Beginnings (Genesis 1-11) / Lesson 5: The Strategic Bridge

All right. Are we ready? All right. Well, we are continuing on. We're in lesson five. By the way, I will forget this at the end, but I just now remembered, we are not having any classes or anything here next Wednesday night. So just know you've got a week off. All right? Spring break's next week. So I have told you. So if you come next week, it's not on me. My big worry is I'll probably come next week. So that's kind of where I am. Okay. So here's what happens whenever we're reading through the Bible. We read Genesis one and we just go, wow. I mean, it's just incredible. Day one, day two, it's all that. Get into Genesis two, we're reading about the garden of Eden and all the details there. We have all kinds of questions in that area. And we get to Genesis three and it's just, oh my goodness, it's so incredible. And then we come to Genesis four and five and we go, okay, I just need to get past this. And we want to get over into the flood and everything. But tonight, what I want to do is I'm going to share with you what I'm just calling it the strategic bridge, that what we read and see in Genesis four and five are setting us up for the, for the second rebellion. And remember the first rebellion we've talked about was in Genesis three and in Genesis six, we have the second one, but between the two, we have this, what I'm just calling it the strategic bridge. And so as we come to it, remember, we've talked about the reality of the seed war. We've talked about this systematic corruption we're going to see beginning to expand, but then we're going to also see where God is preserving the image of God in humanity. So we're going to see those things, uh, tonight going to be looking at some of that. We're going to see how that battle goes on and see what happens in this. So as we come to it, let's just look at some things. And so kind of look at the, at the landscape, because as we come to this, we know that on one side that God gave a mandate. Genesis three 15 was a divine mandate that God set out there. And as he set that mandate out, he has a divine decree that was put out. However, the enemy has strategies and he wants to thwart that any way he can. As a matter of fact, that's what he believed he did in Genesis three is that he thwarted the command that God had given to humanity. And in some ways it looked as though he did in fact, win. And so as we come to this, we are going to be looking at, at, at how to walk in and what's happening here. So as we get in, let's go into section one. And in section one, I've titled that just the inaugural tactical strike. You call it the first strike if you want to call it

that. And, uh, and it is the story most of us are, are very familiar with. And most of us, um, look at this and we think about the story of Cain and Abel. Now here's what we normally do. Whenever we think about the story of Cain and Abel, we come away with from a human standpoint, and this is not a problem about the dangers of anger. You know, anger is one letter away from danger. And we think about those things. We think about, uh, how easy it is for sin to, to come at us and those kinds of things. And so we look at it that way, but we're going to look tonight and we're going to take it up a notch and we're going to look at it from the, from the, the spirit world standpoint was of what is really going on. And we're going to see some things here that I hope encourage us. And so if you have your outline and want to write this down, the very first, I think, thing I have under there on the outline is that Cain's attack against Seth is a targeted strike. It's a targeted strike against God. And I said to against, against God to eliminate the righteous seed. So we're going to see this is that what, what's happening in these first 15, 16 verses here is a targeted strike against God to eliminate the righteous seed. In other words, the two boys were born. They, as they began to grow up, it began to be obvious that one of them was choosing to follow God's ways. And we're going to see that we're going to see how it works out. And so as we come to it, we have, and this is, most of us know this as we're looking at Cain and Abel, we're going to see what I'm just calling the prototype of worship. And so as we come to it, we have, and this is, most of us know this as we're looking We're going to see the two different forms of worship really here that we find and so at Cain and Abel, we're going to see what I'm just calling the prototype of worship. as we come to it on one side we have Abel which is the righteous seed and it just says this in those verses 3-5 it says, and I just divided the two of them up, in the course of time Abel brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions and the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering. Now on the other side let's look at the way it's told in Cain's offering. It says, in the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground but for Cain and his offering he, the Lord, had no regard. So Cain was very angry and his face fell. Now what's the difference between Cain and what's going on here? In fact I know that there are some that say well Cain really didn't do that bad, I mean what does it matter, what does it matter in the offering that's given?

