Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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Father in Heaven, we thank
You once again for the privilege
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of being here to
study Your Holy Word.
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We ask for the guidance of
Your Holy Spirit as we open
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to the book of Genesis.
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Help us to understand the great
issues that are brought forth
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in this wonderful book, and we
thank You for hearing our prayer
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for the ask it in
Jesus' name, Amen.
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We're going to begin our
study in our lecture today
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at the place where we
ended in our last lecture.
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Genesis 3:15, Genesis 3:15.
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Now for those of you who
were not here for the previous
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lecture, I recommend that
you get a copy of the hard copy
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as you go out this evening,
because you'll be able to review
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all of the details
from our last lecture.
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But basically what we studied
is that Adam and Eve sinned
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and gave up their position
of dominion over the earth.
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And, of course, God pronounced
upon them the sentence of death.
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But we found that God
came down to the Garden of Eden
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and He made that wonderful
promise to Adam and Eve
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as they were listening
to God speak to the serpent.
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And those words of God to the
serpent were God's declaration
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of war, and they're
found in Genesis 3:15.
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God is speaking
here to the serpent.
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Three kinds of enmity: between
the serpent and the woman,
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between the seed of the serpent
and the seed of the woman,
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and between the seed of
the woman and the serpent.
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The enmity runs, in other
words, in three directions.
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But the real enmity is
between the seed of the woman,
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and the serpent, because
the last part of the verse says,
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He, the Seed of the woman,
will crush your head, serpent,
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and you are going to wound,
you're going to hurt His heel.
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In other words, God is
saying, I'm going to send a Seed
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to the world, and He's
going to do battle with you.
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In the process of the
battle you're going to hurt Him,
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but by hurting Him, His foot is
going to come down on your head
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and it is going
to crush your head.
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He's going to eliminate you.
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He's going to destroy you.
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Now when Satan heard those
words he trembled, he shook,
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and he made up his mind from
that point on that he was not
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going to allow that
Seed to come to the world.
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And the first example of
this we find in Genesis 4:25.
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We all know the story
of Cain and Abel probably.
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The Bible tells us that Cain
arose and he killed his brother.
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Now the question is, was
it really Cain who wanted Abel
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dead, or was there
someone behind the scenes
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who wanted Abel dead?
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The fact is 1 John 3:12,
I'll just refer to it, says:
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Notice that this text says
that Cain was of the wicked one.
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In other words,
Cain did not act alone.
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The wicked one was behind him,
instigating him to kill Abel.
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Now the question is, why
would Satan want Abel dead?
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Because God had promised
in Genesis 3:15 that He was
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going to send a Seed to the
world to do battle with him,
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and He was going
to crush his head.
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And so the devil is thinking,
maybe this Abel is the promised
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Seed, or perhaps the promised
Seed is going to come from him,
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so I'm going to
nip this in the bud.
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And so he influences
Cain to kill his brother Abel.
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So when Abel dies the devil
says, mission accomplished;
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no more Seed, because
Cain is mine and Abel is dead.
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But in Genesis 4:25 we
find that God's plan was not
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frustrated. It says there:
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And then she explains
why she called him Seth.
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Seth means substitute, or
one who takes the place of.
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She says this:
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God has given me another seed.
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Notice that key word
that we find in Genesis 3:15.
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The Seed will crush your head.
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The devil gets rid of Abel,
by using Cain, and God says,
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I will give Eve another seed.
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So God's plan was not thwarted.
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The devil's first method
for trying to keep the Seed
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from coming is by trying
to directly kill the Seed.
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And we find this clearly
in the story of Cain and Abel.
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You'll notice that the
same elements of Genesis 3:15
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are found in the
story of Cain and Abel.
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You have a woman, who
is Eve; you have a serpent,
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because Cain is of the
wicked one; you have two seeds,
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which is Cain and Abel; and
you also have enmity between
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the two seeds. And so the
first example of Genesis 3:15
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is the story of Cain and Abel,
although we know now that Abel
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was not
specifically the promised Seed.
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The Seed would
come later on from Abel.
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And so the devil learns that God
is not expecting any of these
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preliminary seeds to crush his
head, but that what God is doing
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is that He's preparing a Holy
line, or a lineage from which
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eventually the Seed will come.
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And so the devil says,
now I'm going to go to plan B.
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It does me no good to kill the
seed, because I kill one seed
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and God introduces another.
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So he says, I'm going
to go to the second method;
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the second plan. And we
find that in Genesis 6:1, 2,
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Genesis 6:1, 2, verses that
we're going to study later on
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when we deal with the flood
in the days of Noah. It says:
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Notice here that it speaks about
marital relationships between
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the sons of God and
the daughters of men.
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Now I want you to notice
before I answer who is the group
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referred to as the sons of God,
and which is the group referred
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to as the daughters of men?
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I'd like to read verse 5,
which shows the results of these
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unions of the sons of God
with the daughters of men.
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It says in Genesis 6:5:
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This evil came as a result
of the relationship between the
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sons of God and the daughters
of men; the sons of God going
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in to the daughters of men,
which is an expression in the
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Old Testament which means
to have sexual relations with.
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In other words, the sons
of God entered into marital
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relationships with
the daughters of men.
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Now the question is,
who are the sons of God,
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and who are the
daughters of men?
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The best answer is by
looking at the context.
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You look at Genesis 4 and
you have the genealogy of Cain,
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the wicked one. And
it's interesting that in the
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genealogy of Cain you
have three women mentioned.
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And then in Genesis 5 you
have the genealogy of Seth.
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That is the
genealogy of the righteous.
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So in Genesis 4 you
have the genealogy of Cain.
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In Genesis 5 you have
the genealogy of Seth.
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And in Genesis 6 you have the
sons of God and the daughters
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of men. In other words,
these marriages were actually
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marriages between the seed of
Cain, and the Seed of the woman:
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The Seed of Abel, the Seed
of Seth, the good and righteous
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seed. When the righteous and
the wicked began to mix together
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the world became corrupted.
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Now let me ask you, how many
people do you think lived in
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this world the
day before the flood?
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A hundred, a thousand,
how about five thousand?
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Anybody give me ten thousand?
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Let me give you some statistics.
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Between creation and the
flood 1,656 years transpired;
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in a world where there was no
scarcity of natural resources,
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because most of the effect
upon the natural resources came
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as a result of the flood; in
a world where men lived to be
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almost 1,000 years old.
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How many children can a
1,000 year old man have?
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Actually, the oldest was 969.
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In a world where God
had told man and woman,
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be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth.
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And in Genesis 6 it says
that the whole earth was filled
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with violence. In other words,
the whole earth was populated.
