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecies of a voice shouting in the wilderness to prepare their hearts to receive the Messiah. People came from all around to hear his message and be baptized. Lord, thank you for your messengers sent to prepare our hearts for what you are doing. Thank you for your plan of redemption.