And I mean these are the first two humans born on earth, I mean how do they know what to do? They didn't have the law of Moses, they didn't have all of the sacrificial dealings that were out there. What's going on here and why is it that God looks at this and says Cain, what you've chosen to do I am not accepting. But Abel what you've chosen to do is accepted by me. Now what is it that's going on? Now remember we've got to look at it from the perspective of eternity so let me give you some things that we see here and some things that we want to look at. So in this prototype of worship from Abel's side, the righteous seed, what's the source of his worship? It's faith. What's the source of Cain's worship? It's human effort. Now you say, how do you say his was faith? I mean maybe he just had herds. Well go over to Hebrews chapter 11, I don't have it on the screen, if you want to write it down. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 4, here's what it says, by faith Abraham and Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain through which he was commended as righteous. God commending him by accepting his gifts and through his faith though he died he still speaks. Now here's the thing you've got to understand. Abel didn't just decide, hey I think I'm going to offer, you know, one of the flock. Faith is not just some whimsical idea. Faith is the response to divine revelation. It's the response, what faith is, it's a response to the revelation of God. So in other words, when you have the revelation from God that Jesus Christ died for your sins and that becomes, in other words, the veil is pulled back, revelation comes, and when you receive that it's by faith. For by faith you've been saved, not by works. So his response in worship was a faith response. Now if you say, well where did he know that? Well again we looked at it briefly a couple of weeks ago, but in Genesis chapter 3 we have in there that whenever God was sending them out before he sent them out of the garden, it says verse 21, and the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Now some people have tried to say, well see they didn't have skin, but that's not true because the Bible tells us from the ground they were formed as humans. What were the skins? It was actually the first sacrifice. God in the garden of Eden took animals, made sacrifice, took their skins, and clothed Adam and Eve, and in that showing them, God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins that they, because of the shame, because their glory was gone, because of the fall, he covered them to say, I am going to bring through a sacrifice, a covering. Does that make sense?

And they understood that. Now does that make sense? And in understanding that, they passed that on to their children. However, Cain decided he was going to have, he had a better way of doing it. He knew he needed to offer God something, and what we have here is we have the ultimate offering of works of righteousness, if you will. It's out of human effort. By the way, notice that the scripture tells us in this passage, it says that he took fruit, he brought some of the fruit, and it names it in particular, fruit of the ground. I know that that may not make a big deal or make a lot of sense to us, but if you go back to Genesis 3, when he talks about man, what was it that God cursed? The ground. And so Cain is attempting to bring from a cursed ground something to be acceptable to God, and God says, no, that's not what I've called you to do. It's a faith, worship is a faith response, not a works response. And so in this, what you find is you find the two different types of worship. Man-made worship that's by works, and God-ordained worship, righteous worship, which is by faith, through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. So down underneath this, if you want to write down, righteous worship is by faith in the atonement of Jesus or Jesus Christ. Now I'm going to give you a little Hebrew word here. I do think it's important for us, because what happens next is where we're going to take it up a notch. We're going to open up to see from the spirit world level what's going on. So after this happens and Cain's face falls, the Bible tells us that after this, God says to him some things. He says, you know, why are you angry? You know, don't be angry. He says, let me just read it here. It says, the Lord said to Cain, why are you angry? And why is your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? In other words, he says, go off for the right sacrifice. Do it my way. But this is what he says next to him. And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it. Or its desire is to have you, is toward you, is to come against you. And so as we come to that, those little squiggles up in the middle, that's Hebrew. And that is, it's the word, and it's robates. It's R, and then the next letter there, the little dot on top lets us know it's an O sound, row. And then the next letter is a bait, or it makes either a B or a V sound. And then underneath it, those two dots let us know it's a long A sound. They didn't have vowels in the Hebrew. And so those were put in, well, they were put in about 1200 AD because people, the rabbis and scribes realized that people don't know