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And yet here's the terrifying
thought: of the millions of
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people that no doubt lived on
Planet Earth before the flood,
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only eight
remained faithful to God.
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And Genesis says that
there was particularly one:
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Noah was righteous
in the eyes of the Lord.
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What would have happened if God
had allowed history to continue
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without the flood intervening?
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The human race would
have become totally corrupted,
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and God would not have had
anyone in a Holy line through
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whom to bring the
Messiah into the world.
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In other words, the
devil was using two plans:
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Plan 1. try and kill the seed.
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Plan 2. try to intermingle
and mix the two seeds,
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so that the genealogy of
the righteous would lose its
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identity. And if it lost
its identity there could be no
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promised seed
coming from that lineage.
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Now all throughout the Old
Testament we find the devil
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using these two methods.
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These are his primary
methods in trying to keep
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the Seed from coming.
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He uses Cain to kill Abel,
so that the Seed can't come.
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He mixes the sons of God with
the daughters of men to make
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the lineage disappear in
its uniqueness, so that the Seed
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cannot come. Now I'm going to
take you through a tour of many
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stories in the Old Testament
that we need to look at through
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the lenses of Genesis 3:15.
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You see, in Genesis 3:15 God
is saying to Satan, I'm going to
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send you a Seed, and your
very existence is at stake.
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So do you think that the devil
is going to make it priority
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number one to keep
the Seed from coming,
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who's going to crush his head?
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Obviously, yes. So we need
to read the Old Testament with
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enlightened eyes. We
need to see in the background
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this controversy between Satan,
who is trying to keep the Seed
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from coming, so his head won't
be crushed, and God working
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to bring the
Seed into the world.
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I'd like to take you to
the time after the flood.
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We're only going to
study certain highlights;
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the time after the flood.
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Go with me to
Genesis 10:1, Genesis 10:1.
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Now we need to understand that
Genesis 10 is chronologically
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after Genesis 11. In other
words, God gives chapter 10
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all of the nations of the
earth, and then in chapter 11
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He explains how those
nations came to exist.
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Now notice Genesis 10:1.
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Notice that Noah had three
sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Now let's go to verse 20.
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It says in verse
20 the following:
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And that is said about
each of the sons of Noah.
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Nations, languages, cultures
of the world, all came from
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these three sons. Now if you
go to Genesis 11 you'll discover
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something very interesting.
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The Holy line continues through
Shem, one of the sons of Noah.
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The other two sons, Ham and
Japheth, continue the unholy
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line, if we could say.
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In fact, if you look at
the nations that came from Ham,
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and Japheth, you'll discover
that these were the very nations
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that later tried
to destroy Israel.
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Allow me to just mention some
of the nations that came from
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Japheth. You have Magog.
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By the way, it's mentioned in
Revelation 20 as a great enemy
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of God's people. You have the
Medes coming also from Japheth.
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You have Greece.
It's called Javen.
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You have Tyre, an
arch-enemy of Israel.
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And you have Rome
mentioned also as one of those
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who descended from Japheth.
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Now how about Ham? You
have Egypt coming from Ham.
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You have Assyria, which
destroyed the ten tribes
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of the North in Israel;
destroyed Samaria in the year
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722. Babylon came from Ham.
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The Canaanites came from Ham.
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The Philistines; in other words,
all of these nations which later
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became enemies of Israel,
and frequently tried to destroy
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Israel, came from
Ham, and from Japheth.
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They were trying to
destroy the Shemites.
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We call them Semites today.
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And so in Genesis 10 we already
find in two of the sons of Noah,
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the devil from them, forming
the nations through which he is
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going to try and destroy Israel.
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Now there's a
fundamental misunderstanding,
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and that is that
the devil hated Israel.
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But the devil, you know, he
wanted to get rid of Israel.
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But the fact is, folks, that the
battle of Satan against Israel
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is not because the devil hates
Israel, it's because the devil
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hates Israel's Messiah, because
God had promised that from this
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lineage the Messiah would come.
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And so, when the devil
is trying to blend Israel
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with the nations, to cause
them to lose their identity,
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when he tries to destroy Israel,
we're going to notice several
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examples from the Bible.
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The devil is not focused
primarily against Israel.
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Attacking Israel, and trying
to destroy Israel is the way
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in which He can cut off the
Holy line and keep the Messiah
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from coming. Are you
following what I'm saying?
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This is the way
we need to read it.
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Everything the devil does
in the Old Testament is to keep
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the Seed from coming, because
his very existence is at stake.
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Now lets go to Genesis 11:4.
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This is happening about
100 years after the flood.
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Now we're going to study later
on that their intention was
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to establish what we
call today a New World Order,
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centered in their Capitol,
which will unite all of humanity
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in rebellion against God.
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And when their plan failed
the name which was given to that
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place, according
to verse 9, was Babel.
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Have you ever
heard of Babel before?
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In the book of Revelation,
the archenemy of God's people
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is called what? Babylon.
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Here you have the
origin of Babylon.
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You know, it's interesting that
there where the Tower of Babel
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was built, lived the
family of a very well known man.
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His name was Abraham.
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He lived in the very
place where these tower builders
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had the intention of
establishing a society
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in rebellion against God.
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In fact, the name of
the individual who was the
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ringleader in the building of
the Tower of Babel was Nimrod.
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And the name
Nimrod means rebellion.
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It was a rebellious endeavor.
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And Abraham lived in that
area in Ur of the Chaldees;
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Caldia, it's ancient Babylon.
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And we find that Abraham and
his family were starting to be
00:21:20.11\00:21:25.45
defiled by the
god's in that place.
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Go with me to the book
of Joshua; Joshua 24:2, 3,
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Joshua 24:2, 3. I want you
to notice what was happening
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to Abraham and his family
who lived there in this apostate
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area known as
Babel, or Babylon. It says:
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That's the River
Euphrates, incidentally.
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And what was the
problem? They what?
00:22:07.36\00:22:10.59
Were they becoming
defiled by the god's of Babylon?
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They most certainly were.
00:22:19.13\00:22:20.57
And it says in verse 3:
00:22:20.60\00:22:22.70
That is the River Euphrates.
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...It says here his descendents.
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In the King James
Version it says, his seed.
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What was the problem there
in Babel where they had planned
00:22:45.09\00:22:49.53
to form a society in
rebellion against God?
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The problem is that
Abraham lived there.
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And it says that he and his
family were serving other gods.
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But God had plans for Abraham.
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He could not fulfill His plans
for Abraham there in Babel,
00:23:03.04\00:23:07.32
in Ur. And so we're told
here that God took Abraham out
00:23:07.35\00:23:13.09
of the place where they
were serving other gods,
00:23:13.12\00:23:16.26
to take him to
the land of Canaan.
