The Sword of the Gospel

Genesis 2 : The Planting of the Garden

8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden,and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

The Forbidden Fruit

15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: 17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.

Genesis 3 : The Serpent’s Deception(Genesis 7:1-5; Romans 5:12-21; 2 Peter 3:1-9)

1Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die: 5For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.  

God Arraigns Adam and Eve

8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you? 10And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? 12And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.13And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 14And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life: 15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

The Punishment of Mankind

16To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you. 17And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life; 18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust shall you return. 20And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The Expulsion from Paradise

21To Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 22And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from from where he was taken.  24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and 

a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 4 : Cain and Abel (Romans 2:1-16; Jude 1:3-16)

1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3And in process of time it came to pass,

that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.

4And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat thereof.

And the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering:

5But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

6And the LORD said to Cain, Why are you wroth? and why is your countenance fallen? 7If you do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. And to you shall be his desire, and you shall rule over him. 

The Descendants of Cain

17And Cain^[h7014] knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch^[h2585]: and he built a city,and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 

^[h7014] קַיִן Qayin, kah’-yin;    Cain = “possession / spear”  (18x)

^[h2585] חֲנוֹךְ Chănôwk, khan-oke’; Enoch = initiated/dedicated

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Cain built a city and named the city after his son Enoch which means “Initiated”

18And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. 19And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 21And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 22And Zillah, she also bore Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

Seth and Enosh

25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call on the name of the LORD. 

Genesis 5 : Descendants of Adam

 22Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Same name, 2 completely different outcomes.

Genesis 6 : The Wickedness of Man 

God wiped out their fruits, which came from the works of their own hands, from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, with the Flood.

 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them. 

ENOCH 65

^{1, 2} And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.  And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘ Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping ⁶ And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because: they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers – the most secret ones – and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images  for the whole earth:

And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth,  and how soft metal originates in the earth.  

The fruit Cain brought forth was the metals from the earth to establish his city.

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Tubal Cain was a teacher of how to use them.

 (an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.)

ENOCH 8 : TEACHINGS OF THE WATCHERS

¹ And Azazel (Lucifer) taught men: to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates,

and made known to the them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, 

and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures.   And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Thou seest what Azazel hath done,  who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and

revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which ⁷men were striving to learn:  And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel:  to him ascribe all sin.’

LEVITICUS 16 : THE LAW OF ATONEMENT

5And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8And Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.9And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 10But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

In the beginning,

we see a precedent established,

 that clearly separates one from the other.

God accepted one and rejected the other.

2 seeds planted 

that produce 2 distinct types of fruit.

John 1 3 : Children of God

8He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning.

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

9Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:

whoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

11For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 

12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him?

Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

This is the over-arching distinction 

and dividing line that runs through

 the whole bible.

HEBREWS 4 : GOD’S WORD IS LIVING AND ACTIVE

¹² For the word of God is living and active. 

Sharper than any double-edged sword, 

it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow.

It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

 ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight;

everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.  

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,

a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing the word of truth.

The Double Edged Sword 

judging the thoughts and intentions of the Heart…

The “songs of Moses” are in reference to redemption of God’s people

and judgement’s those who have held his people in captivity.  

Revelation 15 : Seven Angels with Seven Plagues

1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.  2And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

3And they sing “the song of Moses” the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb,

saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints. 4Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest.

After spending 40 years in the wilderness for rebellion, they finally arrive at the doorstep of the Promised Land in Moab and we see Moses’s 2nd Song,  in Deuteronomy 32.   This is an summary of how God chose Israel as His people and disinherited the all other nations.  It describes the pattern of how God destroys the rebellious and those opposed to his ways and preserves those obedient to his law.

Deuteronomy 32,

is the blueprint I will use as a guide

to put the puzzle pieces in place

and to navigate the waters of confusion 

More specifically this particular section :

Deuteronomy 32 : 

31For their rock is not as our Rock,32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand,

Deutronomy 32 : The Song of Moses (Judges 5:1-31)

1Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew,

as the small rain on the tender herb, and as the showers on the grass:

3Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness to our God.

4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: 

a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

5They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you? 7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam,

he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him,  he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings: 12So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.

15But Jeshurun (Israel) waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him,and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you. 19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very fraudulent generation, children in whom is no faith.

21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them. 24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts on them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely,

and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah:

their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste. 36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants,

when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges on the enemy. 43Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people. 44And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:  46And he said to them,

Set your hearts to all the words

which I testify among you this day,

which you shall command your children to observe to do,

all the words of this law. 

 For it is not a vain thing for you;

because it is your life:

and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land,

where you go over Jordan to possess it.

The only thing that isn’t vanity in God’s eyes, is observing all that He has commanded us

Part 2 : A Tale of 2 Cities

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