how to read Hebrew anymore, or at least we better put it in there. And then the last letter makes a TS sound. So it's robates. But that's the word for crouching. And so whenever you look at that word, that word crouching there, if you have your outline and want to put this down, crouching means to, and just write this in there, lie in wait or to ambush. Crouching means to lie in wait. In fact, the ancients used the word, in fact in other, in the Mesopotamian background, they, that word signified a being, an evil being that would literally lie in wait to take, a spirit, to take a person's life. being, lying in wait to attack somebody. And so in this, what we're seeing here is that he's saying that the enemy is looking for a door. He's looking for a way in. Ephesians 4, verses 26-27 tell us, be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. You have no opportunity, or the Greek word is topos. You ever heard of a topography map? That's where it comes from. But it means place or opportunity to the devil. If you want to think of it this way, you know, I know UMMC just had a, what do they call it, malware? Is that what it's called? And here's how that stuff works. You've got your hardware and you've got these things pinging all the time and they're looking for a door. And they're constantly, this malware is constantly pinging. And once it finds an opening, it comes in. And that's exactly what God is saying here. He's saying you need to be very careful where you are right now, Cain. You're about to make a decision that is going to forever change your trajectory. If you'll do it my way, don't do it this other way. Do it my way. If you'll worship me the way I tell you, it's going to go good. So what does he do? Well, we know what he did. He gave himself over to his anger and he killed, struck and killed his brother. I want you to see, I want to share next about this section, I think I'm in the next part now, part two, section two, the way of Cain. I want to talk about this for a little bit. And as we're looking at it, I want you to think about some things because we're seeing this first strike. The enemy, he came against the righteous. See, he came against the righteous. See, by faith he was declared righteous. Abel was and because he was worshiping God by faith. And then we have Cain and what he does. And so after this, this is what the Lord says to him. He says this to Cain. He says, and now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall

be, now I want you, this is the main part. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on earth. You should be a fugitive and a wanderer. In other words, what God says is this. You know, I'm taking you out of my presence and now you're just going to wander on your own. So what does Cain do? Does he wander? He does not. The Bible tells us what he does. Listen to what Cain does. Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled. Notice the word. The opposite of wandering is he settled. In the land of Nod east of Eden, Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch. It's not the Enoch that we're going to be looking at later. It's a different one. And notice what he does next. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. This is the first city. So what is the way of Cain? Let's just look at it. Because what you see are three ingredients. I've got them down in your notes. If you may give them to you. In your notes, let's write this down. Three ingredients. First one, open rebellion against God. God said, you're going to wander. Cain says, I will not wander. I will settle. I'm not only going to settle, but you said you're going to protect me, but I don't trust you. So I'm going to build my own city to protect me. Next, longing for human autonomy or to be my own God. I can make my own decisions. I can make my own way. Third, moral bankruptcy. And we're going to see that grow over time. And the third one, open rebellion against This is the way of Cain. Man-made worship. I didn't put that in there, but it's man-made worship, open rebellion against God. God says, do it. If you'll do it this way, it's going to be good. Cain says, I'm going to do it my way because I believe my way is better. After that, we follow the lineage of Cain, and then it comes down to a guy by the name of Lamech. We don't talk a lot about Lamech, but Lamech is actually what I believe is where the line of Cain opened themselves up to the tragedy of what happens in Genesis 6. And the reason why is because, just listen to some of the things about him. By the way, Lamech was seventh from Adam down the line of Cain, and the number in Bible, biblical numerology, seven is the word for completeness.