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And God had a
special plan for Abraham.
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God had to take him away so
that he would not become defiled
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with those nations. And
eventually the Holy Seed,
00:23:23.80\00:23:26.63
which would come from
Abraham, would disappear.
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You see, God knew what
the devil was trying to do,
00:23:30.07\00:23:32.41
so he took Abraham out, because
God had plans to do something
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very special with Abraham.
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Let's notice what it is.
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Genesis 12:1, Genesis
12:1, and then we'll jump down
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to verse 3. It says:
00:23:46.32\00:23:48.49
Notice, God says,
Get out of your country.
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Get out of Babylon.
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We're going to find in
Revelation there's a call
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to come out of
Babylon in the end time.
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Because his family
was serving other god's,
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we noticed in Joshua.
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What plans did
God have with Abraham?
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He had plans that through
Abraham all of the nations
00:24:27.30\00:24:31.53
of the earth would be blessed.
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But now listen to
what I'm going to say.
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It wasn't Abraham who was
going to bring the blessing.
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It was the Seed of Abraham.
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Abraham was the instrument
to bring the Seed, eventually,
00:24:41.21\00:24:45.41
into the world. Notice what
we find there in Genesis 22:18,
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Genesis 22:18. We'll be
studying Genesis 22 later on
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in our seminar. God
says to Abraham this:
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Notice that in Genesis 12:3
God says, In you all the nations
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of the earth will be blessed.
00:25:17.51\00:25:18.85
Here He explains that it is
in the seed of Abraham that all
00:25:18.88\00:25:24.09
of the nations of the
earth will be blessed.
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You see, God was
planning to bring the blessing
00:25:26.96\00:25:30.03
into the world
through the seed of Abraham.
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Now go with me to
Galatians 3, and lets notice
00:25:33.73\00:25:38.90
who that seed is. Galatians
3, and we've read this verse
00:25:38.93\00:25:44.34
before. Verse 16, 3 verse 16.
00:25:44.37\00:25:47.98
It says there: Now to Abraham
and his Seed were the promises
00:25:48.01\00:25:55.05
made. He does not say,
and to seeds, as of many,
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but as of one. And to
your Seed who is Christ.
00:26:02.02\00:26:08.30
Who was the Seed of Abraham
through whom all of the nations
00:26:08.33\00:26:12.00
of the earth were
going to be blessed?
00:26:12.03\00:26:14.04
It was Christ,
according to the Apostle Paul.
00:26:14.07\00:26:18.11
In other words, God
called Abraham out of Babylon,
00:26:18.14\00:26:22.11
out of Ur of the Chaldees,
because he and his family were
00:26:22.14\00:26:25.05
becoming defiled
with the gods there.
00:26:25.08\00:26:27.52
They were going to
lose their identities.
00:26:27.55\00:26:30.02
Satan was doing the same thing
as he did before the flood;
00:26:30.05\00:26:32.82
blending the two seeds.
00:26:32.85\00:26:34.46
So God took him out to Canaan,
and He says, in your Seed all
00:26:34.49\00:26:39.23
of the nations of the
earth will be blessed.
00:26:39.26\00:26:42.46
Now the devil knew that God
had a special plan with Abraham,
00:26:42.50\00:26:46.60
and he knew that God had
promised Abraham that He was
00:26:46.63\00:26:49.97
going to give him a Seed.
00:26:50.01\00:26:51.34
So now the devil says to
Abraham, it's been many, many
00:26:51.37\00:26:55.44
years, and you
don't have any seed.
00:26:55.48\00:26:59.11
Your wife can't
even have any children.
00:26:59.15\00:27:02.22
And so the devil whispers in his
ear, Abraham, maybe there's a
00:27:02.25\00:27:08.19
different plan that
God is contemplating here.
00:27:08.22\00:27:10.56
Maybe you need to have
children in a different fashion.
00:27:10.59\00:27:16.70
So the devil
whispers in Sarah's ear.
00:27:16.73\00:27:19.60
Sarah, tell your husband
to take the slave woman Hagar,
00:27:19.63\00:27:25.61
and perhaps the seed
will come from Hagar.
00:27:25.64\00:27:28.94
Notice what we find in
Genesis 16:2, Genesis 16:2.
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It says there:
00:27:36.79\00:27:38.32
She blames the Lord,
but it wasn't the Lord.
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Do you think that was
just the voice of Sarai?
00:27:59.34\00:28:02.41
Absolutely not,
because you have Genesis 3:15
00:28:02.44\00:28:07.02
in the background.
00:28:07.05\00:28:08.38
Everything the devil
does, he does with the intention
00:28:08.42\00:28:11.09
of keeping the Seed from
coming, or destroying the Seed.
00:28:11.12\00:28:15.22
Now why is the birth
of this child significant?
00:28:15.26\00:28:18.63
The name of the child
that Abraham had with Sarai
00:28:18.66\00:28:22.23
was Ishmael. Do you know what
Ishmael wanted to do with Isaac
00:28:22.26\00:28:27.90
when Isaac, the son
of the promise was born?
00:28:27.94\00:28:30.47
He wanted to destroy him.
00:28:30.51\00:28:33.04
Who do you suppose was using
Ishmael, whom he had convinced
00:28:33.07\00:28:38.01
Abraham and Sarai
to have, to kill Isaac,
00:28:38.05\00:28:41.35
the son of the promise.
00:28:41.48\00:28:42.82
There's no doubt that the devil
was the one who wanted Isaac
00:28:42.85\00:28:46.92
dead. And you say where
does the Bible say that?
00:28:46.96\00:28:49.49
Well, in Galatians; in
Galatians 4:29, Galatians 4:29
00:28:49.52\00:28:56.97
we find this
reference to Ishmael.
00:28:57.00\00:29:00.97
It says there,
in Galatians 4:29:
00:29:01.00\00:29:06.78
That is Ishmael.
00:29:12.45\00:29:13.82
What did the child of
the flesh, Ishmael, do?
00:29:22.19\00:29:25.63
He persecuted the child who was
born according to the Spirit.
00:29:25.66\00:29:30.30
Who was behind Ishmael?
00:29:30.33\00:29:33.23
It must have been Satan,
because Satan was behind Cain,
00:29:33.27\00:29:37.37
wasn't he? in destroying Abel.
00:29:37.41\00:29:39.57
Satan is fighting
for his own existence.
00:29:39.61\00:29:42.81
He's trying to keep
the Seed from coming.
00:29:42.84\00:29:45.91
And then a little bit
later on you have another birth,
00:29:45.95\00:29:49.45
actually two births, twins.
00:29:49.48\00:29:52.75
You have Jacob,
and you have Esau.
00:29:52.79\00:29:56.49
Have you ever read the
story of Esau and Jacob?
00:29:56.52\00:30:00.86
Whose character did Esau have?
00:30:00.90\00:30:04.80
Who was Esau like? Like God?
00:30:04.83\00:30:12.41
He took wives in Canaan.
00:30:12.44\00:30:15.04
When his father said,
don't take wives, he said,
00:30:15.08\00:30:17.78
I will if I want to.
00:30:17.81\00:30:19.15
He sold his birthright
for a plate of lentils.
00:30:19.18\00:30:24.02
He didn't consider the fact
that he who had the birthright
00:30:24.05\00:30:27.92
would bring the Messiah
into the world eventually.
00:30:27.96\00:30:29.69
He says, who cares
when you're hungry.
00:30:29.72\00:30:31.73
And so he sold that
for a plate of lentils.
00:30:31.76\00:30:34.50
And we're told in
Genesis 27:41, Genesis 27:41:
00:30:34.56\00:30:42.34
Who do you suppose was behind
the idea of using Eau to kill
00:31:00.29\00:31:06.66
his brother Jacob? There's
no doubt whatsoever that the
00:31:06.70\00:31:10.57
devil knew that Jacob was going
to play a very important role
00:31:10.60\00:31:15.97
in the plan of salvation
that God was developing.
00:31:16.00\00:31:18.84
In fact, the twelfth from the
twelve sons of Jacob was going
00:31:18.87\00:31:23.31
to come, the promised
Seed specifically from Judah.
00:31:23.35\00:31:28.15
Now we move forward a little
bit more to the days of Joseph.
00:31:28.18\00:31:32.89
And in our lecture
tomorrow, we're going to study
00:31:32.92\00:31:37.76
a little bit more about
this experience of Joseph,
00:31:37.79\00:31:40.16
because it's
very, very interesting.
00:31:40.20\00:31:41.90
It has much to do with
what we're talking about
00:31:41.93\00:31:44.37
this evening. I'm going
to make a long story short.
00:31:44.40\00:31:48.90
But Joseph
suffered many injustices.
00:31:48.94\00:31:54.38
Everything seemed to go
wrong, and he was a good kid.
00:31:54.41\00:31:57.68
He was sold as a slave to Egypt.
00:31:57.71\00:32:00.92
Because he refused to commit
adultery, he ended up in prison.
00:32:00.95\00:32:04.35
Anyone would have thought,
why should I even bother
00:32:04.39\00:32:07.82
to serve God? Look what
happens to those who serve God.
00:32:07.86\00:32:10.66
But he knew that God had a plan.
00:32:10.69\00:32:14.00
And, of course, the plan
was eventually to become the
00:32:14.00\00:32:17.80
Prime Minister of Egypt, so that
when seven years of plenty came
00:32:17.83\00:32:21.77
he could administrate and
store the excess that the land
00:32:21.80\00:32:26.71
produced, so that when
the seven years of famine came
00:32:26.74\00:32:30.05
society could survive.
00:32:30.08\00:32:33.68
Now at the end of the story
Joseph reveals himself to his
00:32:33.72\00:32:38.95
brothers. And his brothers,
they hug Joseph, and they say,
00:32:38.99\00:32:42.62
oh Joseph, we're so
sorry for what we did.
00:32:42.66\00:32:44.99
Please forgive us! Do
you know what Joseph says?
00:32:45.03\00:32:48.46
Go with me to
Genesis 45, Genesis 45:5-7,
00:32:48.50\00:32:55.24
Genesis 45:5-7: Joseph says,...
00:32:55.27\00:33:01.58
And now notice verse 7.
00:33:27.54\00:33:29.34
Do you suppose that God
knew that the devil was going to
00:33:41.68\00:33:44.35
cause those
seven years of famine?
00:33:44.39\00:33:45.72
What was the devil's intention?
00:33:45.75\00:33:49.19
His intention was to starve
Jacob and his family to death,
00:33:49.22\00:33:56.87
but God knowing it, sent Joseph
beforehand down into Egypt
00:33:56.90\00:34:03.94
to make provision, as it says
here, to preserve the posterity.
00:34:03.97\00:34:09.34
Other versions translate
it, to preserve the Seed.
00:34:09.38\00:34:13.42
Do you see what's going
on here in the background?
00:34:13.45\00:34:16.38
All of these events that
are taking place are revealing
00:34:16.42\00:34:20.12
a plot that is taking place
beyond history, behind history.
00:34:20.16\00:34:24.56
We only see external events,
but when we know that God told
00:34:24.59\00:34:29.06
the devil, the Seed is going
to come and He's going to crush
00:34:29.10\00:34:31.60
your head. We know that the
devil says, I can't let the Seed
00:34:31.63\00:34:35.54
come. And so through all of
these circumstances and events
00:34:35.57\00:34:39.27
the devil is trying to
keep the Seed from coming.
00:34:39.31\00:34:43.21
Now there's so much
more that we could say.
00:34:43.24\00:34:46.45
I'm not going to read all of the
verses, but I'm going to give
00:34:46.48\00:34:49.22
you the concept.
Notice Genesis 15:13, 14.
00:34:49.25\00:34:54.42
Moving on a little bit
further, forward in history.
00:34:54.46\00:34:57.73
Genesis 15:13, 14. Here God
is giving a prophecy to Abraham.
00:34:57.76\00:35:06.13
And it says there:
00:35:06.17\00:35:07.70
What is God saying? He's saying,
Your people are going to be
00:35:07.74\00:35:36.23
taken down into a certain land.
00:35:36.26\00:35:38.03
We know that that was Egypt.
00:35:38.07\00:35:39.60
And at the end of 400 years,
I am going to bring them out
00:35:39.63\00:35:44.84
of the land of Egypt.
00:35:44.87\00:35:46.21
And in other places He says, I'm
going to take them to the land
00:35:46.24\00:35:49.71
of Canaan. Now isn't it
interesting that God would
00:35:49.74\00:35:54.18
promise to take Israel
out of Egypt and to Canaan?
00:35:54.22\00:35:58.02
Do you know that God had
promised Abraham and his seed,
00:35:58.05\00:36:04.96
the land of Canaan? Many people
today believe that the Jewish
00:36:04.99\00:36:10.30
nation owns the land
of Israel by divine right.
00:36:10.33\00:36:13.60
But do you know, as we
study the scripture, we discover
00:36:13.64\00:36:17.54
that the reason why God
gave Abraham the land of Canaan,
00:36:17.57\00:36:22.64
and his seed the land of Canaan,
is because God had plans for the
00:36:22.68\00:36:27.88
Messiah to be born in that land.