And so Lamech, in a very real way, has given himself over totally to evil. What Cain started, the way of Cain, it's now reached a fullness, and the Bible talks about some of the things he was doing. First, a perversion of marriage. And by the way, I didn't take time on this, but the names of his two wives, Adah and Zillah, those two names are actually one, the first one, I don't remember it exactly, Adah, it's about beauty, but the Zillah is actually a word that can be used for sensual. And it's really what we have here is Lamech taking wives that he wanted. Next we find is his arrogant boasting. Let me just read it to you, is the boasting of Lamech, is in verses 23 and 24 of Genesis chapter 4, it says, Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say. Actually, this is the first song recorded in the Bible, it's a song. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me, and notice what he says. If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is 77 fold. Do you hear the arrogance? God said, because whenever Cain was going to be, he goes, oh no, you're going to send me out there, I'm going to be on my own. And God says, no, you don't worry, I'm going to put a sevenfold judgment, I'm going to protect you. You don't worry about that. And he used seven times, sevenfold. Well, Lamech's arrogance and pride says, that may be what God can do, but I can do 77 times. In other words, the sevens there twice means totality, it means complete protection. I can take care of myself and I believe, we don't read it here at all, but I believe this was when the infiltration of the sons of God that we read about in Genesis 6 really began to develop. And I'll tell you a little bit about that, probably more in two weeks. Whenever you read this, I want you to just think about that line of Cain, and this is now, this is total rebellion, total self-centeredness, total, I can do it my way.

But that 77 is kind of interesting. And it's interesting because you may remember the story in the New Testament, whenever Peter comes to Jesus and he asks him about, when somebody offends us or sins against us, how many times should we forgive them? Seven? Let me just read it to you. When Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not say seven times, but 77 times. I just think it's interesting that you've got Lamech saying, I'm going to bring revenge, total revenge on anybody who messes with me. And Jesus is saying, we need to give. Total forgiveness to anyone who offends us. Do you see the difference between the seed of Cain and the righteous seed that Jesus came to fulfill? And so as we come to this, we're watching and seeing these things unfold in just a powerful way. But I wanna come to this next one here because this one's gonna be, honestly, to Americans, this is gonna be upsetting, all right? Let me just throw it out to you. It's gonna be upsetting to you. You're gonna probably think I'm saying some things I'm not necessarily saying, but probably it's some lessons we may need to be cautious of. Because what happens next is really, I'm just calling here a dark prosperity. The line of Cain begins to develop unusually.

As a matter of fact, he has three sons that are named here. Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain. And the Bible makes it clear that these three were the ones who developed and expanded three basic areas. And I'm just calling it here the Cainite. I know some of you are saying, he misspelled. It should be Cainanites, not Cainanite. It's Cainite Industrial Revolution. That what Jabal did was he became, literally, in the passage there in Genesis. Let me just read it to you. It said that Jabal, he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. And what it's talking about there is not just having livestock as in a shepherd. It's talking about commerce. It's talking about the development of industry, about being industrialized, is really what he's talking about, about commerce. Jubal, it says here about Jubal, was that he was the father of those who play the lyre and the pipe. Our music, our entertainment. Now, remember, there's nothing wrong with music, nothing wrong with industry, as long as it's under the righteous seed. But you see Cain, the way of Cain and his lineage were stepping and making life work without God.

They were developing industry without God. They were developing the arts and entertainment without God. And then the last one that we have here, the third one, this third son, Jubal Cain, he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. And so what you have here is he was developing weapons as well as tools, tools and weapons. Again, nothing wrong with tools and weapons, but in the hands of those who don't follow God, they become used for evil. And so I just put down underneath that at the bottom of it, a key truth, just to keep in mind. Technological advancement without spiritual alignment leads inevitably to a culture of death. So just write this down into this. This opened the door for the Cainite Industrial Revolution if you didn't put that in there. And then underneath that, this evil revolution consisted in, I named three things, industry, entertainment and war. What's interesting about this is whenever man without God develops these, they can develop amazing things. The problem is that the more they develop of these things, they're used to promote and expand evil. And that's the way that those without God use these things. So as we're looking at that, we begin to see that what's happening here is there is this growing group, and I mean building cities, having great industry, building weapons, they are doing this. Now, just as a side note, and I'll probably talk about