00:36:27.92\00:36:30.42
Was Jesus born in what
was before the land of Canaan?
00:36:30.45\00:36:35.42
He most certainly was.
00:36:35.46\00:36:36.89
He was born in
Bethlehem of Judea.
00:36:36.93\00:36:40.20
That used to be Canaan.
00:36:40.23\00:36:42.26
And so the devil,
he heard that prophecy.
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.27
Four hundred years after that
he's going to take them out.
00:36:45.30\00:36:47.94
He's going to
lead them to Canaan.
00:36:47.97\00:36:49.40
Do you suppose the devil
wanted them to go to Canaan,
00:36:49.44\00:36:51.84
where the Messiah was going
to be born? Absolutely not.
00:36:51.87\00:36:54.81
So what did the
devil do with Pharaoh?
00:36:54.84\00:36:58.48
Was it easy for
Israel to leave Egypt?
00:36:58.51\00:37:03.49
It was a battle, a
supernatural battle.
00:37:03.52\00:37:07.99
In fact, do you know that in
Ezekiel 29:33, Pharaoh is called
00:37:08.02\00:37:12.53
the great dragon?
00:37:12.56\00:37:14.46
Pharaoh is called the
great dragon, because he's the
00:37:14.46\00:37:18.57
dragon's seed, and Pharaoh
is going to do everything in his
00:37:18.60\00:37:22.57
power to keep
Israel from leaving Egypt.
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.91
Who do you suppose didn't
want Israel to leave Egypt?
00:37:25.94\00:37:28.71
It wasn't Pharaoh alone, it was
Satan, because Satan knew this
00:37:28.74\00:37:35.32
prophecy. He knew that if Israel
went to the land of Canaan,
00:37:35.35\00:37:38.85
the promised Seed was going
to be born there, because he had
00:37:38.89\00:37:41.89
seen God take Abraham out of
Babel, out of Ur, to take him to
00:37:41.92\00:37:46.63
the land of Canaan. The devil
knew that there was something
00:37:46.66\00:37:49.90
special which was going to
happen in Canaan, and he was
00:37:49.93\00:37:52.17
not going to allow
Israel to leave to go to Canaan.
00:37:52.20\00:37:55.97
Israel arrived at the
borders of the promised land.
00:37:56.00\00:38:01.98
They sent out spies.
00:38:02.01\00:38:04.35
Ten of the spies came
back with a bad report;
00:38:04.38\00:38:08.22
there were giants there.
00:38:08.25\00:38:09.58
We can't go in there.
00:38:09.62\00:38:10.95
Who do you suppose was the one
who instilled in them this idea
00:38:10.99\00:38:15.96
that you can't go
into the land of Canaan.
00:38:15.99\00:38:17.99
You're not strong enough.
00:38:18.03\00:38:19.36
Go back to Egypt. It wasn't God.
00:38:19.39\00:38:23.97
It wasn't their idea.
00:38:24.00\00:38:26.07
Whose idea was it? Who
did not want them to go into
00:38:26.10\00:38:31.77
the land of Canaan? Satan.
00:38:31.81\00:38:34.44
And then forty years later they
arrive at the borders of the
00:38:34.48\00:38:37.85
promised land again, about
to enter the land of Canaan,
00:38:37.88\00:38:42.08
and you have the
experience of Numbers 25.
00:38:42.12\00:38:46.29
And I'll just tell
you something about it.
00:38:46.32\00:38:48.49
They're ready to go into
the promised land and Balaam
00:38:48.52\00:38:52.93
is invited to curse Israel,
and he can't curse Israel,
00:38:52.96\00:38:57.10
because Israel is in a
good relationship with God.
00:38:57.13\00:38:59.90
And so finally Balaam
tells Balak, the king, he says,
00:38:59.93\00:39:04.61
the only way that these people
can ever be defeated is if
00:39:04.64\00:39:10.31
you corrupt them from inside.
00:39:10.35\00:39:11.98
You can't destroy
them from outside,
00:39:12.01\00:39:15.65
because their
relationship with God is right.
00:39:15.68\00:39:17.75
The only way you can do it is
by corrupting them from inside.
00:39:17.79\00:39:21.42
Do you know what happened?
00:39:21.46\00:39:22.79
The idolatrous women of Moab
came and enticed the children
00:39:22.82\00:39:28.36
of Israel, the men of Israel, to
have illicit sexual relations,
00:39:28.40\00:39:32.57
and to practice idolatry
and to worship the gods of Moab.
00:39:32.60\00:39:36.40
23,000 of the cream of Israel
fell on the borders of the
00:39:36.44\00:39:42.74
promised land, because of
the blending and the mixing
00:39:42.78\00:39:46.95
of the two seeds. Once again,
behind the scenes is Satan
00:39:46.98\00:39:52.65
working to keep
the Seed from coming,
00:39:52.69\00:39:55.42
God working to bring
the Seed into the world.
00:39:55.46\00:39:59.76
Why do you suppose the nations
of Canaan stood up against
00:39:59.79\00:40:02.93
Israel? They were not
going to give Israel this land,
00:40:02.96\00:40:07.30
because something special was
going to happen in that land.
00:40:07.34\00:40:10.54
Satan knew it, because
God took Abraham to that land;
00:40:10.57\00:40:14.11
He took Israel to that land.
00:40:14.14\00:40:16.04
He says, I know the Seed is
going to be born in that land.
00:40:16.08\00:40:19.18
And, by the way, do
you know that Mount Moriah,
00:40:19.21\00:40:21.25
which is the place where
Abraham took his son, Isaac,
00:40:21.28\00:40:24.85
and placed him on the altar.
00:40:24.89\00:40:26.72
Mount Moriah was the last
place that David conquered
00:40:26.76\00:40:31.66
in establishing
the city of Jerusalem.
00:40:31.69\00:40:34.13
The devil was not going to give
up Mount Moriah without a fight,
00:40:34.20\00:40:38.40
because Mount Moriah is the very
place where later on the temple
00:40:38.43\00:40:41.64
of Solomon was built.
00:40:41.67\00:40:43.10
We're going to
discuss that later on.
00:40:43.14\00:40:45.37
And then, of course, we
have the story of David.
00:40:45.41\00:40:48.31
Do you know that in 2 Samuel 7,
12 and 13, and I'm kind of going
00:40:48.34\00:40:53.11
a little bit fast here.
00:40:53.15\00:40:54.48
We can't read all of the verses.
00:40:54.52\00:40:55.85
You have them on the list.
00:40:55.88\00:40:57.22
I hope that you look them
up, in the light of what we're
00:40:57.25\00:40:58.69
studying. God said
that the throne of David
00:40:58.72\00:41:02.76
would be forever. God
would give David a Seed
00:41:02.79\00:41:06.63
who would sit on
His throne forever.
00:41:06.66\00:41:09.26
Now let me ask
you, who was that Seed?
00:41:09.30\00:41:12.13
Luke 1:32, 33 tell us that that
Seed, from the house of David,
00:41:12.17\00:41:19.44
was Jesus. Do you suppose
the devil knew that the Messiah
00:41:19.47\00:41:25.21
was going to be a son of David?
00:41:25.25\00:41:26.58
Do you suppose he heard
this promise that God made?
00:41:26.61\00:41:29.42
Of course he did. Why do
you think David had so many
00:41:29.45\00:41:33.15
problems? For example, he's
sitting in the palace playing
00:41:33.19\00:41:38.43
his harp for Saul twice,
and Saul who is possessed by an
00:41:38.46\00:41:45.33
evil spirit the Bible says,
took his spear and he hurled it
00:41:45.37\00:41:51.17
at David to
nail him to the wall.
00:41:51.21\00:41:53.11
Whose idea was that?
00:41:53.14\00:41:54.74
Was that Saul's idea?
00:41:54.78\00:41:57.21
I don't think so.
It was the evil spirit.
00:41:57.25\00:42:01.22
Who wanted to see
David dead? Satan.
00:42:01.25\00:42:03.45
Why would he want David dead?
00:42:03.49\00:42:06.12
Because the Seed was going
to come from whom? from David.
00:42:06.15\00:42:12.06
Then you can go
to 1 Chronicles 21:1.
00:42:12.09\00:42:16.10
God had told David,
don't you number Israel,
00:42:16.13\00:42:20.20
because your strength
is in Me, not in numbers.
00:42:20.24\00:42:22.67
And it says there in 1
Chronicles 21:1 that Satan
00:42:22.70\00:42:28.54
enticed David to number Israel.
00:42:28.58\00:42:31.18
It was his intention
that by numbering Israel,
00:42:31.21\00:42:35.42
God would destroy David, because
the Seed was going to come
00:42:35.45\00:42:41.06
from David. And then, of course,
you have the sad experience
00:42:41.09\00:42:45.49
of David and Bathsheba.
00:42:45.53\00:42:46.96
The idle mind is
the devil's workshop.
00:42:47.00\00:42:53.87
The Bible says that David
should have been out to war,
00:42:53.90\00:42:57.01
but he was idle in the palace.
00:42:57.04\00:42:58.54
Of course, he goes out;
he sees this beautiful woman.
00:42:58.57\00:43:03.21
To make a long story short,
commits adultery with her,
00:43:03.24\00:43:06.61
and then has her
husband murdered in battle.
00:43:06.65\00:43:10.92
Do you know what the penalty in
God's law in the Old Testament
00:43:10.95\00:43:15.72
under the theocracy, what
was the punishment for adultery
00:43:15.76\00:43:18.89
and murder? The person was
to be taken out and stoned.
00:43:18.93\00:43:22.63
Who do you suppose
wanted David stoned? Satan!
00:43:22.66\00:43:28.47
You say, this idea of committing
adultery and killing did not
00:43:28.50\00:43:33.31
merely come from David's mind.
00:43:33.34\00:43:35.28
There is one who
wanted to destroy David.
00:43:35.31\00:43:39.25
Not because he hated David,
but because he hated the Seed
00:43:39.28\00:43:44.95
who would come from David.
00:43:44.99\00:43:46.86
Are you catching
the picture here?
00:43:46.89\00:43:48.22
All of the Old Testament must
be seen within this framework
00:43:48.26\00:43:52.83
of Genesis 3:15, because it's
a battle for self existence.
00:43:52.86\00:43:57.43
It's priority number one!
00:43:57.47\00:43:59.43
And then, of course, you
have the story of Solomon.
00:43:59.47\00:44:02.70
You know, I have
several verses here.
00:44:02.74\00:44:06.07
1 Kings 11:1-3 says that
Solomon, you know, who was
00:44:06.11\00:44:10.48
the wisest man who ever lived,
and he also became the most
00:44:10.51\00:44:12.88
foolish man who ever lived,
because when he was a young
00:44:12.91\00:44:16.42
man he went
astray from the Lord.
00:44:16.45\00:44:20.66
Do you know why he went astray?
00:44:20.69\00:44:22.02
Because, basically,
he had a thousand wives.
00:44:22.06\00:44:25.79
And do you know where
those wives were from?
00:44:25.83\00:44:29.03
You can read it in
this passage in 1 Kings 11.
00:44:29.06\00:44:32.57
They were from the pagan
nations which surrounded Israel.
00:44:32.60\00:44:36.50
Now why do you suppose the
devil wanted Solomon to blend
00:44:36.54\00:44:42.48
with the women from
other pagan nations?
00:44:42.51\00:44:45.18
Because he was hoping that
Solomon would lose the identity
00:44:45.21\00:44:50.62
from whom the Seed would come,
because Solomon was the son
00:44:50.65\00:44:55.12
of David. He was from
the lineage of David, and the
00:44:55.16\00:44:58.33
Messiah was going to come
from the lineage of Solomon.
00:44:58.36\00:45:01.90
I could give you
so many other stories.
00:45:01.93\00:45:05.07
You have Senacrib the king of
Assyria who comes and destroys
00:45:05.10\00:45:09.07
the ten kingdoms of the
North, which is known as Israel.
00:45:09.10\00:45:12.71
Then he comes against Judah.
00:45:12.74\00:45:14.24
He's going to destroy Jerusalem
and the Assyrians were known
00:45:14.28\00:45:17.48
for committing genocide.
00:45:17.51\00:45:19.05
I mean they didn't
take any prisoners.
00:45:19.08\00:45:21.38
They uprooted whole nations.
00:45:21.42\00:45:23.65
And when they surrounded
Jerusalem, 185,000 soldiers
00:45:23.69\00:45:30.59
ready to strike, the
angel of the Lord came out
00:45:30.63\00:45:34.46
and in one night slew 185,000
soldiers, delivering Judah,
00:45:34.46\00:45:40.70
the two tribes of the South.
00:45:40.74\00:45:42.57
The devil was the one who led
Israel to mix with the nations,
00:45:42.60\00:45:47.88
so that they would be
expelled from the promised land
00:45:47.91\00:45:50.65
to Babylon. Have you ever
noticed that? that because of
00:45:50.68\00:45:55.82
their sins, mixing with
the nations, Israel was taken
00:45:55.85\00:46:00.12
captive to Babylon.