in a couple of weeks a little bit more, but on a side note, in, and you may have heard of the book of Enoch, which Jude quotes, Peter quotes. In there, it is told in there that the sons of God who came down, taught through the knowledge of good and evil, man without God, taught industry and weaponry and entertainment, or the arts. So basically what it says in Enoch was that it was a demonic influence that led to the growing and the understanding of how to do these things. So maybe this might make sense to some of us. You know there are some people now that are saying that it was aliens that came down and gave all the Egyptians all the intelligence and the things that they did for building the pyramids. Maybe they are not as far off as we want to think. Maybe it's aliens but it's not beings from other planets. Maybe it's demonic beings infiltrating and teaching these things. Just a side note. Alright, let's go on. Section 3, the line of Seth. As we come to the line of Seth, let's just see kind of some things that are told here. It says, and Adam knew his wife again and she bore a son and called his name Seth for she said, God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel for Cain killed him. To Seth also a son was born and he called his name Enoch. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord. So you have this break. Whenever Abel died there is this break that takes place as humans and you say where did the humans come from? Well this is the part they don't tell you here but Adam and Eve had many children. You got to think about just, well Adam lived 930 years so they had lots of children. But whenever she had Seth she knew this is a special one. This is one that's going to replace Abel. So as we come to it, I think it's interesting in this, in the line of Seth, just kind of think about his name by the way, it actually makes a sh sound. Sheth is really, but we just say Seth. It means appointed or could be substituted. Basically the concept here is that the promise of God is going to continue. What Satan thought he was doing in destroying it, stopping it, cutting it off, God says I still have a plan, you're not cutting my plan off. So then that brings us to Genesis chapter 5 and whenever we read Genesis chapter 5, every year whenever I get to it, I read for several years what I did was I made a timeline and I just started putting names born, died, born, died, born, died. I remember whenever I worked it all out, I kind of added

it all out and got it all out there and went and realized that at the death of Methuselah that year, that same year was the beginning of the flood. It was when the flood hit. It was the same year Methuselah died. So it was kind of, oh my goodness, that was kind of cool. I want to show you something else that's kind of cool because you know God has a story. He has a redeeming story that he's telling and as we're coming into this, there's some things that we see. Now as we come to this chapter 5 and we look at it, basically what we're seeing is that we're finding here the image of God is going forward and God's taking his image forward and we have these long lives. We're seeing some genetic integrity, but now let me tell you, there was a lot of other kids that were being born that aren't named. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other people is this kept going because you've got to think about 1,700 years. So there's a lot of births happening. A lot of growth is happening. And so you find that there is this, and we're going to be looking at this about how this line as it's being named, there are certain things that we are finding out. These are people that kept, if you want to say, the human genome that we're going to look at in two weeks, kept it pure or kept it as human. And some of you that may not have been with me before teaching on this, it's going to be, I'm going to be talking about the sons of God in two weeks, so in Genesis 6. So we'll be looking at that. Looking at that. But there is something else that we also see as we read through this list in Genesis chapter five. And as we read through this list, we keep reading about, and this one was born and then he died. And this one was born and then he died. And this one, and so we're looking at this and saying, wait a second, these people keep dying. I mean, they just, we look at it how long they lived, but there's another side to it. There's this constant drumbeat that they die, and they die, and they die.

Now, as you're looking at the story beginning to unfold, we need to understand there is the line of Cain on this side that is growing and developing and advancing in technology and advancing in economics and all of this. And then you've got this other line that is not following that, but does begin to, eventually, we know that in Genesis six, why God sent the flood. But in the middle of this list is the strangest thing, is a guy named Enoch. Now, you remember I told you that Lamech was the seventh in line? Down the line of Cain. Seventh in line, down the line of Seth, was a guy named Enoch. And Enoch didn't die. The Bible says he walked with God, and then he was no more because God took him. And the way it says it, is it says that God snatched him, that he did not die. And so whenever we come to this, there's a story that's being told. God's telling a story here. Because you can just imagine, for hundreds of years, they're believing that there are those along the way, this line of Seth, these people that are saying, I know that the ways of Cain are wrong, but man, they look like they're prospering. Man, they look like they've got it together.

Man, it seems like everything's going good, and we keep dying. And then Enoch comes, and God, I believe, from a spirit world standpoint, was letting the enemy know, I'm still God, and you're not the one that's gonna rule. I'm letting you know that I'm snatching. And he was really a prophetic warning. And so in your outline, oh, I didn't tell you this before that, the line of Seth, and I didn't say it right, the line of Seth was not, is what it should say instead of in, not immune to the drumbeat of death. I mean, so just scratch out in and put not. So the line of Seth was not immune to the drumbeat of death. In other words, they were dying. But let's go down to the next one, because Enoch was a prophetic warning to his wicked generations of the coming judgment. There's coming, as a preacher said a long time ago, payday someday. Judgment is coming, that there's gonna be a snatching. He was a prophetic warning of that. I wanna show you something, and then I'm gonna kind of get us ready for the next two weeks from now, just briefly. But there's a cool teaching that you find in Genesis chapter five with the names. We know that from Adam all the way to Noah is 10 names, or 10, what would be called generations, 10 names. Now, you know, in the Hebrew, this is a cool thing about, whenever you take Hebrew, it's really, this is a fun part,

is that all the Old Testament names that are written that we read are actually Hebrew words. So if anybody says you don't speak Hebrew, you can say, well, yeah, I do. Noah, that's actually Hebrew. Methuselah is actually Hebrew. Moses is actually Hebrew. Abraham is Hebrew. And so they're just, what they do is, what we do is we just, what's called transliterate. In other words, we just take the letters and write them down. down. So in that though, it's one of the big things you find in scripture and especially in the Old Testament is that names carry meaning. So in fact whenever I was taking, I don't remember which one of the Hebrew classes, Hebrew is Genesis, I was in, we were going through Genesis 37 through 50 and in it we had to read a chapter every week and you know you might say a chapter of Genesis is not hard. It is in Hebrew, let me just tell you. And whenever we were reading it, we would take and I got used to it, it's my third year in it so you kind of get used to it and as you're reading it, the sounding of it, all of a sudden the names of the people, the names of the cities, the verbs that are used, they all fit. They had this, sorry about that, that's my daughter-in-law calling me, but in the middle of all of it, those names carried meanings. And so whenever we look at those ten names, I'm going to show you something and I've given it to you actually because I thought I'm not going to spend all this time, but those names, if you were to take the ten names, if you were to look at them, Adam means man, Seth means appointed, Enosh means mortal or weakness, Kenan means sorrow, Mahalalel means the blessed God, Jarod or Jared means shall come down, Enoch means teaching or prophet teaching, Methuselah means his death shall bring, Lamech means the despairing, and Noah means rest. And if you put those together into a sentence, it comes out something like this, man is appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessed God shall come down, teaching that his death shall bring the despairing rest. Isn't that cool? And here you have in Genesis 5 the gospel laid