00:46:00.16\00:46:01.49
They were
expelled from the land.
00:46:01.52\00:46:02.86
Do you know that God had told
Moses in Deuteronomy 28 that
00:46:02.89\00:46:05.96
if they were unfaithful they
would be expelled from the land.
00:46:05.99\00:46:08.36
And the devil was really
happy when they were expelled
00:46:08.40\00:46:10.47
from the land because he
knew the Messiah was going to be
00:46:10.50\00:46:12.70
born in the land. This is what
the taking and the losing of
00:46:12.73\00:46:18.57
the land is all about.
00:46:18.61\00:46:19.94
It's not about Israel, it
is about Israel's Messiah.
00:46:19.97\00:46:23.58
And then you have
the story of Esther.
00:46:23.61\00:46:26.31
You have Esther 3:13 there.
00:46:26.35\00:46:29.78
It says that a man called Haman
prepared a plot, and he worked
00:46:29.82\00:46:34.89
upon the mind of
the king. It says:
00:46:34.92\00:46:38.06
in a certain day. I suppose
the devil hates the Jews.
00:46:43.13\00:46:49.97
I believe he hates everybody.
00:46:50.01\00:46:52.34
But why would he want
to uproot the Jewish nation
00:46:52.37\00:46:55.54
after the captivity?
00:46:55.58\00:46:56.91
Because he knew that
from the Jews would come
00:46:56.95\00:47:00.88
the promised Seed. You see the
Old Testament is seed centered.
00:47:00.92\00:47:04.05
It is not Israel centered.
00:47:04.09\00:47:07.69
Israel could not give the
devil a death blow on his head.
00:47:07.72\00:47:11.33
The devil overcame them.
00:47:11.36\00:47:13.76
But there was One who
could, and that was the Messiah,
00:47:13.80\00:47:17.53
Jesus Christ. Notice Ezra 9:2.
00:47:17.57\00:47:22.50
The devil was not only trying
to destroy Israel after the
00:47:22.54\00:47:25.74
captivity, he was trying
to do something else as well.
00:47:25.77\00:47:32.05
Ezra 9:2; Ezra is that little
book right before Nehemiah.
00:47:32.08\00:47:38.32
I'm sure that
helps you an awful lot.
00:47:38.35\00:47:39.99
It says here,
after the captivity:
00:47:40.02\00:47:44.36
The nobles that is,
those who had kingly blood.
00:47:49.20\00:47:53.74
What was the devil
leading the nobles to do
00:48:08.05\00:48:10.12
after the captivity?
00:48:10.15\00:48:11.49
He was leading them to
intermingle with the nations,
00:48:11.52\00:48:14.62
to miss, according
to this, the Holy Seed.
00:48:14.66\00:48:18.96
And so all throughout the
Old Testament Satan is working
00:48:18.99\00:48:24.43
by trying to kill the Seed,
by trying to corrupt the Seed,
00:48:24.47\00:48:29.87
that is the lineage
from whom the Seed will come.
00:48:29.90\00:48:33.01
The devil is trying to keep
the prophecy of Genesis 3:15
00:48:33.04\00:48:37.48
from being fulfilled.
00:48:37.51\00:48:38.88
But we find that in the fullness
of time God sent forth His Son,
00:48:38.91\00:48:45.99
born of a woman. The
devil was not able to keep Him
00:48:46.02\00:48:51.53
from coming. When the moment
came, the fullness of time came,
00:48:51.56\00:48:57.13
God sent His Son to this world.
00:48:57.17\00:49:00.20
And Matthew 1:1 tells us
that He was the Seed of Abraham,
00:49:00.27\00:49:06.31
and He was the Seed of David.
00:49:06.37\00:49:08.41
By the way, don't you find
it interesting that you have
00:49:08.48\00:49:12.85
in Genesis 11, you have
the genealogy from the days of
00:49:12.88\00:49:17.22
Adam until the days of Noah.
00:49:17.25\00:49:18.95
In Genesis, that's Genesis
5, in Genesis 11 you have the
00:49:18.99\00:49:25.43
genealogy from the times
of Shem, the son of Noah,
00:49:25.46\00:49:30.27
to the days of Abraham.
00:49:30.30\00:49:31.67
And in Matthew 1 you have
the genealogy from the days of
00:49:31.73\00:49:35.94
Abraham till
the times of Christ.
00:49:35.97\00:49:37.71
And after that genealogy you
don't have anymore genealogies.
00:49:37.74\00:49:42.11
In fact, the Apostle
Paul says, don't get caught up
00:49:42.14\00:49:46.28
in genealogies.
They're not important anymore,
00:49:46.31\00:49:48.22
because the purpose for
the genealogies was to trace
00:49:48.25\00:49:50.99
the Holy line of the Messiah.
00:49:51.02\00:49:53.29
And so Jesus was
born; the Seed of Abraham.
00:49:53.32\00:49:58.06
The solitary Seed through whom
all of the nations of the earth
00:49:58.09\00:50:03.23
were going to be what?
were going to be blessed.
00:50:03.26\00:50:06.07
Did the devil know
that He had been born?
00:50:06.10\00:50:08.30
Did the devil know
where He was going to be born?
00:50:08.34\00:50:11.57
Oh yes, so the devil said,
I wasn't able to keep Him from
00:50:11.61\00:50:15.98
coming. I wasn't
able to destroy Israel.
00:50:16.01\00:50:18.98
I wasn't able to intermingle
Israel with the nations to
00:50:19.05\00:50:22.72
lose their identity.
00:50:22.75\00:50:24.09
He has come! So what does
the devil do when Jesus is born?
00:50:24.12\00:50:29.26
Go with me to Revelation 12,
Revelation 12, and I want you to
00:50:29.29\00:50:34.63
notice verse 3. Revelation 12:3.
00:50:34.73\00:50:37.87
It says here: And
another sign appeared in heaven;
00:50:37.90\00:50:42.84
behold a great fiery red
dragon, having seven heads
00:50:42.90\00:50:47.78
and ten horns, and
seven diadems on his heads.
00:50:47.84\00:50:51.18
His tail drew a third of the
stars of heaven, and threw them
00:50:51.21\00:50:54.55
down to the
earth:... (And now notice.)
00:50:54.58\00:50:57.45
Do you have the same
elements here as Genesis 3:15?
00:51:08.16\00:51:11.37
Do you have a woman? Sure.
00:51:11.40\00:51:14.87
Do you have a Seed
of the woman? Sure.
00:51:14.90\00:51:18.87
Do you have a
dragon or a serpent? Yes.
00:51:18.91\00:51:22.64
Do you have enmity?
You most certainly do.
00:51:22.68\00:51:26.35
This is the first fulfillment of
Genesis 3:15 where it says He,
00:51:26.38\00:51:32.39
the Seed of the
woman, will crush your head,
00:51:32.42\00:51:36.69
and you will bruise his heel.
00:51:36.73\00:51:39.33
In other words, Jesus is born
into the world, and the devil
00:51:39.36\00:51:42.80
tries to nip Him in the
bud; tries to destroy Him.
00:51:42.83\00:51:46.30
But we find in
verse 5 that it tell us:
00:51:46.33\00:51:50.61
So the child
escaped the hands of Satan.
00:52:01.12\00:52:06.45
In fact Jesus came to this world
and He lived a perfect life.
00:52:06.49\00:52:10.03
The life that you
and I should live.
00:52:10.06\00:52:12.83
When I receive Him,
He gives me His life.
00:52:12.86\00:52:15.50
He credits His
life to my account.
00:52:15.53\00:52:18.50
And then at the end
of His life He died.
00:52:18.53\00:52:21.20
He died the death
that I should die.
00:52:21.24\00:52:23.87
He died for my sins.
00:52:23.94\00:52:25.27
He never allowed
Himself to be overcome by Satan.
00:52:25.31\00:52:28.94
In other words, He fulfilled
the promise of Genesis 3:15.
00:52:28.98\00:52:34.55
He gave a death blow
to the devil on his head.
00:52:34.58\00:52:38.59
And then Jesus
went back to heaven.
00:52:38.62\00:52:41.56
Now the story doesn't end there,
because when Jesus ascends back
00:52:41.59\00:52:48.50
to heaven, the devil says,
now I have to take second best.
00:52:48.53\00:52:53.47
I wasn't able to defeat the Seed
of the woman, and so now I'm
00:52:53.54\00:52:58.44
going to go after the woman.
00:52:58.47\00:53:00.41
And in Revelation 12:13,
if you'll go with me there,
00:53:00.48\00:53:06.88
we find the devil persecuting
the woman who brought the Seed
00:53:06.92\00:53:11.22
into the world. By the way,
we're going to find that the
00:53:11.25\00:53:13.15
woman represents the church.
00:53:13.19\00:53:15.89
The woman represents the church.
00:53:15.92\00:53:18.59
In this case the Old
Testament church brought Jesus
00:53:18.63\00:53:21.96
into the world, and then after
Jesus ascends to the throne
00:53:22.00\00:53:25.63
the church continues
and is persecuted by Satan.
00:53:25.67\00:53:28.67
Notice Revelation
12:13. It says here:
00:53:28.70\00:53:34.48
Does Genesis 3:15 say that there
was going to be enmity between
00:53:44.65\00:53:49.82
the serpent and the woman? Yes.
00:53:49.86\00:53:53.50
Is that being described here
in Revelation 12? enmity between
00:53:53.53\00:53:58.17
the serpent and the woman? Yes.
00:53:58.20\00:54:01.37
Is that the primary enmity? No.
00:54:01.40\00:54:04.44
The primary enmity is that the
Seed of the woman is going to
00:54:04.47\00:54:08.38
crush the serpent's head.
00:54:08.41\00:54:09.94
That's enmity number one.
00:54:09.98\00:54:11.41
The enmity between the serpent
and the woman is a secondary
00:54:11.45\00:54:16.15
enmity. Do you notice that
in Revelation 12 you have that
00:54:16.18\00:54:19.22
exact idea, because it
says that the Child is born
00:54:19.25\00:54:22.56
from the woman? The
Child defeats the serpent,
00:54:22.59\00:54:25.89
and He's caught up
to God to His throne.
00:54:25.93\00:54:27.86
Then the devil says, I wasn't
able to defeat Him, so I'm going
00:54:27.93\00:54:31.37
after whom? I'm
going after the woman.
00:54:31.40\00:54:33.67
And there you have
the other type of enmity.
00:54:33.70\00:54:36.20
I'm going to go against the
church, and that's the reason
00:54:36.24\00:54:39.57
why during the period of
the Roman Empire you have these
00:54:39.61\00:54:43.01
savage persecutions against
the church, the body of Christ.
00:54:43.04\00:54:46.95
During the Middle Ages you
have a savage persecution also
00:54:46.98\00:54:50.32
against God's
faithful followers.
00:54:50.35\00:54:52.25
Millions of them died in
the period of the Middle Ages,
00:54:52.32\00:54:57.03
because now the devil was not
able to destroy the Seed, Jesus,
00:54:57.09\00:55:01.63
so he has to take second best,
the seeds, seed if you please.
00:55:01.66\00:55:07.14
Now lets go to Galatians 3 very
quickly, and then we'll go to
00:55:07.20\00:55:12.64
our last verse,
Revelation 12:17.
00:55:12.67\00:55:17.58
Galatians 3:27, Galatians 3:27.
00:55:17.61\00:55:22.48
This is a very, very important
verse because it speaks about
00:55:22.52\00:55:28.02
the Seed's seed. You see, the
only true Seed is whom? Jesus.
00:55:28.09\00:55:32.79
It doesn't say to seeds, as
of many, but to Your Seed, b
00:55:32.83\00:55:37.50
which is One: Christ.
00:55:37.53\00:55:40.04
But now notice Galatians 3:27.
00:55:40.07\00:55:43.97
And now notice verse 29.
00:55:55.45\00:55:57.02
A very important verse.
00:55:57.05\00:55:58.59
How do we become Christ's?
00:56:02.02\00:56:03.76
We just read it in verse 27.
00:56:03.79\00:56:05.39
How do we become Christ's?
00:56:05.43\00:56:07.00
We become Christ's at
baptism. And so it says:
00:56:07.03\00:56:11.00
So the question is, who
is the Seed of Abraham today?
00:56:24.21\00:56:28.02
The Seed of Abraham is Christ.
00:56:28.05\00:56:31.19
But who else is
the seed of Abraham?
00:56:31.25\00:56:34.66
Those who have
accepted Jesus Christ.
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Question, do you suppose the
devil hates the church as much
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as he hates Christ? Of course,
because the church is the body
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of Christ. So the final
persecution is going to be
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against Abraham's seed;
Abraham's Spiritual Seed,
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who have receive Jesus
as their Lord and Savior.
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Final verse: Revelation 12:17.
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It speaks about
this final persecution.
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And the four elements
of Genesis 3:15 are here.
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There you have the
woman, the serpent.
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There you have the enmity.
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Actually it should say the
remnant of her seed, who keep...
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