out for us. And so basically, if you want to write down in your notes, I put the names in Genesis 5 are a gospel promise. And then underneath that, I put those names in that sentence, which I just have up on the screen. And then the words that are added in there that are not the actual names, I put in lower case. But if you look at Genesis 5, it's kind of like that. But let me just give you, I'm going to give you this. Is that all the outline notes? It's not all it is? Okay. Let me go on and give you some more stuff here because basically I'm going to kind of get us ready for the next part, which I'm just calling it right now. I'm just going to call it the hardware reset and I'm going to call it other things probably, but for this, this section is basically getting us ready for the flood and what happened in this. And so what was going on in Genesis 6 was we're seeing in Genesis 4, we're seeing the line of Cain, the way of Cain beginning to grow and expand, beginning to take over. In fact, took over so much that we come, we'll see this in two weeks in Genesis chapter 6, where it says that in verse 5 says, the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. It also says down in verse 9, it says of Genesis 6, these are the generations of Noah. And then it says, Noah was a righteous man. We're going to see this all in two weeks or maybe longer, but it may be after that. Blameless or perfect. And we'll talk about what that means. In his generation, Noah walked with God and the way it is told here, he was the only one left. He was the only one that hadn't given themselves over to the mindset and the ways of Cain. And so as we're going to be going to that, we're going to see what happens is that God in this whole story, he is preserving the human seed. Now why is that important? We're going to look at it in just a minute. But actually, I want you to, you'll see that the flood was a dynamic and dramatic act of mercy. I know that many of us say, but all them people getting killed. And we're going to see why in two weeks. All right. And if you've been with me before, you know what I'm going to teach on, but let's, well, let me just give you this. Here's some things just to, you can, we'll be talking about this in two weeks, but this second rebellion, it introduces what I'm just calling a severe genetic sabotage. You see, again, we've got to go back to Genesis 3 15. What is it? What did the Lord say to the serpent? Your seed will strike his heel, but her seed, the woman's seed that we talked about last

week will crush your head. So he knows that there's coming someone that's going to ultimately defeat and destroy what he's worked so hard to get. So what's he going to do? He's going to try to fix that. And so as we're going to be watching and we're going to be seeing, he begins that process of trying to eliminate the human seed of woman. And so as we watch what he's doing, he begins, and we're going to see this, he begins to do those things. He tries to bring about, and we'll look at this again. It's a genetic sabotage. He wants to infiltrate the seed that of man so that we are not fully human, that we are something other. And literally it's, we're going to see it becomes a biological pandemic. And I know some of you here are going, I just think that's the craziest thing I've ever heard. And I believe that that is, and by the way, there's many commentaries that are written that you, that we'll look at in two weeks that talk about the sons of God being angels coming down to infect the human genome. But here's what I think is the greatest danger. And I'll talk about this more as well. You know, there's this unusual, uncanny, bizarre interest in aliens that has risen over the last 20 years. You notice that? In fact, people are telling us now, oh, they've been here. And they keep talking about it. And of course we can look at it from the side of no being can come from another planet and get here. There's no way they can do that. However, spirits can. So I just want you to think with me for a minute. And by the way, we know that angels can appear as humans. Genesis chapter 18 tells us that they look like men. Genesis 19 tells us that. In fact, in Hebrews says, show hospitality for some of you have entertained angels and didn't even know you were in it. In other words, they looked like humans. So let's just say that a being appears and works supernatural works. That a being appears and works, supernatural works and comes and says something like this to a culture that literally believes we are evolving. When we are not, we are genetically devolving. And that is scientific, but they come and say, Hey, look, I know that we waited till you were ready. And we believe that you are ready to take the next step forward in the evolutionary line. We're ready to take you forward. I know some of you are so tired of just, you've tried everything in the medical ways to

live longer. What if we told you you could live forever? And what if we told you that we're going to help you make it to that next evolutionary Mark? You know it, I know everything looks gradual, but even our scientists say, well, there was gradual. And then there's all of a sudden this evolutionary leap that takes place. That's why we can't find the in between just what they're saying. And so these come and say, this is the leap. First of all, the church will have zero to say, because we don't believe in spirits anyway. We definitely don't believe that Genesis 6 teaches anything like that. Probably most of us here have never even heard anything about that. And what's the world going to do? Who believes in evolution? Who wants to believe in evolution? Who believes in evolution? Who wants to believe in evolution? to see themselves become great and have this great utopian society, peace on earth. Just a thought about that. But as we're going and we're looking at it, that's what we're gonna be looking at in a couple of weeks. But let's just look at the, what I'm just calling here the trajectory of the seed war. What's happening is we're seeing it escalate. We're gonna continue to see it escalate. And we see that, you know, phase one basically was the deception of the parents in Genesis chapter three. And then we came into phase two, was I'm calling here in this screen here, was just where Cain kills Abel. So in other words, it's this attempt to eliminate the seed and then, or the offspring. And then we get into phase three, was basically what we found in Genesis four, the corruption of the culture. Let's totally, let's get them to build cultures without God.

Let's get them to be able to develop great enterprise without God. Let's help them develop superhuman industries without God. Let's help them build great war machines without God. Let's help them be able to stir the emotions with music and the arts without God. Does that changed much? And then we go on to the next phase. And that's the infiltration that we're gonna look at in two weeks of the genome, of the genetics. And so as we're looking at these things, we're just coming down to really trying to get our heart around what's really being told. And I know that some of you are still saying, oh my gosh, I don't know what I think. But I promise you in the Old Testament, everything's gonna start making more sense. Your Bible is gonna wake up. All of a sudden, the stories that you're reading are gonna begin to come alive. I mean, you're gonna go, oh my goodness, and we're getting there. We're gonna continue to work our way there. And as we continue to work our way, we're gonna begin to see more and more of what's told in scripture. But we also see that God has a plan that the enemy will not thwart. He has a plan and it doesn't matter what it looks like. You know, it's always interesting to me

how God in the scriptures, he always seems, it seems like to me, he chooses the losers. And then he doesn't help them much at all. It seems like. They wander around everywhere. And anything that they do good, it seems like it's some kind of supernatural thing they do good for other people's benefits, for the world's benefits. And we see it over and over and over in scripture. I mean, he chooses, we're gonna see, we'll just kind of lightly touch this, but he chooses Abraham. And I don't want you to think about it for just a minute. He chooses Abraham and Sarah, and both of them are too old to have kids. In fact, the Bible tells us her womb was dead. That's good. And God says, this will be a good place to start, my people. And so as we're looking at that, and just as I, even as I was preparing it and getting myself ready for it, I was just saying, Lord, um, don't let me become so enamored with our culture that I think that we actually know what we're doing. Don't let me think that because America has bigger bombs that we're more godly. Because we get bigger promotions that we're being blessed by God.

I know I'll just say this, throw it out real quick, that I learned this a long time ago, it's kind of a statement I've learned, is that blessings are anything that draws you closer to Jesus, and curses are anything that draws you away from Jesus. So just know that if, and I've had guys before that come to me about getting a big promotion somewhere, and I would just kind of ask them, well, is it gonna, are you gonna, is it gonna help you draw closer to Jesus? It can, I mean, I've got many people that I know that, that, you know, they went into it and it was a blessing. I mean, to them spiritually, but I've also had many that it wasn't. And so as we're looking at it, don't walk away saying that I'm saying that if you are successful that you're probably evil. I'm not saying that. But I am saying that we need to be careful. You know, the Bible still calls money, the Bible calls it the old King James Filthy Luker is what he called it. And in our, as we're going through this, we're going to see how the allurement of the enemy literally almost in several times brought the world to its collapse. But God, I always say he's the master chessman. He lets the enemy just keep moving, taking pawns, taking bishops. And then he makes that one move and says, check mate. And so as we're going in, we're going to get to that next one next or two weeks. And remember, I said it again, we're not meeting next week, but as we look at it, I'm going to go ahead and just stop here. But I hope for you that you're encouraged that the Bible says so much more. And so if we'll just allow the Lord to speak to us, we'll watch his victories, what it really is unfold before our eyes. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for your word. And I thank you for how kind you've been. Lord, I pray you'd continue to speak to us. And I pray that you'd guide us. And I pray that your word for all of us would come alive. I know it is alive, but it would come alive in our hearts.

So we give you the glory and we pray blessings in Jesus name. Amen.